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Boston Review - Cass Sunstein: The Daily We - 4 views

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democracy public sphere community internet media free speech

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  • general interest intermediaries expose people to a wide range of topics and views and at the same time provide shared experiences for a heterogeneous public.
  • exposures help promote understanding and perhaps, in that sense, freedom
  • If the public is balkanized, and if different groups design their own preferred communications packages, the consequence will be further balkanization
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  • raise questions about the idea that “more speech” is necessarily an adequate remedy—especially if people are increasingly able to wall themselves off from competing views.
  • “consumer sovereignty,” which underlies much of contemporary enthusiasm for the Internet
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      S Chou on 27 Nov 11
       
      Ties to Habermas, but puts more power in the hands of the consumer.
  • As a result of the Internet, cascade effects are more common than they have ever been before.
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      S Chou on 27 Nov 11
       
      An argument for media literacy.
  • New technology can expose people to diverse points of view and creates opportunities for shared experiences. People may, through private choices, take advantage of these possibilities. But, to the extent that they fail to do so, it is worthwhile to consider private and public initiatives designed to pick up the slack.
  • in a free republic, citizens aspire to a system that provides a wide range of experiences
S Chou

Boeder - 6 views

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  • lost much of its original political character in favour of commercialism and entertainment.
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      S Chou on 27 Nov 11
       
      How much of politics today would you qualify as commercialism and entertainment? 
  • public debate has shifted from the dissemination of reliable information to the formation of public opinion
  • New forms of citizenship and public life are simultaneously enabled by new technology and restricted by market power and surveillance.
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  • a cathartic role, allowing the public to feel involved rather than to advance actual participation
  • public sphere is not just a "marketplace of ideas" or an "information exchange depot," but also a major vehicle for generating and distributing culture.
  • "transparency"
  • tendency towards concentration of power when no adequate measures are taken to counteract this process
  • Theoretically, a network is both able to disperse and to concentrate power.
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      S Chou on 27 Nov 11
       
      Is this operating under the assumption of one constant network? It seems that new technologies allow for the rapid rise, fall, and constant creation of new networks possible - which seems to counteract this tendency.
  • transnational and specialist news media increasingly serve a well–educated elite, while national and local media increasingly cater to the taste of disempowered social groups for whom globalisation only poses a threat
  • Dominant currents in the philosophy of technology thus essentialise technology, decontextualise it, and abstract it from culture and human meaning
S Chou

The Tragedy of the Commons by Garrett Hardin - The Garrett Hardin Society - Articles - 5 views

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hardin commons collective action

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  • a criterion of judgment and a system of weighting are needed
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      S Chou on 15 Nov 11
       
      This seems to relate to the proliferation of "like" buttons and our growing need/ability/expectation to crowd source opinion.
  • To conjure up a conscience in others is tempting to anyone who wishes to extend his control beyond the legal limits.
  • a change only in the techniques of the natural sciences,
S Chou

Howard Rheingold: The new power of collaboration | Video on TED.com - 1 views

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collaboration

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      S Chou on 15 Nov 11
       
      The SPLIT here is almost exactly like what happens on the Golden Balls TV show! 
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3 Necessary Conditions for Human Cooperation « Bokardo - 0 views

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collective action relationships

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  • We have learned to assume
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      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
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Barry Wellman - Physical Place and Cyber Place: The Rise of Personalized Networking - 1 views

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  • 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
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      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?
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  • become less aware of the importance of gospel music to southern Americans, farm news to midwesterners, and hip-hop to northeastern city dwellers
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      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
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      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
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danah boyd - "Friends, Friendsters, and Top 8: Writing community into being on social n... - 4 views

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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.
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      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.
  • 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
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      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.
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      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? 
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      S Chou on 29 Oct 11
       
      How much of this has to do with the average age of the user? 
  • 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
  • In thinking about Friendship practices on social network sites, it is crucial to evaluate them on their own terms
S Chou

Brainstorms: Rheingold Interviews Turkle - 0 views

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turkle identity presentation of self

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

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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
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      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.
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      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
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      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.
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      S Chou on 23 Oct 11
       
      Implies that, on some level, real human needs are being met.
  • 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
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      S Chou on 25 Oct 11
       
      Does not mean causality.
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      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?
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      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? 
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      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? 
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      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?
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Christine Rosen Joins The War On Flow | Stowe Boyd - 3 views

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  • I am not trying to do as many things simultaneously as possible, as quickly as possible, using as many technologies as possible. I am trying to remain connected to a large, sprawling network of thousands of edglings, and to gain an understanding of the world through that connection.
  • the human mind is really bad at memory, and that we have developed all sorts of compensating techniques to counter that weakness.
  • Yet memory is arguably the mind’s original sin. So much is built on it, and yet it is, especially in comparison with computer memory, wildly unreliable.
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  • Nearly every sort of physical skill mastery involves multitasking.
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      S Chou on 19 Oct 11
       
      This argument seems to remove the human place in determining what goes into a computer memory - as if data gathers entirely on its own, without a human setting the clock or parameters.
  • It may be that in this age — unlike Jame’s 1890s — we need to retain the youthful mind-wandering instead of a settled sort of thinking in comfortable and well-worn ruts.
S Chou

Can You Hear Me Now? - Forbes.com - 7 views

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  • The culture that grows up around the cell phone is a communications culture, but it is not necessarily a culture of self-reflection--which depends on having an emotion, experiencing it, sometimes electing to share it with another person, thinking about it differently over time. When interchanges are reduced to the shorthand of emoticon emotions, questions such as "Who am I?" and "Who are you?" are reformatted for the small screen and flattened out in the process.
  • The robotic crocodiles slapped their tails and rolled their eyes; the biological ones, like the Galápagos tortoises, pretty much kept to themselves.
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