User talk:SiobhanDMC

This is my discussion page. Feel free to post in here.

SiobhanDMC (discuss • contribs) 12:05, 18 March 2014 (UTC)

Our Group
I am Hollie and I am in your group JustHollie (discuss • contribs) 13:34, 18 March 2014 (UTC)

Hello, I'm Jennifer and I am also in this group! What is our group name by the way? Jenniferhw94 (discuss • contribs) 15:53, 18 March 2014 (UTC)

Hi Siobhan - George from Megabytes team here - we are doing Always On too - so we're happy to contribute to your stuff - feel free to contribute to ours as well! Our usernames are: StineEliseJ (Elise); Kellymcdonach (Kelly); GemmaMiller (Gemma); Ania-polish accent (Ania); amandajayner (Aj) and George Berrie (that's me). I'll put the same message on your team mates' discussion pages too to see if we can get some cross-team contributions going. CheersGeorge Berrie (discuss • contribs) 15:13, 27 March 2014 (UTC)

Hello there team! I'm Charlotte and I'm in this group also :) The page is looking fantastic guys! I'm just going to be doing some 'tidying' for now and whilst I'm doing that I'll no doubt see areas that can be developed or expanded so I'll keep you all posted. LittleBlondeLottie (discuss • contribs)

Hey Siobhan, just to let you know that I've put up a very very very vague little lesson plan type thing on my discussion page just as a starting point for us to look at how we are setting out our presentation. Please feel free to add to it or make suggestions and share your opinions. Have a look and I look forward to seeing what you think! LittleBlondeLottie (discuss • contribs)

Key Theorists
danah boyd - I think I'll focus on the chapter given in the weekly reading by boyd, summing up her key ideas with references to them. I'll also look up some of her videos/talks online and see if they give a little extra insight to the topic and reference those in as well. After a quick search online it turns out she did another talk just a few days ago. SiobhanDMC (discuss • contribs) 20:31, 27 March 2014 (UTC)

danah boyd is an academic researcher, focussing primarily on social media and how society interacts with it. Her work in The Social Media Reader (ref) highlights the problems that arise when defining the 'always- on' lifestyle and when being online begins and ends. boyd argues that different social contexts create different relationships with being always-on. This means that how society uses technology is not defined by space, but by the contexts we create. Continuing with this idea, boyd reasons that 'always-on-ers' are characterised by their values and lifestyle rather than generation. Therefore raising questions of who is involved in this always-on lifestyle according to their professional life and social activities, widely varying the spectrum. Furthermore, boyd supports the notion that technology provides a new area for understanding, curiosity, and interaction. This allows users to gain knowledge about people and information, and always-on-ers are taking full advantage of the possibilities available. SiobhanDMC (discuss • contribs) 13:56, 31 March 2014 (UTC)

I've added this to the yearbook as well as an example written by boyd about Snapchat. SiobhanDMC (discuss • contribs) 14:34, 31 March 2014 (UTC)

Oh, I'll do some background work on her too. Her books, talks etc and what key themes she is sharing SiobhanDMC (discuss • contribs) 20:44, 27 March 2014 (UTC)

Snapchat blog post showing an example of the effects of Always-On http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2014/03/21/snapchat-attention.html SiobhanDMC (discuss • contribs) 19:43, 31 March 2014 (UTC)

If everyone can, try to keep the section on boyd in the year book as lower case for her name. That's what has been agreed on the discussion page so that's the best way to go about it SiobhanDMC (discuss • contribs) 19:43, 1 April 2014 (UTC)

Ubiquity and the 'network'

One of boyd's main ideas is that technology and connectivity has become ubiquitous. This means that the technologies are being used as part of everyday life, and no longer thought of as simply technology. boyd refers to ubiquity in terms of how technology is becoming part of the social infrastructure, and supporting people in what they do. Furthermore, boyd is referring to the connectivity of technology and how it is a service for everyday people, not just technologists. This relates to Always-On Culture because as technology becomes more ubiquitous it is being used for more reasons in everyday life, and thus is a key component in being always-on.

Being surrounded by technology also links in with boyd's idea of what the 'network' truly means. boyd believes that the 'network' does not refer to the technology available, but rather to the idea that it offers a new platform to express pre-existing cultural ideas. Interaction and engagement are the driving forces behind information access and communication within the "networked public". boyd argues that this formation of networks is primarily visible on SNSs and media-sharing websites. The purposes of these networks, according to boyd, are socialisation, consumption, and civic engagement. This links to Always-On Culture because socialising is being greatly influenced by technology and ease it offers in everyday life.

Comments
I think I would like to look at Sherry Tuckle... or were you wanting to do both theorists? JustHollie (discuss • contribs) 15:44, 30 March 2014 (UTC)

Go ahead, I was just going to do both if it wasn't going to be covered SiobhanDMC (discuss • contribs) 15:58, 30 March 2014 (UTC)

Hi, I'm Gemma from the Megabytes, we've not heard back from other groups yet but were just wondering what referencing style your group were intending to use. Wiki states that they have no set referencing style yet they like users to keep it consistent (See here: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/36/RefCodeHandout.pdf). Our group thought it would be easier just to stick with APA as that is the set referencing style for Media modules. What do you guys think? Look forward to hearing from you. GemmaMiller (discuss • contribs) 15:23, 31 March 2014 (UTC)

I think this is really good, I have nothing to add so far but I will go take a look at the year book and go over it to make sure it looks good there! Maybe putting in a reference here or there... or do you already have them? just to show where you got all your information from! well done on being so organised. I will start on Sherry Tuckle and see where that leads me in regards to other topics. JustHollie (discuss • contribs) 17:32, 31 March 2014 (UTC)

Yupp, the references have been added on the main page. Hoping to find some more about it all though if I can SiobhanDMC (discuss • contribs) 18:37, 31 March 2014 (UTC)

I am not sure how to find out information/back ground information on Turkle just to add background knowledge without using wikipedia, any ideas? JustHollie (discuss • contribs) 18:43, 31 March 2014 (UTC)

Hollie, I don't suppose we could link to Turkle's own Wiki page could we? It would be a good link for people to check her work out in more detail without us paraphrasing or copying it out. I'm just not to sure how to do this... anyone have any ideas? Cheers! LittleBlondeLottie (discuss • contribs)

I'm sure linking to her own Wiki page would be fine, plenty of other articles on Wiki do it. If she has her own website like boyd it will probably have it all there as well SiobhanDMC (discuss • contribs) 18:57, 31 March 2014 (UTC)

Sounds good, Linking to her wikipedia page but I am not sure I can use it as an ACTUAL reference, can you cite your own website if you know what I mean, do you think I will need to back up with outside sources too? JustHollie (discuss • contribs) 12:57, 1 April 2014 (UTC)

If you can find outside sources that'd be great, but you could always just link to the Wiki page rather referencing it if you can't find anything SiobhanDMC (discuss • contribs) 13:24, 1 April 2014 (UTC)

Hi Siobhan. Just wondering if anyone in your team is looking at building a Glossary? I think we're meant to do that and I don't think we've tackled it in our group yet ... If everybody does it, it could mean a lot of duplicated work. On the other hand not everybody will have identical terms to put in the main glossary. Just wondered what you or your team thought?George Berrie (discuss • contribs) 18:25, 1 April 2014 (UTC)

That makes sense Siobhan re just adding to the existing Glossary list as we go along.George Berrie (discuss • contribs) 20:04, 1 April 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for the message on using lower case for boyd. I wasn't sure also and remember that it was in lower case in the powerpoints too. Cir00004 (discuss • contribs) 20:21, 1 April 2014 (UTC)

Heeey!! Thanks for letting me know about the boyd letter casing. Sorry it took so long to reply, I'm still trying to firgure this massive database out haha. Hope you've managed to do it ok! Thetallerandrew (discuss • contribs) 21:45, 1 April 2014 (UTC)

Hey. I agree that we should have danah boyd's name lower case throughout and I definitely think it will look much better if there is consistency throughout the page. KathrynHairUpAndGlasses (discuss • contribs) 12:33, 2 April 2014 (UTC)

Hi there! Thanks for letting me know about the lower-case situation and sorry for going through and systematically capitalizing all of it! --IsmayH (discuss • contribs) 22:56, 2 April 2014 (UTC)

Hello guys, just in reference to the boyd name issue, just out of sheer interest does anyone know why she chooses not to capitalise her name? I just find the concept really interesting and wondered if people had any sort of knowledge on it maybe? LittleBlondeLottie (discuss • contribs)

You might find this little post by her of interest http://www.danah.org/name.html. I think that clears up a lot about why she chooses to. SiobhanDMC (discuss • contribs) 19:34, 3 April 2014 (UTC)

Hej Siobhan I wrote Boyd's ideas about 'always-on' based on her piece of writing 'Participating in the always-on lifestyle'. Maybe you could add the bit about the addiction to media. She has quite interesting opinion about that. She doesn't think that people can be addicted to the technology. People love technology but only because it's a tool for communication. The truth is that people are passionate about people. Hope that help a bit. (Ania-polish accent (discuss • contribs) 20:25, 3 April 2014 (UTC))

Group meeting
So we're meeting on the 9th April, just thought we could put some things to discuss in here.

We'll need to cover;

who is researching what parts

how we want to present it (powerpoint etc)

who will make the presentation

what questions to open class discussion

Any other ideas? SiobhanDMC (discuss • contribs) 19:55, 2 April 2014 (UTC)

I had an idea about putting together a little intro film to start the presentation of. I can pull together a sort of slideshow movie type thing on Windows Movie Maker with a bit of an overview of the topic, some pictures, open questions and references. I don't mind putting that together myself but getting your opinions and input would be great :) LittleBlondeLottie (discuss • contribs)

That sounds cool! It might be a good place to put examples as well, just so we don't have to awkwardly try to explain them. If that makes sense? SiobhanDMC (discuss • contribs) 19:30, 3 April 2014 (UTC)

Hey, what exactly is it that we have to put in the presentation? Are we talking about our thoughts on putting together a wiki book, always on or both? I think the film thing is a good idea. Heyrach (discuss • contribs) 16:13, 4 April 2014 (UTC)

I think it's a bit of both, the handbook explains it all in more detail though. SiobhanDMC (discuss • contribs) 16:53, 4 April 2014 (UTC)