In a survey about the future impact of the internet, a solid majority of technology experts and stakeholders said the Millennial generation will lead society into a new world of personal disclosure and information-sharing using new media. These experts said the communications patterns “digital natives” have already embraced through their use of social networking technology and other social technology tools will carry forward even as Millennials age, form families, and move up the economic ladder.
Most of those surveyed noted that the disclosure of personal information online carries many social benefits as people open up to others in order to build friendships, form and find communities, seek help, and build their reputations. They said Millennials have already seen the benefits and will not reduce their use of these social tools over the next decade as they take on more responsibilities while growing older.
The highly engaged, diverse set of respondents to an online, opt-in survey included 895 technology stakeholders and critics. The study was fielded by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project and Elon University’s Imagining the Internet Center.
Some 67% agreed with the statement:
“By 2020, members of Generation Y (today’s “digital natives”) will continue to be ambient broadcasters who disclose a great deal of personal information in order to stay connected and take advantage of social, economic, and political opportunities. Even as they mature, have families, and take on more significant responsibilities, their enthusiasm for widespread information sharing will carry forward.”
Some 29% agreed with the opposite statement, which posited:
“By 2020, members of Generation Y (today’s “digital natives”) will have “grown out” of much of their use of social networks, multiplayer online games and other time-consuming, transparency-engendering online tools. As they age and find new interests and commitments, their enthusiasm for widespread information sharing will abate.”
Is it true that, in this era of digitization and mass media, reading and writing are on the decline? In a thought-provoking collection of essays and profiles, 30 contributors explore what may instead be a rise in rhetorical activity, an upsurge due in part to the sudden blurring of the traditional roles of creator and audience in participatory media. This collection explores topics too often overlooked by traditional academic scholarship, though critical to an exploration of rhetoric and popular culture, including fan fiction, reality television, blogging, online role-playing games, and Fantasy Football. Both scholarly and engaging, this text draws rhetorical studies into the digital age.
Publisher McFarland & Co Inc Pub, 2010
ISBN 0786437200, 9780786437207
DMLcentral.net is the online presence for the Digital Media and Learning Research Hub located at the systemwideUniversity of California Humanities Research Institute and hosted at the UC Irvine campus. We think digital media practices are fundamentally reshaping society in far-reaching ways, especially in how people all around the world are learning and connecting with one another.
“Rede social da Cultura Digital Brasileira, espaço público e aberto voltado para a formulação e a construção democrática de uma política pública de cultura digital, integrando cidadãos e insituições governamentais, estatais, da sociedade civil e do mercado.”
“Participatory culture shifts the focus of literacy from one of individual expression to community involvement. The new literacies almost all involve social skills developed through collaboration and networking. These skills build on the foundation of traditional literacy, research skills, technical skills, and critical analysis skills taught in the classroom.”
Play – the capacity to experiment with one’s surroundings as a form of problem-solving
Performance – the ability to adopt alternative identities for the purpose of improvisation and discovery
Simulation – the ability to interpret and construct dynamic models of real-world processes
Appropriation – the ability to meaningfully sample and remix media content
Multitasking – the ability to scan one’s environment and shift focus as needed to salient details
Distributed Cognition – the ability to interact meaningfully with tools that expand mental capacities
Collective Intelligence – the ability to pool knowledge and compare notes with others toward a common goal
Judgment – the ability to evaluate the reliability and credibility of different information sources
Transmedia Navigation – the ability to follow the flow of stories and information across multiple modalities
Networking – the ability to search for, synthesize, and disseminate information
Negotiation – the ability to travel across diverse communities, discerning and respecting multiple perspectives, and grasping and following alternative norms
Visualization – the ability to interpret and create data representations for the purposes of expressing ideas, finding patterns, and identifying trends
Play – the capacity to experiment with one’s surroundings as a form of problem-solving
Performance – the ability to adopt alternative identities for the purpose of improvisation and discovery
Simulation – the ability to interpret and construct dynamic models of real-world processes
Appropriation – the ability to meaningfully sample and remix media content
Multitasking – the ability to scan one’s environment and shift focus as needed to salient details
Distributed Cognition – the ability to interact meaningfully with tools that expand mental capacities
Collective Intelligence – the ability to pool knowledge and compare notes with others toward a common goal
Judgment – the ability to evaluate the reliability and credibility of different information sources
Transmedia Navigation – the ability to follow the flow of stories and information across multiple modalities
Networking – the ability to search for, synthesize, and disseminate information
Negotiation – the ability to travel across diverse communities, discerning and respecting multiple perspectives, and grasping and following alternative norms
Visualization – the ability to interpret and create data representations for the purposes of expressing ideas, finding patterns, and identifying trends
One of the points raised by Prof. Nelson Brissac this semester was about the need for appropriation of existing technologies to the collective, breaking with the purely private use. Since then I have thought of how achieving it. Today, Howard Rheingold published a Videocast on Ushahidi project which is an excellent example how to do this. Ushahidi uses Google Maps to map violations of human rights through the collaboration of citizens reporters.
“Ushahidi, which means ”testimony” in Swahili, is a website that was developed to map reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election fallout at the beginning of 2008. Ushahidi’s roots are in the collaboration of Kenyan citizen journalists during a time of crisis.”
TwitterJobSearch.com is the first social media job search engine that uses semantic intelligence, link-crawling, and crowdsourcing to track recruitment offers.
Hoje, ao abrir meu Google Reader, dei de cara com uma notícia publicada no site Mashable, TwitterJobSearch: Find a Job on Twitter, que me chamou a minha atenção pela criatividade no que diz respeito ao uso de mídias sociais no âmbito empresarial.
O TwitterJobSearch é um site que utiliza o Twitter como base para busca de oportunidades de emprego. Sim, algumas empresas usam o Twitter para divulgar oportunidades de trabalho.
É impressiontante como uma ferramenta aparentemente tola, já que no início ninguém via muita utilidade, está revolucionando o fluxo de informação e a forma como as pessoas negociam em rede.
A Medpedia, uma enciclopédia médica no formato wiki, é um bom exemplo de inteligência coletiva na área médica. Um projeto desse tipo requer mais atitude do que dinheiro. Universidades e escolas de um modo geral podem utilizar qualquer ferramenta de wiki para criar conteúdos de interesse de seus alunos nos diversos cursos e disciplinas, como, por exemplo, livros didáticos digitais .
Projetos dessa natureza poderiam beneficiar a Universidade Aberta do Brasil, uma vez que a) garantiria a docentes e alunos o acesso a conteúdos com a mesma qualidade em qualquer ponto do Brasil b) permitiria o compatilhamento de conteúdos com a sociedade de um modo geral, c) evitaria redundância de pagamentos pela elaboração de material didático, d) promoveria a cultura da colaboração, entre outra vantagens.
“The Medpedia Project is a long-term, worldwide project to evolve a new model for sharing and advancing knowledge about health, medicine and the body among medical professionals and the general public. This model is founded on providing a free online technology platform that is collaborative, interdisciplinary and transparent.”
Howard Rheingold starded a new project named Social Media Classroom (SMC), a free online educational platform with forum, blog, microblog, social bookmarking and so on. “The end goal of the service is to move education away from being a unidirectional delivery of knowledge to become a more collaborative learning process”.
