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Social Software in/with/for the Academy (Seb)

An overview of social software tools and practices supporting (and sometimes subverting?) academic culture and practices

A few slides are here: http://seb.jot.com/WikiHome/SsawOpeningPanel

Lineage

  • 60s - The Old Skool - thinking together. Shared documents. Licklider, Englebart, Ted Nelson, PLATO. see Rheingold's excellent Tools for Thought (http://www.rheingold.com/texts/tft/)
  • 70s-80s - the Net grows within academia - the ListServ / Newsgroups era
  • early 90s - the Web is born as a collaboration tool out of a research lab; IRC and MUDs/MOOs blossom
  • late 90s - The Net bursts out of academia, the one-way Web, early online communities
  • 00-05 - The two-way (read/write) Web is born, Golden Age of social software; MMORPGs


Tools and Uses

  • Mailing lists (http://listserver.dreamhost.com/pipermail/air-l-aoir.org/2005-May/thread.html) and Newsgroups
  • Literature Tools - Sharing articles, references
  • Weblogs - "what's new? / where have we been?"
    • Personal research blogs (http://del.icio.us/sebpaquet/ResearchBlogger) and learning portfolios
    • Class weblogs (http://exonous.typepad.com/nkda/) - Class management, student interaction
    • Topic weblogs, most often collectively authored, e.g. Language Log (http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/) (linguistics), Many-to-Many (http://www.corante.com/many/) (social software), Terra Nova (http://terranova.blogs.com/) (virtual worlds)
  • Wikis and CMSes - collaborative textbooks, reference works, content commons
  • Chat - spontaneous conversation, backchanneling
    • SWIG (http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/discovery/chatlogs/swig/2005-05-13.html) (and scratchpad (http://rdfig.xmlhack.com/2002/04/26/2002-04-26.html))
  • Virtual environments
    • MUDs/MOOs (died in the 1990s)
    • Virtual reality environments (e.g. Second Life Future Salon (http://slfuturesalon.blogs.com/))
  • LCMSes / courseware (Blackboard (http://www.blackboard.com/), WebCT)
    • Integrated systems, tacking on social interaction features (forum, blog)

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