Mid Term Answers

ANSWER GUIDE
1. Name three principles of Web 2.0 3

Web 2.0 Principles:

-freeing of data
-permits the building of virtual applications
-participative
-work for the user
-modular
-sharing
-about communication
-facilitating community
-about remix
-smart
-opens long tail
-built on trust



2. Name three important aspects of maintaining order in collective wiki writing 3

Collaborative Writing:
-page locking system
-versioning system is vital
-ability to temporarily remove edit function
-expertise to consult

3. What are four principles of collective intelligence? 4

Four principles of collective intelligence: Openness, peering, sharing, and acting globally.

4. 3

Currently, social network sites have completed this shift from interactivity to “relational” and from “relational ” to “participation”. Henry Jenkins defines four typologies of “participatory culture.” Please state three of the four typologies.

– Affiliations (Friendster, Facebook, message boards, metagaming, game clans, or MySpace).
– Expressions (digital sampling, skinning and modding, fan videomaking, fan fiction writing, zines, mash-ups).
– Collaborative Problem-solving (Wikipedia, alternative reality gaming, spoiling).
- Circulations (podcasting, blogging).

Networked Publics and Social Media:

5. When we speak of a “networked public” we are simultaneously talking about two different aspects of this term. What are these two aspects? 2

Networked publics are simultaneously both:
1) The space constructed through networked technologies and
2) The imagined community that emerges as a result of the intersection of people, technology, and practice.

6. According to Peirce, what are the three aspects of a sign in a triadic system? 3
1.Representaion
2.Object
3. Interpretant

1. A representation of the sign itself, the form it takes. Sign vehicle or sign for short.

2. Object: Entity to which the sign points, refers or applies (For Example, it could be a specific digital object tow which a tag refers.)

3. Interpretant: The sense or interpretation that is made of the sign. For example, the tagger’s interpretation of the word they have chosen together wit the tagger’


Also acceptable:
Sign
Signified
Signifier

Or

Sign
Object
Interpreter or an application of these terms to a specific interface

7. Define:
-A general description of digital storytelling
-A precise, historical description of digital storytelling 2