The #HCSM Report: Promise and Perils of Content Curation
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The document discusses the promise and perils of content curation on social media. It notes that the internet has made news more participatory, social, diverse and partisan. It also contains images related to hashtag usage, tweet activity on certain hashtags, and the connections between social media nodes. The document highlights the large amount of information on social media and the need to act quickly, but also questions whether there is enough meaningful content. It concludes by noting the hunger for nutritious social media and quotes Alan Alda about challenging assumptions.
The #HCSM Report: Promise and Perils of Content Curation
- 1. The #HSCM Report The Promise and Perils of Content Curation Dr Richard McCrory MRCP(UK) Queen’s University Belfast Belfast Health & Social Care Trust @iamdoctord rmccrory02@qub.ac.uk
- 3. “The Internet has turned the news industry upside down, making it more participatory, social, diverse and partisan – as it used to be before the arrival of the mass media.” The Economist, July 7th, 2011
- 19. Node Colour = Modularity = Density of connections within groups Node Size = Eigenvector Centrality ≈ ‘PageRank’ = Influence of a Node in a Network
- 22. Source @nytimes
- 25. What should I Remember? I need to act fast! Not enough meaning! There’s too much information!
- 28. There is a hunger for Nutritious Social Media Credit: Joel Topf (@kidney_boy)
- 29. “Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in while, or the light won't come in.” Alan Alda
Editor's Notes
- #5: 7649 tweets per second 60,856 google searchs per second 45, 557 gigabytes of data transfer per second 1.8 billion daily users of Facebook Nearly 400, 000, 000 twitter accounts
- #6: All this information can be literally overwhelming, therefore people inevitably attempt to filter or curate content.
- #7: Interestingly
- #8: One of the principal uses of twitter for m
- #24: We’ve seen in recent years how misinformation Indeed sometimes, the message is propagated