Week 2-


In preparation for this weeks class, I completed 2 readings-
one being:

'The truth in the Age of Social Media: A Social Computing and and Big Data Challenge'
I found this reading very interesting as it discusses different aspects of social media and 'how journalists today expose manipulations and find reliable voices in the crowd.'
http://irevolution.net/2012/07/26/truth-and-social-media/

The other reading was 'The Credibility of Volunteered Geographic information'
it was all about crowdsourcing.
http://kfrichter.org/crowdsourcing-material/day3/flanagin08.pdf

This lecture we began by discussing what we did in week one and a little more on our group projects. The lecture then went on to outline the different forms of communication; traditional communication that includes face-to-face, telephone and letters. Semi Traditional communication includes email, online chat and the mobile phone. Social media contexts, integrated means e.g. Facebook, web conferencing. Technology is always trying to get back the richness we experience of face to face, having video and sound etc.  Large portion of the planet with no access to social media or to Internet at all. China is the number one, in terms of population, who use the Internet. 85% of Irish people are now online.

Gate keepers, concerns the process through which ideas and information are filtered for publication. We completed a class exercise about how science meets social media.