Transcript How will we tell stories about ourselves in the 21st century?

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
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
Assumptions
• Stories=Information=Money
• Ethical obligation to alleviate
poverty
• Some have little but their
livelihoods (John Friedmann,
Empowerment)
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!)
Town/GOWN Partnership
Grant-funded research projects
Student labor
Story laboratory
Space
Data
Longitudinal studies
At-risk populations
Personal media management
Mentors
Expertise
Student employment
Service learning curricula
Early stage business incubator
Monetization
Day 1
Year 2
Year 5
Infrastructure
Building
Qualitative
Sales
Quantitative
Sales
Hosting
News service
Data mining
Digital death
Mobile apps
Data recovery
Media licensing
Domain names
Advertising
Business intelligence
Data sets
Genealogy materials
Consulting
White papers
Grants
Academic subscriptions
Market research
Research contracts
http://communitycollecting.web.unc.edu
http://www.zotero.org/groups/community_collecting
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
Questions?
http://communitycollecting.web.unc.edu
[email protected]
twitter.com/storymakers