253W - Introduction to information technology - Week 2

Rheingold's 5 literacies and the emergence of web 2.0.
Rheingold's paper available here: http://er.educause.edu/articles/2010/10/attention-and-other-21stcentury-social-media-literacies

Transcript

1. NEW MEDIA LITERACIES SFU CMNS 253 - Alberto Lusoli. September 21st 2015
2. 01 253 Mondays, 17.30-18.30 HC 2156 Hashtag: #cmns253
3. 3 Alberto Lusoli Attention Participation Network Awareness Collaboration Critical Consumpion ?
4. a live experiment
5. 5 Alberto Lusoli Attention For students, the classroom is a marketplace, with multiple seductive attractions from the online world competing with physical presence. Sometimes we need to be vigilant to information outside our focal area, and at other times we need to block out distractions and narrow our attention to a spotlight.
6. 6 Alberto Lusoli Attention Understanding and gaining attention in order to boost a blog's popularity can be challenging, because one must be able to gauge their intended audience's attention span for the topic - Renita I go on Facebook and scroll through Instagram daily - however I am fully aware of the overload of information on these platforms and the ability they have to make us passive consumers - Melissa
7. 7 Alberto Lusoli Participation Participating, even if it's no good and nobody cares, gives one a different sense of being in the world. When you participate, you become an active citizen rather than simply a passive consumer of what is sold to you, what is taught to you, and what your government wants you to believe. Simply participating is a start. That doesn't mean, however, that all forms of participation are beneficial to the participant or others.
8. 8 Alberto Lusoli Participation forums that engage in interesting, healthy debates are perhaps the internet’s greatest victory - Paula Active citizenship within the public sphere in shaping state policies is crucial, enabling the productive communication of issues, opinions and solutions through global connectivity - Yasmina A like or a share on facebook or a retweet on twitter is my democratic vote for whether a company, a movement or a campaign should continue existing. - Will There is always that one person who is the so-called Facebook activist who loves to post their opinion on every controversial subject but you never see them actually do anything about it. Social media has allowed us to feel like we are participating even if we actually don’t do anything about it and I think that is a big challenge we are facing now. - Sarah
9. 9 Alberto Lusoli Collaboration Using the technologies and techniques of attention and participation allows people to work together collaboratively in ways that were too difficult or expensive to attempt before the advent of social media. In general doing things together gives us more power than doing things alone.
10. 10 Alberto Lusoli As I type there is an Amber Alert out for a 2 year old girl from Alberta, how do I know this? Every single radio station that I like on Facebook has shared the story, and about half a dozen of my friends have shared their posts. - Margaret I do care about some issues that do not directly affect my local sphere of life, but typically the issue has to be closer to home for me to take any action and collaborate on a networked movement. - Chris One of the challenges people face regarding collaboration is that since the internet is accessible to almost everyone, it can be hard to find who/what you’re looking for. You may have a great idea but if no one else can find you because they are too busy sifting through all the bad ideas, then your idea is kind of going to waste. So many people are eager to help and share ideas, which is great, but in a result of this the internet is a very messy and unorganized place - Sarah Collaboration
11. 11 Alberto Lusoli Network Awareness Social networks (Facebook, Twitter, etc.) as the instantiation, and amplification, of our innate human capacity to connect, to socialize with others. Understanding the nature of networks—technical and social—is essential. Doing so is not just a matter of engineering but also a question of freedom. What you know or don't know about how networks work can influence how much freedom, wealth, and participation you will have in the rest of this century.
12. 12 Alberto Lusoli Network Awareness If one is not aware of the limitations of such expansive freedom and the power of Internet as a mechanism of control and surveillance, one can over step boundaries that mar one’s reputation in the personal and public spheres. - Yasmina Added to that is my tendency to be more consumer rather than creator and I am put often times away from the control of my own networks to the point that it might actually be a determent to me to maintain these networks. - Angelo I use social network to build my professional image and achieve my career goal. I intentionally connect with people in the industry that I am interested in to strengthen my ability. I am well aware the power of network and the potential benefits I could gain through a strong social network. - Alex
13. 13 Alberto Lusoli Critical Consumption Who is trustworthy—and what and who is not trustworthy— online Who decides what is relevant and what is not? Where to draw the line separating the relevant from the non-relevant?
14. 14 Alberto Lusoli Critical Consumption An example of this is web/digital journalism: if there are two contradictory reports, how do you know which one to believe? - Howard Advertisements are everywhere and with social media exploding to greater heights, we often have to take the time to think about what is real and what is fake - Eric If I need an answer, I will go onto Google and search it up, usually I believe answers found on most websites. - Divya
15. 15 Alberto Lusoli Web 2.0 Before & After Starting from a definition of Web 2.0 (New Media, an Introduction, p.21), describe how literacies have changed in the shift from Web 1.0 to Web 2.0. Today’s exercise
16. See you next week alusoli@sfu.ca Twitter.com/albertolusoli For informal conversations: #CMNS253 Office hour: Monday, 17.30-198.30, HC2156 THANKS,