User Participation Everyday

an  essay about

Blogosphere, Social Media, Web 2.0, User Created Content, and Participation

Toto, we're not in Kansas Anymore

Social Media, User Created Content & Web 2.0

What makes a Media Social?

User Created Content

What separate Web 2.0 from Web 1.0?

What separates Web 2.0 from Web 1.0?

Dynamic nature as opposed to Static Homepages

User Created Content

High level of Participation and Sharing

New Technology

What makes a media social?

Communication in at least two directions! Is the speed in response a factor? The way we make new friends within the

media? Is it the purpose of the media, rather then how

it is built?

The dynamics of the online networks

The dynamics of the online networks

Web 1.0

Conference centered Alias Strangers

Web 2.0

Ego centered You are you (more or

less) IRL-connections

Connecting online to IRL

Oz is now a part of Kansas

or

Kansas is a part of Oz

Why are we spending time online?

”more than just a geeky activity to do online to pass the time; it became framed as a part of the gay community, part of my community from which I was excluded. For the most part, gaydar seemed to work. There was a direct translation between the virtual and the real world, I would 'meet' people online and then meet in a club, bar or coffee shop.”

Who is not online?

71% of the Swedish population uses the Internet daily.

16 % of the Swedish population never or almost never uses the Internet

Public or private

”This is an age of limited privacy, and students

need to be acutely aware of this. It is unfortunate but inevitable that Facebook profiles will have to be more like resumes than anything else.”

Columbia Spectator Staff Editorial in January 27, 2006

Further paths to travel:

How does our social networks AFK get affected by the online networking?

Those 16 % who don’t use the Internet. - Why not & do they feel excluded?

Anna Gustafsson 2009