Wide spread use and new found versatility of new technology devices has greatly assisted in the rise of participatory culture within the media sphere. Using the mobile phone or mobile internet to browse the world wide web, bookmark what we find as good sources of information and blogg or academic research or thoughts or creativity (to name a few services the a mobile device can offers) wherever or whenever the user may want has opened an entirely new door for users to become much active as an audience rather than leaning towards a passive take on content.
Once audiences process data, it is easy to say that information is either classified one or the other a good or bad resource. Ordering data can be tricky but thanks to social bookmarking sites such as delicious, blogmarks, digg or jumptags to name a few, ordering information so that users can refind good information has become simple.
Social bookmarking websites have made information easy to re-find, their popularity is a rapidly growing area. They allow you to save bookmarks online and tag or categorize them with keywords instead of saving them as bookmarks in the favorite’s list of your browser. By bundling data to various key words it is easier to find information than in pure sub headings such as maths, science, literature, cars, art, music etc there is an overlapping of topic areas where a song may be tagged as music, art, latin, exotic etc.
Terry Flew outlines in his Book New Media: An Introduction, that, "virtual communities has been identified as a site of play and performity through the creating of online identities" (2004) This comment suggests that online communities are not just about sharing information and knowledge but about social construction, the formation of friendships and relationships. The web had really transformed into web2.0 a platform for building, that is building anything, relationships, knowledge, software.... the ist is endless.
Where can web2.0 take us?
Wherever the user will allow..............
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