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9 Technologies to Watch & Get Involved With in 2009

1. All Social Media is Now Mainstream

2. Twitter Means Business

Gary: “Am I participating in this conference by asking this question”,

Gary: “Then why are those who comment, rate, share, recommend, mash-up not considered participants in online social networks?”

The speaker then went onto to say academics have to draw a line in the sand between involvement those who may change the title of a podcast they downloaded for example and those who submit truly original content. Afterwards I said why do you have to draw a line when we are talking about ‘degrees’ of participation? He said academics like defined lines and specificity to be able to hang theories on - yet none showed any kind of digram or quantification of those lines. So here is my ‘line’ in the sand stating that participation in society, politics, online social networks etc: is not either on or off it is a continuum of degrees of influence. It is an analog and not a digital 0 or 1 as the academics represented seem to propose.