Steve McCarty 🇯🇵<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@Andrewhinton" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Andrewhinton</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://me.dm/@ev" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>ev</span></a></span> Yes, Andrew, in 2008 the term was usually social software, and Wikipedia could not define it adequately. People almost always focus on the <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/social" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>social</span></a>, but I uniquely focused on the <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>media</span></a>, a bit in the section "Definition and Affordances of Social Media" in the book chapter "Social Media to Motivate Language Learners From Before Admission to After Graduation" at <a href="https://www.academia.edu/11156452" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">academia.edu/11156452</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> or <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/240633250" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">researchgate.net/publication/2</span><span class="invisible">40633250</span></a> </p><p>I had admired Ev Williams, but the pioneering podcasting channel I was paying for from <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Japan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Japan</span></a> suddenly disappeared, then the backup at Odeo soon vanished when Ev dropped Odeo to start a thing called <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Twitter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Twitter</span></a>. See "Podcasting Reconsidered" (2022) for a summary of the history and the <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/pedagogy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pedagogy</span></a> of <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/podcasting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>podcasting</span></a> at <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/366399918" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">researchgate.net/publication/3</span><span class="invisible">66399918</span></a> or <a href="https://www.academia.edu/93239567" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">academia.edu/93239567</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://chirp.social/@OnlineEducation" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>OnlineEducation</span></a></span> and <span class="h-card"><a href="https://chirp.social/@Bilingualism" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Bilingualism</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://chirp.social/@edutooter" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>edutooter</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/linguistics" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>linguistics</span></a></span><br><a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/OnlineLearning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OnlineLearning</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/DistanceEducation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DistanceEducation</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/OnlineEducation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OnlineEducation</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/BlendedLearning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BlendedLearning</span></a><br><a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/EducationalTechnology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EducationalTechnology</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/EdTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EdTech</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/openedtech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>openedtech</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/OpenEducation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenEducation</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/OpenAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenAccess</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/OER" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OER</span></a></p>