Social Informatics

An antidote about how Twitter can be used by consumers to give immediate reviews of a business and likewise how a business can use Twitter to rectify a situation with a customer immediately. Handy real world application of Twitter!

Argues that Terms of service (TOS) agreements have implications for the political and legal structures under which our virtual selves will function. Also, the Wall Street Journal has actually been running fantastic series of investigative reports on this topic, called "what they know": http://online.wsj.com/public/page/what-they-know-digital-privacy.html

This link is specifically related to ICTs and people with Disabilities, but in other places on the UNESCO site you can pull statistics on various countries, which might be helpful if someone is exploring a specific topic in a specific place.

This is the About Page for the ARDA, a resource whose mission is to "democratize access" to data. It contains links to national surveys, denominational histories, etc. and emphasizes accountability. Scholars and amateur researchers may submit source to ARDA, and the staff validates the findings.

A already shared some information about this project, but I think that this web site is worth including here too.

I am getting interested in online mediated learning and apparently a lot of tutoring is being conducted via online video/chat programs, such as Skype.

Technology aids social people to maintain and sustain more relationships.

Using social media to drive social change

The chapters in this volume explore the theoretical, design, learning, and methodological questions with respect to designing for and researching web-based communities to support learning. The authors, coming from diverse academic backgrounds (computer science, information science, instructional systems technology, educational psychology, sociology, and anthropology), are frank in examining what we do and do not know about the processes and practices of designing communities to support learning.

Another ICT article

Is this the way that we power it all in the future? This is a start up company and there are still many questions about how this will become a marketable energy source, but the issue of powering a digital future at a reasonable cost is and important area of investigation and/or planning.

I completely agree Judy. Google has started to look at the energy issue, I believe in part, because so much power is needed to run their servers.

In many ways, this is just one more pundit (and we know how much attention they can get by being contrary), but he does provide a counterpoint to much of the enthusiasm over the democratizing effects of social media.

This is not scholarly, but it makes a few excellent points about Video Game Addiction, that most people can likely relate to.

This is not scholarly, but it is a humorous look at the world without the internet, and how we might react.... relocation to refugee camps, inability to function in our jobs and the ultimate message, that "we can't take the internet for granted".

Transliteracy is defined by Sue Thomas, a professor of new media at De Monfort University, as "the capacity to read, write, and interact across a range of platforms, tools, and media from signing and orality through handwriting, print, TV, radio, and film, to digital social networks."

A group effort sharing information about all literacies (digital literacy, media literacy, information literacy, visual literacy, 21st century literacies, transliteracies ) with special focus on all libraries.

Just realized this is missing "geospatial literacy" which is one of the areas I am interested in, but this looks like a great site. Similar to what we are doing on the topic of social informatics via diigo.

I like that there is so much interest in Transliteracy! We have to include Henry Jenkin's blog as well: http://www.henryjenkins.org/

A very simple and rudimentary explanation (via a PP presentation) of how learning is culturally informed. These ideas are probably elementary to Social Informatics. However, these are concepts that are very easy to forget and don't seem to be very firmly implanted in America's collective conscious.

A pathfinder that provides an overview of using technology with at-risk students (students who are at-risk of dropping out, usually those who come from low-income minority households).

The TRG researches what we are trying to do here (on diigo) and what we've been trying to do all week. Create understanding across mediums.

This is the site for an author who has written several books about finding the time to disconnect. His most recent book is: A Life of Being, Having and Doing Enough "We have forgotten what enough feels like." I recalled this during our discussion of "distraction" and finding ways to disconnect so that when we reconnect we are better able to make technology work for us.