New York City October 10-16, 2011 www.mobilityshifts.

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Provoke:
Fostering User Involvement in Social Media
Wednesday, October 12, 5:30 p.m. Sheila C. Johnson Design Center Orientation Room, 2 West 13th Street, ground floor
Provoke is a portal that combines semantic media and social networking to facilitate group discussions on a specific topic. Originally conceived as an artistic project (operaofmeaning.com), it was used in a service-learning course on social media production for a college TV station (live.ucsdmsmashtv.com), and is currently being adopted for educational and learning applications. The technology behind the system uses shared databases on the web for public recommendation and brainstorming system. The broad environment which we are addressing is one in which the participants freely interact with one another via text messaging, as in an online social network, or chat room environment. In terms of novel cultural practices mediated by technology, the system allows training of students in peer review and critical analysis, recreating exegesis traditions that put the audience in the role of significance givers, a practice that had shaped cultural and religious thought in the transition from oral to written collective texts in early scholastic practices. *Additional registration required Shlomo Dubnov (University of California, San Diego)

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