increasingly engaged in a process of “personalization” that limits
their exposure to topics and points of view of their own choosing
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Boston Review - Cass Sunstein: The Daily We - 4 views
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many or most citizens should have a range of common experiences
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consumers can entirely personalize (or “customize”) their communications universe.
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dramatic increase in individual control over content, and a corresponding decrease in the power of general interest intermediaries, including newspapers, magazines, and broadcasters
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When people see materials that they have not chosen, their interests and their views might change as a result.
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common framework for social experience.
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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.
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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?
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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
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group polarization is likely to have fueled many movements of great value
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it is extremely important to ensure that people are exposed to views other than those with which they currently agree,
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In a heterogeneous society, it is extremely important for diverse people to have a set of common experiences.
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people who would otherwise see one another as unfamiliar can come to regard one another as fellow citizens, with shared hopes, goals, and concerns
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Websites might use links and hyperlinks to ensure that viewers learn about sites containing opposing views
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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.
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Boeder - 6 views
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some ideas are more useful than others
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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.
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The Tragedy of the Commons by Garrett Hardin - The Garrett Hardin Society - Articles - 5 views
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openly abandon the game--refuse to play it.
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tendency to assume that decisions reached individually will, in fact, be the best decisions for an entire society
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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.
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Parents who bred too exuberantly would leave fewer descendants, not more, because they would be unable to care adequately for their children.
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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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Statistically one child families are on the rise in the US http://www.parentmap.com/article/choosing-to-have-just-one-dispelling-the-myths-of-the-only-child
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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.
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Some people have proposed massive propaganda campaigns to instill responsibility into the nation's (or the world's) breeders.
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commons, if justifiable at all, is justifiable only under conditions of low-population density.
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Network Capital: an expression of social capital in the Network Society | Acevedo | The... - 4 views
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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.
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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?
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genetic in our ability to pool together for common goals
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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.
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social as well as economic terms
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individuals to behave as ‘global citizens’, and to become involved in actions and issues not bounded by their physical location.
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‘all for the love of it’
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global citizen will have more possibilities to become involved in social causes, with lesser constraints of place or time.
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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.
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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
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Unless you’re always randomly rotating these people
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context collision when people from different facets of their lives joined the site.
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participants there write their community into being through the process of Friending
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Social network: Facts, Discussion Forum, and Encyclopedia Article - 5 views
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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.
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instrumental social links (gesellschaft)
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sample of twins
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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).
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individuating nature
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forecast a century ago by E.M. Forster 1909
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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
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Contextual sense and lateral awareness will diminish.
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the spread of wireless towers to physically isolated and impoverished "fourth world" areas
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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
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neighbourhoods are not important sources of community.
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No more are people identified as members of a single group; they can switch among multiple networks.
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development of person-to-person connectivity has been influenced more by innovations in communication than in transportation.
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"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.
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norms of this inherently person-to-person system foster the intrusion of intensely involving private behaviour into public space
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, and they seem to think that the impact of their actions on other people are absolutely inconsequential.
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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).
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Research shows that people interact happily and fruitfully online (for the most part) and in ways similar to face-to-face contac
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Will the Internet promote two-person interactions at the expense of interactions happening in group or social network contexts?
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Agency is a need as well as an analytic category.
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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.
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The Internet's very lack of social richness can foster contact with more diverse others.
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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.
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Participants in online groups have strong interpersonal feelings of belonging, being wanted, obtaining important resources, and having a shared identity.
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Many ties operate in both cyberspace and physical space, used whatever means of communication is convenient and appropriate at the moment.
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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.
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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
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. When people do this offline, they do it in situations: temporally and spatially bounded contexts for action.
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Being online is being encoded and having that which is encoded available to some party other than those immediately present
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Impression management means selectively presenting an idealized version of one’s self specific to that context.
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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
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, the curator won’t even give you the choice to begin with.
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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.
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In addressed media we are trusting our recipient. In non-addressed media we are trusting our curator, not our recipient.