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We are witnessing the emergence of something profound: Humans, historically divided by geography, culture and creed, are beginning to connect and collaborate on a scale never seen before. The driving force behind this creative wave are digital tools and networks that allow new forms of collaboration and knowledge creation.

A new Twitter guide published by the LSE Public Policy Group and the LSE Impact of Social Sciences blog  seeks to answer this question, and show academics and researchers how to get the most out of the micro-blogging site. The Guide is designed to lead the novice through the basics of Twitter but also provide tips on how it can aid the teaching and research of the more experienced academic tweeter.

10 resources.

"Howard Rheingold offers a glimpse of the future of high-end online learning in which motivated self-learners collaborate via a variety of social media to create, deliver, and learn an agreed curriculum: a mutant variety of pedagogy that more closely resembles a peer-agogy."

RIAA demands CNET removes MP3 conversion software from downloads.

"In January 2009, Jay Mathews of the Washington Post disparagingly labeled the call for new media literacy and 21st Century skills "the latest doomed pedagogical fad,"..."

"First year economics students at Waikato University now have a better understanding of their subject, thanks to new media. Lecturer Michael Cameron gave students the option of making a video and uploading it to YouTube rather than doing a written assignment. The subject was 'Why should you study economics?'"

Good examples of social media engagement. Not using social channels as a news feed but engaging with students.

Interesting prezi-like tour of Google's new social media features.

Media investigation into essay mills.

As we increasingly move toward an environment of instant and infinite information, it becomes less important for students to know, memorize, or recall information, and more important for them to be able to find, sort, analyze, share, discuss, critique, and create information. They need to move from being simply knowledgeable to being knowledge-able.

New book (and links to others) on media and digital literacy.

Delicious taking a lot of flak on social media after the relaunch. Will they get it right or fizzle out? More arguments for local storage with web services to join people and artifacts.

SM can alter collective action dynamics. Post euphoria post on SM & the Arab Spring

"My "video-book," Learning From YouTube (LFYT), was "published" by the MIT Press in February. With support from the press and many others, I have pushed the media studies monograph, kicking and screaming, fully onto the Internet. "This is not your typical scholarly book..."