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Community Collecting

Community Collecting. A collaborative research project to build a community -owned social network site for making, sharing, and preserving stories i n Orange County, NC Mike Nutt Master of Information Science candidate School of Information and Library Science UNC -CH. Why?.

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Community Collecting

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  1. Community Collecting A collaborative research project to build a community-owned social network site for making, sharing, and preserving stories in Orange County, NC Mike Nutt Master of Information Science candidate School of Information and Library Science UNC-CH

  2. Why? • People already use SNSs for “preservation” • Low-income populations use SNSs • To battle fragmentation • Creative online behavior is plateauing, SNS use is not • New economic realities • Better privacy policies and control • Encourage “buy local” media economy

  3. Assumptions • Stories=Information=Money • Ethical obligation to alleviate poverty • Some have little but their livelihoods (John Friedmann, Empowerment)

  4. Bottom of the social network site Pyramid Hernando de Soto The Mystery of Capital “…non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use any IP content that you post” - Facebook “…a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicenseable and transferable license to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform the Content” - YouTube “…perpetual, irrevocable and fully sublicensable license to use, distribute, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, publicly perform and publicly display such Content”- Flickr (Yahoo!)

  5. Town/GOWN Partnership Grant-funded research projects Student labor Story laboratory Space Data Participatory Social Research Lab Longitudinal studies At-risk populations Personal media management Student employment Service learning curricula Early stage business incubator Mentors Expertise

  6. Monetization

  7. http://communitycollecting.web.unc.edu

  8. http://www.zotero.org/groups/community_collecting

  9. Team Heather Barnes: group bibliography Molly Bragg: website Mike Nutt: feasibility assessment & business plan Sylvia Richardson: needs assessment, grant writing, website Neal Stokes: website Peter Zasowski: group bibliography, website, b-plan

  10. Questions? http://communitycollecting.web.unc.edu nutt@unc.edu twitter.com/storymakers

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