sm@jgc Session Three

Session ThreeCollaboration & Networking

Andy Coverdale & LeRoy Hill

B14 Jubilee Graduate Centre17 February 2010

Session Three: Schedule

• Introduction• Social Media Values• Social Networks• Social Network Sites• Social Network platforms• Social Networking: Collaboration • Collaborative tools• Social Networking: Academic Practice & Research• Social Networking: Ethics & Data Collection• Activity: Discussion• Social Networking: Theory & Context• CEN Case: An example of emerging social networking research

1pm Lunch: Further Discussion and Questions

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Social NetworksSocial Networks represent the links and interconnection between individuals.

- Traditional – Not easily identifiable- Social media/ Web – links can be

recognized.

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Online Social Networks Sites

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Online Social Networks Platforms

1. Hosted /Commercial

Online Social Networks Platforms2. Open Source/ Own hosting

What makes collaboration possible?

Participation Consensus Collaboration

Collaboration & Social Networking

Social networking Collaboration

A number of tools and activities within the social networking context can lead to collaboration but it does not necessarily mean that collaboration is taking place.

Participation ConsensusCollaboration for knowledgeCo-creation.

Reflection

Collaboration Long hours of chatter

Collaborative tools: in Social Networking Context

Facebook Groups

A number of these tools provide social, supportive and critical environments for participation and collaboration.

1. Social Networking

Collaborative tools: in Social Networking Context

These tools allow individuals to conduct live meetings, trainings, presentations on the internet. These tools offer much more than web conferencing. They allow collaboration in the form of what is referred to as a webinar.

2. Synchronous Meetings

Features:-VOIP-Text Chat-White board screen- Polling

Collaborative tools: in Social Networking Context

3. Online Sharing tools

•Sharing of academic content in different forms / media

•Dissemination of work to a wider audience.

•Tagging and annotation of content.

•Content can be linked to / embedded on other sites (e.g. blogs).

Collaborative tools: in Social Networking Context

4. Wikis• Free, online collaborative

writing spaces that use simple formatting rules.

• Blog - One main author• Wiki – Multiple authors

• Allows individuals to edit the work of others

• Continuous – always a work in progress

Collaborative tools: in Social Networking Context

3. Wikis

Collaborative tools: in Social Networking Context

5. Real-time Collaborative Tools

SubEthaEdit

Collaborative tools: in Social Networking Context

6. Annotation tools

Text: Typically a bookmarking tool to annotate (add sticky notes, highlights, etc.) web sites.

Audio: SpinVox , VoiceThread

Collaborative tools: in Social Networking Context

7. Virtual Environments: Second life

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Social Networking: Academic Practice & Research

Participatory Learning Design for Network Learning

Social Networking: Ethics & Data Collection

•No clear-cut way for doing internet inquiry…still emerging

•‘lateral surveillance’ or peer monitoring - The Work of Watching One Another in research contexts has implications for how the research is seen as opposed to traditional forms of observations.

•Professional identity and usernames. Questions of disclosure and trust

Social Networking: Ethics & Data Collection

• Public, private or thirdspace? Or is it Private information in public places?

• What audience is your data intended for?Friends? family? Employer? Academic institution?

• Challenges of data ownership & prying data out of a social network.

 • Most of the press on Social Networking sites has been on the

negative side.

Social Networking: Ethics & Data CollectionThe Facebook challenge• Massive users data a target

• Users’ expectation of privacy is violated. Why?• The data can easily be crawled by scripts, third party APIs• Much of personal data can be crawled.• Users Social map is searchable – your links exposed.• Facebook has right to user traffic data• Users are unaware or unconcerned of privacy issues.

• False profiles and identities questions the authenticity of FB

Social Networking: Analyzing network activity

1. Social Networking Analysis2. Community of Inquiry analysis

Activity: Discussion on…

In your table groups we would like you to :

Draw on your own academic practice to discuss situations where…  1. Networking is important2. Collaboration is important • What sorts of activities are involved?• What sorts of artefacts (documents etc.)

are involved?

Social Networking: Theory and Context

Actor Network Theory[Michel Callon and Bruno Latour]

Network Theory

Social Network Theory

Graph Theory

Social Networking: Theory and ContextConnectivism

George Siemens and Steven Downes

http://www.visual-mapping.com/2008/03/connectivism-learning-theory-for.html

Social Networking: CEN Case

Lunch: Further Discussion and Questions

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