Post 1 - Learning Progress & Recent Social networking topic

Learning Progress.


Week 1

Social media and social networking

• Social media
• It is disseminated through social interaction.
• Based on user participation and user-generated content.
• A shift in how people discover, share, and read news and information
• Social networking
• A focus on building social relationships among people.
• Building online communities
• Interactive communication among participants
• Social computing
• Focus on computing technologies that enable social networking

Week 2

Social Experience

• individual
• social network
• closed workgroup
• a team collaboration software
• visible workgroup
• community
• mass collaboration

Cognitive processing and memory

• Memory principles
• assumption of limited capacity
• control mechanism
• 2-way flow of information
• genetically prepared to process and organize info in specific way
• Memory Stages
• Short Term memory
• Long Term memory
• Semantic memory

Social nature of human activity

• Personal and social constructivism
• Situated and distributed cognition
• Local and non-local communities of practice

Week 3


Theory of knowledge and cognition

• Level 1 Cognition - Data
• Level 2 Meta-cognition - Information
• Level 3 Epistemic-cognition - Knowledge

Social Tasks

• Idea generation
• Social brainstorming
• Prediction markets
• Codevelopment
• Crowdsourcing
• Distributed human computation
• Opensource development
• Finding People
• Relationship mapping and mining
• Location-centered social interactions

Big changes on Google search - Google Knowledge Graph

Google search is well developed based on the keyword search and becomes the dominant searching engine in the world with no doubt. Recently, Google is going to have a big step forward to improve their searching algorithm by "Knowledge Graph". The knowledge graph is built on the knowledge provided by the social media www.freebase.com with over a billion topics.

The social networking can benefit our life in different circumstance. Now, Google is going to adopt it on the search engine.

Reference: http://mashable.com/2012/02/13/google-knowledge-graph-change-search/