Future Trends in Social Media

Frederik Truyen, KU Leuven

Wat willen we bespreken?

• Technologische evoluties

• Overzicht van enkele – geselecteerde - key trends

• Discussie van visies op toekomst van sociale media

Technologies

Videos• Patty Maes The Sixth Sense: http://

www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZ-VjUKAsao

• Future of Screen Technology: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7_mOdi3O5E

• Made of Glass: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LE50vaI1ZeI

• Is this the Future of Social Media: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnAWq1sjKwk

• Eric Schmidt, Web 2.0 vs. Web 3.0: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0QJmmdw3b0

• Total Recall: http://youtu.be/kDyLEyNX_vU

• IBM Watson: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DywO4zksfXw

Trends

Key Trends

• Mobile

• Content Aggregation/Curation

• From source expertise to credentialed expertise

• Data Journalism

• Social Network Analysis

Data journalism

• http://datajournalism.stanford.edu/

• http://datajournalismhandbook.org/1.0/en/

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_driven_journalism

• http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/data-journalism

• http://datadrivenjournalism.net/

Social Network Analysis

• WolframAlpha analysis of Facebook account: http://www.wolframalpha.com/facebook/

• https://www.coursera.org/#course/sna

http://www.slideshare.net/gcheliotis/social-network-analysis-3273045

Some social media stats

• http://www.jeffbullas.com/2012/04/23/48-significant-social-media-facts-figures-and-statistics-plus-7-infographics/

Visions

Visions

• http://www.businessinsider.com/future-of-social-media-2011-11#dennis-crowley-co-founder-and-ceo-of-foursquare-1