Tag Clouds in the Blogosphere: Electronic Literacy and Social Networking Export

@article{Godwin-Jones2006, abstract = {Electronic literacy today is a moving target. How and why we read and write online are evolving at the fast pace of Internet time. One of the most striking developments in the past few years has been how new social networking phenomena on the Web like community tagging, shared bookmarking, and blogs have created convergences between consumers and creators, between reading and writing, between public and private spaces. Blogs invite us to write responses to items we have read, to move from observer to participant. Shared tagging invites us to analyze texts and sum up their distinctiveness in keywords. Writing online may involve coding or scripting, as we try to add distinctiveness in formatting or interactive functionality to our texts, blurring the lines between writing and programming. Web browsing and reading must be supplemented by abilities in sorting, navigation, and critical thinking. Integration of other media into texts complicates further the notion of literacy. We will examine in this column some of the ways in which these developments are reflected in new tools, services, and approaches to finding, creating, and transforming texts on the Web, and what this might mean for language learning.}, author = {Godwin-Jones, Robert}, citeulike-article-id = {2397011}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://llt.msu.edu/vol10num2/emerging/default.html}, journal = {Language Learning \& Technology}, keywords = {analysis, bibtex-import, collaboration, community, community\_tagging, conceptualization, contextualization, folksonomy, reading, shared\_bookmarking, tagging, writing}, number = {2}, pages = {8--15}, posted-at = {2008-02-19 02:33:51}, priority = {2}, title = {Tag Clouds in the Blogosphere: Electronic Literacy and Social Networking}, url = {http://llt.msu.edu/vol10num2/emerging/default.html}, volume = {10}, year = {2006} }

TY - JOUR ID - Godwin-Jones2006 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2397011 N2 - Electronic literacy today is a moving target. How and why we read and write online are evolving at the fast pace of Internet time. One of the most striking developments in the past few years has been how new social networking phenomena on the Web like community tagging, shared bookmarking, and blogs have created convergences between consumers and creators, between reading and writing, between public and private spaces. Blogs invite us to write responses to items we have read, to move from observer to participant. Shared tagging invites us to analyze texts and sum up their distinctiveness in keywords. Writing online may involve coding or scripting, as we try to add distinctiveness in formatting or interactive functionality to our texts, blurring the lines between writing and programming. Web browsing and reading must be supplemented by abilities in sorting, navigation, and critical thinking. Integration of other media into texts complicates further the notion of literacy. We will examine in this column some of the ways in which these developments are reflected in new tools, services, and approaches to finding, creating, and transforming texts on the Web, and what this might mean for language learning. IS - 2 JF - Language Learning & Technology EP - 15 TI - Tag Clouds in the Blogosphere: Electronic Literacy and Social Networking VL - 10 SP - 8 KW - analysis KW - bibtex-import KW - collaboration KW - community KW - community_tagging KW - conceptualization KW - contextualization KW - folksonomy KW - reading KW - shared_bookmarking KW - tagging KW - writing AU - Godwin-Jones, Robert PY - 2006/// UR - http://llt.msu.edu/vol10num2/emerging/default.html ER -