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Direct linkTrubitt, Lisa; Overholtzer, Jeff – EDUCAUSE Review, 2009
Social networks of the electronic variety have become thoroughly embedded in contemporary culture. People have woven these networks into their daily routines, using Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, online gaming environments, and other tools to build and maintain complex webs of professional and personal relationships. Chief Information Officers…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Interpersonal Relationship, Interaction, Social Networks
Boyd, Danah – EDUCAUSE Review, 2010
The future of Web 2.0 is about content streams or streams of information. The metaphor implied by "streams" is powerful. The idea is that individuals are living inside the stream: adding to it, consuming it, redirecting it. The goal today is to be attentively aligned--"in flow"--with these information streams, to be aware of information as it…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Web Sites, Internet, Figurative Language
Staley, David J. – EDUCAUSE Review, 2009
Wikipedia is an online free-content encyclopedia that anyone can edit and an efficient way to marshal the talents of many bright, capable people to produce knowledge. But the real significance of Wikipedia and similar Web 2.0 technologies is the way in which they organize people and activities, not simply the way in which they create and…
Descriptors: Internet, Social Networks, Creativity, Information Technology
Brantley, Peter – EDUCAUSE Review, 2008
Libraries are successful to the extent that they can bridge communities and can leverage the diversity of the quest, the research, and the discovery. By building bridges among various sectors, libraries will be able to define themselves in the next generation.
Descriptors: Electronic Libraries, Social Networks, Social Integration, Role Perception
Alexander, Bryan – EDUCAUSE Review, 2006
Web 1.0 has demonstrated immense powers for connecting learners, teachers, and materials. How much more broadly will this connective matrix grow under the impact of the openness, ease of entry, and social nature of Web 2.0? This article examines openness, microcontent, social software, and social bookmarking (blogs, wikis, trackback, podcasting,…
Descriptors: Internet, Social Networks, Computer Mediated Communication, Information Technology
