Are you joining us in Leeds today? I’ll be kicking off the day with:

Will you be queuing up for them?:

A new term has become popular – chatterboxing, meaning watching a TV programme while talking to others about it online.  A lot of people are doing it, mostly via Twitter

A lot of TV programmes now display their hashtag when they start as an invitation to tweet during the programme – and a lot of people do. It’s reported that some popular programmes have attracted 100s of thousands of tweets. We wanted to get a bit more insight into this phenomenon so we tracked the tweets of viewers watching one recent sporting event on a UK channel over 4 days.  We collected all the tweets and then analysed them on a daily and hourly basis.

Our findings show that although the number of tweets, compared to the size of the audience, is not large they can have a significant impact.  The numbers give an indication of the response of the audience to programme scheduling decisions and also point to how more effective use might be made of promoting the use of hashtags.

The report on the results so far is at davidr-blog.blogspot.co.uk/

On 31st January I was interviewed by Loretta Fenton on Woman to Woman on Premier, talking about ‘Friendship in a Digital Age‘ (Downloadable MP3). (14 minutes, FF through adverts!), or listen here:

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This book looks interesting – what has techno-scientific progress done to our humanity, from a theological perspective:

As its title indicates, this book is an attempt to unravel what it means to be human in the past, present and future. Its ambition is to provide “a comprehensive set of historical, philosophical and sociological resources” for readers to ask their own questions and draw conclusions. In exploring the origin and fate of our biological roots as a defining human feature, Steve Fuller weighs our attempts to transcend biology via humanism and egalitarianism, and our divine aspirations to make the transition from animals to gods. He considers the origin and history of the sciences, and how today’s converging technologies promise enhanced individual and social well-being – not to mention enhanced humans.

Finally, he draws on theological perspectives to argue that human and divine minds overlap sufficiently in their intelligence and creativity for the former to take full control of a techno-scientific (re)creation of the entire world, thereby permitting us to evolve into “humanity 2.0″, which is, he says, a step closer to a divine standpoint. In other words, our intelligence and creativity is on a continuum with that of God, and we cannot do without faith in this deity if we are to cultivate enough enthusiasm in young people to inspire them to attempt techno-scientific conquests of the world and of ourselves.

Read full review. See also this article in The Guardian/Observer.

Have you noticed this video on TV over the past couple of days – it really drew my attention (yes, I love adverts, but still, most of them are wallpaper) – I think because it really shows how ‘news’ comes from a range of perspectives, that it’s multi-media, interactive, and multi-platform – and that ‘the people’ have a voice in this now:

Today I’m at #ecdmd, thought I’d play around with hashtag archiving. Below is an updating flow of all the tweets with the #ecdmd hashtag. This page will update automatically.

Thanks to @adamswbrown for setting this up.. and see the archive here!

Check out this interactive  visualisation of the #ecdmd tweets here: http://bit.ly/y8VaJs 

I LOVE Psychologies magazine, and there’s an increasing number of articles about technology and it’s affects on our lifestyle (yes, I have plans to write something… when is a question!). Read here an extract:

Technology has always changed us. Television brought us 24-hour news and celebrity culture, and paved the way for the instant-access digital age. The clock ended our reliance on nature’s rhythms and regimented our living for ever. Even the printed page transformed our culture of oral narrative. Carr notes that the philospher Socrates feared the development of writing would make people forgetful. There were losses, and gains, but we adapted. So, do we really need to worry?

Read the full article.

Check the full infographic, demonstrating the digital divide in the States.

http://www.sxc.hu/photo/866529

Students used to ‘quick feedback’, are becoming more and more demanding.

Students currently going through the higher education system are part of a “net generation” who expect instant feedback because of their heavy reliance on mobile phones, social media and video games, a conference has heard.

Arlene J. Nicholas, an assistant professor in the department of business studies and economics at Salve Regina University in New England, spoke at the Society for Research into Higher Education conference, held in Wales last week, giving findings from her research on learning methods among 100 students at a small private university.

She told delegates that the current generation of US students – defined as those born between 1981 and 2000 – were the most diverse, with a third defined as non-white or Latino. But they are also the most demanding, Dr Nicholas claimed. “This multimedia generation seems to expect multiple methods to learn,” she said.

She added that the net generation could be easily upset by negative feedback but nevertheless wanted more feedback than any other generation.

Read full story, and read more about FASTECH, a project at the University of Winchester considering how technology can enhance feedback.