Collaborative+Media+Workshop

Collaborative Media Workshop


 * Suggestion of Intro to Workshop on Social/Collaborative Media** (taken from Spannerworks' ebook entitled [|What is Social Media?])


 * Opening Statement:What is Social Media?-5 Major Characteristics**
 * participation-blurs line between media and audience
 * openness-feedback encouraged, password protected content discouraged
 * conversation-two-way interaction
 * community-fosters growth around common issues
 * connectedness-links to other media and information content
 * Basic Types of Social Media**
 * blogs-online journal (web log) (eblogger, technorati)
 * wikis-communal databases where anyone can add/edit content (wikipedia)
 * social networks-personal websites where users can share content and communicate (myspace, facebook)
 * podcasts-audio and video files available through subscription (Apple iTunes)
 * content communities-websites that organize and allow the sharing of a particular content (youtube, flickr, del.ico.us)
 * forums-online discussion focused on a specific topic, predates the advent of "social media" (craigslist forums)
 * (we can link to some of the above examples to give those that are coming from outside of tactical can get a taste of what some of this stuff looks like)**
 * Implications**
 * 1990s discussion of the Internet alluded to its democratic and participatory nature; its revolutionary means of global interconnectedness
 * social media is to a large degree the realization of this early preconception
 * human beings on a new scale
 * global
 * share ideas
 * cooperate and collaborate to create
 * art
 * thought
 * commerce
 * debate and discourse
 * make friends, allies, and lovers
 * This is what democracy looks like
 * anyone can do it
 * create and distribute
 * video/photos/text
 * A threat?
 * the debates around the future of the Internet and all democratic forms of media
 * (from here we can go into the specific example that Fred wants to focus on, namely demonstrating the set up of a vlog which incorporates a lot of the introduction)**