CCM support evil communities?

Yesterday's tragical shooting in Kauhajoki, 11 dead!
• Reflections

Last time

GENRES

Goals:
• Find criteria to classify CCM
• Seek explanations for their success
• Identify their best uses and practices
• Identify problems

General

Genres of CCM (or Social software) can be classified into:
• Sharing
• Collaborating
• Peer grouping
They all may involve:
• Knowledge building (knowledge environments)
• Coherence building
• Language building

Sharing

Photos

E.g. Flickr, Picasa. Where do you have your photos?
Why do you want to show your photos to the world?

Videos

• YouTube
• Joost TV 2.0? (Joost)

Presentations

• Slideshare

Music

sharing: LastFM
• MySpace

Bookmarks

• DelicioUs
Special interest content. Your examples?

Contacts

• Facebook
• LinkedIn

Source

• Open source communities, e.g. Linux
• (Several books in IMKE library)
• SourceForge
• FreshMeat.net

Books

• Shelfari

Places

• Sharing GIS
• Google maps
Wikimapia, add and describe a place, preferably one others would know. Ask others to approve or comment.

Game modifications, quests

• Game modifications shared by a communnity
• Player-created quests

Common about sharing communities?

What's the alchemy?
• (Miller 2006) Five rules for building a successful online community
• Internet addiction (ScienceDaily 2007)
Game-like addiction mechanisms?
Flow theory?

Collaboration

Asynchronous collaboration

• Wiki
• (History), recommended
Problem: Edit conflicts! => Need for better underlying engine

Synchronous collaboration

SubEthaEdit.
Google docs:
• Text editor
• Spreadsheet
• Presentation
• Questionnaire form
• A number of applications
Problem: Computationally heavy, because all changes are updated, saved and displayed constantly
• Lawson 2005

Chat

• Online chatting
Synchronous or asynchronous?
• Often part of collaboration with other tools

Synchronized collaborative writing (classroom)

Synchronous collaborative writing here. You have received an invitation yesterday by email.
How come everybody wants to share suddenly?
Where does "everybody can" lead? What kind of culture?
What will be left for professionals?
Who will make money?

Lunch break

Peer grouping

• Getting in touch with others in the same situation (unlike sharing)
• Mutual support and encouragement
• Common interests, e.g. pets, sailing
• Common concern, e.g. illness. ( ScienceDaily 1999 )
• Also hostile, violent and criminal interests. Mutual encouragement within isolated and marginalizaed groups for violent actions. (Jari Sinkkonen's interview in Finnish). What can or should be done? Reflect

Blogging

• Blog = "web log"
Two uses of blogs:

Individual blogs

• Me to millions
Your blog? Why blog? Set up one?
Applications: Blogger, WordPress... ?
How come millions of people have suddenly started writing diaries?
The secret?
• RSS Feed, Blogosphere, Interconnected community of bloggers
Favourite bloggers may have more readers than large newspapers!
What kind of blogging attracts readers?
• => Media power and influence! (Farrell & Drezner 2006)

Community blogs

• Many writers
• Imke community blog
• Sereve to establishand maintain a community

Citizen journalism

• Everybody can be a journalist, E.g. Ohmynews, Wikinews
• Phone photo contributions, blogs, videos etc., first witness effect
What remains for the journalists to do?
Related courses: Mobile Interactions and Locative Technologies
(Book: Gilmore 2004)

Virtual environments

• SecondLife
Real economy!
• (Pasick 2006)
Related course: Experimental input and output.

Remix culture

• Embedding
• APIs
• Montage
• Remix
Everybody can be innovative and creative!
Everybody can develop sophisticated CCM!
• (Lessig 2005)
(Book: Manovich 2000)
Related course: Digital culture

Free tools

• Amazon web commerce
Everybody can set up a web shop!

Assignment (home)

Prepare a short introduction of another CCM application for the rest of the group. Choose your means: Page, slides, wiki... List the link here.

To do after every session

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Choose an article to read.
Feedback of the lecture?