http://www.edtags.org/ http://www.edtags.org/css/EdTags.jpghttp://www.edtags.org/bookmarks.php/all/user-generated content Recent bookmarks posted to Edtags.org 60 http://screens.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/07/30/its-tricky/ Political “dirty tricks” have been around since well before Donald Segretti was on the scene; but now they are emerging in the world of new media. To cite one recent example, there was the Web video that merged Hillary Clinton and “1984.” Is Web video, with its relative anonymity, the new home for dirty tricks? trustteam Wed, 01 Aug 2007 02:47:55 +0000 ethics politics web video user-generated content authorship identity http://www.slate.com/id/2170651/fr/rss/ he Internet was supposed to make the video world egalitarian. No longer would an oligarchy of content providers—a few TV networks, a couple of major movie studios—control what we watch. The Web gives creative people a potential audience of millions, as well as countless venues to display their creations. But that's not how things turned out. Web video isn't an oligarchy, it's a dictatorship. trustteam Thu, 19 Jul 2007 21:26:18 +0000 user-generated content web 2.0 youtube http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/27/technology/27video.html This week, MySpace, a division of the News Corporation, will show that it is serious about challenging YouTube in the booming world of online video. On Thursday, MySpace plans to rename and refurbish the video-sharing service on its popular social network. The new service, called MySpace TV, will be set up as an independent Web site (www.myspacetv.com) that people can visit to share and watch vid trustteam Thu, 28 Jun 2007 01:15:54 +0000 social networking video youtube myspace user-generated content ownership authorship http://chronicle.com/daily/2007/06/2007061108n.htm?rss Graduate posts on Youtube, upsets university and students. "The five-minute clip, identified as a film about Winston-Salem State football, showed a fistfight between two ex-athletes, up-close shots of scantily clad women dancing, a depiction of players mixing grain alcohol, a picture of an athlete defacing another university's property, and enough foul language to make a rapper blush." trustteam Mon, 11 Jun 2007 20:34:36 +0000 ethics user-generated content privacy credibility copyright http://www.latimes.com/features/magazine/west/la-tm-corykennedy08feb25,0,591340.story If it's hard to characterize, it may be because hers is a dispatch from uncharted cultural waters. Never before have media, technology and celebrity collided with adolescence at such warp speed. Never before has it been so easy for, say, a middle-class kid with a curfew and no driver's license to rise to international fame almost without her parents' knowledge. Put it this way: By the time Cory Kennedy's mother realized that her child had become, in the words of Gawker.com, an "Internet It Girl," the Web was riddled with photos of Cory posing, eating, dancing, shopping, romping at the beach, looking pensive and French-kissing one of the (adult) members of the rock band the Kings of Leon. trustteam Mon, 11 Jun 2007 19:33:00 +0000 youth privacy user-generated content http://www.gwn.com/news/story.php/id/12672/Valve_On_User-created_Content.html Doug Lombardi, marketing director at Valve Software, has stated that he believes home consoles must embrace user-created content if “they want online to matter”. Speaking with Gamesindustry.biz, Lombardi stated, "I would argue that it's the biggest component those guys have to get over if they want online to matter.” "Half-Life 1 was okay as a multiplayer game and Team Fortress Classic was really good, but Counter-Strike kicked both their asses no question. And that came from a kid going to college in Canada and another kid going to high school in New Jersey, who had our code and thought it would be cool to play our game.” trustteam Thu, 17 May 2007 19:35:38 +0000 games user-generated content http://www.editorsweblog.org/news/2007/04/us_virginia_tech_tragedy_reveals_growth.php "This may not be the main issue in the wake of the most devastating tragedy ever on a US campus, but Follow the Media remarks that the coverage of the massacre gave a clear indication of the growth of citizen journalism – and its effect on traditional media coverage." trustteam Fri, 04 May 2007 23:28:37 +0000 citizen journalism credibility media news information jmfrancis user-generated content http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/19/technology/19kids.html?ex=1329541200&en=be00f3d0359f1cbc&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss "Nickelodeon has already embraced the user-generated video fad on its Web sites. Now the network will bring that interactivity full circle with a weekday program that incorporates material produced by children." trustteam Fri, 04 May 2007 23:23:50 +0000 jmfrancis credibility information participation nickelodeon user-generated content http://www.cyberjournalist.net/news/004043.php "The Associated Press has partnered with a citizen journalism site, NowPublic.com, to integrate user-generated content into the wires." trustteam Fri, 04 May 2007 23:22:04 +0000 participation credibility news citizen journalism trust media information jmfrancis user-generated content http://blog.citizendium.org/2007/04/19/who-says-we-know-on-the-new-politics-of-knowledge/ "As wonderful as it might be that the hegemony of professionals over knowledge is lessening, there is a downside: our grasp of and respect for reliable information suffers. … The new politics of knowledge that I advocate would place experts at the head of the table, but — unlike the old order — gives the general public a place at the table as well." trustteam Fri, 04 May 2007 23:17:06 +0000 user-generated content trust wikipedia citizendium information jmfrancis democracy ownership authorship experts knowledge wikis http://chronicle.com/weekly/v53/i29/29b02001.htm Wikipedia is not just an encyclopedia. It is a knowledge community, uniting anonymous readers all over the world who edit and correct grammar, style, interpretations, and facts. It is a community devoted to a common good — the life of the intellect.Isn't that what we educators want to model for our students? Rather than banning Wikipedia, why not make studying what it does and does not do part of. trustteam Thu, 12 Apr 2007 18:40:18 +0000 wikipedia credibility education user-generated content http://www.wiretapmag.org/arts/43054/ As the YouTube Generation enters workplace, video resumes become increasingly more popular. (There was a YouTube leak of a consulting video that made the rounds earlier this year, for its extreme cheesiness.) trustteam Fri, 06 Apr 2007 19:35:25 +0000 user-generated content web 2.0 credibiity http://news.wired.com/dynamic/stories/F/FRANCE_HAPPY_SLAPPING?SITE=WIRE&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2007-03-07-16-55-10 A new law in France makes it a crime for anyone who is not a professional journalist to film real-world violence and distribute the images on the Internet. Critics call it a clumsy effort by authorities to battle "happy slapping," the youth fad of filming violent acts - which most often they have provoked - and spreading the images on the Web or between mobile phones. trustteam Thu, 08 Mar 2007 21:59:54 +0000 user-generated content privacy http://slashdot.org/articles/07/03/01/1313251.shtml "A prominent Wikipedia administrator and Wikia employee has been caught lying to the media and 'other' professors about his academic credentials." Very short piece, but interesting. trustteam Fri, 02 Mar 2007 00:13:26 +0000 user-generated content identity http://chronicle.com/cgi-bin/printable.cgi?article=http://chronicle.com/weekly/v53/i24/24b00901.htm adhocracy is a form of social and political organization with few fixed structures or established relationships between players and with minimum hierarchy and maximum diversity. In other words, an adhocracy is more or less the polar opposite of the contemporary university (which preserves often rigid borders between disciplines and departments and even constructs a series of legal obstacles that make it difficult to collaborate even within the same organization). Now try to imagine what would happen if academic departments operated more like YouTube or Wikipedia, allowing for the rapid deployment of scattered expertise and the dynamic reconfiguration of fields. Let's call this new form of academic unit a "YouNiversity." trustteam Thu, 01 Mar 2007 00:01:08 +0000 education internet user-generated content