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S Chou

3 Necessary Conditions for Human Cooperation « Bokardo - 0 views

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collective action relationships

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  • People will act selfish if there is no future to the relationship.
    • Liu He
      Liu He on 11 Nov 11
       
      Have some doubts here. Although the knowledge of future cooperations change our behaviors right now, do we tend to act selfish all the time when we know there is no future to the relationship?
    • Jennifer Bundy
      Jennifer Bundy on 12 Nov 11
       
      I feel like this will be come less and less true as virtual communication increases and the power of networking grows. Even if you won't meet a person directly I think people are becoming more apt to believe they might have someone in their network that would lead to a strong connection
    • S Chou
      S Chou on 15 Nov 11
       
      At the same time, virtual communication removes the physical and more reciprocal long-term repercussions of not cooperating so this might turn into one of those double-edge situations.  
    • Howard Rheingold
      Howard Rheingold on 25 Nov 11
       
      I think your doubts have illuminated something important. People do act selfishly. But not all the time. The assumption that people are overwhelmingly selfish sets the stage for a self-fulfilling prophecy. But people act altruistically, cooperatively, even heroically toward others -- even strangers -- all the time.
  • If people can’t identify who they’re dealing with, then they can’t hold that person accountable.
    • Liu He
      Liu He on 11 Nov 11
       
      Yes identity is imporant. But are we missing something else here? Even if we can "identify the person as someone to the system he is in and the person we are dealing with", as what the author says, can we hold this person accountable? Is that enough?
    • S Chou
      S Chou on 15 Nov 11
       
      We would have to identify, but still hold personal choice and ultimate responsibility for our choices. Being able to hold someone else accountable is really just the first step to any cooperation among strangers. After time, history and relationships form, and that should move us well beyond identity and accountability alone.
  • Thus having a positive record of behavior leads to cooperation.
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  • We have learned to assume
    • S Chou
      S Chou on 15 Nov 11
       
      Interesting how this statement is phrased. "Learned" implies that there was a time when we didn't count on indicators of past behavior, and "assume" points out that we may still have more learning to do.  
  • no repercussions
Jennifer Bundy

Social network: Facts, Discussion Forum, and Encyclopedia Article - 5 views

www.absoluteastronomy.com/...Social_network

social networks nodes and ties interdependency

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  • The power of social network analysis stems from its difference from traditional social scientific studies, which assume that it is the attributes of individual actors—whether they are friendly or unfriendly, smart or dumb, etc.—that matter. Social network analysis produces an alternate view, where the attributes of individuals are less important than their relationships and ties with other actors within the network. This approach has turned out to be useful for explaining many real-world phenomena, but leaves less room for individual agency, the ability for individuals to influence their success, because so much of it rests within the structure of their network.
    • Liu He
      Liu He on 31 Oct 11
       
      Interesting findings. Will this approach be able to explain why sometimes a person's success seems to rely more on the relationships with people working around him rather than his own ability?
    • Jennifer Bundy
      Jennifer Bundy on 31 Oct 11
       
      This has a "whole are greater then the sum of the parts" idea. I think too that we are in an age of greater collaboration in general and success is dependent on how you work with other people
  • six degrees of separation
  • Guanxi Guanxi Guanxi describes the basic dynamic in personalized networks of influence, and is a central idea in Chinese society. In Western media, the pinyin romanization of this Chinese word is becoming more widely used instead of the two common translations—"connections" and "relationships"—as neither of... (关系）
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  • One study has found that happiness Happiness Happiness is a mental state of well-being characterized by positive emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy. A variety of biological, psychological, religious, and philosophical approaches have striven to define happiness and identify its sources.... tends to be correlated in social networks. When a person is happy, nearby friends have a 25 percent higher chance of being happy themselves. Furthermore, people at the center of a social network tend to become happier in the future than those at the periphery. Clusters of happy and unhappy people were discerned within the studied networks, with a reach of three degrees of separation: a person's happiness was associated with the level of happiness of their friends' friends' friends.
    • Liu He
      Liu He on 31 Oct 11
       
      Does it underscore the importance of sharing happiness? Will you always make people in your social network if you share your happiness with them? Does the social networking sites make use of the theory in their designs?
    • Jennifer Bundy
      Jennifer Bundy on 31 Oct 11
       
      I remember the Facebook status' started out as very emotion-based (Jennifer is...). I think they do use emotion as part of their designs. The thing to keep in mind is that people need to be motivated enough to share information in a scoial network, which usually means people are at the extremes of the emotional scale.
  • Smaller, tighter networks can be less useful to their members than networks with lots of loose connections (weak ties) to individuals outside the main network.
    • Jennifer Bundy
      Jennifer Bundy on 31 Oct 11
       
      This relates to what we talked about last week with some people having a lot of friends / weak ties on social networks and some only having a few strong ties.
  • instrumental social links (gesellschaft)
    • Jennifer Bundy
      Jennifer Bundy on 31 Oct 11
       
      This interpretation sounds like most of our social ties are gesellschaft in the form of instrumental social links
  • sample of twins
    • Jennifer Bundy
      Jennifer Bundy on 31 Oct 11
       
      This study seems a little questionable (without knowing more about methods). Did the twins know each other? I know I had some friends that were twins and they sort of always came as a pair so it makes sense that they would have the same friends
alperin

danah boyd - "Friends, Friendsters, and Top 8: Writing community into being on social n... - 4 views

www.firstmonday.org/...1336

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  • Based on an internal understanding of the audience, participants override the term “Friend” to make room for a variety of different relationships so that they may properly show face.
  • When “my friend” is used to describe a person, it has performative qualities
  • What differentiates social network sites [6] from other computer-mediated communication sites is the feature that allows participants to articulate and publicly display their relations to others in the system
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  • fake Profiles were developed to aid in this process.
    • S Chou
      S Chou on 29 Oct 11
       
      People will find ways to connect by group interests even if the site does not have specific channels for doing this.
    • Jennifer Bundy
      Jennifer Bundy on 31 Oct 11
       
      Yes - this goes along with user-created features on social networking sites that was mentioned in the forums. (like the hashtag searches on Twitter)
  • By tying Friendship to privacy settings, social network sites encourage people to choose Friends based on what they want to make visible.
  • what’s the loss in Friending them?
  • The process of removing a Friend on MySpace signals a shift in relationship status that is often not easily articulated in everyday life. There is no clear social script for ending a friendship
    • S Chou
      S Chou on 29 Oct 11
       
      Here is another instance of something new being publicly articulated through social networks. Is the impact here more personal, societal, or both?
  • Top Friends requires participants to expose backstage information. In a culture where it’s socially awkward to reject someone’s Friendship, ranking them provides endless drama and social awkwardness.
    • S Chou
      S Chou on 29 Oct 11
       
      This "four degrees" affordance takes a significantly different approach than Facebook, the dominant social network today. Do you think that part of the shift towards more private and restricted networks comes out of backlash from previous sites that allowed users to access thousands of profiles all at once? 
    • Jennifer Bundy
      Jennifer Bundy on 31 Oct 11
       
      Good question - I wonder if anyone in class has experience using Friendster and could shed some light on this. I never used Friendster but would be interested to hear how it compared to Facebook and Myspace...
    • alperin
      alperin on 31 Oct 11
       
      I was briefly on frienster. The thing to keep in mind is that nobody had any experience on social networking when Friendster made inroads. If you recall, at the beginning, you could only browse profiles of people who were in your 'network'. The network was first defined by your university, then you could pick a city. It was not until much later that Facebook opened it up so you could search for people anywhere.
    • S Chou
      S Chou on 29 Oct 11
       
      How much of this has to do with the average age of the user? 
    • alperin
      alperin on 31 Oct 11
       
      I imagine age is correlated to where on this list you fall, as well as your marital status, and geographic location. There must also be a link to different personality types. But I assume you're right that age is the highest determinant.
  • Rather than having the context dictated by the environment itself, context emerged through Friends networks
  • This completely inverts the norms in early public social sites where interests or activities defined a group
  • People define their community egocentrically
  • Friends are a critical signal in conveying the expected social boundaries
  • properties that have been present in all mediated spaces persist, complicating many social behaviors on these sites. Four properties in particular play a key role: persistence, searchability, replicability, and invisible audiences
  • Social network sites are not digital spaces disconnected from other social venues — it is a modeling of one aspect of participants’ social worlds and that model is evaluated in other social contexts
    • alperin
      alperin on 31 Oct 11
       
      @Sarah: do you think this is true? My sense is that it is only partially true, as social network sites also create a space that does not have a parallel/equivalent in the offline context. It is completely new, and enabled by the digital environment.
  • In thinking about Friendship practices on social network sites, it is crucial to evaluate them on their own terms
  • gateway friends
    • alperin
      alperin on 31 Oct 11
       
      these are bridges in Granoveter's (1973) sense 
  • meaning of Friendship
    • alperin
      alperin on 31 Oct 11
       
      I can't help but think of Facebook, and how it has once again forced us to rethink the meaning of friendship. Originally in who we added, and now in what 'list' we add people to
  • They primarily found that Friendship stood for: content, offline facilitator, online community, trust, courtesy, declaration, or nothing.
  • In short, it’s socially awkward to say no
    • alperin
      alperin on 31 Oct 11
       
      Facebook got around this problem by giving you the option to 'ignore'. This is much less socially awkward than saying 'no' outright.
    • alperin
      alperin on 31 Oct 11
       
      it may only be a difference in word choice, but I find it effective
    • alperin
      alperin on 31 Oct 11
       
      Even among 'older' (late 20s) myspace users, I remember the Top 8 being something that was talked about. It was acknowledged as silly to care, but people did look to see if they were Top 8, and thought carefully before removing someone from their Top 8...
    • Jennifer Bundy
      Jennifer Bundy on 31 Oct 11
       
      I remember when this was used as well but don't remember much drama associated with it. I guess 8 was enough for me at the time to get in my close friends! I wonder if something like this would go over well now that people do follow closely so many people
  • I also suspect that a study of non-American practices would introduce entirely different dynamics.
    • alperin
      alperin on 31 Oct 11
       
      we never seem to get to the non-American... its too bad, because I imagine it is very different.
  • the boundaries between friends and acquaintances are quite blurry and it is unlikely that there will ever be consensus on a formula for what demarcates a friend.
    • Jennifer Bundy
      Jennifer Bundy on 31 Oct 11
       
      Is this magnified even more with sites like Facebook where people have 500+ "friends"?
  • the Web site’s creators put an end to their collecting and deleted both accounts. This began the deletion of all Fakesters in what was eventually termed the Fakester Genocide
    • Jennifer Bundy
      Jennifer Bundy on 31 Oct 11
       
      Sounds like the creators of Friendster were not very adaptable to what the needs of the users were. I wonder if this ultimately led to the downfall?
  • Unless you’re always randomly rotating these people
    • Jennifer Bundy
      Jennifer Bundy on 31 Oct 11
       
      sounds like a lot of work!
  • context collision when people from different facets of their lives joined the site.
    • Jennifer Bundy
      Jennifer Bundy on 31 Oct 11
       
      Same as context collapse?
    • alperin
      alperin on 31 Oct 11
       
      I think so...
  • participants there write their community into being through the process of Friending
    • Jennifer Bundy
      Jennifer Bundy on 31 Oct 11
       
      Decentralization of community?
S Chou

Barry Wellman - Physical Place and Cyber Place: The Rise of Personalized Networking - 1 views

homes.chass.utoronto.ca/...ijurr3a1.htm

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  • Rather than fitting into the same group as those around them, each person has his/her own "personal community" (Wellman and Leighton 1979; Wellman 1999a).
    • Jennifer Bundy
      Jennifer Bundy on 28 Oct 11
       
      I wonder how the idea of a personal community fits into someone's identity. Particularly teens or young adults, who are still forming their identity. Does creating a group of people in a community centered on you prolong or expediate the process of identity formation?
    • S Chou
      S Chou on 29 Oct 11
       
      SC - The Boyd article touches on this, and it seems like identity formation is as complicated as ever. I'm not sure if constant egocentric self-articulation changes the process of identity formation so much as it magnifies and reveals the process itself. People have always had to ultimately form and articulate identity on their own terms, in conversation/negotiation with groups and communities.
  • individuating nature
    • Jennifer Bundy
      Jennifer Bundy on 28 Oct 11
       
      I see a duality in this individuating nature with the uprising of collective action online. Can the two really exist together and both thrive? Maybe this is similar to the "seemingly-conflicting" ideas of democracy and capitalism?
    • S Chou
      S Chou on 29 Oct 11
       
      SC - There is certainly individual choice and formation of individual identity within aspects of collective action. Social networks seem to make the connection and dissemination of both much more visible and active than before.
  • forecast a century ago by E.M. Forster 1909
    • Jennifer Bundy
      Jennifer Bundy on 28 Oct 11
       
      Reference to a recommended reading from Week 3 - The Machine. If you haven't read it was an interesting little sci-fi short story that was a quick read
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  • Just as employers complain about workers' use of the Internet for personal matters, family members complain that their loved ones are tied to their computers during their supposed leisure hours
    • Jennifer Bundy
      Jennifer Bundy on 28 Oct 11
       
      Is internet use leading to collapsing contexts offline as well?
    • S Chou
      S Chou on 29 Oct 11
       
      Our ties to place are getting increasingly transformed by increasingly mobile technology. We are so used to defining context in terms of geographic location that I definitely think contexts are collapsing everywhere. 
  • Contextual sense and lateral awareness will diminish.
    • Jennifer Bundy
      Jennifer Bundy on 28 Oct 11
       
      A little concern about this idea - if you're not exposed to something, how do you know if you do or don't like it? Connecting to education, this gets at the idea of choice: should we let kids choose to study what they are interested in, or are there some things that everyone "just needs to know"?
    • S Chou
      S Chou on 29 Oct 11
       
      SC - There are two interesting strings to follow here, the idea of increased globalization and access to new ideas, and the idea of increased autonomy and personal choice. On one hand, we have access to more knowledge than ever but on the other hand we have greater ability to filter, ignore, and not participate since group norms hold less power over individuals. Maybe the key here is to teach kids to be interested, and to have the tools/skills needed to pursue their interests. 
  • the spread of wireless towers to physically isolated and impoverished "fourth world" areas
    • Jennifer Bundy
      Jennifer Bundy on 28 Oct 11
       
      I feel like this might be exaggerated (and this was written back in 2001!). I know of, and have been in, plenty of countries/areas where people do not have easy access to cell phones, much less the internet. Even in the United States, there are large groups of people - of all ages - that are not comfortable using a computer because of access issues
    • S Chou
      S Chou on 29 Oct 11
       
      SC - This also paints a picture of technology use as only for global good, not for increased advertising, consumerism, and replicating power structures/agendas that already exist. I do not agree with the idea that increased communication is necessarily better.
  • neighbourhoods are not important sources of community.
    • Jennifer Bundy
      Jennifer Bundy on 28 Oct 11
       
      This is quite a generalization...I wonder if there is some data on this somewhere. Public schools in most of the country are still very much community-based and these interactions can drive a lot of community feeling. And I still come in contact with a lot of people that live near family.
  • decreased commitment of each milieu to its inhabitants' well-being.
  • People must actively maintain their sparsely-knit ties and fragmented networks.
  • No more are people identified as members of a single group; they can switch among multiple networks.
  • development of person-to-person connectivity has been influenced more by innovations in communication than in transportation.
  • "The nuclear family may be on a comeback," a Rogers ATT mobile phone advertisement says on Toronto radio (CFMX, Feb. 13 2000:0813EST) with no sense of irony. Dad is bowling with the boys, Mom is on the road making presentations, son Dick is at his computer club, and daughter Jane is out of town visiting her biological Dad. Yet they all can stay connected at low cost through flat-rate national mobile phone calling.
  • norms of this inherently person-to-person system foster the intrusion of intensely involving private behaviour into public space
  • totally self-absorbed
  • , and they seem to think that the impact of their actions on other people are absolutely inconsequential.
  • Women have set the rules of the community game in place-to-place relationships and borne the burden of community keeping. If person-to-person community means that it is every person for him/herself, then we might expect to see a gendered re-segregation of community (as in Elizabeth Bott's England, 1957) with the possibility that men's communities will be smaller than networking-savvy women (Wright 1989; Moore 1990; Wellman 1992a, Bruckner and Knaup 1993).
    • Jennifer Bundy
      Jennifer Bundy on 28 Oct 11
       
      Are there gender differences in the number of connections men have online vs. women? Maybe could look at Facebook friends?
    • S Chou
      S Chou on 29 Oct 11
       
      SC - Yeah, this seems like an assumption of Wellman's that I'm not sure I agree with.
  • Research shows that people interact happily and fruitfully online (for the most part) and in ways similar to face-to-face contac
    • Jennifer Bundy
      Jennifer Bundy on 28 Oct 11
       
      Appears to be meeting the human needs that were brought up in the first class
  • Will the Internet promote two-person interactions at the expense of interactions happening in group or social network contexts?
  • these are always deliberate choices.
  • Agency is a need as well as an analytic category.
    • Jennifer Bundy
      Jennifer Bundy on 28 Oct 11
       
      But how does agency fit in with social norms? It was brought up in discussion that people are expected to always be available in some way
    • S Chou
      S Chou on 29 Oct 11
       
      SC - I think personal agency definitely gets overrun by some social norms, the difference between work norms and other community norms will yield different effects on agency as well. 
  • The bad news is that schools do not formally teach networking skills.
  • Fortunately, poorer groups in society have always networked heavily for the want of other resources. The problem will be to move from local networking and migrant networking to cyber-networking (Lomnitz 1977; Roberts 1978, Espinoza 1999). It may be then that network capital may provide a partial way of coping with a lack of other forms of capital.
  • The Internet's very lack of social richness can foster contact with more diverse others.
    • Jennifer Bundy
      Jennifer Bundy on 28 Oct 11
       
      I don't think this prediction came to pan out...
  • Despite the Internet's potential to connect diverse cultures and ideas, people are drawn to online communities that link them with others sharing common interests or concerns. They may be more diversified than "real life" community in their gender, ethnicity and socioeconomic status, but they still communicate about only a limited set of topics and ideas.
  • They are truly in cyberplaces, and not just cyberspaces
  • Participants in online groups have strong interpersonal feelings of belonging, being wanted, obtaining important resources, and having a shared identity.
  • Many ties operate in both cyberspace and physical space, used whatever means of communication is convenient and appropriate at the moment.
  • This is a time for individuals and their networks, not for groups. The all-embracing collectivity (Parsons 1951; Braga and Menosky 1999) has become a fragmented, personalized network. Autonomy, opportunity, and uncertainty rule today's community game.
  • Yet the rapid emergence of computer-mediated communications means that relations in cyberplaces are joining with relations on the ground
  • it is when technological changes become pervasive, familiar and boring, that they affect societies the most
  • relations in cyberplaces are joining with relations on the ground
    • S Chou
      S Chou on 29 Oct 11
       
      Joining in complicated ways that involve navigating the impact of new technology. Definitely not literal or exact transfers of relationship. Joining/replacing/transforming?
  • become less aware of the importance of gospel music to southern Americans, farm news to midwesterners, and hip-hop to northeastern city dwellers
    • S Chou
      S Chou on 29 Oct 11
       
      Does this imply that society in general will become a more homogenous? 
  • personalization need not mean individual isolation
  • truly personal communities
  • Telephones allow much more body movement and glances at others than does personal computing
    • S Chou
      S Chou on 29 Oct 11
       
      Does the fact that physical acts of personal computing are so independent of others contradict with ideas of social networking as increased connectivity? To what degree does our physical behavior impact our experience with technology?
  • They regard their email address and alias as parts of their personal identity
  • Their awareness and behaviour is totally in private cyberspace even though their bodies are in public space.
  • email supports (a) within-network broadcasts; (b) personal communications between one or multiple friends, and (c) public address systems to strangers
  • digital computer networks convey more information per second than analogue telephone networks
  • Would we be wiser to wonder if online interaction will develop its own strengths and create its own norms and dynamics?
  • privatization may be responsible for the lack of informal help given to strangers who are in trouble in public spaces
  • People must maintain differentiated portfolios of ties to obtain a variety of needed and wanted resources
  • people with strong ties are more likely to be socially similar and to know the same persons, they are more likely to possess the same information. By contrast, new information is more apt to come through weaker ties better connected with other, more diverse social circles.
  • Where person-to-person community is individualizing, role-to-role community deconstructs a holistic individual identity
  • Cyberspace fights against physical space less than it complements it
  • false dichotomy
Liu He

The New Atlantis » Virtual Friendship and the New Narcissism - 3 views

www.thenewatlantis.com/...endship-and-the-new-narcissism

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  • On social networking websites like MySpace and Facebook, our modern self-portraits
  • carefully manipulated
  • interactive
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  • ephemeral
  • Does this technology, with its constant demands to collect (friends and status), and perform (by marketing ourselves), in some ways undermine our ability to attain what it promises—a surer sense of who we are and where we belong?
  • There are sites specifically for younger children, such as Club Penguin
    • S Chou
      S Chou on 25 Oct 11
       
      What's in it for young children and social networking media? Here is what they tell parents: http://www.clubpenguin.com/parents/ 
  • the activities social networking sites promote are precisely the ones weak ties foster, like rumor-mongering, gossip, finding people, and tracking the ever-shifting movements of popular culture and fad. If this is our small world, it is one that gives its greatest attention to small things.
  • entrenched barriers of race and social class undermine the idea that we live in a small world. Computer networks have not removed those barriers.
    • Jennifer Bundy
      Jennifer Bundy on 24 Oct 11
       
      Computer networks maybe increasing the barriers between communities just through access
    • alperin
      alperin on 25 Oct 11
       
      Work I've read on real social networks (such as a network of every MSN Messenger conversation) show that the average shortest path length is < 8. Of course, this is still restricted to people who are digitally connected, but MSN is a relatively low technological barrier.
    • S Chou
      S Chou on 25 Oct 11
       
      The digital divide can be hard to keep track of given the page of technological change, but here is an interesting (if slightly dated) place to start: http://wireless.ictp.it/simulator/
  • protean selves
  • Today, our self-portraits are democratic and digital
  • one giant living dynamic learning experience about consumers
    • S Chou
      S Chou on 23 Oct 11
       
      Actual article, if anyone is interested in the business point of view. http://customerlistening.typepad.com/customer_listening/2007/01/pg_boosts_socia.html
  • certain kinds of connections easier, but because they are governed not by geography or community mores but by personal whim, they free users from the responsibilities that tend to come with membership in a community.
  • The secret is to tie the acquisition of friends, compliments and status—spoils that humans will work hard for—to activities that enhance the site.
    • S Chou
      S Chou on 23 Oct 11
       
      Implies that, on some level, real human needs are being met.
    • Jennifer Bundy
      Jennifer Bundy on 24 Oct 11
       
      The antedote on choosing between 2 pages - is it because we are blindly following based on numbers or is the pattern about authenticity (more people=more reliable)? Maybe the two are inseparable and it doesn't really matter...
  • Real intimacy requires risk—the risk of disapproval, of heartache, of being thought a fool. Social networking websites may make relationships more reliable, but whether those relationships can be humanly satisfying remains to be seen.
  • level of social involvement decreases
    • S Chou
      S Chou on 25 Oct 11
       
      Does not mean causality.
  • people you might have (should have?) fallen out of touch with—it is now easier than ever to reconnect to those people
    • Jennifer Bundy
      Jennifer Bundy on 24 Oct 11
       
      This brings up the idea that maybe there is a reason that we lose track of people or outgrow them. Now, with Facebook it is very awkward to acknowledge that you are no longer friends - and that it's not necessarily a bad thing
  • we should be asking isn’t how closely are we connected, but rather what kinds of communities and friendships are we creating
    • S Chou
      S Chou on 25 Oct 11
       
      Are there different expectations around social networks and their consumers/users/people? In other words, why do we seem more offended by a social network calling their target audience consumers than we would say, a shampoo company?
    • S Chou
      S Chou on 25 Oct 11
       
      Like multi-tasking, which originated in reference to computers, is this another instance of computer-based concepts and languages seeping into our cultural sense of self? 
    • S Chou
      S Chou on 25 Oct 11
       
      MySpace hosts a population of primarily young people, to what extent is age and maturity not being considered in this argument? 
    • S Chou
      S Chou on 25 Oct 11
       
      Does this argument ignore the degree to which social networks are pathways and representations of friendship, and not the end-all-be-all?
  • Vital statistics, glimpses of bare flesh, lists of favorite bands and favorite poems all clamor for our attention—and it is the timeless human desire for attention that emerges as the dominant theme of these vast virtual galleries.
  • “an entirely new way for consumers to express their individuality online.” (It is noteworthy that Microsoft refers to social networkers as “consumers” rather than merely “users” or, say, “people.”)
  • it relies on e-mail to determine whether “any two people in the world can be connected via ‘six degrees of separation.’
Liu He

Network Capital: an expression of social capital in the Network Society | Acevedo | The... - 4 views

ci-journal.net/...317

social networks network capital knowledge-intensive process

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    • alperin
      alperin on 05 Nov 11
       
      this journal is using the software I write, Open Journal Systems :)
  • positive externalities like the decentralization of initiative-taking and the spreading of responsibilities in a more democratic and participatory governance structure.
    • Jennifer Bundy
      Jennifer Bundy on 06 Nov 11
       
      Assumption that these would be positive? Direct democracy is not necessarily the best choice if the people participating in it are not keeping up with remaining educated about issues. The statement "decentralization of initiative-taking" remindeds me a lot of Stanford. Is it effective to be so decentralized?
    • Liu He
      Liu He on 09 Nov 11
       
      Not always. Yes, Jenn is right. Will people's initiatives have a negative impact on the public goods if they are not clear about what they are participating and the potential effects of their participation?
  • genetic in our ability to pool together for common goals
    • Jennifer Bundy
      Jennifer Bundy on 06 Nov 11
       
      Only if they are in our "tribe"
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  • product of personal community networks as well as of formally institutionalized groups.”
  • Network capital could then be understood as a measure of the differentiated value in the Information Age that communities structured as social networks generate on the basis of electronic (digital) networks for themselves, for others and for society as a whole.
  • social as well as economic terms
    • Jennifer Bundy
      Jennifer Bundy on 06 Nov 11
       
      Economic = marketing campaigns, things that go viral, bad reviews?
  • combination of attributes
  • communal cyberplace
  • individuals to behave as ‘global citizens’, and to become involved in actions and issues not bounded by their physical location.
    • Jennifer Bundy
      Jennifer Bundy on 06 Nov 11
       
      Might be a problem if trying to push an agenda on another part of the world when you are not part of that culture/community. Especially if those that live there do not have access to the Internet and so can't participate in matters that affect them
    • Liu He
      Liu He on 09 Nov 11
       
      The concept of "global citizen" sometimes is tricky. People have a limited view of the world, especially of the international affairs they actually are unfamiliar with. And sometimes the view is distorted, when people rely heavily on certain news media's coverages and editorials concerning what happens abroad.
  • ‘all for the love of it’
    • Jennifer Bundy
      Jennifer Bundy on 06 Nov 11
       
      Or for self promotion?
  • global citizen will have more possibilities to become involved in social causes, with lesser constraints of place or time.
  • social cohesion is critical for advancing human development
  • Participation, trust, solidarity and reciprocity, grounded in a shared understanding and a sense of common obligations
    • Liu He
      Liu He on 09 Nov 11
       
      Trust, reciprocity and volunteer activities seem to be at the core of social capital.
  • It is a result of cooperation via electronic networks, and in turn fosters the habit of such cooperation.
  • volunteer action and contributions
  • Benefiting from the Internet, neither distance nor time constraints irrevocably limit the involvement of a significantly wider group of participants, many of whom may undertake this participation as volunteers
  • The collaborative working methods are sure to resonate with some of the people involved, who would apply them later in other spheres. Some of the relationships initiated by the projects would become lasting human bonds, either for professional or personal purposes.
  • by the distributed methods and electronic technologies which are inherent to networked operations in our days
S Chou

Brainstorms: Rheingold Mind to Mind with Sherry Turkle - 1 views

www.well.com/...turkle.html

community turkle identity presentation of self

shared by S Chou on 23 Oct 11 - Cached
  • What is this activity doing to our minds?
  • object-to-think-with
    • alperin
      alperin on 23 Oct 11
       
      What do you think about this "object-to-think-with" characterization? is it out of date now? does it still apply?  I content that this is not the case, computers and networks are not an "object-to-think-with", but perhaps an "object-to-think-through". We don't think WITH the machine, but rather a medium through which to convey our thoughts.
    • S Chou
      S Chou on 23 Oct 11
       
      SC - that's an interesting distinction. I would agree that calculators seem much more like objects-to-think-with while computers allow for a much broader range of interactions including self expression. I think Turkle's point about the power of computers to shape and influence our thoughts still stands though. 
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    • alperin
      alperin on 23 Oct 11
       
      You are welcome to follow the links. Several are annotated with Diigo as well
  • Are we living life on the screen or in the screen?
    • alperin
      alperin on 23 Oct 11
       
      this is a nice distinction. ON or IN. Where are you living yours?
    • S Chou
      S Chou on 23 Oct 11
       
      SC - I like to think that I'm ON the screen because the idea of living IN the screen makes me uncomfortable, but I can't deny that the majority of my personal and professional interactions are now mediated through a screen. I'm sure that some of my relationships are more grounded now IN the screen purely out of necessity, I just hope that people don't confuse the two versions of me - to the extent that they're different to begin with. 
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