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Adam Bohannon

"The Not-So-Hidden Politics of Class Online" danah boyd - 0 views

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shared by Adam Bohannon on 30 Jun 09 - Snapshot
  • Structurally, social networks are driven by homophily even when there are individual exceptions. And sure enough, in the digital world, we see this manifested right before our eyes.
  • One thing to keep in mind about social media: the internet mirrors and magnifies pre-existing dynamics.
  • Although most of you call these sites "social networking sites," there's almost no networking going on. People use these sites to connect to the people they know.
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  • In many ways, the Internet is providing a next generation public sphere. Unfortunately, it's also bringing with it next generation divides. The public sphere was never accessible to everyone. There's a reason than the scholar Habermas talked about it as the bourgeois public sphere. The public sphere was historically the domain of educated, wealthy, white, straight men. The digital public sphere may make certain aspects of public life more accessible to some, but this is not a given. And if the ways in which we construct the digital public sphere reinforce the divisions that we've been trying to break down, we've got a problem.

  • 1) Social stratification is pervasive in American society (and around the globe). Social media does not magically eradicate inequality. Rather, it mirrors what is happening in everyday life and makes social divisions visible. What we see online is not the property of these specific sites, but the pattern of adoption and development that emerged as people embraced them. People brought their biases with them to these sites and they got baked in.


    2) There is no universal public online. What we see as user "choice" in social media often has to do with structural forces like homophily in people's social networks. Social stratification in this country is not cleanly linked to race or education or socio-economic factors, although all are certainly present. More than anything, social stratification is a social networks issue. People connect to people who think like them and they think like the people with whom they are connected. The digital publics that unfold highlight and reinforce structural divisions.

  • 3) If you are trying to connect with the public, where you go online matters. If you choose to make Facebook your platform for civic activity, you are implicitly suggesting that a specific class of people is more worth your time and attention than others. Of course, splitting your attention can also be costly and doesn't necessarily mean that you'll be reaching everyone anyhow. You're damned if you do and damned if you don't. The key to developing a social media strategy is to understand who you're reaching and who you're not and make certain that your perspective is accounting for said choices. Understand your biases and work to counter them.


    4) The Internet has enabled many new voices to enter the political fray, but not everyone is sitting at the table. There's a terrible tendency in this country, and especially among politically minded folks, to interpret an advancement as a solution. We have not eradicated racism. We have not eradicated sexism. We have not eradicated inequality. While we've made tremendous strides in certain battles, the war is not over. The worst thing we can do is to walk away and congratulate ourselves for all of the good things that have happened. Such attitudes create new breeding grounds for increased stratification.

Adam Bohannon

The Alternative's alternative | open Democracy News Analysis - 0 views

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shared by Adam Bohannon on 28 Apr 09 - Snapshot
  • Meier has found that an increase in cell-phone availability increases the likelihood (at least perceived by the public) that the government might be overthrown by violent means.
    • Adam Bohannon
      Adam Bohannon on 28 Apr 09
       
      What exactly does this mean? "At least perceived by the public"? That where cell-phone availability is high, the public perceives violent anti-government protest? Or that it is *actually* more likely to happen?
  • Meier has found that an increase in cell-phone availability increases the likelihood (at least perceived by the public) that the government might be overthrown by violent means.
    • Adam Bohannon
      Adam Bohannon on 28 Apr 09
       
      What exactly does this mean? "At least perceived by the public"? That where cell-phone availability is high, the public perceives violent anti-government protest as more likely happen? Or that it is *actually* more likely to happen?
Kevin Champion

Maintained Relationships on Facebook | overstated - 0 views

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shared by Kevin Champion on 11 Mar 09 - Snapshot
  • We were asked a simple question: is Facebook increasing the size of people’s personal networks?

  • Killworth, et al. found using this technique and others that the number of people a person will know in their lifetime ranges somewhere between 300 and 3000[1].


    On Facebook, the average number of friends that a person has is currently 120[2]. Given that Facebook has only been around for 5 years, that not everyone uses it, and that the not every acquaintance has found each other, this number seems reasonable for an average user.

  • Peter Marsden found the number of people with whom individuals “can discuss important matters” numbers only 3 for Americans[3]. In a subsequent survey, researchers found that this number has dropped slightly over the past 10 years[4], causing some alarm in the press, but without sufficient explanation[5].
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    • All Friends: the largest representation of a person’s network is the set of all people they have verified as friends.
    • Reciprocal Communication: as a measure of a sort of core network, we counted the number of people with whom a person had had reciprocal communications, or an active exchange of information between two parties.
    • One-way Communication: the total set of people with whom a person has communicated.
    • Maintained Relationships: to measure engagement, we took the set of people for whom a user had clicked on a News Feed story or visited their profile more than twice.
  • What it shows is that, as a function of the people a Facebook user actively communicate with, you are passively engaging with between 2 and 2.5 times more people in their network. I’m sure many people have had this feeling, but these data make this effect more transparent.
  • The stark contrast between reciprocal and passive networks shows the effect of technologies such as News Feed. If these people were required to talk on the phone to each other, we might see something like the reciprocal network, where everyone is connected to a small number of individuals. Moving to an environment where everyone is passively engaged with each other, some event, such as a new baby or engagement can propagate very quickly through this highly connected network.
scross

Cruel Facebook hoax ends marriage - Yahoo!7 News - 0 views

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shared by scross on 24 Feb 09 - Snapshot
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    scross on 24 Feb 09
     
    Facebook faux relationship ruins relationship. "Lulz" were had by two regular guys.
Katie Hines

Facebook Is For Old People - 0 views

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shared by Katie Hines on 23 Feb 09 - Snapshot
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    Katie Hines on 23 Feb 09
     
    You may have to sign into the K-State network to read this.
Megan Harlow

disambiguity » Ambient Exposure - 0 views

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shared by Megan Harlow on 23 Feb 09 - Snapshot
  • Ambient Exposure. Exposure in terms of disclosing information of course, but also exposure in the way that a trader might think of it - a vulnerability, a risk associated with taking a position that could, potentially, result in loss or harm.
  • Essentially, we may not *want* to have the same level of intimacy with some people as we do with others … but do our social tools support this in helping us either be more thoughtful about who we add to our networks and who we don’t (and allowing ‘not adding’ in a way that is polite), or in allowing us to maintain awareness of who we are talking to (what kinds of people) and to isolate groups of people for various types of communication.
  • here has been a lot written about young people and the risks of openness, but the rest of us need education and potentially protection from this exposure. The benefits of ambient intimacy far outweigh the potential risks of exposure in my opinion, but awareness of this exposure is important. Education is probably the best way to help people manage exposure via content, but one of the key challenges for designers in social spaces is to design tools that support awareness and management of this exposure through unruly contact lists.
  • Megan Harlow
    Megan Harlow on 23 Feb 09
     
    Ambient Exposure - The flip side of ambient intimacy - a blog post about how our social networking sites do not always allow us a filtering method for limiting what we share with others
Shane Howard

10 Privacy Settings Every Facebook User Should Know - 0 views

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shared by Shane Howard on 19 Feb 09 - Snapshot
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    Shane Howard on 19 Feb 09
     
    10 helpful tips to help you understand privacy settings on facebook and how to protect yourself and facebook profile.
  • Shane Howard
    Shane Howard on 19 Feb 09
     
    This has recently been very helpful to me.
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