Tag: Advocate
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Information, Communication, and Society Webcasts
In collaboration with the Oxford Internet Institute, the editors of the academic peer-reviewed journal Information, Communication, and Society have been producing and archiving webcasts featuring the author(s) of the lead article of selected issues. (check them out…link)
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PoliticalMashups
Mashups are created when information is taken out of one or more database/s and then integrated into a web site. This is done through what’s called a public interface or ‘API’ (or by RSS feeds, or by JavaScript). Some well-known examples are the Chicago Crime Map, Weatherbonk, and mappr. I haven’t come across too many…
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US Presidential Speeches Tag Cloud
I will have to think about this one and get back to you. I like it a lot, but I have to think about its accuracy; the process is only half the story (and some academics build their career on advancing only half the story) (link)
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What is Participatory Culture and Web2.0 ?
Thanks to Henry Jenkins and Howard Rheingold (link to a USC Annenberg Centre’s blog) We have also identified a set of core social skills and cultural competencies that young people should acquire if they are to be full, active, creative, and ethical participants in this emerging (online) participatory culture: Play — the capacity to experiment…
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hypertextual video
Youtube doesn’t really do anything new. It it just the ‘delivery boy’ of online video. But how about this innovation? This is similar to what I was trying to do in my own work 5 years ago with milkbar.com.au. It is what you call ‘hypertextual video’ in that it allows the user to embed links…
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Student use of Wikipedia
This thread on the use of Wikipedia in the academy appeared earlier this year on the discussion list Humanist. Here is the link. This message is a request for comment (the humanities version of a RFC). 2006 appears to be the year that undergraduate students discovered Wikipedia in a big way. My colleagues and I…