online social tools - google+ #solo11

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Alan Cann

School of Biological Sciences

University of Leicester

Find me here:   bit.ly/AJCann

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Google Social?

Google can’t do social?

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Google+ is different

• Familiarity• Integration

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Features

• Games - quarantined (vs. Facebook)

• Photos, Video (no audio)

• Mobile (not there yet)

• Sparks - sub RSS, disappointing.

• Hangouts - chat/video with up to ten people at a time, share YouTube videos.

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Privacy - Profiles

Real names – nymwars

Companies/Entities

- e.g. RRW, MicrobiologyBytes, AnnBot

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Circles

• Different Circles for different communities

• But Circles are broadcast not read - architecture dumps you back into stream

• Public cuts across - Public is the de facto default (Twitter model)

• Still need two I.Ds for teaching & "RealMe"

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A work in progress

• Search not working (apart from people)

• No groups like Friendfeed Groups/Facebook pages - you can't join someone else's circle

• No APIs (yet)

• No tagging (yet)

Spinal Muscular Atrophy

site:plus.google.com <search term>

http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aplus.google.com+Spinal+Muscular+Atrophy&num=100&sa=Google

Public versus private

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Visualizing Student Engagement via Social Networks

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Females score higher marks than males (Wilcoxon rank sum test, p < 0.001). Although females make more contributions than males, males are strategically focussed on assessment criteria.

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"Authority"

• Active group (red)• Internalized group (purple)• Inactive group (blue)