[Air-l] Social software and ICT on Wikipedia

[Jillana Enteen]

Bill,

Cyberculture: Key Concepts is currently in the process of undergoing  
revisions/updates for their next edition.

I, too, am enjoying this discussion and finding it tremendously helpful.

jillana

Jillana Enteen
jillana at jillana.net



On Jul 26, 2006, at 10:12 PM, William Dutton wrote:

>
> As Paolo Massa and Barry Wellman point out, all of these terms -- ICT,
> new media, CMC, etc -- are anchored in specific research programmes,
> historical periods, and technologies. They are not interchangeable.
> While it would be great to improve Wikipedia, I suggest that a useful
> source might be a book by Loader and others, which is part of the Key
> Concepts series of Routledge. It is a 2004 publication, but this
> discussion might encourage them to update Cyberculture: Key Concepts.
> See: http://informationr.net/ir/reviews/revs143.html
>
> In my opinion, these terms matter, so its great to see that a single
> post has generated such a stir around the meaning of closely  
> related by
> distinct terms.
>
> Bill
>
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> Subject: Re: [Air-l] Social software and ICT on Wikipedia
>
>
> I found the blog post "Tracing the Evolution of Social Software" [1],
> published on October 13, 2004, very interesting. It starts with "The
> term 'social software', which is now used to define software that
> supports group interaction, has only become relatively popular within
> the last two or more years. However, the core ideas of social software
> itself enjoy a much longer history, running back to Vannevar Bush's
> ideas about 'memex' in 1945, and traveling through terms such as
> Augmentation, Groupware, and CSCW in the 1960s, 70s, 80s, and 90s. By
> examining the many terms used to describe today's 'social software' we
> can also explore the origins of social software itself, and see how
> there exists a very real life cycle concerning the use of technical
> terminology."
>
> So here there is one more term "social software", luckly enough nobody
> mentioned "Web2.0" [2] yet ... ouch! ;-)
>
> And about ICT, you might like to know that there is no page for ICT on
> Wikipedia, in fact the "Information and communication technology"
> Wikipedia page [3] redirects to the "Information technology" Wikipedia
> page. Of course I'm not saying that if something is not on Wikipedia
> then that something does not exist but simply that someone might  
> want to
> edit the Wikipedia pages related to the many concepts we are  
> discussing
> on this mailing list, such as for example the CMC one [4]
>
> P.
>
> [1] http://www.lifewithalacrity.com/2004/10/tracing_the_evo.html
> [2]
> http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is- 
> web-
> 20.html
> [3]
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_and_communication_technology
> [4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer-mediated_communication
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