"Web 2.0 is currently understood in various ways, but generally regarded as the new knowledge transferring agent promising to serve as an effective learning community environment particularly enabling dynamic collaborative learning and group reflection processes"
(Kim, Hong, Bonk, Lim, 2009).
We've chatted in one of the discussion boards about social media for news and information, and how that has even been true within our communities. But the sentence above made me think about the larger collective that participates in web 2.0, how the conversation engages and changes, the possibilities of that dialogue, and power and voice that web 2.0 creates in, often, a less controlled environment.
Just shy of one year from the events that occurred in Ferguson last summer, I was reminded of how web 2.0, and social media played such a role in the conversation, knowledge being shared, reflection of individuals and communities, and often, in some of the first pieces, it was web 2.0, particularly blogs and tweets and video, that were shaping that dynamic collaborative learning component in ways I'm not sure we have seen.
This link for a CNN article tells a little bit more about how the story unfolded, looking particularly at Twitter: http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/19/us/ferguson-social-media-injustice/.
More recently, a video of a similar case was distributed through technology, but also through much more systematic means in the indictment of the police officer who killed Sam DuBose. While the outrage surrounding the case didn't come from Web 2.0, on Web 2.0 the conversation continued, the hashtag began, the dialogue was shared. The personal and heartfelt reflections shared on my Facebook Newsfeed and Twitter fall again reminded me of this quote. It also made me wonder if such outcry for the video stemmed through the information we have become accustomed to having at our fingertips via Web 2.0. Is media, perhaps the old "knowledge transferring agent" learning from Web 2.0? Is it simply competition?
What are other ways we have seen Web 2.0, even in this class or in everyday life, living up to this definition? What are you seeing through your networks?
What are other ways we have seen Web 2.0, even in this class or in everyday life, living up to this definition? What are you seeing through your networks?
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Kim, P., Hong, J., Bonk, C., & Lim, G. (2011). "Effects of group reflection variations in project-based learning integrated in a Web 2.0 learning space." Interactive Learning Environments, 19(4). p. 33-349.
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