This document discusses how data and information sharing has increased dramatically in recent years due to advances in technology. In 60 seconds in 2014 over 2.7 million Google searches were performed, over 252 billion emails were sent, and over 975,000 new Facebook likes were generated. This level of data generation and sharing has implications for how people receive and evaluate news and information. Traditional news sources now compete with user-generated content on social media, where personalization algorithms may filter information based on users' preferences and profiles. The rise of mobile technology and apps has also transformed how people access and share information. These changes raise issues around privacy, filtering of information, and determining the validity and trustworthiness of different sources of news and data.
3. 60 seconds in 2013
http://blog.qmee.com/qmee-online-in-60-seconds/
4. 60 seconds in 2014
• 2,709,905 Google searches
• 252,527,018 emails sent
• 771 new websites created
• 975,624 new Facebook likes
• 354,203 new tweets
• 104 hours of video uploaded onto YouTube
• 3,357 new photos uploaded onto Flickr
5. What does this mean for us?
• What does ‘news’ and ‘new’ mean?
•And what can we trust?
6. Is Fidel Castro dead?
• October 2012
– Rumour dominated Twitter: 250 tweets a minute
– Confirmation of his death announced in blogs
35. The mobile world
• In 2000, just half of UK adults said that they
had a mobile phone – that figure now stands
at 94%.
• In Q1 2013 49% of adults used their mobile
phones for internet access, up from 39% a
year previously.
• In 2012, over 40 million subscribers accessed
the internet via their mobile phones, an
increase of nearly 9 million since 2011.
http://www.mobilemastinfo.com/stats-and-facts/
38. Fundamental change in use
• PC internet
• Shared or used at work
• Semi portable at best
• Web and web search
• Mobile internet
• Personal
• Taken everywhere
• Web, web search, apps,
social, location, service
integration, image
recognition, augmented
reality...
39. The shift to mobile
• A Nielsen consumer report out earlier this
year confirms the shift to mobile. We’re
spending an average of 34 hours using the
Internet on our mobile phones every month
compared to 27 hours using the Internet on
our desktop.
http://www.nielsen.com/us/en/reports/2014/the-us-digital-consumer-report.html
41. It’s an app world
http://apps4librarians.com/img/apps.png
42. And Google?
• Google owned 82.8% of the $2.24 billion
mobile search market in 2012
• Google’s share dropped to 68.5% in 2013
• Long tail of “other” companies increased
share from 5.4% to 22.9%
• Google’s share in 2014 expected to fall again,
to 65.7%, while the “other” category reaches
27.3%.
http://www.emarketer.com/Article/US-Mobile-Ad-Dollars-Shift-Search-Apps/1010898
43. ‘Other’ includes
• Travel metasearch apps like KAYAK
• Job search apps like Indeed
• ecommerce sales apps like Amazon
• Contextual search apps like Shazam
– a commercial smartphone-based music
identification service
• Local search with Yelp User Reviews and
Recommendations of Top Restaurants etc
48. The visual web
• “A picture is worth a thousand words”
• IMGUR, started as an image file hosting site
has 100,000,000 uniques visitors per month
• Supports over 1.2 billion image views per day
• Dec 2013 more than 100,000 memes on
IMGUR per month, about 4,000 per day using
their meme generator
49. Pinterest
• Debuted in May 2011
• Between July 2011 and July 2012
– 4,225% increase in time mobile web users spent n
the site
– 6,056% increase in time mobile app users spent
with the app
• It is now the 4th
largest driver of traffic
worldwide
51. Infographics
• Having infographics in blog posts increases the
chance of them being shared by up to 832%
» http://www.mediabistro.com/alltwitter/infographics-on-
twitter_b26840
• Bigger images increase reader’s engagement
with content by up to 600%
» http://www.poynter.org/uncategorized/24963/eyetrack-
iii-what-news-websites-look-like-through-readers-eyes/
56. Case study
• Your address
• Your age
• Your marital status
• Your physical
appearance
• Your medical conditions
• Your ethnic background
• If you have children
• Your religion
• Pet/car ownership
• Your hobbies
• Potentially your sexual
activities/sexual
preference
• Disposable income
• Friends birthdays
• Size of your
house/garden
• Holidays
59. Statistics
• 12,000 requests were made on May 30th
to
remove personal details from Google
– 20 per minute
• 1,500 of these from people in the UK
• 500 million people have the right to request
Google remove information they believe to be
damaging or a breach of privacy.
• 10,000 requests a day continue to be received
60. Balancing
• “The right to know” with “The right to
privacy”
• Is the fact that person A is a reported as a ‘sex
pest’ a breach of their human rights, or mine
for not knowing he’s living next door?
• More than half the UK requests have come
from convicted criminals
• Who represents the public interest?
61. Viewpoints
• Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia
– “one of the most wide-sweeping internet
censorship rulings that I’ve ever seen”
• Dominic Raab (civil liberties campaigner, Tory
MP)
– “It threatens the censorship of legal and
legitimate publicly available information on utterly
opaque grounds. But, worse still, it forces internet
search engines to police what should and
shouldn’t be wiped from public view without any
clear criteria”
62. Viewpoints
• David Smith, deputy Information
Commissioner and director of data protection
– “This is a judgment that we welcome. It sets out a
framework to hold data controllers operating
online search engines to account for the personal
data they process. It also backs our view that
search engines are subject to data protection law,
clarifying an area that was previously uncertain.”
76. I am a {Social} Librarian
http://www.elsevier.com/connect/infographic-portrait-of-a-social-librarian
79. Re-writing the library
• Books, eBooks
• Websites
• Catalogues
• Desks
• Rooms
• DVDs
• 3d Printers
• Computers
• Buildings
• Teach
• Learn
• Thoughtful
• Helpful
• Explore
• Achieve
• Improve
• Power
• Danger
Nouns can be quantified, measured and cut Verbs refer to impacts, change, improvement
80. This leads to poor decision making
Response from Maria Miller to Councillor Cliff Morris, Leader of Bolton Council
31st
May 2013 on her decision not to call an enquiry into library provision in the
Metropolitan Borough of Bolton.
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/
attachment_data/file/204269/Morris__final_.pdf
81. Collection development
• Focuses on the wrong questions
• Increases the attraction of the artifact
• Limits our ability to interact with our members
• Reinforces existing stereotypes
82. Community Development
• Changes the conversations
• Frees us up to interact more effectively
• Reduces the limitations on what we can do
• Develop, explore, improve, initiate
83. Libraries as a service
• Focal point for community activity
• Podcast studio
• Video studio/local television
• Virtual
• Gamer
• Fitness
• Art/drama
85. International Games Day 2013 stats
• 863 libraries registered to participate
• 392 libraries filled out the post-event survey
(a 45% response rate!) and confirmed nearly
16,000 participants
• 19 of these libraries participated in Mario Kart
• 29 libraries participated in Super Smash Bros.
Brawl Tournament
• 840 players in 74 libraries participated in the
Global Gossip Game
97. Maker Spaces
• ALA supports maker spaces in libraries
President Barbara Stripling “It’s enabling
libraries to transform their relationship with
communities and to empower community
members of all ages to be creators of
information, not just consumers.”
http://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2014/06/american-library-association-supports-makerspaces-
libraries
100. Some of the big questions
• What does ‘search’ mean now?
• What about reputation and privacy?
• How about validity and authority?
• How do we balance the right to be forgotten
with the right to know?
• What’s the best way for us to exercise our
ethics and morals in our communities?