We aren’t going to spend much time on the first generation of social network applications in this class, but the modern attention to social software and social networks came– in large part– because of the sudden popularity of sites that explicitly allow people to meet new people.<\/p>\n
Some of these sites were for dating purposes, some for finding new friends with common interests, and some for professional networking with others in your career field. Because so many were coming out so quickly for a while, these services (which number in the thousands) have become known, collectively, as “Yet Another Social Networking Service” or YASNS.<\/p>\n
For this assignment, you are going to sign up for YASNS:\u00a0Linked In<\/a>, a tool for professional networking– meeting other people in your field(s). Who knows, you might even find being a member of LinkedIn to have professional value.\u00a0Proceed to the\u00a0LinkedIn homepage<\/a>.<\/p>\n Sign up for the service and create a profile. You don’t have to fill the profile in completely but put some information there so I can identify you and it’s clear you know how to edit your information.<\/p>\n To complete the assignment<\/strong>, finish editing your profile and then connect with me as a friend or colleague. You can do this by performing a search for me and using the “Invite Tatiana to Connect” link when viewing my profile. Then using Assignment link above submit\u00a0the link to your LinkedIn public profile page. For example, here’s mine:\u00a0www.linkedin.com\/in\/tapiatanova\/<\/a><\/p>\n You can find the link to your public profile page by selecting the Profile from the top menu (when you are logged in to the LinkedIn service) and choosing View My Profile.<\/p>\n Your assignment:<\/strong>\u00a0read Chapter 1 (“Gin, Television, and Cognitive Surplus”) and create a blog post\u00a0reflecting on what you think of the reading, including my prompts below. I am most interested in your own thoughts and reaction, so please feel free to go “free form” and consider your reading in whatever way you see fit.<\/p>\n After you make your reflection post, comment on at least one other student’s post.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" LinkedIn (10 pts) We aren’t going to spend much time on the first generation of social network applications in this class, but the modern attention to social software and social networks came– in large part– because of the sudden popularity of sites that explicitly allow people to meet new people. Some of these sites were… Continue reading Social Software & Networks Assignments<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-159","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","without-featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghostandpenny.com\/cits220\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghostandpenny.com\/cits220\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghostandpenny.com\/cits220\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghostandpenny.com\/cits220\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghostandpenny.com\/cits220\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ghostandpenny.com\/cits220\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":406,"href":"https:\/\/ghostandpenny.com\/cits220\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/159\/revisions\/406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghostandpenny.com\/cits220\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nReflection: Cognitive Surplus (25 pts)<\/em><\/h3>\n
\na) link to other resources and sites that support or are related to your reflection and\/or
\nb) go beyond the reflection in some creative way (sharing notes, writing a poem, creating an image, creating a suite of links in Diigo, discuss some of the specific sites\/trends Shirky mentions, contribute to one of those sites and share a link to that contribution, whatever \u2014 go crazy!).<\/div>\n
\nChapter 1 blog prompts<\/b>\u00a0(you might also be interested in\u00a0watching this presentation by Clay Shirky<\/a>\u00a0— and reading the responses– on this topic from before the book came out \u2014 it covers much of the same ground):<\/p>\n\n