http://www.bbc.co.uk/webwise/courses/social-media-basics/
Access the site, and ask questions on the associated blog.
Media leaders on future of journalism and news
March 6, 2011 Leave a Comment
Editor of The Guardian Alan Rusbridger, Editor of the Financial Times Lionel Barber, Director of External Relations for Google Peter Barron, BBC Director General Mark Thompson and Anne McElvoy from The Economist join Newsnight’s Jeremy Paxman to discuss the role of the professional journalist versus the citizen journalist and the democratisation of news.
Broadcast on Tuesday 22 February 2011.
BBC Dimensions
August 21, 2010 Leave a Comment
“Dimensions is an experimental prototype for the BBC. We want to bring home the human scale of events and places in history. The D-Day landing beaches measured from London to Norfolk in the UK. How far would the Titanic stretch down your street?
Dimensions simply juxtaposes the size of historical events with your home and neighbourhood, overlaying important places, events and things on a satellite view of where you live. Certain “Dimensions” can be transformed into short walks, so you can get a physical appreciation of the distances involved.”
Visit the site.
Squeezing the Day Dry
August 20, 2010 Leave a Comment
” The average Briton spends almost half of their waking life using media and communications, data suggests. The statistics from regulator Ofcom suggest people in the UK spend seven hours a day watching TV, surfing the net and using their mobile phones. However, the average person actually squeezes in the equivalent of nearly nine hours of media and communications by multi-tasking on several devices.”
Quite a lot of us working late then… See the full story on the BBC, and thanks to @searchtosales for bringing the story to our attention.
Bex: A Web Fox
February 21, 2010 2 Comments
You are a Web Fox
Fast-moving – Web Foxes like you are great at finding information quickly, just as real-world foxes are always ready to pounce on an opportunity.
Sociable – Foxes are highly social animals, maintaining complex relationships with the other members of their social group. When you browse the web you are also a social creature, often using social networks, or other sites whose content is created by its users, as sources of information.
Adaptable – Web Foxes are highly adaptable multitaskers, able to do several things at the same time – just like real-world foxes who can rapidly change their behaviour to suit their environments.
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The Web Behaviour Test on the BBC’s Virtual Revolution… contribute to the crowd-sourcing. See all 8 web animals.
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How we worked out your web animal
Our web animals are just for fun, but the test is based on solid and rigorous science, so your results should tell you something interesting about your web behaviour.
Three aspects of your web behaviour were used to work out your web animal.
Adaptable or specialised?
We aren’t always as good at multitasking as we think we are
The internet allows us to do lots of things at the same time. You might be listening to music and updating your blog while receiving news alerts and chatting online with friends. Then an email arrives. Can you switch seamlessly between different tasks? Or are you actually less efficient?
Indeed, a study from Stanford University in California suggests that people who spend their time multitasking might actually be less good at juggling tasks than non-multitaskers.
If you are an ‘adaptable’ web animal, then you scored highly on our tests that measured your ability to multitask. If your web animal is ‘specialised’, then you are probably better suited to taking on one task at a time.
Fast-moving or slow-moving?
Slow and steady sometimes wins the race
The internet helps people find information fast. Practice makes perfect, and its possible to learn techniques for getting to the information you need quickly. But speed isn’t the same as accuracy. The first answer you find isn’t necessarily the right answer.
We measured the time it took you to complete a series of search tasks. If you are a fast-moving web animal, you took less time than average. This maybe because you know exactly what you’re doing, but could also mean you missed important information. If you are a slow-moving web animal, this could be because you’re less confident, that you focused on getting the right answer rather than the first one.
Social or solitary?
An online social life could influence the way you trust people
The internet has radically multiplied the ways in which we can meet new friends and stay in contact with existing ones. (Internet guru Clay Shirky once said that before the internet came along, the most recent technology that affected the way people sat down and talked to each other was the table.) So how social are you online?
If your web animal is social, you probably told us you spend quite a lot of time on social networking sites and that you tend to trust sites whose content is created by its users. If your web animal is solitary, you probably don’t socialise as much online and are inclined to trust sites whose content is produced in a more traditional, ‘authoritative’ way.
Social behaviour online is a fascinating area of study for our scientists. They would like to understand the relationship between time spent online and the type of information sources users choose to trust.
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