Social media functionalities & affordances

Module I, Class #2, LIBR 559M Social Media for Information Professionals

January 12th, 2016 – Dean Giustini, iSchool instructor

Objective: BEGIN discussion on types of social media, functionalities & affordances

START analysis of social media

Start to think about its potential in libraries & archives

Activities: • Discuss Mon article• Functionalities & affordances “functional affordance”

• Exercise or two• Your blogs

• Share, show if you want• Video, intro to danah boyd

• Discussion, reaction

Two short breaks at 7pm and 8pm

What is planned for tonight

Mon chapter – 10 mins. Discussion & report back

Required reading: • “The social media environment”. Ch 1, pgs 1-18. In: Mon Lori. Social

media and library services. London: Morgan and Claypool, 2015.

1. REACT …start by sharing your impressions of chapter 1 in Mon’s book2. DISCUSS: Mon’s definition of “social media”? Features of social media?

3. Right side of class (facing front)• What does Mon say about “crowdsourcing”? • What about using social media to “find things”

4. Left side of class (facing front)• What does Mon say about “Library 2.0”? What is it?• What about using social media for “collection building”?

END with other observations you may want to make…

Dr. Lorri Mon, FSU iSchool https://directory.cci.fsu.edu/lorri-mon/

Mon chapter – pg. 4 “The Social Sphere”…

The long view: media and us

McLuhan, (Herbert) Marshall (1911-1980)

Watch dramatization of McLuhan and his now famous quote “the medium is the message”:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHzAerGKYnc

AFFORDANCE(S)

YouTube video re: affordances in online learning

• Examples used are for “learning”• Affordances of classroom we’re in?

The idea of affordance is something to consider as we learn more about social media

Richard Culatta from Innovative Learninghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWJMOqu8L8A

More on affordances…

Web design should be intuitive; its affordances immediately apparent…

What are the affordances here …?

Affordance & social media…. Key to perception

AFFORDANCES , FACEBOOK (5 minutes)

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Claudio Franco. By the Book: The Book and the Study of its Digital Transformation conference in May 2014.

See also: http://www.engagelab.org/projects/bridgingbook

This YouTube video is an example of how we, as information professionals, might extend the affordances of a book by adding social features. Can social tools increase the value of interactions we have with books? Or, should reading be a solitary act? What are the implications of new technologies being added to analog tools such as books and journals? (For background on Marginalia see http://www.chrisrbecker.com/marginalia). Watch YouTube video here: Marginalia : The Hybrid Textbookhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=zwYdmsdqqTk

Social “marginalia” -- writing in the margins

http://www.flickr.com/hotos/will-lion/ / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

Sullivan on why he blogs

Watch danah boyd presentation. Take notes, pose questions you have. Reflect on content and what you consider important or interesting. Share your ideas.

DISCUSSION AFTERWARDS….

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QKq15WyGkA

danah boyd talking about her book….15 mins.