SirsiDynix Institute Executive Conference

Social Computing and the New Community Environment

Elizabeth Lane Lawley

February 18, 2007

Playlists via Gopher, ca. 1992

Global Network Navigator, 1993

ICQ, 1997

Blogs, 2002

Social Networking Sites, 2002

Social Bookmarks, 2003

Social Photos, 2003

Folksonomies, 2004

One user, many items

Many users, one item

Many users,many items

IRC and “Backchannels” 2004

World of Warcraft, 2005

Gaming Guild Web Communities

What’s Making Me Tingle Now?

Integrating Services (“mashups”)

Photos as Presence Indicators

Photos as Shared Artifacts

Changing Nature of TV

Making News Personal

Too Much Information?

Personal Productivity

Continuous Partial Attention

they.misled.us/dark-room

hogbaysoftware.com/product/writeroom

Continuous Complete Attention

UI/UX Matters

"Too much OSS is, in a way, Software of Men: grim, grey, and--for those who have ever attempted to ask a newbie question on an OSS list--pugilistic and thoroughly patriarchal. You either are part of the in-group or you are a "fugee" (Children of Men jargon for 'refugee'--a major subtext of the movie is the treatment of immigrants). If you are a fugee, God help you; you are no equal to the developers.“

- Karen Schneider

Traditional Wiki

Basecamp “Writeboard”

IRC vs CampFire

NCSU’s Prototype Catalog

Ambient Displays

Unobtrusive Presence

Tangible Artifacts

Delicious Library

LibraryThing

PULP(personal ubiquitous library

project)

Augmented Reality Games:

Cruel 2 B Kind

Augmented Reality Games:“All In” Tombstone Hold’Em

Poker

http://www.42entertainment.com/see.html

context is king, not content

it’s about unfettered experience

what’s the immersive experience we’re creating in public libraries?

- Stephen Abram

(via Jenny Levine)

(photo by Michael Sauers)

http://www.42entertainment.com/see.html

What if we could harness the technology behind World of Warcraft for use in libraries? What if we could create library systems that were more like World of Warcraft and less like Pong? Have we even created the Pong version yet?

I want a gaming librarian!

-Jeffrey Trzeciak University Librarian, McMaster University