viducate_social_media 2010, berlin
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My presentation at Berlin conference of www.viducate.netTRANSCRIPT
The Relevance of Social Media Civic Participation & Media Production
David Röthlerpolitik.netzkompetenz.at
viducate @Berlin 2010
• Tag-Cloud• Social Bookmarks• Taxonomy• Folksonomy
• http://www.delicious.com/davidro
Bertolt Brecht 1932• The radio could inarguably be the best
apparatus of communication in public life, an enormous system of channels – provided it saw itself as not only a sender but also a receiver. This means making the listener not only listen but also speak; not to isolate him but to place him in relation to others.
• Bertold Brecht, Der Rundfunk als Kommunikationsapparat, p. 129.
2004
Utopia
Utopia• „Revitalization of society by participatory
networks“ -> Netizen (Hauben/Hauben 1996, http://www.columbia.edu/~rh120/)
• „Internet brings enourmous leverage to ordinary citizens at relatively little cost – intellectual leverage, social leverage, commercial leverage, and most important, political leverage“ (Howard Rheingold 1997)
Dystopia
• Illiteracy• Media literacy• Social inequalities• Poverty• Gender gap• …
-> Digital Divide
• Hole in the Wall• Learning by
experimenting• Technology cheaper• Mobile revolution• …
http://www.historypin.com/photos/search/streetview/1/geo/52.086877,-0.263907/yaw/25.84/pitch/7.98/zoom/0/auto_open/2556004
• www.kyte.tv
• Start your own channel• Produce your show• It is free and fun
http://oe1.orf.at/artikel/212277
New York Times, 22.6.2009
“If the news is important, it will find me”
Sharing & Embedding
Uni Brennt
http://unibrennt.tv/
Twitter Analysis #unibrennt• Oct. 23 – Nov 21. 2009
• 66.379 Tweets, 6.780 Users
• 1.808 photos, watched 125.612 times
Twitter Analysis #unibrennt
Greenpeace
Second Life Demonstration• On Jan 30, 2007 in solidarity with the marchers
for peace in DC, a group of avatars organized by the SL Netroots group gathered for a demonstration for an end to the war in Iraq. More than 120 avatars from all over the US and 7 countries met in a simulated Capitol Hill to show their commitment to peace.
Social Networks•Community Building•Strenght of weak ties•Word of Mouse
Astroturfing?
http://www.andreas-buehler.eu/allgemein/die-gekaufte-bewegung-stuttgart-21-befuerworter-im-netz/
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Alternative
Remix Culture• Lawrence Lessig
• a society which allows and encourages derivative works
• to improve upon, change, integrate, or otherwise remix the work of copyright holders
• “…progress and wealth creation of a culture is fundamentally tied to this participatory remix process”
Mobility
Crowdsourcing & Crowdfunding
http://www.kickstarter.com/
• To help educators who find Social Media confusing to have a simple and secure environment to use Web 2.0 in their work and in their classes.
• Web site that will include the most popular tools (Wikis, Blogs…) with clear guides on:– How to use the tools– How they can be used in education
ContactMag. David Röthler
mobil +43 664 2139427skype [email protected]
politik.netzkompetenz.atprojektkompetenz.eu