Notes from the Computers in Libraries 2010 Conference Technology is a queer thing is brings you gifts with one hand and it stabs you in the back with the other – C.P. Snow Lee Rainee – Pew Internet and American Life Information Fluency – how networked creators have changed the ecology of information and the world of libraries Fact tank – no agenda Tweckle – to abuse a speak only to twitter followers while only he is speaking 2000 – slow stationary connections built around PC 46% of adults use net 5% have broadband 50% have cell phone 0% wireless 2010 – built around outside servers & storage 75% of adults use net 62% broadband at home 80% cell phone 53% wirelessly in American tied to language literacy, people who answer interview questions in Spanish are less likely to have internet access Digital Divide is still real there are populations who need and want help , librarians are essential to that because we can teach and can make people comfortable in ways that others can’t People say that can’t or don’t want to use net when you push further its unfamiliarity and uneducated about what happens online Librarians can make a difference
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Social media and networked technologies: research and insights
Social media and networked te3chnologies research and insights danah boyd – phd candidate at berkley social media in context, historical perspective web2.0 tech crowd sees it as a shift in deployment, perpetual beta, user generated content business crowd – hope, came after tech bubble crashed, rise of the social network sites – certain things are consistent across them does not say social networking – just social network bc what makes these sites unique is that they have to do with the public socialization of your actual social network profiles – physical world, dress up, do hair etc, online have to do dress up formally, dressing up your profile is a way to make yourself known online, you create a profile you think expresses who you are to the ppl around you most ppl lie about their age onilne, adults decrease, young ppl increase, adults are descriptive young ppl think no one needs to know dress up profile as they would their bedroom or backpacks Friends – are you my friend yes or no? Have to publicly answer that, the term friend means something different to different ppl, some have lower level friends are using sites to connect with ppl they
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