social media and min of health bhutan
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Lecture from June 2007TRANSCRIPT
New Media
• Early Web
• Web 2.0
• Web of People• Web becomes
Invisible (just like the electric motor)
Marshall McLuhan
“media are extensions of man”; “change the ratios and you change man”
“the global village”
“the medium is the message”
Joseph Walther
Social Information Processing Theory
“computer mediated communications can be as effective as face-to-face”
“what we care about”
BLOGS“online journal”
“exhaust of human attention”
“truth and transparency”
“personal (ambient) relationships”
MULTIPLY.COM
TOPPINOYBLOGS.COM
WIKIS
“age of empowerment”
“age of participation”
WIKIPEDIA: “crowdsourcing”
“wisdom of the crowds”
“global knowledge revolution”
(Web) Video
YouTube: 10 million users, 65,000 uploads daily
Google Videos: scientific, scholarly, academic, documentaries
Cyworld: 100,000 uploads daily
Thomas Friedman
10 flatteners
“empowering individuals and small groups”
“learn for the best teachers”
Jeremy Rifkin
• From agriculture to industrial; from industrial to information and networks
• Third Force