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The social sciences and the web: From ‘Lurking’ to interdisciplinary ‘Big Data’ research
‘Big data’ is an area of growing research interest within sociology and numerous other disciplines. The rapid development of social media platforms and other web resources offer a vast and readily accessible repository of data associated with participants’ activities, attitudes … Continue reading
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Social Media and Open Research: What Does ‘Open’ Mean?
In the not too distant past, the use of social media in higher education was seen as a curiosity at best. Perhaps something to be explained or inquired into but certainly not something deemed relevant to scholarship. Yet it’s now … Continue reading
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The Power of Tribes
What many people do not yet realize is that as the old economy weakens a new one is emerging in lockstep. The five pillars of a capitalist economy are being replicated in the social media movement: Let me start in … Continue reading
Mob rule: Iceland crowdsources its next constitution
Read Country recovering from collapse of its banks and government is using social media to get citizens to share their ideas. It is not the way the scribes of yore would have done it but Iceland is tearing up the … Continue reading
Posted in Participatory methods, Politics, Social media
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The New Social Learning: A Guide to Transforming Organizations Through Social Media
Read Most business books on social media have focused exclusively on using it as a marketing tool. Many employers see it as simply a workplace distraction. But social media has the potential to revolutionize workplace learning. People have always learned … Continue reading
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Networks, Crowds, and Markets: Reasoning About a Highly Connected World
Read Over the past decade there has been a growing public fascination with the complex connectedness of modern society. This connectedness is found in many incarnations: in the rapid growth of the Internet, in the ease with which global communication … Continue reading
The Networked Nonprofit: Connecting with Social Media to Drive Change
Read Read also: Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations What nonprofits teach the private sector about social media This groundbreaking book shows nonprofits a new way of operating in our increasingly connected world: a networked approach enabled … Continue reading
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Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture – Media Education for the 21st Century
Read According to a recent study from the Pew Internet & American Life project, more than one-half of all teens have created media content, and roughly one-third of teens who use the Internet have shared content they produced. In many … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Digital literacies, Internet, Participation, Social media, Youth
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New Technologies, Democracy and Social Movement
My argument is that although the technology of the Internet provides us with some new form of public space, the reality of Internet political use in most developing countries presents a rather gloomy scenario. The considerations are twofold. First, there … Continue reading
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Management at the time of social media
Management at the time of social media For the first time in history it is not profitable to simply think that managers manage and workers work. Creativity and the need for intrinsic inspiration and risk taking demand individual responsibility and … Continue reading
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