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Katherine Chipman

Facebook, texting help first-year students connect IRL - 1 views

news.byu.edu/archive10-oct-facebook.aspx

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  • The first-year students averaged 52 minutes per day on social networks such as Facebook. On average, they sent between 11 and 20 text messages per day and spent 45 minutes texting or talking on a cell phone. Most students had between 150 and 200 Facebook friends.
  • More significantly, Jacobsen’s analysis reveals that Facebook and cell phones facilitated face-to-face interactions for this group of students. Initially the researchers suspected that digital media would partially replace offline socializing. Instead they found that face time increased by 10 to 15 minutes for every hour spent with social media and cell phones.
  • LeeAnne Lowry on 04 Nov 10
     
    BYU researchers are saying that Facebook is taking away from college students' social skills and face-to-face interactions....
  • Kristen Nicole Cardon on 18 Nov 10
     
    This BYU study found that facebook actually increased time students spent together
  • Katherine Chipman on 03 Dec 10
     
    Very interesting results to a BYU study regarding Facebook and texting.
Sean Watson

Why Most Cultural Tastes Don't Spread on Facebook - 0 views

www.livescience.com/nds-cultural-similarities.html

shared by Sean Watson on 19 Dec 11 - No Cached
  • Sean Watson on 19 Dec 11
     
    An interesting article examining Facebook social tendencies, and the behaviors generally exhibited in the types of people befriended.
Madeline Rupard

Facebook Top 50 - 0 views

www.thebigmoney.com/...big-money-facebook-50-0

economy capitalism technology facebook

shared by Madeline Rupard on 06 Oct 10 - Cached
  • Madeline Rupard on 06 Oct 10
     
    This is an interesting list I found of companies that make the most of the "fan" account they have on facebook. Another interesting crossroad between our economy and technology.
Gideon Burton

I'm So Totally, Digitally Close to You - Clive Thompson - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...07awareness-t.html

social media friendship relationships Facebook nytimes weak ties

shared by Gideon Burton on 05 Sep 12 - Cached
  • Social scientists have a name for this sort of incessant online contact. They call it “ambient awareness.” It is, they say, very much like being physically near someone and picking up on his mood through the little things he does — body language, sighs, stray comments — out of the corner of your eye
  • This is the paradox of ambient awareness. Each little update — each individual bit of social information — is insignificant on its own, even supremely mundane. But taken together, over time, the little snippets coalesce into a surprisingly sophisticated portrait of your friends’ and family members’ lives, like thousands of dots making a pointillist painting
  • Gideon Burton on 05 Sep 12
     
    A 2008 article in which the new kinds of digital relationships made possible through Facebook and other social media are discussed. Digital friends have "ambient awareness" through news feeds, begging the question about kind of friendship and their authenticity.
Sean Watson

Facebook Is Making Us Miserable - 0 views

blogs.hbr.org/...ook_is_making_us_miserabl.html

shared by Sean Watson on 19 Dec 11 - No Cached
  • Sean Watson on 19 Dec 11
     
    Some points addressed in the Harvard Business Review as to why Facebook can make individuals miserable.
anonymous

Twitter, Facebook, and social activism : The New Yorker - 2 views

www.newyorker.com/...101004fa_fact_gladwell

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      anonymous on 03 Feb 12
       
      Do you agree with this?
  • This is in many ways a wonderful thing. There is strength in weak ties, as the sociologist Mark Granovetter has observed. Our acquaintances—not our friends—are our greatest source of new ideas and information. The Internet lets us exploit the power of these kinds of distant connections with marvellous efficiency. It’s terrific at the diffusion of innovation, interdisciplinary collaboration, seamlessly matching up buyers and sellers, and the logistical functions of the dating world. But weak ties seldom lead to high-risk activism.
  • The evangelists of social media don’t understand this distinction; they seem to believe that a Facebook friend is the same as a real friend and that signing up for a donor registry in Silicon Valley today is activism in the same sense as sitting at a segregated lunch counter in Greensboro in 1960.
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  • Boycotts and sit-ins and nonviolent confrontations—which were the weapons of choice for the civil-rights movement—are high-risk strategies. They leave little room for conflict and error. The moment even one protester deviates from the script and responds to provocation, the moral legitimacy of the entire protest is compromised.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 03 Feb 12
       
      But it was just a phone.
  • A networked, weak-tie world is good at things like helping Wall Streeters get phones back from teen-age girls.
  • These events in the early sixties became a civil-rights war that engulfed the South for the rest of the decade—and it happened without e-mail, texting, Facebook, or Twitter.
  • The cadre of prominent bloggers, like Andrew Sullivan, who championed the role of social media in Iran, Esfandiari continued, misunderstood the situation. “Western journalists who couldn’t reach—or didn’t bother reaching?—people on the ground in Iran simply scrolled through the English-language tweets post with tag #iranelection,” she wrote. “Through it all, no one seemed to wonder why people trying to coordinate protests in Iran would be writing in any language other than Farsi.”
  • “It is time to get Twitter’s role in the events in Iran right,” Golnaz Esfandiari wrote, this past summer, in Foreign Policy. “Simply put: There was no Twitter Revolution inside Iran.”
  • What mattered more was an applicant’s degree of personal connection to the civil-rights movement.
Bri Zabriskie

Technology Live: Latest Tech News and Gadgets - USATODAY.com - 0 views

content.usatoday.com/...-smear-campaign-against-google

shared by Bri Zabriskie on 12 May 11 - No Cached
  • Bri Zabriskie on 12 May 11
     
    Remember the lawsuit against google when Buzz came out? I am pretty sure that's what this is about. Interesting that they think someone facebook is behind it. 
Andrew DeWitt

Social Media for Branding - 0 views

www.slideshare.net/...social-media-for-branding

social media facebook presentation blog

shared by Andrew DeWitt on 21 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • Andrew DeWitt on 21 Sep 10
     
    Great presentation on how to make your mark in the digital world
  • Andrew DeWitt on 21 Sep 10
     
    Here is the comment I left on the SlideShare website: This is super important stuff, thank you for sharing. In our digital age, a person's ability to market themselves on the web is a form of social capital. The more people follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and the blogosphere, the greater influence we can have. It makes me think about what happens in the book, 'Ender's Game' by Orson Scott Card. In the story, Peter and Valentine publish a lot of political commentary under aliases which eventually have a huge impact on world politics. Our future world may be run by those who can best market themselves and let their voice be heard.
Jake Corkin

World Bank and private sector blog - 0 views

www.diigo.com/...http%3A%2F%2Frru.worldbank.org

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shared by Jake Corkin on 01 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Jake Corkin on 01 Oct 10
     
    here is a blog about the private sector and the world bank. this entry is specifically about transparency in the world bank. they want people also to participate via twitter, facebook and other digital medium.
Mike Lemon

Social media policy in Milford - No Facebook, Twitter, iPods | WTNH.com Connecticut - 0 views

www.wtnh.com/...ford-no-facebook-twitter-ipods

shared by Mike Lemon on 21 Sep 10 - No Cached
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      Mike Lemon on 21 Sep 10
       
      It's interesting that a high school in Conn. has banned iPods, but my little school in podunk East Texas encourages learning through downloadable iPod lessons.
Gideon Burton

Ravelry and knitting: Why Facebook can't match the social network for knitters. - Slate... - 1 views

www.slate.com/...ightknit_community.single.html

social network knitting

shared by Gideon Burton on 03 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • Gideon Burton on 03 Sep 12
     
    Benefits of a social network for a niche interest community (knitting)
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