Academics
Social media tools
Canadiana
Theory
Ideas
100
American academic who published widely-cited "white paper" on participatory learning back in 2006-2007.
Who is Henry Jenkins?
100
By far the most popular (1.5 billion users worldwide) social networking site.
What is Facebook?
100
Canadian media icon who said "...the medium is the message"
Who is Marshall McLuhan?
100
Qualities (function) of a tool or interface that a user perceives in using the interface (ie., a doorknob is for opening a door...)
What is an affordance? (Technological, social)
100
The hypothetical "limit" to the # number of people you can feasibly have in your social network.
What is the Dunbar number?
200
Her book "It's complicated" is the culmination of years of fieldwork looking at teen use of social media.
Who is danah boyd?
200
Social networking service enabling users to send short messages called "tweets".
What is Twitter?
200
Vancouver-based company developing social media monitoring (and analytics) tools (and, dashboard).
What is Hootsuite?
200
Culture where relatively low barriers to participation lead to more creative and artistic outputs ...& civic engagement.
What is a participatory culture?
200
This "principle" is sometimes used to frame discussions of who are the content creators in social networks. Also known as the 80–20 rule.
What is the Pareto Principle?
300
NY academic and digital guru who said about social networks "...it's not information overload... it's filter failure".
Who is Clay Shirky?
300
ALA Newsletter to get latest "emerging technologies" updates from a librarian perspective.
What is the ALA Emerging Tips & Trends Newsletter?
300
Name of "open" social media dashboard used to monitor Canadian public libraries' mentions on Twitter.
300
In her article, Pearson draws on "The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life" by this American sociologist.
Who is Erving Goffman?
300
Business term coined in 2006-2010 "...the process of obtaining needed services and content by soliciting contributions from groups or crowds" in a social network.
What is crowdsourcing?
400
This University of Michigan iSchool professor co-authored a seminal paper on social media with danah boyd.
Who is Nicole Ellison?
400
Online platform to edit web documents, spreadsheets & presentations with up to 50 people simultaneously.
What is Google Docs?
400
Name of creative space or "makerspace" at downtown public library in Vancouver.
What is the Inspiration Lab?
400
"Type of room" referred by Pearson to explain social spaces not entirely private ....or "backstage" as Goffman described.
What is a glass bedroom (metaphor)?
400
New learning theory that seeks to define knowledge creation via connected, networked environments (using the web & tools such as blogs, wikis, learning platforms).
What is connectivism by George Siemens?
500
University of Florida iSchool professor is the author of our class text "Social Media and Library Services"
Who is Lori Mon?
500
Mobile app used to submit trip requests on a smartphone (which are routed to drivers ...not taxis though)
What is Uber?
500
Probably the most-consulted librarian wiki in Canada.
What is HLWIKI?
500
1970s academic writing about the "strength of weak ties" in social networks (and, cited by Pearson)?
Who is the American, Mark Granovetter?
500
A process of analyzing social networks by depicting nodes (actors, people, things), social ties and edges (relationships or interactions) that connect those nodes....often visually
What is social network analysis?