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  From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Wikis are powered by wiki software. Most are created collaboratively.

  • Where better to understand what a wiki is than WIKIpedia?!
• The Wiki Way: Quick Collaboration on the Web
• Ward Cunningham and co-author Bo Leuf,
• History
• Ward Cunningham started developing WikiWikiWeb in Portland, Oregon, in 1994
• In the early 2000s, wikis were increasingly adopted in enterprise as collaborative software.
• Wiki software is a type of collaborative software
• created and edited using a common web browser.

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• Wikis Bring the World Together
• Spanbauer, Scott, PC World, 07378939, Feb2005, Vol. 23, Issue 2
• Wikis Bring the World Together
• you learn things in life that ring true, if you were to put all of those random and not-so-random bits and pieces of priceless knowledge and wisdom together in one place, you'd have a knowledge resource of tremendous value.
• open online encyclopedia of sorts that remains continuously under development by anyone who cares to contribute.
• One of the largest and most fascinating is Wikipedia.org
• (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki)
• WorldWideWiki's SwitchWiki
• practice editing one at Meatball's SandBox site

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• Facing Facebook: A Guide for Nonteens
• Siegle, Del, Gifted Child Today, Spring2011, Vol. 34, Issue 2
• Facing Facebook: A Guide for Nonteens
• Michael Prensky (2001) distinguished my generation, whom he labeled "digital immigrants," from the current generation of students, for whom he coined the term "digital native."
• Facebook is a social networking phenomenon that has taken the United States by storm
• 1 out of every 12 people on the planet has a Facebook account
• more than one-half trillion members
• Membership grows by almost three-quarters of a million people each day.
• About a billion new pieces of information are posted on Facebook each day (Stengel, 2010)
• boyd (2007) suggested that the social and class divisions that exist in society are replicating online
• some have gone so far as to refer to MySpace as the "ghetto" of social networks
• The typical Facebook account holder has around 130 friends
• only regularly interact with between 4 and 6 of them
• these figures correspond to offline personal relationships
• Identify Formation and Facebook
• They take personal communications about their lives into public spaces for others to witness.
• The most common purpose for using Facebook for teens is to socialize.
• students see it as an easy and effective way of maintaining group communication
• having a Facebook page is a way to see and be seen by others.
• They also use social networking sites to extend the conversations they had at the mall, at school, or at an after school club meeting.
• an alternative gathering option for students with unusual interests or for those who are marginalized or ostracized
• How teens portray themselves on their pages is shaped by how they see their peers portraying themselves.
• interactions create rippling effects
• unlike face-to-face conversations, online conversations are persistent.
• Every misstep is documented for eternity.
• interact with each of those groups
• Unlike the past, teens do not need to leave their homes to socialize with others.
• Harnessing the Power of Different Technologies
• In one British study, 84% of college undergraduates reported that Facebook was part of their daily routine. They used it for social purposes and clearly saw it as "their" social networking space
• Social networking sites certainly have earned their spot in the world of technology. They provide instantaneous and efficient means of communicating.
• One fact is certain; social networking sites are a mainstay of world culture and will continue to evolve and play an important role in how humans interact with each other.

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• Brignall III, Thomas, Van Valey, Thomas, Theory & Science, 15275558, Spring2008, Vol. 10, Issue 1
• Online Gaming Communities and the Neo Tribalism Movement
• players can interact with other players, make friends, create and cultivate new online forms of community
• Massive, multiplayer online role-playing games foster rich social environments.
• this study examines the World of Warcraft as an online community
• exhibits characteristics of neo-tribalism
• games enable enormous numbers of people to simultaneously play, interact, and socialize
• on the first day of WOW's release
• over 200,000 players created accounts
• By June of 2005, over two million paying subscribers were playing WOW (Blizzard, 2005).
• Players can create a virtual identity
• "…forming friendships, slaying monsters, and engaging in epic quests that can span days or weeks." (Blizzard 1, p. 1)
• adventure across this world, alone or together
• Player Motivations
• used five components to characterize player motivations: socialize, achieve, explore, escape, and grief
• Online Communities and the Propensity for Tribalism
• Online communities offer individuals the ability to locate (at least in a virtual sense) and interact with other players who share a common identity or interests
• WOW was explicitly designed to foster socializing within the game.
• many quests that demand player cooperation.
• players can create a guild within the game comprised of members within the same faction
• These guilds have their own websites, recruitment applications, trial periods, rules of conduct, and demands for member tithes.
• Eventually, various guilds transformed into neo-tribes
• Research Methods
• The Importance of Time
• The Community Aspects of WOW
• Blizzard routinely refers to its subscriber base as the World of Warcraft community.
• preferred socializing in WOW to offline socializing
• strong friendship, group unity
• hanging out with people that had similar likes,
• the majority commented that WOW had become, at least for the time being, their primary source of social interaction.
• Tribalism and Neo-Tribalism
• Player Motivations, WOW Structure, and Tribalism

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• Lee, Jim, Quill, 00336475, May2008, Vol. 96, Issue 4
• Use the Internet effectively to find data
• The Internet allows reporters to get specialized information on just about any topic with a few simple mouse clicks.
• Get familiar with sites germane to your beat
• Professional organizations associated with your beat
• explore any "related sites" links for additional sources.
• Don't forget sites such as MySpace or YouTube,
• follow links to that information or the group or agency that put the information together. When visiting sites, sign up for RSS feeds, e-mail alert services or e-newsletters where they are available.
• online databases

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• Salz, Peggy Anne, EContent
• Oct2006, Vol. 29, Issue 8
• SOCIAL NETWORKING TOOLS ON THE ROAD TO ENLIGHTENMENT
• Emerging forms of online collaboration and social networking
• connect people based on their knowledge and talents,
• Scores of organizations already use tools such as wikis (group-editable web pages) to turbocharge collaboration.
• Leading the pack is LinkedIn, a global online network of more than 6 million professionals representing 130 industries.
• Social networking grew up around the need for predetermined collaboration
• connecting people who want to get ahead in their careers or simply linking people according to their workflow and profiles.

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• Participation cues: Coordinating activity and collaboration in complex online gaming worlds

  • online gaming = neo-tribalism
• Keating, Elizabeth
• Sunakawa, Chiho
• Language in Society; Jun2010, Vol. 39 Issue 3, p331-356
• influence on human communicative practices,
• development of digital communication technologies
• creates new spaces for human collaborative activity.
• interactions among a group of gamers
• interacti
• players are managing complex, shifting frameworks of participation

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