The event:
Does Web 2.0 promise a new open and collaborative culture of participation?
Do the threats of accessible private data online outweigh the opportunities?
Will the new culture of online social research diminish the authority of 'official' social science?
This forum analysed the impact of developments in digital technology on social interaction, cultural engagement and market intelligence - and how they're changing the ways we understand and map our social worlds.
This forum was convened by the ESRC Centre for Research on Socio-cultural Change (CRESC), University of Manchester in collaboration with the Northwest Culture Observatory and was part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science.
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The audience:
It brought together interested parties from academia, the digital industries and the wider cultural sector to explore the implications of these developments - for researchers, practitioners and policymakers.
The film:
Some presentations were filmed by the Centre for e-Science at Lancaster University and are available to view here.
The programme:
Roger Burrows, Professor of Sociology, University of York - new cartographies of knowing capitalism and the changing jurisdictions of empirical sociology
Bill Thompson, Digital Critic - from surveys to shared understanding
Steve Coast, Director, ZXV, Founder of OpenStreetMap - OpenStreetMap
Yuwei Lin, Research Associate, National Centre for E-Social Science (NCESS) - ethnographic studies of virtual environments as media for social research
Mike Rowe, Managing Director, 1000 Heads - new industry ethics for brand watching and marketing
David Bird, Lecturer in Digital Marketing, MMU Business School
Mike Ryan, Director, Idaho Technology & Futurologist
Martin Cahill, Research Associate, Manchester Business School
Katie Lips, Social Media Strategist, Kisky Netmedia
The full programme is available to the left of your screen in Event Files.
Resources:
Sociology and, of and in Web 2.0: Some Initial Considerations
Article by David Beer and Roger Burrows University of York; York St John University in Sociological Research Online (Volume 12, Issue 5) which introduces the idea of Web 2.0 to a sociological audience as a key example of a process of cultural digitization that is moving faster than our ability to analyse it.
Resource Discovery for Researchers in e-Social Science|
A learning space at the University of Lancaster - specialises in raising the awareness of the benefits of e-Social Science and providing training in aspect of e-Social Science.
The Impact of Social Networking
This brand new White Paper looks at the growth of social networks, including analysis of who's really using social networking websites, as well as our predictions for the impact they will have in 2008. The paper also features insight from Experian Integrated Marketing on how marketers should look to build their 2008 social media marketing strategies.
Folksonomy
Folksonomy (also known as collaborative tagging, social classification, social indexing, social tagging, and other names) is the practice and method of collaboratively creating and managing tags to annotate and categorize content. In contrast to traditional subject indexing, metadata is not only generated by experts but also by creators and consumers of the content. Usually, freely chosen keywords are used instead of a controlled vocabulary.
Poke 1.0 – a Facebook social research symposium
A half-day social research symposium organised by the London Knowledge Lab, University of London, UK on Thursday 15th November 2007.
Facebook Poll
This is an advertising product that is designed to generate revenue. Users can able to create a poll question and up to five answer choices, and then target the poll based on gender, age, location or profile keyword.
Futuresonic: Online, Mobile and Unplugged Social Networking
The 2008 conference will explore the theme of The Social - Online, Mobile and Unplugged Social Networking. Submissions are invited that explore the new social spaces and the social implications of technologies for the many different kinds of people who make, use and are affected by them.
With Friends like these
Facebook has 59 million users - and 2 million new ones join each week. But you won't catch Tom Hodgkinson volunteering his personal information - not now that he knows the politics of the people behind the social networking site.
Online Research 2008
Event on Tuesday 4th March 2008.
Social Network Profiles as Taste Performances
This study examines how a social network profile's lists of interests - music, books, movies, television shows, etc.—can function as an expressive arena for taste performance.
Mapping a revolution with ‘mashups’