participation module
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Participation (module II) – and the social web
Dean Giustini, UBC librarian | [email protected] | LIBR559M January 2016
Key trend: Hashtag-tivism
Participation module• What motivates anyone to participate in a social network?• Online, do you lurk? participate? create?• What is optimal for information professionals?
Trend: Hashtag-tivism• How do we encourage participation among users?• Should libraries & archives participate?• Which tools promote ‘a sensible, meaningful participation’
Start conversation… 10 mins. & report back
Boyd & Ellison paper (structure)
AbstractIntroduction
• SNS site a definition• Timeline of social network sites 1997-2006
History of SNSsPrevious scholarship
• Impression management & friendship ‘performances’• Networks & network structure• Bridging online & offline social networks• Privacy
Overview of theme issueFuture researchReferences
All the world's a stage,
…and all the men and women merely players…
Do you prefer to take centre stage or backstage?
“…[a blogger] can provoke discussion or take a position, even passionately but …create an atmosphere in which others want
to participate.”
Andrew Sullivan ‘Why I blog’
The power of the blogger
See how conversation…unfolds, trending
#iamcait … a toxic brew of (mis)understandings & hate on Twitter
SOCIAL WEB’S SIZE
What motivates us to be social? To create
content?
http://www.buzzwordcreative.co.uk/blog/web/what-happens-on-internet-60-seconds
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Participatingis a part of our culture
many cultures
“…participation is a more active concept than inclusion… it assumes people have something valuable to contribute…”
Social inclusion and social citizenship—towards a truly inclusive society. Research Paper, no. 8. Parliamentary Library of Australia.
Participation is integral part of citizenship
Themes of Digital Citizenship, "...digital citizenship can be defined as the norms of appropriate, responsible behavior with regard to technology use."
How can we encourage participation ???
Reports on librarians and library staff who participated in CLIR workshops, and conducted participatory design projects
Explains how librarians learned about their users and how they use libraries, in person & online…
Applies findings to design and improvement of library’s technologies, space and services
http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub161/pub161.pdf
The ladder of social participation
Arnstein SR. A ladder of citizen participation. Journal of the American Planning Association 1969;35(4):216-224.
What is a participatory culture?
http://www.newmedialiteracies.org/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYbSD_GdkjU
“…participants in peer production communities have many different motivations for jumping in from fun and altruism to achieving something that is of direct value to them. Though egalitarianism is the general rule, most peer networks have an underlying structure, where some people have more authority and influence than others. But the basic rules of operation are about as different from corporate command-and-control hierarchy as the latter was from the feudal crafts shop of the pre-industrial economy.“
Wikipedia 2016
Peer-production communities & “open”
Social capitalhow do we know we have it? How do libraries know?
“Life is not about finding yourself, life is about creating yourself” – George Bernard Shaw
Mobility:portable devices used
in pursuit of library & archival objectives
http://mediasmarts.ca/digital-media-literacy-fundamentals/digital-literacy-fundamentals
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnjS3Owm8pI
The benefits of participationEncourage two-way interaction with our users in the cloud
Share information, ideas & knowledge
(Re)define archival & libraries’ mission & direction
Embed information professionals where users...form communities online
Stake our claim to the digital age