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e-PhDs:
This event took place on Friday 11 February 2005 at 14:00

 
Prof. Wendy Stainton Rogers

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Welcome to the launch page for attending this hybrid physical/virtual event online.

As a 'virtual participant' you will be using some of the e-PhD tools developed at the Open University's Knowledge Media Institute, which we will be discussing on the day.

These will enable you to:
  1. receive the live webcast of the event with audio, video, slides and live demos of e-PhD tools
  2. have a visual presence at the event with a lo-fi video image of yourself displayed to other virtual participants, and in the venue for co-located participants to see
  3. post comments and questions to the event during discussion feedback sessions
What you will see when you are set up
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Venue
Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, (Level 4, Berrill Building), Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, UK [Maps]

Programme
  • 13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
  • 14:00 - 17:00 Workshop


 
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Social Software is...


Social Software
Social Software can be thought of as "software which extends, or derives added value from, human social behaviour - message boards, musical taste-sharing, photo-sharing, instant messaging, mailing lists, social networking."

Interacting with other people not only forms the core of human social and psychological experience, but also lies at the centre of what makes the internet such a rich, powerful and exciting collection of knowledge media. We are especially interested in what happens when such interactions take place on a very large scale -- not only because we work regularly with tens of thousands of distance learners at the Open University, but also because it is evident that being part of a crowd in real life possesses a certain 'buzz' of its own, and poses a natural challenge. Different nuances emerge in different user contexts, so we choose to investigate the contexts of work, learning and play to better understand the trade-offs involved in designing effective large-scale social software for multiple purposes.