Issues in Web Based

Research Steve WheelerPlymouth University

6AccessibilityAttenuation

AccountabilityAmplificationAuthenticity

Accuracy

Accessibility

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http://truedantalion.blogspot.co.uk/2011/09/silver-surfers.html

http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/communications/internet-minute-infographic.html

Source: InternetWorldStats.com www.Pingdom.com 2011 Figures

Source: InternetWorldStats.com www.Pingdom.com 2011 Figures

Social Media use in 2012

>1 Billion(100 billion connections)

>450 Million >150 Million

>260 Million

>14 million

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>6 Billion imagesSources from service providers and also http://econsultancy.com

3.5 Billion views/day60 hours/minute

>170 Million

>90 Million

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Attenuation

Social Connectivity

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http://i.imwx.com

Information overload

Aggregators and curators

Semantic search• Navigational search: Looking for a specific

document. Search using key word (tags)• Research search: Looking for a number of

documents which together will give you what you want. Search using phrases.

http://flickr.com/photos/onemanwalking/2570939976/

Computational Knowledge Engines

Finding, storing and sharing

delicious.com

diigo.com

faves.com(Bluedot)

Social tagging, bookmarking and folksonomies.

The gene has its cultural analogue too: the meme. In cultural evolution, a meme is a replicator and propagator – an idea, a fashion, a chain letter, or a conspiracy theory. On a bad day, a meme is a virus.

Lowenstein, 1999

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http://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/10/12/jenkins-forrester

http://www.flickr.com/photos/will-lion/3601144842/sizes/l/in/photostream/

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25 million views 46 million views

447 million views51 million views

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http://knowyourmeme.com/photos/253888-viral-videos

Viral Videos

http://knowyourmeme.com/photos/253882-viral-videos#content_title

Why does some content go viral?

Accountability

“Lt. Pike” Meme

Sunday in the Park with Pike

Having a Bad Knight

The Circle of Pike

‘Pike both denies and betrays’

“For all the money, tax revenue and intelligence that Western governments have at their disposal, they

seemingly cannot get their heads around a simple enough concept that wherever one is, someone is watching and

recording.” - Zack Whitaker

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bhikku/1187679/

“Everything you do now ends up on your permanent record. The best plan is to overload Google with a

long tail of good stuff and to always act as if you’re on candid camera. Because you are”. – Seth Godin

“This man’s death might have been swept under the carpet if a member of the public had not been videoing it.

“If you suspect something, don’t rely on the Police. Report it to the Internet.

http://www.alan.com/2011/02/08/high-school-teacher-loses-job-because-of-facebook-picture-holding-beer-and-wine/

Amplification

http://www.ampcov.co.uk/about-us.php

Event Amplification

http://www.slideshare.net/timbuckteeth/web-30-the-way-forward

Content Amplification

http://theawesomer.com/the-t-mobile-dance/8826/

Social Amplification

Social mobilisation

http://socialcapital.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/tunisia-cc-marcovdz.jpg

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Authenticity

How reliable is the Web?

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Who can you trust online?

http://grewordlist.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/perfidious.png

http://www.themodernman.com

“60% of all Internet pages contain

misleading information.”

- Thomas Edison

We need ‘digital wisdom’

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“Lee Harvey and the Wailers”(Lee Harvey did not jam alone)

http://www.myspace.com/hsu/photos/6850630

Accuracy

http://www.nature.com/news/2004/040802/full/news040802-3.html

“Knowledge that is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.”

- SocratesPlato

http://www.fotopedia.com/items/flickr-713124904

Darwikianism

Wikipedia is crowdsourcing

evaluation

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Wisdom of Crowds...

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Stupidity of Mobs

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Crowdsourcing knowledge:‘Community as curriculum’

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1) Choose 4 significant items in the room2) Write a one word description for each on your post-it notes3) Stick the post-it notes on the items

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Twitter is not just about breakfast!

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Twitter as a libraryTwitter as a street corner

Twitter as a broadcast channel Twitter as amplification

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“If you think of the Web mainly as a place to look up things, you are

missing the point”. – Alec Couros (2012)

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