LIS 491: Literacy in the information age
- Discoveries
- Projects
- Collaborative activities, e.g., timeline
- Media: web board, doc cam, video, web interactive syllabus
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Instant messaging
- all of the students use it
- none of the faculty do
- questions:
- What functions does it serve?
- What are its drawbacks?
- Why are student and faculty needs different?
- What are their communication practices?
Student use of IM
- Communicate with family & friends at home
- Get homework help
- Dating
- General socializing
- Second nature
Mapping buddy lists
Isaac Oates and Omar Ashrafi at the University of Illinois
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Two degrees
Three degrees
Types of away messages
- Passive-Aggressive away messages
- Posting information about your feelings/emotional state
- Quotes/Song lyrics
- Hyperlinks to websites
- Posting romantic messages
- Sexual away messages
- Posting away messages while under the influence of drugs or alcohol
(cont.)
- Information about where you are or what you're doing
- Posting false information in order to avoid someone
- Posting false information in order to make yourself look better (e.g., more popular)
- Posting humorous away messages/jokes
From a survey created by Brandon Rowe and Sarah Chamovitz at Haverford
Using away messages
- Screening chats
- Checking away messages
- Monitoring who checks your away message
- Using away messages to communicate (sync => async)
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"Daddy, your away message is boring. No one will visit you if all you say is 'away'"
It's snowing
His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead" James Joyce, Dubliners