Title:
Social Media or The Impact of Us
Date/Place:
2007-02-19 Oxford Internet Institute
Keywords:
community Yahoo! Answers, Flickr, YouTube Del.icio.us web2.0
Description:
A talk exploring the current impact of social media or social networks, commonly called Web 2.0, where content is generated by users in sites like Yahoo! Answers, Flickr, YouTube or Del.icio.us. Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Director of Yahoo! Research Barcelona, Spain and Yahoo! Research Latin America mentions some of the issues studied by his group, as well as further open problems.conventionally we focus on, and measure, just the production aspects of technologies. Professor Jonathan Gershuny looks at time diary surveys to provide a means of looking at the two complimentary aspects of technologies in a more evenly balanced way - and in doing so to develop a new approach to understanding social structure.