Personalized Magazines
Applications like Flipboard, Zite, RSS5000, and Taptu aggregate content from personal social media networks and other sources, presenting the information in a snappy magazine-style format complete with headlines, images, column formatting, and multimedia. Users set up sections, like those in a newspaper, and each section provides content from Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, or other social media account or pulls data from an RSS feed or a website. As students contribute their own text, photos, videos, and related links to the network, the emerging content can engage classmates and encourage participation in the conversation. These products change who has control of content and raise new questions about copyright. Although implementation of these products in academic settings remains in the early stages, we can expect similar content-delivery products on smart phones and laptops.
Source: Educause 7 Things
Posted in: Emerging Markets Poll
David William Price 7:34 am on September 8, 2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Again my concern is people who set up niche worlds to avoid consuming information they are unfamiliar or uncomfortable with. It seems to me people already do this and I am dismayed that we have “right wing” and “left wing” leaning newspapers and news channels. I use Google News and I tend to read different viewpoints on the same article, as well as all the fiery objectionable comments people make to criticize each other.
Jay 8:56 am on September 9, 2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply
I agree with David in that this may strengthen the boundaries of comfort and lead to people being less likely to stepping outside their box and exploring different kinds of information. Personalizing media may end up excluding something that someone may have actually have taken an interest in or at the least explored had it been presented to them.