• So who is using the Internet? | Online PR and social media consultancy – Liberate Media
  Some useful stats on t'Interweb penetration and usage
  (tags: PhD statistics demographic)

• You are not a gadget
  Interview with Jaron Lanier – what he is saying about the anthropomorhisation of information and the need for a global micropayments system makes a lot of sense.
  (tags: PhD innovation criticism post-industrial_capitalism)

• Story Curve: The challenges of learning new multimedia and social media skills
  Note from Kevin Marsh's speech to re:wired "Don't become a Twitterhead – like a petrolhead who knows everything about cars but forgets the point of them is to go from one place to another. Make sure you stay outside the bubble. " Wise words.
  (tags: bbc cojo PhD learning socialmedia journalism)
• The Importance of Deep Reading
  What will it take for the next generation to read thoughtfully—both in print and online?
  Maryanne Wolf and Mirit Barzillai Educational Leadership
  (tags: PhD psychology learning)
• Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: The engine of serendipity
  Serendipity is critical to innovation. Things like Google appear to give it but dont. How the Internet provides it is when you use the web to connect with people, rather than with a machine…
  (tags: serendipity innovation PhD)
• The Ignorance of Crowds
  Nicholas Carr "The open source model can play an important role in innovation, but know its limitations."
  (tags: PhD innovation open crowdsourcing criticism)
• Is Google Making Us Stupid? – The Atlantic (July/August 2008)
  What the Internet is doing to our brains by Nicholas Taylor Great article – pancake people – the corollary of flat knowledge
  (tags: PhD innovation criticism google psychology Mcluhan Taylor flat_knowledge)

• Are we Guilty of Digital Collectivism?
  Good set of links from WHYS about Jaron Lenier – another dissenting voice. "In his new book ‘You are not a gadget’ he accuses ‘web 2.0 generation’ of being guilty of digital collectivism – killing creativity and innovation."
  (tags: phd innovation criticism digital_collectivism)
• How IBM Uses Social Media to Spur Employee Innovation
  Well researched article
  (tags: PhD innovation ibm socialmedia)
• Edge: CLOUD CULTURE: THE PROMISE AND THE THREAT by Charles Leadbeater
  Interesting essay from Charlie leadbeater
  (tags: cloud_capital WeThink networkcapital PhD innovation)

And if that bit of Birtspeak 2.0 doesn’t get a double gold star from the DG I wonder what will **

I have borrowed the term from Dr. Claire Wardle, who is currently on a mission to get BBC journalists to understand how they can use social media to improve their journalism.

The principle is pretty straightforward – now it is extremely easy for people to self-publish content on the web, instead of keeping information acquired in the course of telling a story hidden from the audience, use social media tools to publish it. Obviously this is not an option for someone involved in an undercover investigation

Here are some examples of things that are currently going on in the BBC:

• World Have Your Say whittling down the possibilities for their running order on their blog and twitter feed

• BBC Technology Correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones asking for sources and opinions via twitter

• Today and ipm publishing their links on delicious

• The Virtual (nee Digital) Revolution team putting their interview rushes online before TX (and inviting re-edits and mashups from anyone which were then used as trails)

This kind of transparency potentially opens journalism and programme-making to a much greater degree of scrutiny than before. As people can see more – there are more questions they can ask:

• Why did you ask X and not Y?
• Why did you post here and not there?
• Why did you leave that bit out?

But then these are the kinds of questions programme-makers need to be asking themselves anyway.

Transparency – it’s the new Impartiality.

** Although it’s got a long way to go before it’s as unintelligeable as this particular bit of gibberish:

• Times Higher Education – How not to write a PhD thesis
  some useful points, some amusing ones.
  (tags: PhD etiquette thesis)

I must not lose sight of the fact that another way you can use social media to deliver creativity and innovation is to ruthlessly take the piss out the hackneyed and the cliched, and then have people share it on youtube etc…

When I did the user research for the Creativity social media site at the BBC it was quite surprising, in a totally unsurprising way, how many of the interviewees said the Charlie Brooker ‘Career in TV’ and other ‘How telly works’ films on Screenwipe had taught them as much as anything.

• Social Software and Web 2.0: Their Sociological Foundations and Implications
  In this chapter, a theoretical understanding of these notions is given. The
  Web is seen in the context of social theories by thinkers like Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, Ferdinand
  Tönnies, and Karl Marx.
  (tags: PhD socialmedia Marxism sociology Weber)
• Ed Stephan's Timeline of Sociology
  A Sociology Timeline from 1600
  (tags: sociology Marxism PhD)

• Survey: Majority of Journalists Now Depend on Social Media for Story Research : CJR
  An overwhelming majority of reporters and editors now depend on social media for their story research, a new survey of journalists has found.
  (tags: PhD socialmedia journalism)
• The Dunbar Number as a Limit to Group Sizes – Life With Alacrity
  Makes some good points going beyond taking Dunbar's number at face value
  (tags: PhD socialnetworking anthropology dunars_number)
• LearningSociety_WhitePaper.pdf (application/pdf Object)
  CISCO white paper on learning society; Charlie Leadbeater, Riccardo Semmler etc
  Chambers "The future of education is networked. Using the full power of video and mobility, people can collaborate
  to create and share knowledge as well as develop new ways of teaching and learning that captures the
  attention and imagination of learners anywhere, anytime on any device."
  (tags: PhD learning education socialnetworking)

• 10IdeasForTheNewDecade.pdf (application/pdf Object)
  10 brief concepts/ideas around social media
  (tags: innovation PhD socialmedia journalism marketing strategy)