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Conserving The Web's Social Ecology: Theory and Practice
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- Description:
- "Social media" is our best way of understanding culture and memes online. It sucks. Can we do better? This talk explores one possibility: understanding the web as a unified social ecosystem through data mining. It also addresses emerging threats to the social web, and how we might conserve its vibrancy.
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- Where has the social media industry failed at improving our understanding of the web?
- Why has the social media industry failed?
- What are better approaches to understanding culture and community formation online?
- What is web ecology?
- Where can web ecology aid our understanding?
- What does web ecology potentially allow us to do with regards to culture online?
- What tools are being used by web ecologists to explore culture online?
- What are the tangible results from taking the web ecology approach?
- What are the big emerging threats to culture and community on the web?
- What does "conservation" of the web's social ecosystem look like?
- Level:
- Intermediate
- Category:
- Community / Online Community, Content, History of Technology, Online Relationships, User Generated Content
- Type:
- Solo
- Event:
- Interactive 2010
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