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Activity Streams

Jay Cross

An activity stream is a mash-up of an individual’s or organization’s feeds. For example, my FriendFeed pages show activity from this blog, the Internet Time Blog, my Flickr account, bookmarks I put on Delicious, and my entries from Twitter. Activity streams are going to be wildly important for social learning.

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Engaging the digital generation

Learning with e's

Facebook, Myspace) and video/photo sharing sites (e.g. YouTube, Flickr ) reveals the emergence of collective digital literacies. For digital tribes, their totem – the traditional rallying point for all tribal activity – is patently the Social Web. An analysis of students’ uses of social networking tools (e.g.

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Global digital tribe

Learning with e's

These often exhibit customs and cultural values that separate them from activities that occur in ''real life'' contexts. Post-industrial society saw the emergence of personal computers, the Web and a global communication network of mobile phones. Many of our digital tribal activities are performed on an informal basis.

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Virtual clans

Learning with e's

Another example is the social networking tribe which boasts many clans, such as the MySpace clan, the Bebo clan, the YouTube clan and so on. Tags: MySpace mobile phones YouTube virtual clan FaceBook Bebo cyberculture. One particularly interesting comparison can be made between the users of Flickr and FaceBook.

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Digital tribes

Learning with e's

Facebook, Myspace) and video/photo sharing sites (e.g. YouTube, Flickr ) reveals the emergence of collective digital literacies. For digital tribes, their totem – the traditional rallying point for all tribal activity – is patently the Social Web. Digital Tribes and the Social Web: How Web 2.0

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Virtual clans

Learning with e's

Another example is the social networking tribe which boasts many clans, such as the MySpace clan, the Bebo clan, the YouTube clan and so on. One particularly interesting comparison can be made between the users of Flickr and FaceBook. Virtual youth clans spend much of their time texting each other on their mobile phones.

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Tribes, clans and totems

Learning with e's

Now that my new edited volume ' Connected Minds, Emerging Cultures ' has finally hit the bookstore shelves, I have a little time to reflect on the contents of the 17 chapters, by 19 authors. Flickrites, Twits, Plurkers, Facebookers, Myspacers, Beboids, etc. I argue that as clans (e.g. barking up the wrong tree?