Digital Media of Everyday Life and Education

Here's a documentary by PBS that I found while looking for a video for our Video Clip Learning Context assignment.

http://video.pbs.org/video/1797357384/

Teens vs Adults and Social Media

I came across this article from my Google Alerts. donah boyd explains how teens use social media differently than adults. They rarely use linking and speak to only a handful of friends through their accounts. It also mentions her new book that I am going to purchase.

http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/mediawire/240184/teenagers-dont-use-social-media-to-share-links-says-microsoft-researcher/

http://www.danah.org/itscomplicated/

Social Penetration

I am very grateful for books. I would not have made it this far in life had it not been for learning so much from books of all kinds. They are easy to find and easy to get lost in. This is a book on Social Penetration Theory (The Onion Theory), a theory commonly found in many disciplines. I read it this last summer for a class in which we picked our own pace and books. We read one book per week for ten weeks. I enjoyed learning so much at such a fast rate.

"Narrate, Curate, Share"

http://campustechnology.com/Articles/2011/08/10/How-Blogging-Can-Catalyze-Learning.aspx?Page=2

I've actually heard these terms in conjunction before. "Narrate, Curate, Share" does a great job at depicting the true meaning of what blogging is all about. Aron Barlow wrote a book on this same subject, and the idea that you are a storyteller as a blogger resonates through his book; you are a storyteller in the new public sphere.

Barlow, A. (2008). Blogging America: The new public sphere. Westport, CT: Praeger.

As a curator, you begin to think about what your writings can do to the individuals who read them; you think, essentially, about how your writing and thought affect people and life. It is important to state that the connectedness is, in fact, the basic premise of social media, of which blogging shared a big part in by sharing.