The one dominant effect of the web is the externalization or giving-shape to aspects of our daily lives that used to vaporize. For example, the ever prominent water cooler provided a space to converse. But, once the conversation was done, it vaporized. With today’s social web and the increased data [...]
Today I had an opportunity to co-present with my 6 year old daughter, Rachel, at the Norman Public Library for approximately forty librarians working in the Pioneer Library System of Oklahoma. The topic of our two hour presentation was, “Digital Citizenship in Libraries: Constructively Leveraging the Power [...]
Of course, the web is not social. Just like technology isn’t social. Or media isn’t social. We use these resources for social means, but that’s a function of use, not of the characteristics inherent in the web or media. We compress “social uses of the web” to social web for [...]
