The Digital Revolution?Dr Bex Lewis, Research Fellow in Social Media & Online Learning, CODEC, Durham UniversityDirector, Digital Fingerprint

@drbexl@digitalfprint@bigbible@ww2poster

#MediaLit13

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Event Publicity, 2010:

“There is a revolution sweeping across the globe, driven by the massive growth of the internet and internet related technologies. Known as the Digital Revolution it is on par with other great global shifts such as the Agrarian Revolution and the Industrial Revolution. And it is completely changing the landscape of how we communicate, how we influence, how we relate. This isn’t simply about coming to grips with a new technology to assist us in our work, but requires of us a fundamental shift in our processes, our structures and approaches. If we don’t respond then as Eric Hoffer states, we will find ourselves, ‘beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.’”

Let’s be clear…

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Have you noticed

anything?

The Twitterfall: #MediaLit13

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http://wallblog.co.uk/2013/03/26/heat-launches-twitter-awards-where-social-media-and-celebs-meet/

Twitter Spokesperson: Twitter brings you closer to the things you are passionate about - and for millions of people across the globe that is faith.

http://news.sky.com/story/1022800/senior-bishops-to-tweet-christmas-sermons

What’s it good for? New connections through shared interests

Building your “brand”

Pre/During/Post Event Conversations

Breaking news

Asking questions

Sharing pithy statements/quotes

Being “polemical”

https://twitter.com/Natwivity

https://twitter.com/biblesummary

http://philmgreen.wordpress.com/2012/04/04/66-books-in-66-tweets/

Join the Conversation: #Hashtag

https://twitter.com/search?q=%23bbcqt&src=typd

http://bigbible.org.uk/2013/03/looking-for-an-opportunity-changingworship/

RT: Retweet

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You may also see….

MTHT

Trending Topics: 23:17, 08/06/13

Use the 160 character bio well… WhoWhenWhat

Manage Expectations

http://hootsuite.com/

http://www.slideshare.net/drbexl/twitter-13863450

https://support.twitter.com/articles/14589-how-to-add-your-phone-via-sms

http://www.slideshare.net/drbexl/daily-twitter-workout

This week’s hashtag: #MediaLit13

So…. Join in!

The future’s bright… the

future’s … here?

Google Glass (2013)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1T3MQoaeBNs

Black Mirror (2013)

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http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/02/11/review-of-black-mirror-be-right-back/ There were elements of Isaac Asimov’s

work and Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go in this tale in relation to the resurrected version of Ash (Domhnall Gleeson) – with the lines between humanity and technology blurring. But the conclusion was that no matter how much technology connects us, it can never replace human interaction and the human experience.

A Social Media Will?The US government has recently begun advising

people to make a ‘social media will’. A government blog advises: “If you have social media profiles set up online, you should create a statement of how you would like your online identity to be handled. Just like a traditional will helps your survivors handle your physical belongings, a social media will spells out how you want your online identity to be handled”. The document goes on to urge the appointment of an online executor: “This person will be responsible for closing your email addresses, social media profiles and blogs after you are deceased.”

http://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/features/humaninterest/death-and-your-digital-afterlife-202872.html

https://www.facebook.com/help/359046244166395/

https://support.twitter.com/articles/87894-contacting-twitter-about-a-deceased-user

http://liveson.org

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWN9WEU2NP8

So… let’s go back a little

bit…

Who said this?An incredible new technology enables the transmission of text on a worldwide base. It rapidly reduces production and distribution costs and for the first time allows large numbers of people to access text and pictures in their own homes.

Gutenberg Printing Press, 1439

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printing_press

Ordinary people had access to the written word in their own language

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gutenberg_Bible,_Lenox_Copy,_New_York_Public_Library,_2009._Pic_01.jpg

What about this one?The new technologies will bring

‘every individual… into immediate and effortless communication with every other’, ‘practically obliterate’ political geography, and make free trade universal. Thanks to technological advance, ‘there [are] no longer any foreigners,’ and we can look forward to ‘the gradual adoption of a common language.’

Moral Panics“Furedi suggests that

moral panics have a tendency to occur ‘at times when society has not been able to adapt to dramatic changes’ and when such change leads those concerned to express fear over what they see as a loss of control.”

http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Students/lcs9603.html

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Right back to Socrates…This discovery of yours will create

forgetfulness in the learners' souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves…you give your disciples not truth, but only the semblance of truth; they will be hearers of many things and will have learned nothing. (Phaedrus, Benjamin Jowett trans.)

http://bigthink.com/learning-from-the-past/socrates-wouldnt-trust-the-web-should-we-trust-him

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Pew 2012 Well- ‐known blogger, author, and communications professor Jeff Jarvis said we

are experiencing a transition from a textual era and this is altering the way we think, not the physiology of our brains. “I don’t buy the punchline but I do buy the joke,” he wrote. “I do not believe technology will change our brains and how we are ‘wired.’ But it can change how we cognate and navigate our world. We will adapt and find the benefits in this change.”

He continued: “Hark back to Gutenberg. Elizabeth Eisenstein, our leading Gutenberg scholar, says that after the press, people no longer needed to use rhyme as a tool to memorize recipes and other such information. Instead, we now relied on text printed on paper. I have no doubt that curmudgeons at the time lamented lost skills. Text became our new collective memory. Sound familiar? Google is simply an even more effective cultural memory machine. It has already made us more fact- ‐based; when in doubt about a fact, we no longer have to trudge to the library but can expect to find the answer in seconds. Scholars at the University of Southern Denmark have coined the wonderful phrase ‘the Gutenberg Parenthesis’ to examine the shift into and now out of a textually based society.”

“Before the press,” Jarvis concluded, “information was passed mouth- ‐to- ‐ear, scribe- ‐to- ‐scribe; it was changed in the process; there was little sense of ownership and authorship. In the five- ‐ century- ‐long Gutenberg era, text did set how we see our world: serially with a neat beginning and a defined end; permanent; authored. Now, we are passing out of this textual era and that may well affect how we look at our world. That may appear to change how we think. But it won't change our wires.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQHX-SjgQvQ

http://youtu.be/Nwwq3l39lqk

Mobile Stats

https://wirelessintelligence.com/images/analysis/entries/2013-02-25-multiple-sims-infographic.png

DISCUSS

All technologies offer AFFORDANCES, CONSTRAINTS and change SOCIAL PRACTICES

What has been made possible with the introduction of mobile phones?

How have mobile phones limited our activities?

How have our social practices/habits, etc. changed since mobile phones?

Findings?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZSPWDMn730

2009: Internet’s 40th Birthday

A History of the Internet & the Digital Future (Johnny Ryan, 2010)

http://johnnyryan.wordpress.com/net-history-2010/

Sex, Bombs and Burgers (Peter Nowark, 2010)

http://www.sexbombsburgers.com

The PRESENTSo where are we now?

So….Who has a Facebook account?

Who has a Twitter account?

Who has (ever) blogged?

Who has a YouTube channel?

Who has a Pinterest account?

What about LinkedIn?

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXD-Uqx6_Wk

http://blogs.laweekly.com/squidink/donutsocialmed.jpg

http://www.slideshare.net/drbexl/an-overview-of-social-media-january-2013

http://edudemic.com/2013/03/find-out-if-youre-an-average-facebook-user-with-this-image/

‘Amongst Friends…’

http://edudemic.com/2013/03/find-out-if-youre-an-average-facebook-user-with-this-image/

BigBible: Page

Facebook Insights

https://www.facebook.com/TheBibleUBS/info

BigRead: Group

Facebook Edgerank?

http://pinterestinfographics.tumblr.com/post/52298849449/facebook-edgerank

Find some more information…http://digital-fingerprint.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Setting-up-a-Facebook-Account.pdf

http://digital-fingerprint.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Facebook-Like-Page.doc

https://www.facebook.com/help/

Visual Turn: Pinterest, etc

http://www.slideshare.net/drbexl/pinterest-13958905

http://instagram.com/stevefogg

World’s 2nd Largest Search Engine:

Image Credit: Searchingmobile.com

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lXh2n0aPyw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jQzO3zz7bc&list=PLjWKarwbR4dwD7YOkI6LJnIDmQJjvLk2e&index=11

What makes you want to share (in a video)?

Blogging?

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Blog Characteristics?A reverse diary (most recent entry first)

A publically accessible personal journal

Reflections, comments and hyperlinks

Commentary/news on a particular subject

Text/Image/Links including media

Interactive, especially comments

Potentially informal tone

http://youtu.be/livzJTIWlmY

http://youtu.be/8j-Iy8fP0Ek

Think AboutWho are you blogging for?

How often can you blog?

What style of blog will you use?

What content can you produce?

What do you want Google to find?

Who else can you bring on board?

PreachingHow might our approach to preaching change if we understand that we have two audiences – the faithful who sit close to us and a broader public, listening-in from a distance?

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A few thoughts…

Tearfund.org/bloggers

http://drbexl.co.uk/2013/02/22/interview-with-breakoutr-re-tfbloggers/

http://drbexl.co.uk/2013/02/27/we-met-simon-tfbloggers/

http://www.cartoonchurch.com/blog/2013/03/07/a-final-uganda-post/

http://lizclutterbuck.com/category/tfbloggers/

http://digital-fingerprint.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Setting-up-a-WordPress-Account.pdf

http://www.slideshare.net/drbexl/blogging-with-wordpress-for-odhe-jan-13

http://bigbible.org.uk/tag/31daystabb/

http://www.linkedin.com/in/drbexl

https://foursquare.com/drbexl

So, do I need to worry about Google+?

https://plus.google.com/u/0/104673457166214487444/

Technological Dystopianism? Digital media

Taking away abilities to do things they could do before, or do things they shouldn’t do

Ruining people’s ability to make meaning precisely/accurately with language

Social relationships – becoming isolated or meeting up with ‘the wrong kind of people’

Changing the way that people think – easily distracted – unable to construct/follow complex arguments.

Social identities - are these ‘genuine’, and how much do you have control over?

Jones & Hafner Understanding Digital Literacies 2012, p11

What do you see as the fears & possibilities of digital/social media?

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Fears & Possibilities?

If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses. Henry Ford

http://blog.cambridgeconsultants.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/radical.jpg

http://scottfisk.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/creative-commons-license-types-pros-cons1.gif

http://creativecommons.org

What ideas do you have for use in your ministry?

Back To The Future…

So where are we… and where are we heading?

Predicting the Future?http://youtu.be/FxYgdX2PxyQ

http://youtu.be/7bXJ_obaiYQ

The Internet of Things?http://youtu.be/KIMYZE2Ma6I

Try also: http://youtu.be/i5AuzQXBsG4

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