Information 2.0

1. Introduction

• What is information?
• The foundations of the information society
• The internet as a driver of change
• The big challenges of big data
• What about the information providers?
• New ways of creating information
• Where do we put all this information?
• Why information matters

2. New models of information production

• Introduction
• Blogs: the state of the blogosphere
• Blogging 2.0
• Who can you trust?
• Blogs and social media as agents of change
• Blogging for money
• The economics of print media
• The transition to digital news
• Digital-Only News Publishers
• The new generation of news consumers
• Case Study - BuzzFeed
• Business publishing
• Case Study - Gigaom
• Wikis and collaborative publishing
• Search engines and what they know
• Gaming Google
• Does Google know too much?
• Our social graphs
• What are we worth?
• Case Study - Klout
• The challenge of big data
• Data types
• When everything is connected
• Data as the new currency
• Concluding comments

3. New models of information storage

• Introduction
• Preserving the internet
• How organizations store information
• Academia
• Case study - DSpace institutional repository software
• Legal requirements
• Data mining
• Case study - Tesco Clubcard
• Collection digitization
• Keeping it all safe
• Storage at the personal level
• Putting it in the cloud
• Our digital footprints
• The future of storage
• Concluding comments

4. New models of information distribution

• Introduction
• The architecture of the internet
• Distribution and disintermediation
• Case Study - DataSift
• The new intermediaries
• Intermediaries in the shadows
• Copyright-friendly intermediaries
• Online video - we're all celebrities now
• Case Study - Netflix
• The Video Classroom
• Case Study - The Khan Academy
• Open government and the internet
• Proactive government
• Defensive government
• Offensive Government
• Helping the information ¿ow both ways
• Making money from public information
• Threats to the open web
• Concluding comments

5. New models of information consumption

• Introduction
• Information consumption devices
• Mobile consumption devices
• Looking beyond the artefact
• It's all about the apps
• Case Study - Amazon
• Information ecosystems: gilded cages or innovation hotbeds?
• Fair dealing
• Resale
• Lending
• Returning to an open web
• HTML5 - an antidote to appi¿cation?
• The experiential web
• Case Study - Oculus Rift
• Rent or buy?
• Case Study - Spotify
• Making sense of it all
• Information literacy
• Information overload
• Implications for information professionals
• Concluding comments

6. Conclusion

• Introduction
• The struggle for control in a networked world
• Implications for information professionals
• The knowledge management opportunity
• The future of search
• Ninja librarians
• Implications for publishers
• The copyright challenge
• Hooked on tablets
• Implications for society
• Internet everywhere
• Nowhere to hide
• Concluding comments