[MNASIS-L] January 26 Progarm - Amy Bruckman on social media and collaboration

[Janet Arth]

Discussion with Amy Bruckman
   Thursday, Jan. 26, at 4:00 p.m.
   Digital Technology Center
   499 Walter Library  (http://www1.umn.edu/twincities/maps/WaLib/)
   117 Pleasant Street SE
   Minneapolis, MN 55455

Peer production of content has led to revolutionary successes like
Wikipedia, YouTube, open-source software, and more. Yet we are still
in the early days of understanding its potential, and how to
deliberately engineer systems to make radically new things possible.
Two types of online collaboration that are currently coming of age are
creative and civic.

In this talk, Bruckman will first discuss leadership in creative
collaboration online.  How do groups of people work together to make
creative products?  Collaborative modes include remix, benevolent
dictatorship, and open collaboration.  How do these differ, and what
constraints does each mode put on process and product?  Can a group of
people who have never met work together to create a product which is
initially only partially described?  What challenges do they
encounter, and how can we help them overcome those challenges?

Second, social media has controversial but potentially transformative
potential for enhancing civic participation. She will explain how the
site iHollaback.org raises awareness of street harassment, and how
this social movement has exploded to 40 cities worldwide in one year.

Finally, Bruckman will present new work in which she and Eric Gilbert
are helping Public Broadcasting Atlanta to increase civic
participation through our redesign of publicsquareatlanta.org.


Program sponsored by Interdisciplinary Graduate Group on Social Computing
Event announcement:  http://amybruckman.eventbrite.com/
About Amy Bruckman:  http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~asb/

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Janet M. Arth, Systems Librarian
University of Minnesota Libraries Enterprise Technology
499 Wilson Library (mail)
569 Wilson Library (office)
309-19th Avenue South    email: arth at umn.edu
Minneapolis, MN              phone: 612-624-9860