Social Software And Its Possible Future Uses (Part III)
Written by on Thursday, May 31st, 2007 in social software, Online Collaboration, ContentDeliveryAnd Distribution, Independent Publishing, Learning-Educational Technologies.
Social software is a concept that embraces the whole world of those Internet-based interaction systems (i.e. wikis, blogs, instant messengers, podcasts) that allow distance collaboration and communication by emphasizing the richness of the human potential instead of the technologies that make these exchanges possible. Photo credit: Alexandre Stolbstov In the first article dedicated to this topic we analyzed the phenomenon of social software and its impact on the lives of the individuals and organizations while in the second one we measured its growing influence on learning and teaching in the era of the Net Generation. We learnt how positively disruptive social software can be when it meets traditional learning and working environments by fostering a new image of individuals (in …