Workshop series on Knowledge in Social Software

Facilitated by Carey Jewitt and Yishay Mor

Social software and online social-networking services have emerged as a dominant trend in the recent development of the web. Tim O'Reilly coined the term ‘Web 2.0' to describe this developing set of technologies, for instance del.icio.us, flickr, blogs, wiki, digg, technorati and bibsonomy. These technologies aim to promote contribution, participation, sharing and collaboration on-line.

This series of workshops will aim to disentangle some of the myths and concepts in this domain and to consider their implications for learning and communication.

The program will be a mixture of practical, hands-on, use of social technologies, and the discussion of set readings. We will use these technologies both as tools to support the learning of the group, and as an object of study, discussion and reflection. The papers will be used to explore social software and social-networking services from different perspectives, from anthropology, artificial intelligence, education and semantics.

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SESSION DETAILS

These will be held 1.00 - 2.00 in the Small Seminar Room of the London Knowledge Lab, 23-29 Emerald Street, London WC1 3QS.

Each session will focus on using and experiencing different social software and use the paper indicated to raise some themes and concepts for exploration.

Session 1: Introduction

4th May 2006

Weiss, A. (2005), The power of collective intelligence. netWorker, Vol. 9, No. 3. (September 2005), pp. 16-23.

Session 2: Community based Semantics

18th May 2006

Peter Mika (2005), Ontologies Are Us: A Unified Model of Social Networks and Semantics, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 3729, Oct 2005, Pages 522 - 536

Session 3: An Ethnography of Practices

1st June 2006

Boyd, Danah (2004), "Friendster and Publicly Articulated Social Networks." Conference on Human Factors and Computing Systems (CHI 2004). Vienna: ACM, April 24-29, 2004.

Session 4: Social Cognitive Maps

15th June 2006

Vitorino Ramos, Carlos Fernandes, Agostinho C. Rosa, Social Cognitive Maps, Swarm Collective Perception and Distributed Search on Dynamic Landscapes, submitted to Brains, Minds & Media, Journal of New Media in Neural and Cognitive Science, NRW, Germany, 2005.

Session 5: Complex networks of different scales

29th June 2006