Overview of content related to 'social web'
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The Social Web is a specified term for the World Wide Web as a kind of Social Media. The term is currently used to describe how people socialize or interact with each other throughout the Web. The Social Web mostly refers to social networking, myspace for example, and content-sharing sites (which also offer a social networking functionality) within Web 2.0. These social websites are mostly formed around the connections of people of the same interest, but there are several theories that specifies exactly how this formation works. There are for example said to be "people focus" websites such as PalBlast, Bebo, Facebook, and Myspace, that focus of social interaction, often by making the user create an online identity (and a profile). There is also socializing on the web that is typified by "hobby focus". For example, if one is interested in photography and wants to share this with like-minded people, then there are photography websites such as Flickr, Kodak Gallery and Photobucket. Often when speaking about the Social Web, collective intelligence is mentioned. Collective intelligence refers to the phenomena of internet users getting together, sharing content, in order to create something bigger than one single person could do. Sometimes, this is also called Wisdom of Crowds. Wikipedia is a perfect example of this. (Excerpt from Wikipedia article: Social web)
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Book Review: I, Digital – A History Devoid of the Personal? |
Chris Rusbridge reviews an edited volume that aims to fill a gap in ‘literature designed specifically to guide archivists’ thinking about personal digital materials’. |
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The Future of the Past of the Web |
Matthew Brack reports on the one-day international workshop 'The Future of the Past of the Web' held at the British Library Conference Centre, London on 7 October, 2011. |
March 2012, issue68, event report |
Connecting Researchers at the University of Bath |
Jez Cope and Geraldine Jones describe a recent series of events introducing social media to research students at the University of Bath. |
July 2011, issue67, feature article |
Institutional Web Management Workshop 2010 |
Keith Doyle provides a personal perspective on a conference organised by UKOLN for those involved in the provision of institutional Web services. |
July 2010, issue64, event report |
Live Blogging @ IWMW 2009 |
Kirsty McGill provides a live blogger perspective on the three-day Institutional Web Managers Workshop, held by UKOLN at the University of Essex, Colchester, in July 2009. |
October 2009, issue61, event report |
Book Review: Digital Consumers - Reshaping the Information Professions |
Muhammad Rafiq offers us a detailed review of a work which examines digital consumers from both an historical and future perspective. |
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Web 2.0 in U.S. LIS Schools: Are They Missing the Boat? |
Noa Aharony asks whether library and information science schools in the United States are underestimating the opportunities offered by Web 2.0 applications. |
January 2008, issue54, feature article |
News and Events |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
July 2007, issue52, news and events |
