What analogies do you use in social media space?
What are the analogies you are using to help you and others in making better decisions about social media?
In talking about new technologies I find I often turn to analogies to help in:
- Explain how a technology works and what it can do (e.g. describing wiki's as similar to a whiteboard in this guide)
and
- Exploring policy responses to new forms of technology (e.g. in thinking about how youth workers should interact with social networking)
When talking with youth workers, two of my favourites for exploring social networks are:
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