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Pr isc illa Gran tham, Esq. Sr. Research Counsel National Center for Justice and the Rule of Law

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Objectives

After this session, you will be able to:

Explain the concept behind the terms interactive media, Web 2.0, and ;

Identify different types of interactive media;

Differentiate between various kinds of interactive media; and Summarize the ways in which interactive media are utilized.

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But What Does It Mean?

Interactive Web 2.0 Media

Social MdiMedia

A new model that utilizes user participation

3 Web 2.0

• Phrase coined in 2004 @ conference addressi ng st at e of W eb f oll owi ng dot-com crash.

• Implied improvement over the old web

• Democratization of web

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Emphasis on people’s interactions with

Web sites harness collective intelligence of contributors/users

Company can provide better service & build customer loyalty by observing Internet habits

New Web Model

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Media: Traditional v. Interactive

Media = An instrument of

Media in which users Interactive Media = participate & edit content of communication

6 Media

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Interactive Media:

“Hybrid Media Technology” – can combine anyy(p,, format (print, web, disc, video, audio, etc.) that allows users to interact w/ content.

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Interactive Media Model:

USER’S INPUT PROGRAM’S OUTPUT

9 Media v. Interactive Media

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Encyclopedia v. Wikipedia

Encyclopedias Wikipedia • Difficult to keep current • Updated constantly • Expensive to produce •Free and purchase • All contributors must cite • Inconsistencies / published sources Inaccuracies in info • Content must have • Bias & lack of expertise neutral POV of authors • No limitation on topics • Editorial choices • Anyone can edit an • Past allegations of article racism and sexism

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Information being communicated: How the Internet works

12 Information being communicated: How the works http://www.commoncraft.com

User can watch video online

User can purchase & download on Kindle

User can share video via or

Written overview

User can download transcript of video Download Fact Sheet [PDF].

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Quiz: Which of the following is an example of interactive media: a. A news program b. A .pdf document posted online c. A video recording of an interview d. A story posted on a newspaper’s which includes links to other stories as well as a “comments” section. 14

Users’ Interactions with the Web

15 Social Media • Social Networking • Social Photo and Video Sharing • • • Newsgro ups , B ulletin & Message Boards • Chat rooms • ••EE--groupsgroups • Virtual Worlds / Role Playing Games

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Search

The Micro‐ Video sharing Blogging SOCIAL Web

Audio

Social Networking Sites • Internet sites that map out relationships between individuals.

• When you create a profile, you put yourself on the social-networking map.

• : 500 million users

• MySpace: 125 million users (and declining)

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On a Social Network, You Can:

Look up old friends

Meet “friends of friends”

Share photos, videos, music

Join groups based on interest

Chat

Play games

Create and or join private groups

Social Network Groups User created Open Closed Secret Function

• Members share information w/ groups of friends with common interests • Post Photos • Group chats in real time with other members • Collectively write and edit documents and notes • Communicate with members when offline via group email address

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“Kick a Ginger” Facebook Group

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Social network - headquartered in Boca Raton, FL 11 million registered users - Over 20 million visitors Users can create groups for purpose of trading CP Powerful encryption tools Share photos/videos while simultaneously chatting about them CP rings on social networks can shelter members Would-be members required to provide CP for admittance into group Existing members must continue sharing CP to remain in good standing

Emphasis on media & content creation Automatic uploading of photos On-site photo editing Advanced customization features Drag and drop formatting enables users to create personal web pages

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Quiz: True or False:

In order to share photos on a social networking site, you must be a member of a Photo Sharing Group? a. True b. False

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Quiz: Which of the following can be fabricated on a user’s Facebook profile? a. Name b. Age c. Occupation d. Interests e. All of the above

27 Video and Photo Sharing Sites

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Online Photo Sharing Starts with photo storage , i.e., , Flickr Photos stored safely in the “cloud.”

Take Upload photos Visit the photos with Move photos from Grand digital to computer to Flickr Canyon camera website

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Add keywords or When I want to “tags” to Add titles to view my Grand The relevant describe photos photos are photos Canyon photos, I Grand Canyon, click on displayed. vacation, etc . appropriate

30 But wait…that’s not all! Sharing your photos User can set permissions on photos . Public: anyone can see photos . Private: • Only people you specify • On some sites, “private” covers everyone on friends or . .Create categories of people: only certain categories can see certain photos

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Other Features: • Some sites allow users to create groups based on common interests. Members can share photo tips, comment on photos, etc. • EXIF (Exchangeable Image File Format) data might be included unless feature is disabled . Camera used . Time and date photo was taken . Camera settings used for photo

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Quiz:

True or False Photos stored in the “cloud” with a photo sharing website will exist in two places: one copy on the website and one copy on the photographer’s computer. a.True b.False

33 Blogs

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What is a ? • Website maintained by an individual • Free and simple to create: Blogger, Blogspot, WordPress • Public Features • Interactive – visitors can leave comments • Regular entries of commentary and graphics • Usually a single page with links to archived posts • Entries are displayed in reverse-chronological order Types • Personal • Corporate, organizational, clubs • By genre: law, technology, By the numbers • Over 156 million

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Stop your presentation before it kills again

36 Website offering and social

Enables users to send and read Tweets

Tweet – text-based post of up to 140 characters

Users may subscribe to other users' tweets – aka following

Tweets are publicly visible by default; but senders can restrict message delivery to just their followers.

1000% increase between Feb. 2008 and Feb. 2009

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The Wonderful World of Wikis

39 What is a ?

• Connection of Web pages interconnected to each other through internal links

• Wikis a llow users to en ter an d communally edit bits of text

• These bits of text can be viewed and edited by anyone who visits the wiki

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Examples of Wikis: • Wikipedia . 3,578,560 articles . One of the Top 100 web sites in the world • wikiHow . (99, 711 articles) . Browse by category; i.e., health, travel, philosophy, auto  How to make a crop circle  How to begin people watching  How to judge body condition scores in cattle  How to type 41

wikiHow Home Articles Community search The how to manual that you can edit How to Type Edit edits by:,Ben Rubenstein, Dave Crosby, Isabella (see all)

Article Edit Discuss View History 1 98

Do you look at the keyboard and type each letter at unbearably slow speeds? Impress your friends and family by learning how to type at faster rates! The following steps will increase your ability to touch type and also teach you tricks that will get your typing speed up. If you follow all the steps in this article overtime, you will be able to successfully type and correct errors while looking at the monitor rather than the keyboard, all for free!

edit Steps 1 Decide on what kind of keyboard you want to use. Most of the time you’ll come across a traditional QWERTY keyboard, but there’s also the option of switching to a Dvorak keyboard. The standard QWERTY keyboard layout was designed to prevent typewriter jams (which is no longer necessary with ), while the Dvorak layout was designed to be specifically easy on the hands. …and lesser known wikis: • Wookieepedia (Star Wars wiki – 83,101 articles) • WikiTravel (24, 585 articles) • The Godfather wiki (1,078 articles) • Twilight Saga wiki (937 articles) ••KnitWikiKnitWiki . http://www.knittinghttp://www.knitting--and.com/wiki/Main_Pageand.com/wiki/Main_Page . 332 articles (temporarily closed to edits due to excessive • KnitWiki (Competing site) . http://knitting.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page . 86 articles • Pop Tarts wiki (104 articles)

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Quiz: Which of the following is a common feature of all wikis: a.Unreliability b. Ability for any visitor to edit c. All contributors must cite published sources d. Content has a neutral point of view

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Bulletin Boards Internet Forums or Message Boards

45 Bulletin Board Services Programs

• PChPrecursor to Chat rooms • Text-based • BBS did not require Internet connection • Computer with modem dial directly into BBS hosting computer 46

Bulletin Board Services

• Host controls who is allowed on the system • Host can set different access levels within the BBS • Once verified, user can upload & download files, read news, exchange , etc. • Popularity declined once Internet included graphics, but BBS remain a tool in child pornography industry

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Internet Forums / Message Boards • Web based forums • Organized by topics • Can be located byyg visiting Yahoo Groups, etc. • Everything from communicating telepathically with animals to biological applications of nanotechnology

48 Message Boards for Vegetarians & Vegans:

Not relevant

Bulletin & Message Boards

• Anonymity • Most require registration and a username, but some allow postings from non-users • Some require invitations or approval

Chat Rooms

51 Chat Rooms

• Online spaces where users communicate through text-based messages. • “Virtual cocktail party” • Strangers gather to flirt, argue about politics and sports, ask for advice, about shared hobbies and interests, or hang out.

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History of Chat Rooms

Email Bulletin Boards

• 1972 • 1979 • Users posted responses to message threads • Email based newsgroup which became… • Not “real time”

PlayNet CompuServe CB simulator BBS (+) (1980) • Combined online games with • BBS communities begin to real time chat • Considered 1st incorporate Chat and IM into networks • mid 1980s • Allowed users to exchange real time • Late 1970s – early 1980s messages on 40 channels

America Online (AOL) Q-Link Chat Rooms today • In late AOL chat rooms • PlayNet licensed software to among most popular worldwide • Have lost ground to IM, Social Networks • Q-Link launched chat room • 2000: 55% teens, 28% online called People Connection adults used chat rooms • Teens drawn to chat rooms - allow them to try out different • Q-Link changed its name to… • 2005: dropped to 18% teens, selves 17% adults

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Chat Rooms

• Setup by topic

• Usually requires registration

• Conversation is live and not saved, unlike message boards

• Private, side chatting is often possible

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Chatroulette

Website pairs random strangers from across the world for -based conversations Launched Nov. 2009

Created by 17 year old high school student in Moscow

Shortly after launch: 500 visitors per day

Within a month: 50,000 visitors per day 2010: 1.5 million users / 35,000 on Chatroulette at any given time Either user can leave the chat at any time by initiating a new chat

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57 • 1 in 8 of feeds from Chatroulette involved 'R-rated' content. • Nudity has become an established part of the site's notoriety. • Website encourages users to be at least 18, and prohibits pornographic behavior. • Users who experience harassment or witness illegal, immoral, or pornographic activity may report the offending user. • After three users have complained about the same participant within 5 minutes the user is banned from the

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Instant Messaggging

Instant Messaging Most Popular IM programs (all are free): • • AOL Inst ant essenger • MSN (or Windows) • Yahoo Messenger • Chat • Facebook Chat Instant Messaging

• Instant Messaging often allows the sharing of pictures and files • IM can also combine the use of and • Instant Messaging is done between users that have approved each other • Conversations can be saved or printed

Instant Messaging

Quiz: Conversations are live in which of the following: a. Chat rooms b. Message Boards c. Instant Messaging d. Bulletin Boards e. Both A & C f. Both A & D

63 Quiz: Which of the following is not possible within an IM program? a. Money exchange b. Video interface c. Saving conversations d. Picture sharing e. Playing games

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Virtual Worlds

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Virtual Worlds Second Life

•Online social network site for adults •Created by Linden Labs, a San Francisco based company •Virtual economy - dependant upon real money

“Residents”

•Create avatars to represent themselves •Avatars can be in the form of any person or any thing. •Avatars interact with other avatars, Places, and objects.

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UserUser--generatedgenerated content

• More than a chat room • Residents contribute to the world around them. • Residents can create buildings, objects, and animations • Linden Labs places very few restrictions on what residents can create What can an avatar do?

• Anything one can do in real life… • Attend parties, concerts, college classes • Buy land • Shop • Anything else •Fly

• Teleport 69 Good, clean fun in Second Life…

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Recap:

Today we discussed:

The concept behind the terms interactive media, Web 2.0, and Social Media;

The different types of interactive media;

The differences between various kinds of interactive media; and

The ways ways in which interactive media are utilized.

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Upcoming Webinars:

Mobile Devices – April 20, 2011 Professor Michael Johnson . Cell phones, GPS devices, digital cameras . Data that may be available . Processes for acquiring data Peer-to-Peer Technologies – May 11, 2011 Priscilla Grantham, Esq. . Licit and illicit uses . Trends and developments Emerging Uses of Cutting Edge Technologies – June 22, 2011 Priscilla Grantham, Esq. . Cloud computing . Google technologies and tools . Virtual worlds / Questions?

Priscilla Grantham Sr. Research Counsel National Center for Justice and the Rule of Law [email protected] (662) 915.6929

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