Anjana Susarla, from the School of Business at UW, is beginning to explore how social networks in Youtube (friends and subscribers) impact the rate in growth of “views” of freshly uploaded Youtube video. (more…)
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Wayfinder: A tool for tagging to equalize opportunities for sense-making
April 29, 2007Meghan Dougherty, PhD Candidate, Communication
(guest blog by Shaun Kane)
Wayfinder: A tool for tagging to equalize opportunities for sense-making in a collection of archived objects
This week Meghan presented her work on the Wayfinder project (http://www.wayfinder.webarchivist.org). This project is part of Meghan’s dissertation work, and is part of the larger Web Archivist project presented previously.
The Wayfinder project continues the exploration of representing digital scholarship digitally. By moving beyond traditional paper- based formats, we may explore alternate representations for scholarly information. Different media present different affordances, and may expose different social and epistemological issues. Wayfinder leverages the affordances of the web to enable new interactions with scholarly information. On the web, readers are able to act as content producers themselves, and can engage in a recursive dialogue with authors. The project also enables new modes of accessing and understanding scholarly information by allowing users to navigate and annotate data, and to create their own paths through a data set. (more…)
