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Research 2.0

 

 

The resources presented in this wiki take the perspective that the merging of technology, writing, and research has brought new opportunities for involvement, collaboration, and distribution as well as new challenges for conducting responsible research.  These challenges require one to understand what is happening online where vast amounts of information are not only accessible, but the space between users, audience, and authors has merged and blurred.  Consequently, this wiki embraces the ideas and technologies of Web 2.0 as we present responsible research resources for the GW community, or what can be called "Research 2.0."

Web 2.0 is a concept coined by Tim O'Reilly to mean the many layers and dimenions of interconnectivity now opperating on the Internet.  To help explain the concept, in 2007 Michael Wesch, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University, made a video titled "Web 2.0, The Machine is Us/ing Us," that he released on YouTube.  The video is provided below.

 

 

 

 

Researching with Web 2.0 Tools

The tools presented below assist the researcher in taking advantage of the collaborative and socially connected nature of online information gathering and sharing.

 

  • Browsers

    Tabbed, extension-rich browsers offer features and client-side applications that make a browser more than a screen to online content. These browsers help the user interact in customizable ways with the content.  Here are links to three such advanced browsers

  1. Firefox
  2. Flock
  3. Opera

 

 

  • Collaborative Approach to Research
  1. Chatzy
  2. Meebo  - Allows user to see instant messages from AIM, Yahoo, MSN, and Google Talk all in one window
  3. Skype
  4. Vyew   - An online collaboration tool that allows a group to author new content or collaborate on PowerPoint, Word, Excell, pdf files, audio and video.

 

 

  • Social Bookmarking & Tagging:
  1. del.icio.us
  2. Diigo
  3.  
  4. Furl
  5. WebCite

 

 

  • Social Note-Taking
  1. BackPackIt
  2. Carmun
  3. Diigo
  4. Google Docs
  5. Google Notebook
  6. NoteStar
  7. Stickis

     

  8. Zoho

 

 

  • Podcasts
  1. ITune University

 

 

  • Videos
  1. Google Video
  2. YouTube

 

 

  • Advanced and Specialty Searches
  1. Google specialty searches include Scholar, U.S. Government, News, Books, and Blogs)
  2. Quintra's visual search
  3. Windows Academic Live Search

 

 

  • Tools that Track and Deliver Information to the Researcher
  1. Notify services (like Google Alerts),
  2. Aggregators (like Google Reader or Bloglines),
  3. Personal desktops (like Netvibes, Google Home, Pageflakes)
  4. Mashups (like SuprGlu, Pipes)

 

  • Social services to track information:
  1. Digg
  2. Technorati

 

 

  • Media-Rich Formats for Presenting Information:
  1. BubbleShare
  2. Gliffy
  3. Pachyderm 2.0
  4. Scribus
  5. SlideShare
  6. Vyew

 

 

Organizations

 

The Digital Futures Coalition strives to find "an appropriate balance in law and public policy between protecting intellectual property and affording public access to it."  Created in 1995, this 42-member group monitors and advocates on intellectual property issues and is made up of academic and professional organization

 

Founded in 2001 as a response to the tensions caused over copyright with digital developments, this organization developed the Creative Commons License to provide creators a way to protect their work while at the same time encouraging open and creative use of it through a "some rights reserved" licensing.  In addition to explaining the Creative Commons license and proving a easy system for using it, the site also offers links to Creative Commons-licensed media

 

 

 

 

Wikipedia 

Wikipedia, the online social networking encyclopedia, is not without its controversy.  Below are links to examples of the challenges presented with user-generated and free access content.

 

  • Nature versus Britannica over Wikipedia Accuracy
In 2005, an article was published in Nature that claimed that information found on Wikipedia was as accurate as the Encyclopedia Britannica.  Britannica printed a 20 page rebuttal on its corporate web site.  Nature responded with its own press release rebuttal.
 
  • Wikiality
This segment from a July 30, 2006 "Colbert Report" from Comedy Central brings a humorous look at the benefits and liabilites of audience-generated content.  This segment of the Cobert Report's The Word titled "Wikialityhttp://www.comedycentral.com/motherload/index.jhtml?ml_video=72347

 

 

 

 

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