Help me help my students see the light: A call for social media examples
20 Oct
I’m happy to announce that I made it to midterms unscathed, for the most part. I’m even more happy to announce that the day I’ve been looking forward to this semester has finally arrived. This week, I will be giving my COMM 107 students a crash course in social media. I’m certain that 99.9 percent of them are on Facebook but, if they are going to enter a world that will have changed dramatically in the four years that they will be in college, they must see that the light is a lot brighter than that.
My plan is to define social / digital media and to position the phenomenon in terms of the bigger picture — namely, how it has changed media, advertising, marketing, public relations, politics, news, education, interpersonal communication, business…
Then, I want to show them just how and where the change is taking place. Here is where I would love to get your help. Below is a list of social media categories I created using the Conversation Prism and my own brain. I could go online and fish out specific examples of each to show my students but instead, I wondered if you have or know someone who has a great Flickr profile, YouTube channel, DocStoc archive, etc., etc. that I could share with my students. If so, let me know in the comments or feel free to send me a tweet (@andinarvaez) with the category and a link.
Thank you in advance! And please, feel free to share!
- Picture-sharing
- Livecasting
- Wikis
- Audio / Music sharing
- Events
- Documents / Content
- Customer service
- Video-sharing
- Location
- Reviews / Ratings
- Social networks
- Forums
- SMS / VoIP
- Lifestreams
- Weblog
- Video blog
- Collaboration / Crowdsourced content
- Comments
- Social bookmarks
- Social blogs / Microblogs
- Social News
- Online communities
- Virtual Worlds
- Game-sharing
- Information aggregators
- Instant messaging
