Web 2.0

New forms of political communication in Italy: "Tocca a noi" MTV's campaign for young people participation to political life 1

by sara minucci

Integração Curricular das TIC: o uso de E-Portfólios na disciplina de Geologia do 12º ano

by Guilhermina Lobato Miranda

E-Learning: Emergence of the Profession

by Jackie Flynt

Co-authored with Jason Drysdale and Shauna Hannon-Johnson for INTE 6750, Current Trends and Issues in Instructional Technology

‘Going native’ : Web 2.0 and the digital native in a conservatoire library

by Karen McAulay

(2008) IAML(UK & Irl) Annual Study Weekend

Search result diversity for informational queries

by Mike Welch

Automatically identifying localizable queries

by Mike Welch

Paper, “Social Media and the Top 10 Municipal Police Departments: Current Use and Future Prospects for Gov 2.0.” (co-authored with Mariglynn Collins, Ph.D. Candidate, Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration). 2012 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Pubic Administration. March 2-6, 2012. Las Vegas, Nevada.

by Lori Brainard

A CRITICAL STUDY OF EFFECT OF WEB-BASED SOFTWARE TOOLS IN FINDING AND SHARING DIGITAL RESOURCES: A LITERATURE REVIEW.

by Muntajeeb Ali

Web-based software tools, digital resources, sharing, finding, web 2.0, Social Software

The purpose of this paper is to review the effect of web-based software tools for finding and sharing digital... more The purpose of this paper is to review the effect of web-based software tools for finding and sharing digital resources. A positive correlation between learning and studying through online tools has been found in recent researches. In traditional classroom, searching resources are limited to the library and sharing of resources is limited to the walls of classroom, but with the advent of internet and electronic media it is possible to search and share resources beyond four walls. The objective of the study is to review effect of web-based tools and enlist web-based tools for sharing and finding digital resources using web 2.0 technologies. Open Educational Resources were used to study effect of Web 2.0 tools for finding and sharing digital resources. This study, found that, Web 2.0 tools are versatile and effective, because of the features like, user centre, user control & communication, and making teaching learning process learner centric.

A critical study of effectiveness of online learning on students’ achievement

by Muntajeeb Ali

An experimental design was carried out to study the effectiveness in learning of the X grade students in Physics, when... more An experimental design was carried out to study the effectiveness in learning of the X grade students in Physics, when taught through online and face to face. A mash-up of different online tools and learning environment is used for the study. Website ‘Wiziq.com’ provides these online tools and learning environment hence it is used for the study of effectiveness of online learning on students’ achievement. A high score in achievement among students taught and studied through online tools and online learning environment was found through this research. Similarly achievement among students of face to face teaching was found low, this is because in face to face learning, collaborating and sharing of resources is limited to the walls of classroom, but online learning made possible to learning, collaborating, and sharing of resources beyond four walls. Online learning provides the features such as, user center, user control and communication, and making teaching learning process learner centric.

Young People’s Translocal New Media Uses:A Multiperspective Analysis Of Language Choice And Heteroglossia

by Sirpa Leppänen

Published in JOurnal of Computer-Mediated Communication 14, 2009

Co-authored with:
Anne Pitkanen-Huhta
Arja Piirainen-Marsh
Tarja Nikula
Saija Peuronen

The aim of this paper is to shed light on the particularities of the linguistic, social and
cultural action of... more The aim of this paper is to shed light on the particularities of the linguistic, social and
cultural action of young Finns in translocal new media spaces, and the ways in which
they themselves make sense of and account for their actions. We present findings from 4
case studies, each of which illustrates aspects of translocality in young Finns’ new media
uses. Theoretically and methodologically the case studies draw on sociolinguistics, discourse
studies, and ethnography, making use of the concepts of language choice and linguistic
and stylistic heteroglossia. Through the 4 cases in focus, the paper shows how young
people’s linguistically and textually sophisticated new media uses are geared by and express
translocal affective, social, and cultural alignments and affinities.

doi:10.1111/j.1083-6101.2009.01482.x
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Web ako médium maspersonálnej komunikácie

by Michal Kabát

Co-authored with Juraj Kovalčík, not published yet

Príspevok sa zaoberá problematikou nových médií so zameraním na internet a jeho nejednoznačné postavenie v rámci... more Príspevok sa zaoberá problematikou nových médií so zameraním na internet a jeho nejednoznačné postavenie v rámci mediálnych štúdií. Napriek tomu, že internet dosahuje pokrytie porovnateľné s masovými médiami, nemožno ho pre jeho komplexnú funkcionalitu definovať ako prostriedok masovej ani interpersonálnej komunikácie a vyžaduje samostatnú definíciu, ktorú poskytuje nový model maspersonálnej komunikácie.

The Victorian Schools Ultranet – an Australian eGovernment Initiative

by Dr Eva Dakich

Tatnall, A., Michael, I. and Dakich, E (2011). The International Information Systems Conference (iiSC), Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Sultanat of Oman, October 11-12, 2011

Digital Storytelling with Web 2.0 Tools for Collaborative Learning

by Dr Eva Dakich

To be published in Collaborative Learning 2.0: Open Educational Resources, Edited by Dr. Alexandra Okada, Ms. Teresa Connolly and Dr. Peter Scott, Knowledge Media Institute - The Open University UK, IGI Global, Expected publication date 2012.

Digital Storytelling is an innovative pedagogical approach that has the potential to engage learners in... more Digital Storytelling is an innovative pedagogical approach that has the potential to engage learners in student-centered learning, and improve the learning outcomes across the curriculum. It enhances learners motivation, provides learners with a learning environment conducive for communication, reflection, construction, and collaboration. It is a pedagogical approach that intends to provide students with the opportunities to explore, create, and evaluate their ideas both individually and collaboratively. When it is used with the latest technologies effective and efficient e-learning systems may be developed. This responds to the needs of the new generation of students, who are very familiar with the digital world. Despite the fact that many educationists have recognized the potential of digital storytelling, a well-designed framework for the same is still required.

This paper introduces a framework for advancing e-Learning systems through digital storytelling. It gives an overview of digital storytelling and the level of contemporary research and literature on the pedagogical benefits of digital storytelling. It describes the storytelling types as well as the current models of digital storytelling. Then, it explains the proposed e-Learning digital storytelling framework. It concludes with an overview of the research that needs to be conducted to test the efficacy of the proposed e-Learning digital storytelling framework on several dimensions.

The Ultranet as a Future Social Network: An Actor-Network Analysis

by Dr Eva Dakich

Davey, B., Tatnall, A., and Dakich E., (2011) 24th Bled eConference eFuture: Creating Solutions for the Individual, Organisations and Society June 12 - 15, 2011; Bled, Slovenia

Community development is seen as an increasingly important role for government and the potential of Web 2.0 tools to... more Community development is seen as an increasingly important role for government and the potential of Web 2.0 tools to aid in community development seems obvious. An experimental technology relating to e-government is being introduced by the State Government of Victoria, Australia. This involves a closed social network called the Ultranet which is intended to support social communities of parents, teachers and students in State schools. In this paper the Ultranet is seen as an innovation, and handled accordingly. An Actor-Network approach was used to identify problematisations of this new network and the actors that it seeks to involve and hence to identify potential translations of the innovation. Analysis of these potential translations allows the creation of a theoretical framework that permits a sensible review of the introduction of the Ultranet. The framework allows for the possible production of communities of practice amongst teachers, a ‘door’ for parental involvement as opposed to the ‘windows’ currently common in education, with an ideal that involves a Web 2.0 supported community where all parties (students, teachers, Education Ministry resources, parents and the local community) contribute. The paper will suggest that perhaps this is the future of safe, secure social networking for schools.

Informing Parents with the Victorian Education Ultranet

by Dr Eva Dakich

Tatnall, A. and Dakich, E. Proceedings of Informing Science & IT Education Conference (InSITE) 2011

Parents of school children want to be well informed and know as much as possible about their
children’s school... more Parents of school children want to be well informed and know as much as possible about their
children’s school and how their children are progressing at school. In mid-2010 in Victoria, Australia the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development launched the Ultranet, a
new web-based product designed to support knowledge sharing, curriculum delivery and online
learning and teaching. This paper describes the Ultranet, how it has been developed and how it is
to be used to inform parents, but as the Ultranet was only beginning to come into operation in late
2010 it has not been possible to include any research findings. With its facilities to inform parents
and to offer collaboration features to teachers, the Ultranet appears to be something not attempted
anywhere before. The paper is thus a theoretical one discussing the Ultranet’s design and possibilities, and is framed by using both an Actor-Network Theory (ANT) and Siemens’ Theory of
Connectivism. Later papers will examine how the Ultranet performs in practice.
Keywords: Informing communities, Ultranet, Web 2.0 technologies, knowledge sharing, school
communities, curriculum delivery, online learning, actor-network theory, connectivism.

Marcas 2.0 versus consumidores 2.0: un pulso en la Red

by Cristina Martorell Castellano

Playing public health: Building the HIVe

by Thomas Apperley

Co-authored with Chris Walsh

In thinking through the impact of digital media on how frontline workers, activists, practitioners and researchers... more In thinking through the impact of digital media on how frontline workers, activists, practitioners and researchers understand and fight HIV and AIDS, it is important to acknowledge that digital media does not only provide new channels and strategies for communicating information around HIV prevention and education. It also establishes innovative domains for conceiving of, and building, ‘resilient communities’ like The HIVe. Such digital interventions are cultural assets that confront biomedical and
behavioural approaches to HIV prevention and education. Immersive and social technologies, network ubiquity and low cost mobile phones provide new tools for aggregating, representing, collecting and disseminating community-based and led data that ‘plays’ public health differently. This play involves fore-fronting the success of social science HIV prevention and education against the essentialist logic of dominant biomedical approaches. ‘Playing public health’ provides an entirely new and comprehensive picture of the agency of the HIV virus that goes beyond the pathology of the individual. This paper proposes the goal of putting HIV prevention back into the ‘game’ of public health and playing it to win
by building The HIVe.

Embedding QR Codes in Education Contexts

by David Hopkins

This poster presentation was co-authored with Dr Milena Bobeva from Bournemouth University, as a follow-up to our January QR Code workshop, at the ‘Innovation in challenging times’ – The ABS Learning & Teaching conference (April 2012).

Along with Dr Milena Bobeva from Bournemouth University I will be presenting a follow-up to our January QR Code... more Along with Dr Milena Bobeva from Bournemouth University I will be presenting a follow-up to our January QR Code workshop at the ‘Innovation in challenging times’ – The ABS Learning & Teaching conference (April 2012).

The poster, “Embedding QR Codes in Education Contexts“, abstract is:

“Enabling a fast, flexible, convenient, and user-friendly way for students to access content and learning materials online is recognised as an important agenda item for educational institutions. In the case of Higher Education (HE) this is becoming all the more important due to the increase in student ownership of advanced mobile technology (smart phones and tablet devices).

“Quick Response (QR) codes are 2-dimensional barcodes introduced in 1994. Over the last five years they have gained they have gained recognition as an effective tool for advertising, marketing, product information and logistics (MGH, 2011). Within the Education sector most common uses include access to web sites with course information and study materials, directions to locations and business cards (Walsh, 2010; Hicks and Sinkinson, 2011). Currently pilots are run on using QR codes in student recruitment (Hilton et al, 2011) and in class assessment (Chen et al, 2011; Susono and Shimomura, 2006).

“Within the Business School at Bournemouth University we are in the second cycle of using QR codes across our programmes. Our observations and experiences confirm Tolliver-Walker’s views (2011) on the importance to focus on the user’s mobile experience with the QR code, rather than simply on the code and its hits.

“This poster presents the outcomes of a study on the student awareness of, and engagement with QR Codes. It also introduces the outcomes of a brainstorming session where HE academic and professional staff explored further areas in which QR codes could add value to the student experience and the processes determining it.”

Distributed Centralization: Web 2.0 as a Portal into Users' Lives

by Robert Gehl

Published in Lateral: The journal of the cultural studies association, 1.1

This paper uses the concept of the Web portal to explore the complex articulations between Web 2.0 sites such as... more This paper uses the concept of the Web portal to explore the complex articulations between Web 2.0 sites such as Facebook, Google, and Twitter. By using the portal model, we see how the interconnections between these sites, built on de facto protocols, is creating the Web as Portal, an architecture built to capture value produced by users, value that was previously hidden as unstructured data. Web 2.0 as a portal is rife with contradictions: on the one hand, the Web (and Internet) remain distributed networks, and Web 2.0 applications could easily be mapped as distributed. On the other hand, extremely popular sites such as Facebook (for social networking) and Google (for search), as well as the increasing interconnection between them, are rendering Web 2.0 to be a centralized network. This distributed centralization is part of the larger portal architecture, wherein heterogeneous sites are articulated into a network of networks.

Ladders, samurai, and blue collars: personal branding in Web 2.0

by Robert Gehl

First Monday 16.9

Drawing on the work of Gilles Deleuze, Eva Illouz, and Mark Andrejevic, this paper critiques the personal branding... more Drawing on the work of Gilles Deleuze, Eva Illouz, and Mark Andrejevic, this paper critiques the personal branding literature, particularly as it applies to Web 2.0 social media. I first describe the three–part logic of personal branding: dividuation, emotional capitalism, and autosurveillance. Next, in a sort of mirror image to the self–help literature of personal branding, I offer a critical “how to” guide to branding oneself in Web 2.0. Finally, I conclude with a discussion of why personal branding can be seen as a rational choice, given the circumstances of globalized capitalism and precarious employment. Individuals who brand themselves willfully adopt the logic of capitalism in order to build their human capital. However, I ultimately argue that the obsession with personal branding is no antidote for life in precarious times.