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Howard Rheingold - Why the History of the Public Sphere Matters - 4 views

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public sphere democracy public opinion

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    • Jennifer Bundy
      Jennifer Bundy on 25 Nov 11
       
      I wonder how the public sphere as a democratic process will play out as in a global internet where other countries do not value democracy in the same way
    • Jennifer Bundy
      Jennifer Bundy on 25 Nov 11
       
      It seems that the examples pointed out have in common people that had the time to have these discussions in the public sphere, such as the more affluent or educated. Will the internet as the public sphere allow an average working person to also participate?
    • Jennifer Bundy
      Jennifer Bundy on 25 Nov 11
       
      A general question - has there been any other instances in human history of many-to-many communication?
Jennifer Bundy

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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  • increasingly engaged in a process of “personalization” that limits their exposure to topics and points of view of their own choosing
    • Jennifer Bundy
      Jennifer Bundy on 25 Nov 11
       
      Validating what you already believe in. We had a discussion about this when talking about why/when people use peer recommendation sites like Yelp
    • Jennifer Bundy
      Jennifer Bundy on 25 Nov 11
       
      It's interesting that almost none of these services (aside from Tivo and Intertainer, Inc?) are still around. But the ideas that they had about personalization have lived on. They had the right idea, perhaps before anyone else. Why did they fail?
  • people should be exposed to materials that they would not have chosen in advance.
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  • Unanticipated encounters
  • are central to democracy and even to freedom itself
  • many or most citizens should have a range of common experiences
    • Jennifer Bundy
      Jennifer Bundy on 25 Nov 11
       
      In some ways these two requirements are the basis for the standard school system as well.
  • consumers can entirely personalize (or “customize”) their communications universe.
    • Jennifer Bundy
      Jennifer Bundy on 25 Nov 11
       
      how close are we to this now? and is it a utopian dream?
    • Jennifer Bundy
      Jennifer Bundy on 25 Nov 11
       
      I mean in personalizing our internet experience, not in the course of everyday life as will be outlined here...
  • many people are using it to produce narrowness, not breadth.
  • there is a difference of degree if not of kind.
  • dramatic increase in individual control over content, and a corresponding decrease in the power of general interest intermediaries, including newspapers, magazines, and broadcasters
    • Jennifer Bundy
      Jennifer Bundy on 25 Nov 11
       
      Not sure if I agree completely with this. I think the decrease in power might just be more subtle use of power
  • chance encounters,
  • When people see materials that they have not chosen, their interests and their views might change as a result.
  • common framework for social experience.
    • Jennifer Bundy
      Jennifer Bundy on 25 Nov 11
       
      Is the increase in fragmentation made up for by the fact that news/experiences on the Internet can travel instanteously to large numbers of people if they go viral?
  • group polarization
  • groups of people, especially if they are like-minded, will end up thinking the same thing that they thought before—but in more extreme form.
    • Jennifer Bundy
      Jennifer Bundy on 25 Nov 11
       
      I've read articles and heard from people that political parties now are much less likely to compromise with each other than in the past. A couple of questions: Do you think that's true or just a typical exaggeration that happens as the past fades away from public memory? If it is true, do you think the rise of individualizing content on the Internet and subsequently polarizing views of large groups of people have contributed to it as a reflection in the political parties?
  • If your position is going to move as a result of group discussion, it is likely to move in the direction of the most persuasive position defended within the group, taken as a collectivity
  • the group as a whole moves, as a statistical regularity, to a more extreme position
  • group polarization is likely to have fueled many movements of great value
    • Jennifer Bundy
      Jennifer Bundy on 25 Nov 11
       
      Appreciate pointing out the positives of group polarization as well. Sometimes we get bogged down in the negatives of a topic
  • it is extremely important to ensure that people are exposed to views other than those with which they currently agree,
  • In a heterogeneous society, it is extremely important for diverse people to have a set of common experiences.
    • Jennifer Bundy
      Jennifer Bundy on 25 Nov 11
       
      Builds community
  • congregate around a common issue, task, or concern
  • enjoyment
  • people who would otherwise see one another as unfamiliar can come to regard one another as fellow citizens, with shared hopes, goals, and concerns
    • Jennifer Bundy
      Jennifer Bundy on 25 Nov 11
       
      Goes back to communities included shared experiences and the thoughts on how time spent together leads to a community
  • to show how consumer sovereignty, in a world of limitless options, could undermine that system
  • Websites might use links and hyperlinks to ensure that viewers learn about sites containing opposing views
    • Jennifer Bundy
      Jennifer Bundy on 25 Nov 11
       
      would this just encourage more overt disparaging remarks?
  • The basic question is whether it might be possible to create spaces that have some of the functions of public forums and general interest intermediaries in the age of the Internet.
Jennifer Bundy

Boeder - 6 views

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  • some ideas are more useful than others
    • Jennifer Bundy
      Jennifer Bundy on 25 Nov 11
       
      I do find it's easy to find validation for your ideas on the internet because so many people are involved. And some ideas are just not the best...
  • consumerism poses a threat to the public sphere
  • a mode of discourse is already established, which actively discourages other modes
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  • New communications technologies are being used in ways that extend democratic communication practices. As networks become structurally decentralised, ever wider publics gain access to them in ways that lead to an increase in the rate and density of public exchange.
Jennifer Bundy

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

www.ted.com/...heingold_on_collaboration.html

collaboration

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      Jennifer Bundy on 12 Nov 11
       
      I've got to read Smart Mobs!
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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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  • openly abandon the game--refuse to play it.
    • Jennifer Bundy
      Jennifer Bundy on 12 Nov 11
       
      in regards to collective action - does this relate to a feeling of hopelessness if it doesn't seem like the problem can be solved or "won"? This seems to be the case for large scale problems like environmental issues.
  • tendency to assume that decisions reached individually will, in fact, be the best decisions for an entire society
    • Jennifer Bundy
      Jennifer Bundy on 12 Nov 11
       
      Not completely sure about the "tendency to assume"...maybe people can convience themselves of this, but on some level there are decisions that we know are not good for an entire society
  • pollution problem is a consequence of population
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  • One does not know whether a man killing an elephant or setting fire to the grassland is harming others until one knows the total system in which his act appears.
  • Parents who bred too exuberantly would leave fewer descendants, not more, because they would be unable to care adequately for their children.
    • Jennifer Bundy
      Jennifer Bundy on 12 Nov 11
       
      Curious connection to the tendency now in the US to have only one child and focus one getting advantages for that one
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      Jennifer Bundy on 12 Nov 11
  • our society is deeply committed to the welfare state
  • To couple the concept of freedom to breed with the belief that everyone born has an equal right to the commons is to lock the world into a tragic course of action.
  • "double bind
  • Some people have proposed massive propaganda campaigns to instill responsibility into the nation's (or the world's) breeders.
    • Jennifer Bundy
      Jennifer Bundy on 12 Nov 11
       
      Keep comming back to the idea that birth rate drops as nations become more developed. Example in China, birth rate would have dropped even without one child policy. Best way to limit population = work on poverty / technology issues?
  • commons, if justifiable at all, is justifiable only under conditions of low-population density.
    • Jennifer Bundy
      Jennifer Bundy on 12 Nov 11
       
      It just seemed like the main point he was trying to get across and I wanted to be able to come back to it
  • There is almost no restriction on the propagation of sound waves in the public medium.
Jennifer Bundy

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

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social networks network capital knowledge-intensive process

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  • 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?
  • 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"
  • product of personal community networks as well as of formally institutionalized groups.”
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  • 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
  • ‘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
Jennifer Bundy

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

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  • 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!
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  • 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?
  • participants there write their community into being through the process of Friending
    • Jennifer Bundy
      Jennifer Bundy on 31 Oct 11
       
      Decentralization of community?
Jennifer Bundy

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

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social networks nodes and ties interdependency

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  • 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
Jennifer Bundy

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

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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?
  • 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?
  • 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?
  • 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"?
  • 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
  • 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?
  • 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
  • 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.
Jennifer Bundy

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

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  • 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
Jennifer Bundy

Real name sites are necessarily inadequate for free speech « Social Media Col... - 4 views

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free speech social media impression management names

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  • . When people do this offline, they do it in situations: temporally and spatially bounded contexts for action.
    • Jennifer Bundy
      Jennifer Bundy on 21 Oct 11
       
      These sound like third place locations
  • Being online is being encoded and having that which is encoded available to some party other than those immediately present
  • Online is on-the-record. Offline is off-the-record.
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  • performance of impression management into the process of curation
  • Curation means selecting objects for display
  • Impression management means selectively presenting an idealized version of one’s self specific to that context.
    • Jennifer Bundy
      Jennifer Bundy on 21 Oct 11
       
      Impression management - the key word is "idealized". These sites are making things much more transparent, which might not be all bad
  • Collective
  • the myth of selective sharing
    • Jennifer Bundy
      Jennifer Bundy on 21 Oct 11
       
      They are inadequate for free speech only if you don't want to be associated with what you are saying, which is not an issue of the tool but rather a preference of the person. Many people own their statements in the public sphere (politicians, leaders, etc). Real name sites are just giving the average person the opportunity to do the same - people just have to realize that what they might be saying is available to anyone to hear
  • , the curator won’t even give you the choice to begin with.
    • Jennifer Bundy
      Jennifer Bundy on 21 Oct 11
       
      I see how this applies to Google+ but not really Facebook or Twitter. Google+ doesn't give you the option to select, other then circles, who will see your posts. And I guess Facebook is moving this way too. Does he mean that these sites give people the option to search for you without you knowing? Like Twitter or Google+ will suggest people for you to follow? But in all of them you still have to accept the people as followers and you can control privacy so I have a hard time understanding how you don't have agency in that.
  • In addressed media we are trusting our recipient. In non-addressed media we are trusting our curator, not our recipient.
Jennifer Bundy

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

www.forbes.com/...176.html

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  • it is more important to stay tethered to the people who define one's virtual identity, the identity that counts.
    • Jennifer Bundy
      Jennifer Bundy on 15 Oct 11
       
      What about the identity in "real life"? Does virtual identity really count more than that one? Maybe quantity of people that are seeing us virtually matters.
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