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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 in a Web 2.0 environment.

 

  • 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 - Mozilla’s Firefox 2 is an open source browser that offers a fully customizable experience for surfing the web with tabbed browsing, spell checking in the browser, RSS feeds, integrated search, live bookmarks, built-in accessibility and access to over 1,000 add-ons. Firefox is installed on most GW computers. You can locate the browser in the Browser folder under Programs.
  2. Flock - Flock calls itself the “Social Web Browser” because it facilitates easy sharing of photos and content as well as a search feature than anticipates your search by pulling up search results before you finish typing.
  3. Opera- The Opera browser is available for desktops, mobile phones, and other devices. It offers features that allow the use to customize everything from features to make surfing faster and more efficient to security and privacy issues as well as customizing the browser itself.

 

 

  • Chat, IM, Wiki and Content Collaboration Approach to Research
  1. Chatzy - A free private chat serve
  2. Meebo  - Allows user to see instant messages from AIM, Yahoo, MSN, and Google Talk all in one window
  3. PBwiki - This is the wiki service behind the GW Plagiarism Project wiki. The name implies that making a wiki using pbwiki is as easy as making a peanut butter sandwich.
  4. Skype - Voice chat service with the ability to make calls to regular telephone numbers anywhere in the world.
  5. Vyew   - An online collaboration tool that allows a group to author new content or collaborate on PowerPoint, Word, Excell, pdf files, audio and video.
  6. Wikispaces - Popular wiki tool for making web pages that groups can edit together.

 

 

  • Social Bookmarking, Tagging & Web Archiving :
  1. del.icio.us - This is a social bookmarking service allowing you to store your bookmarks online for access from any computer . With del.icio.us, you organize your bookmarks through a keyword system called tags that are more flexible than folders. You can also use del.icio.us to see other people's bookmarks
  2. Diigo - This is a social annotation service that allows you to highlight or put an online sticky-note annotation on any webpage and share your notes with others.
  3. Furl.net - Furl.net allows you to bookmark any site and share your bookmarks with others. You can also annotate the bookmarks and more.
  4. WebCite - An archiving system for webreferences (cited webpages and websites), which can be used by authors, editors, and publishers of scholarly papers and books, to ensure that cited webmaterial will remain available to readers in the future.

 

 

  • Social Note-Taking
  1. BackPackIt - A web-based service that allows you to make pages with to-do lists, notes, files, and images. Backpack also features a Calendar and Reminders that can be sent via email or to your cell phone at predefined times.
  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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