LLCU 212 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Geolocation, Web 2.0, Data Mining

• School: McGill University
• Department: Languages, Literatures, Cultures
• Course: LLCU 212
• Professor: Cecily Raynor

Document Summary

Rose to cultural significance around 2003 with friendster. Others: aol, geosites, friendster, linkedin, myspace, facebook, flickr, twitter, youtube, instagram, vine, Does not account for the creation and consumption content. Shift away from the importance of a friend list. Large increase in metadata in the last 10 years than in the previous 10 years (ex: twitter) Blurred distinctions in an era of web 2. 0. Web 2. 0 is the second stage of the evolution of the world wide web, characterized by the change from inert web pages to dynamic or user generated content and the growth of social media. Media-sharing websites, gaming sites, etc. encourage participants to list contacts and friends. News feeds have emerged in social networking sites, blurring the distinction between the public and private spaces. Open application programming interfaces (apis) and other platform technologies have enabled third-party websites to develop on top of or integrate with sns into other tools and sites.