Activity One:
Read the 'Introduction' section, followed by 'Our Digital Lives' (Section 1) and 'Our Social Spaces' (Section 2).
Read the 'Introduction' section, followed by 'Our Digital Lives' (Section 1) and 'Our Social Spaces' (Section 2).
How do the concepts and findings in these sections of the OCLC report reflect your view of the socially networked world in 2014?
In terms of libraries and the idea that they were thought of being only an physical social space, and couldn't become an online social space, obviously this has changed dramatically. My library has created an online book club, we have our interactive Twitter and Facebook pages which include competitions like 'Get Caught Reading' where people take photos of themselves reading somewhere interesting. I feel that the library has to have both a physical social space, as well as an online one. Some of our customers never visit the library, using only our e-books, e-audio, e-magazines and our online databases. For other patrons their trip to the library is a big part of their week, and they enjoy the interaction with others in the community, either coming in for their book-club or other group activity, or just running into friends while browsing the shelves or reading the newspaper. Anyway, I feel like I'm writing a lot here. I'd be interested to know what others thought of the articles in terms of their own experience.
Activity Two:
Based on your reading and viewing of these definitions, try to summarise in your own words what you think Web 2.0 is.
Explore some of these definitions of Web 2.0:
Based on your reading and viewing of these definitions, try to summarise in your own words what you think Web 2.0 is.
To me Web 2.0 is the move from the static pages of web 1.0 to the social, interactive, convergence of ideas and the creating of social spaces online. What web 2.0 is now, was five years ago, and will be five years in the future is definitely of interest to researchers. To me, one thing is certain, it's continually evolving, and no one really knows the extent this is changing our everyday lives. Or, even if it's changing us at all. As Carole quotes the OCLC 2007 report in her introduction to this unit:
"The practice of using social communities to establish and enhance relationships based on some common ground—shared interests, related skills or a common geographic location—is as old as human culture. As early as the time of Plato in 400 B.C., scholars and philosophers studied and analyzed the formation and interaction of groups of people…
Today, the term social networking is being used in new ways, but the concepts behind it—sharing content, collaborating with others and creating community—are not new. What is different is simply the availability of the digital medium, which makes contributing materials and connecting with other people faster, easier and more accessible to a wider population than ever before." (p.2-1)
I think this is good food for thought. We've always been social, but now the extent we are social and the amount of people from different places we can be social with has greatly increased. To talk about Web 2.0 is to talk about social media, as it's a key component of Web 2.0. This sort of thinking also needs to be incorporated into Library 2.0.
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