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Deanya Lattimore

`IM me': Instant messaging as relational maintenance and everyday communication -- Rami... - 0 views

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IM instant-messaging communication personal-relationship

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  • Deanya Lattimore on 31 Jul 09
     
    (Sage has free access to this journal for a couple of months after August 1st if you register.) `IM me': Instant messaging as relational maintenance and everyday communication Artemio Ramirez, Jr Arizona State University, artemio.ramirezjr.1@asu.edu Kathy Broneck Pima Community College Few studies to date have examined the use of Internet applications in enacting `everyday' routine relational maintenance and even fewer assess how such tools complement more traditional forms of communication to sustain involvements. This exploratory study examines the role of one such tool, instant messaging (IM), in relational maintenance. Participants (N = 402) reported their general use of IM (Stage 1) and subsequently conducted and reported on a specific interaction occurring either through IM or face to face (Stage 2). Among IM users, significant gender and the types of relationships differences emerged in `every communication.' Findings also indicate how IM is being utilized in conjunction with other communication channels. New research opportunities for examining relational maintenance processes employing IM are advanced. Key Words: computer-mediated communication * instant messaging * Internet * relational maintenance * routine interaction Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, Vol. 26, No. 2-3, 291-314 (2009) DOI: 10.1177/0265407509106719
  • Deanya Lattimore on 31 Jul 09
     
    `IM me': Instant messaging as relational maintenance and everyday communication Artemio Ramirez, Jr Arizona State University, artemio.ramirezjr.1@asu.edu Kathy Broneck Pima Community College Few studies to date have examined the use of Internet applications in enacting `everyday' routine relational maintenance and even fewer assess how such tools complement more traditional forms of communication to sustain involvements. This exploratory study examines the role of one such tool, instant messaging (IM), in relational maintenance. Participants (N = 402) reported their general use of IM (Stage 1) and subsequently conducted and reported on a specific interaction occurring either through IM or face to face (Stage 2). Among IM users, significant gender and the types of relationships differences emerged in `every communication.' Findings also indicate how IM is being utilized in conjunction with other communication channels. New research opportunities for examining relational maintenance processes employing IM are advanced. Key Words: computer-mediated communication * instant messaging * Internet * relational maintenance * routine interaction Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, Vol. 26, No. 2-3, 291-314 (2009) DOI: 10.1177/0265407509106719
Deanya Lattimore

Social tagging, online communication, and Peircean semiotics: a conceptual framework --... - 0 views

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C.S.Peirce social-tagging tag tags keywords categorization signs Journal_of_Information_Science

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  • Deanya Lattimore on 07 May 09
     
    Social tagging, online communication, and Peircean semiotics: a conceptual framework Andrea Wei-Ching Huang Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, andreahg@iis.sinica.edu.tw Tyng-Ruey Chuang Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan One of the recent web developments has focused on the opportunities it presents for social tagging through user participation and collaboration. As a result, social tagging has changed the traditional online communication process. The interpretation of tagging between humans and machines may create new problems if essential questions about how social tagging corresponds to online communications, what objects the tags refer to, who the interpreters are, and why they are engaged are not explored systematically. Since such reasoning is an interpretation of social tagging among humans, tags and machines, it is a complex issue that calls for deep reflection. In this paper, we investigate the relevance of the potential problems raised by social tagging through the framework of C.S. Peirce's semiotics. We find that general phenomena of social tagging can be well classified by Peirce's 10 classes of signs for reasoning. This suggests that regarding social tagging as a sign and systematically analyzing the interpretation are positively associated with the 10 classes of signs. Peircean semiotics can be used to examine the dynamics and determinants of tagging; hence, the various uses of this categorization schema may have implications for the design and development of information systems and web applications. Key Words: categorization * C.S. Peirce * interpretant * online communication * semiotics * social tagging * 10 classes of signs * triadic sign
  • Deanya Lattimore on 07 May 09
     
    Article in new Journal of Information Science. Here's the abstract: Social tagging, online communication, and Peircean semiotics: a conceptual framework Andrea Wei-Ching Huang Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, andreahg@iis.sinica.edu.tw Tyng-Ruey Chuang Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan One of the recent web developments has focused on the opportunities it presents for social tagging through user participation and collaboration. As a result, social tagging has changed the traditional online communication process. The interpretation of tagging between humans and machines may create new problems if essential questions about how social tagging corresponds to online communications, what objects the tags refer to, who the interpreters are, and why they are engaged are not explored systematically. Since such reasoning is an interpretation of social tagging among humans, tags and machines, it is a complex issue that calls for deep reflection. In this paper, we investigate the relevance of the potential problems raised by social tagging through the framework of C.S. Peirce's semiotics. We find that general phenomena of social tagging can be well classified by Peirce's 10 classes of signs for reasoning. This suggests that regarding social tagging as a sign and systematically analyzing the interpretation are positively associated with the 10 classes of signs. Peircean semiotics can be used to examine the dynamics and determinants of tagging; hence, the various uses of this categorization schema may have implications for the design and development of information systems and web applications. Key Words: categorization * C.S. Peirce * interpretant * online communication * semiotics * social tagging * 10 classes of signs * triadic sign
Deanya Lattimore

Coherence in political computer-mediated communication: analyzing topic relevance and d... - 0 views

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chat politics online-discussion CMC political-discourse discourse-analysis

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  • Deanya Lattimore on 12 May 09
     
    Discourse & Communication, Vol. 3, No. 2, 195-216 (2009) DOI: 10.1177/1750481309102452 Coherence in political computer-mediated communication: analyzing topic relevance and drift in chat Jennifer Stromer-Galley UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY,SUNY,USA, jstromer@albany.edu Anna M. Martinson INDIANA UNIVERSITY, USA, anna.m.martinson@gmail.com There is a general perception that synchronous, online chat about politics is fragmented, incoherent, and rife with ad hominem attacks because of its channel characteristics. This study aims to better understand the relative impact of channel of communication versus topic of communication by comparing chat about four different topics. Discourse analysis and coding for topic drift were applied to two hours of chat devoted to the topics of politics, auto racing, entertainment, and cancer support. Findings demonstrate that topic may have an effect on the coherence of chat, with discussion in the politics chat room surprisingly being more coherent than in the other rooms. This research suggests that users can sustain relatively coherent interaction on political talk, suggesting chat technology may not be an inherently problematic medium for political discourse. Key Words: CMC * coherence * dynamic topic analysis * online discussion * political chat * topic
Deanya Lattimore

Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 14.2 - 0 views

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JCMC Facebook digital_divide politics internet games gaming copyright multihop social_network social_networking network eWOM WOM ratemyprofessors learning Chinese web_design bowling game

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  • Deanya Lattimore on 30 Mar 09
     
    New issue of Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 14.2
  • Deanya Lattimore on 30 Mar 09
     
    Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication Volume 14, Issue 2, 2009. http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/122295220/issue Copyright © 2009 International Communication Association --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pages: 221-243 The (Potential) Benefits of Campaigning via Social Network Sites Sonja Utz http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/122295230/abstract Published Online: 30 Mar 2009 Pages: 244-264 U.S. College Students' Internet Use: Race, Gender and Digital Divides Steve Jones, Camille Johnson-Yale, Sarah Millermaier, Francisco Seoane Pérez http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/122295227/abstract Published Online: 30 Mar 2009 Pages: 265-285 Echo chambers online?: Politically motivated selective exposure among Internet news users1 R. Kelly Garrett http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/122295221/abstract Published Online: 30 Mar 2009 Pages: 286-306 Third-Person Perceptions and Online Games: A Comparison of Perceived Antisocial and Prosocial Game Effects Zhi-Jin Zhong http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/122295228/abstract Published Online: 30 Mar 2009 Pages: 307-327 Deterrence Effect of Four Legal and Extralegal Factors on Online Copyright Infringement Xigen Li, Nico Nergadze http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/122295225/abstract Published Online: 30 Mar 2009 Pages: 328-351 Understanding User Resistance to Participation in Multihop Communications Yoolee Kang, Seongcheol Kim http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/122295223/abstract Published Online: 30 Mar 2009 Pages: 352-367 Disentangling the Effects of Social Network Density on Electronic Word-of-Mouth (eWOM) Intention Dongyoung Sohn http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/122295222/abstract Published Online: 30 Mar 2009 Pages: 368-392 Computer-Mediated Word-of-Mouth Communication on RateMyProfessors.com: Expectancy Effects on Student Cognitive and Behavioral Learning Autumn Edwards, Chad Edwards, Carrie Shaver, Mark Oa
Rebecca Davis

DHQ: Digital Humanities Quarterly: Designing Choreographies for the New Economy of Atte... - 0 views

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digital_humanities attention backchannel twitter socialmedia pedagogy

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  • n an information society, the scarce commodity is not information — we are choking on that — but the human attention required to make sense of it.
  • the scarce commodity is not information — we are choking on that — but the human attention required to make sense of it.
  • Are these new technologies reshaping human attention in ways that undermine key practices of teaching and learning? Or do they provide a framework for new curricular designs and alternative conceptions of attention that occur at an order of complexity appropriate to teaching and learning in this "new economy"?
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  • Rather than seeking to ban these devices from the lecture hall and the classroom, we aim to ask what precisely they have on offer for a culture that equates individual attentional behavior with intellectual and moral aptitude.
  • his comes into clear relief in the context of formal education.
    • Rebecca Davis
      Rebecca Davis on 01 Mar 11
       
      especially note the focus on "engaging students"--essentially we are focusing on getting them to pay attention
  • By the early 20th century, this rational-empiricist conception of mind had become pervasive and the command of attention was considered a normative aspect of modern life.
  • In short, distraction is a logical by-product of a successive array of technologies of attention.
  • the ability to focus one’s attention is tantamount to proper socialization.
  • Rather than assuming that their presence "takes away" from an established order of attention, we are seeking to understand how they reconfigure that order in ways that might allow for new methods of engagement.
  • The present essay grows out of a project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities where we are studying the integration methods of remote participation and digital backchannels into live scholarly events (http://digitallyceum.org).
  • New technologies are employed to make attentive the naturally distracted minds of youth,
  • In the absence of strong conventions for shaping the conduct of these events, the presence of the network and multiple channels for interaction could, indeed, prove highly disorienting
  • we suggest that, if properly choreographed, these channels, just like the organization of chairs and podiums in a lecture hall, can augment the live event in new and powerful ways
  • controlled distraction enables participants to experience richer, multimodal relations without wandering outside the space(s) of the event.
  • Goffman’s contention is that, in comparison to other live performances like a stage play or a ballet, the lecture typically aspires to diminish attention to the staging and organization and direct the audience toward a focus on the subject matter itself
  • These efforts and "special effects" might be a good opening joke, an interesting aside, an evocative turn of phrase, or a moment of clarity in an otherwise abstruse topic that transports the audience members from their natural state of distraction toward a focus on the topic-at-hand.
  • audience members communicate constantly with one another, through, for instance, smiles or unsettled glances between two people, the shifting in chairs that takes place when an audience collectively expects the talk to be over, or the quiet contemplation during a particularly riveting moment.
    • Rebecca Davis
      Rebecca Davis on 01 Mar 11
       
      is this possible with telepresence?
  • we might speculate that the hesitancy on the part of some academics to integrate emerging media into their pedagogical practice is part of a larger hesitancy to consider these performative conventions as central to their craft as educators.
  • It is our contention that the presence of laptops and other networked devices within "live" academic events changes the texture, flow, and distribution of attention, and that this change in the practical order of these events therefore requires a rethinking and a redesign of how they are organized and performed.
    • Rebecca Davis
      Rebecca Davis on 01 Mar 11
       
      And yet, on a couple of recent occasions I have seen the attempt to integrate twitter fail due to a lack of committment. Instead people fall back on their conventions.
  • On this argument, the ability to shape people’s attention is now a more valuable commodity than the things around which our attention is presumably focused.
  • But if significant choices that require little energy (like aiming at a fly in a urinal) are designed into our environments, we are more likely to make use of them. If economists, architects, and lecturers, actually pay attention to fluff, then stuff will get done.
  • when network spaces are left unplanned, they add complexity without encouraging focus, dissemination without articulating message. User attention needs our attention.
  • When there is no choice architecture to nudge the distracted participant, there is little motivation for her to integrate additional information channels into the way she assimilates information and there is no framework for her to share that information with the event community.
  • gently nudging attention instead of commanding it,
    • Rebecca Davis
      Rebecca Davis on 01 Mar 11
       
      reminds me of John Seely Brown
  • When backchannels are successfully implemented, the parameters of the lecturer’s work must, in turn, expand to take account of the user practices that are part of the overall composition of the event.
  • transforming what is typically referred to as backchannels into channels of parallel discourse that amplify audience participation.
  • n 2007, two thirds of U.S. college classrooms were wireless [CCS 2007]. However, the pedagogical need to design the sort of communication made possible by that access is routinely ignored.
  • This physical set-up provided a good context for introducing digital backchannels. We built a tool that aggregated feeds from Delicious, the social bookmarking site, and Flickr, the photo sharing site; it also included a video feed, a space in Second Life and an open source question tool called backchan.nl (http://backchan.nl) [Harry et al. 2008]. When the symposium started, we announced that these features were available and we invited everybody’s participation. Throughout the day, we periodically projected various feeds onto the secondary screen and the live moderator referenced questions and discussions that were taking place online.
  • There is significant research on how computers and networks facilitate collaboration ([Billinghurst et al. 2007]; [Liang et al. 2005]; [Page et al. 2005]; [Billinghurst and Hirokazu 2002], but little has been written about how the practices associated with these technologies transform the presentation, assimilation and dissemination of knowledge within large educational spaces.
  • We do acknowledge, however, that more channels do not necessarily equal richer communication.
  • providing these channels crippled the participatory capabilities of those without laptops, making the un-connected participant feel left out of the conversation.
  • The successful choreography of attention, therefore, considers how architectural space, digital channels and screens combine to produce a situation that is inclusive and expansive.
  • During our symposium, we could have taken several measures to mitigate user fatigue or unproductive distraction. By providing more onscreen prompts to help participants find the designated tools we could have reduced barriers to participation.
  • One of the challenges we confronted early on was the integration of proximate and remote audiences.
  • he Second Life audience had no access to the live audience.
  • those attending virtually had the most forward-focused attentional experience of the event.
  • Another element that fell short in our experiment was the frequency with which the moderator addressed the backchannel conversations.
  • raditional structures of attention should not simply be protected or rejected; they should be negotiated. Along with tables and chairs, wifi accessibility and data projection, the twenty-first century education environment has to design the frameworks of attention into its four walls.
  • Bauerlein 2007 Bauerlein, Mark. 2007. The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future (Or, Don't Trust Anyone Under 30). New York: Penguin Books.
  • Billinghurst and Hirokazu 2002 Billinghurst, Mark, and Kato Hirokazu. 2002. "Collaborative Augmented Reality". Communications of the ACM 45 (7):64-70.
  • Billinghurst et al. 2007 Billinghurst, Mark, S. Hayes, A. Gupta, Y. Sannohe, H. Kato, and K. Kiyokawa. 2007. "Communication Behaviors of Co-Located Users in Collaborative AR Interfaces". Paper read at International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality, at Darmstadt, Germany.
  • Lanham 1997 Lanham, Richard. 1997. "A Computer-Based Harvard Red Book: General Education in the Digital Age". In Gateways to Knowledge: The Role of Academic Libraries in Teaching, Learning and Research, edited by L. Dowler. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
  • Lanham 2006 Lanham, Richard. 2006. The Economics of Attention: Style and Substance in the Age of Information. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  • Liang et al. 2005 Liang, J., T. Liu, H. Wang, B. Chang, Y. Deng, and J. Yang. 2005. "A Few Design Perspectives on One-on-one Digital Classroom Environment". "Journal of Computer Assisted Learning" 21 (3):181-189.
  • Meyrowitz 1985 Meyrowitz, Joshua. 1985. No Sense of Place: The Impact of Electronic Media on Social Behavior. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Page et al. 2005 Page, K., D. Michaelides, D. D. Roure, N. Shadbolt, C. Yun-Heh, and J. Dalton. 2005. Collaboration in the Semantic Grid: A Basis for e-learning. Applied Artificial Intelligence 19 (9/10):881-904.
  • Thaler and Sunstein 2008a Thaler, Richard, and Cass Sunstein. 2008. Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness. New Haven: Yale University Press.
  • Rebecca Davis on 01 Mar 11
     
    Good examination of the role of the backchannel in a public lecture and the economy of attention.
Deanya Lattimore

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twitter professional law-enforcement police

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  • Deanya Lattimore on 10 Dec 10
     
    Vancouver police twitter a day in the life. CTV.ca News Staff Date: Thu. Dec. 9 2010 10:29 PM ET From the mundane to the compelling, the Vancouver Police Department posted every call they received to Twitter on Thursday, in a plan that is equally about social networking as it is about crime prevention. Sample tweets included: "Man in custody after an attempted theft of beer from a loading truck," and "police are looking for an elderly man who wandered away from his care home." While officers took out personal information that may have violated privacy protocols, the stream of short entries read like the daily diary of a police department. The stream was for a 24-hour period and won't be continued on Friday. Vancouver police say that the stream is a chance to educate people on the volume of calls they get each day, and also to publicize the launch of the force's Twitter profile, which they believe will become a crucial link to the community. "We're going to keep people much more updated with what the Vancouver police is doing," said Const. Anne Longley Thursday. While the gambit proved effective (some 2,300 people began following the VPD by Thursday evening), it didn't always run like clockwork. "Sorry for the last typo's ... I think I need a break soon!" read one tweet. But the micro-blog entries also show potential for the future. In one entry, the VDP wrote: "Report of a suspicious person checking out a building and property. Police looking for him now. Call 9-1-1 if you see suspicious activity!" Considering the instant and far-reaching applications of the web, a Twitter profile could become a savvy crime-fighting tool in the future. Vancouver isn't the only police force in the country to launch a Twitter profile; most departments in Canada already have them. A media expert said that the force's decision to get on Twitter is savvy, given the increasing importance of communicating online. Twitter recently announced that it has 145 million users -- not bad consideri
Deanya Lattimore

Is There Social Capital in a Social Network Site?: Facebook Use and College Students' L... - 0 views

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JCMC facebook college-students

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  • Deanya Lattimore on 26 Aug 09
     
    Is There Social Capital in a Social Network Site?: Facebook Use and College Students' Life Satisfaction, Trust, and Participation1 Sebastián Valenzuela 1 Namsu Park 1 Kerk F. Kee 1 1 University of Texas at Austin 1 Earlier versions of this study were presented at the 2008 International Symposium on Online Journalism and the 2008 APSA Preconference on Political Communication. For intellectual and financial support on this research, we thank Sharon Strover. Helpful comments at various stages were provided by Jeff Gulati and Talia Stroud. Corresponding author: Sebastián Valenzuela [sebastianvalenzuela@mail.utexas.edu] ABSTRACT This study examines if Facebook, one of the most popular social network sites among college students in the U.S., is related to attitudes and behaviors that enhance individuals' social capital. Using data from a random web survey of college students across Texas (n = 2,603), we find positive relationships between intensity of Facebook use and students' life satisfaction, social trust, civic engagement, and political participation. While these findings should ease the concerns of those who fear that Facebook has mostly negative effects on young adults, the positive and significant associations between Facebook variables and social capital were small, suggesting that online social networks are not the most effective solution for youth disengagement from civic duty and democracy.
Daisy PhD

Networking through Disaster : Local Knowledge - 0 views

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dissertation NOLA web2.0 katrina

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  • Home to more than 3,000 charities and nonprofits, 270 neighborhood associations, and dozens of coalitions and community groups, New Orleans is in the midst of a civic renaissance.  Frustrated with inept and inefficient local and federal governments, the people of New Orleans have harnessed the vast power of the Internet to network, fill their needs, and reach out to the traditional media.  Armed with blogs, Twitter, Yahoo groups, and wikis, nonprofits and citizen groups are transforming grassroots community, organizing into a potent force that is helping to determine how New Orleans will be rebuilt.
  • Yet what makes post-Katrina New Orleans unique is the degree to which digital networks have become ensconced in physical communities, even four years later. This digital revolution is not limited to bloggers and tech geeks—many people who had barely used the Internet before Katrina for more than sending e-mails are some of the leaders of the grassroots digital activism movement.
Deanya Lattimore

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twitter syndication athletes writing

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    Welcome to Jockipedia, the definitive source for Athletes First-Person Communication. 3,523 Athletes.
Daisy PhD

Twitter In The Classroom 1.0 | Techization - 0 views

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twitter teaching web2.0 backchannel

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  • Daisy PhD on 30 Jun 09
     
    one professor in the English department used Twitter in the classroom to communicate with her students
Rebecca Davis

"Living and Learning with Social Media" - 0 views

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socialmedia Facebook youth danahboyd

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  • Today's teens are still more interested in their friends than their lessons. They're still resistant to power and authority at variable levels. They still gossip, bully, flirt, joke around, and hang out. The underlying dynamics are fairly consistent. That said, technology is inflecting these practices in unique ways. And my goal here today is to talk about these inflection points.
  • They use these sites to connect to people that they already know from school, church, activities, summer camp, etc.
  • One of the most problematic mistakes adults make when trying to make sense of social network sites is to presume that kids interact on these sites just like they do
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  • Teens are using this space as a social hangout with their pre-existing network.
  • Profiles
  • Think of the profile as a digital body
  • This is about showing off to known individuals
  • self-expression for friends
  • Friends
  • it's socially rude not to
  • Friends is as intended audience
  • Comments
  • process of social grooming
  • Teens know how to have deeper conversations - this just isn't where those necessarily happen.
  • New Feed
  • according to Pew, the median age of the Twitterverse is 31
  • social pressure to be where your friends are
  • How are these environments similar or different to other public spaces?
  • Persistence
  • What you say sticks around
  • Replicability
  • crux of rumor-spreading
  • bullying
  • Searchability
  • when trying to avoid those who hold power over you, it may be less than ideal
  • Scalability
  • spiral out of control
  • (de)locatability
  • simultaneously more and less connected to physical space
  • implications have to do with the ways in which they alter social dynamics
  • Invisible Audiences
  • lurkers
  • we are having to present ourselves and communicate without fully understanding the potential or actual audience
  • Collapsed Contexts
  • Social media brings all of these contexts crashing into one another and it's often difficult to figure out what's appropriate, let alone what can be understood.
  • Blurring of Public and Private.
  • youth see privacy in terms of control - control of space, control of information, control of trust
  • reproduction of socio-economic status and class divisions in digital worlds.
  • Teens who use MySpace can't communicate with those on Facebook and vice-versa. So if you don't participate, you're written out of the story. This means that divisions are re-inforced. Forget all of the rhetoric about how the Internet is the great equalizer - it's the great reproducer of inequality.
  • For all of the attention paid to "digital natives" it's important to realize that most teens are engaging with social media without any deep understanding of the underlying dynamics or structure. Just because they understand how to use the technology doesn't mean that they understand the information ecology that surrounds it. Most teens don't have the scaffolding for thinking about their information practices.
Daisy PhD

Web 2.0: Teens love Facebook and Apple, confused by Twitter | VentureBeat - 0 views

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twitter teaching youth

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  • Daisy PhD on 23 Oct 09
     
    These kids could be my students. For a group that didn't even know what Twitter was last year, this year many flat out resent it and refuse to open themselves to the idea that we can build class community or share resources by using it.
Rebecca Davis

Study Finds No Link Between Social-Networking Sites and Academic Performance - Wired Ca... - 2 views

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facebook socialmedia socialnetworking research study

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  • Researchers at Northwestern University found no connection between time spent on social-networking sites and academic performance. The study, the results of which appear in the latest issue of Information, Communication & Society, included responses from approximately 1,000 first-year students at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Rebecca Davis

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twitter writing

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  • Twitter is writing. Hello! MLA members! Twitter is writing!
  • The lesson digital humanists learn, especially by using Twitter, is that scholarly conversations move quickly now, because they can, and one had therefore better be as quick as possible to join in that conversation. Monthly or quarterly journals and annual conferences used to be the way that scholars talked wrote among themselves, but now it’s e-mail listservs (yes, still) and, better, the much more public blogosphere and twittersphere.
Deanya Lattimore

Children, Youth, and Environments 19(1) 2009 - 0 views

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video-games cmc children computer computer-mediated-communication

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  • Deanya Lattimore on 22 Jun 09
     
    Children, Youth and Environments Vol. 19, No.1 (2009) > The Fast-Paced Change of Children's Technological Environments > Nathan G. Freier and Peter H. Kahn, Jr. > > Environments Expanded: Interactive Humanoid Robots and Androids in Children's Lives > Takayuki Kanda, Shuichi Nishio, Hiroshi Ishiguro and Norihiro Hagita > > Cultural Environments: From New Zealand to Mongolia: Co-Designing and Deploying a Digital Library for the World's Children > Allison Druin, Benjamin B. Bederson, Anne Rose and Ann Weeks > ________________________________________ >Teaching with Hidden Capital: Agency in Children's Computational Explorations of Cornrow Hairstyles > Ron Eglash and Audrey Bennett > > Natural Environments: An Ethnographic Comparison of Real and Virtual Reality Field Trips to Trillium Trail: The Salamander Find as a Salient Event > Maria C.R. Harrington > > Youth Day in Los Angeles: Evaluating the Role of Technology in Children's Nature Activities > Deborah J. Chavez > > Underwater Explorers: Using Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs) to Engage Youth with Underwater Environments > Laurlyn K. Harmon and Mark Gleason > > The Developing Child: Accounting for the Child in the Design of Technological Environments: A Review of Constructivist Theory > Nathan G. Freier > > Do Stereotypic Images in Video Games Affect Attitudes and Behavior? Adolescent Perspectives > Alexandra Henning, Alaina Brenick, Melanie Killen, Alexander O'Connor and Michael J. Collins > > Cookie Monsters: Seeing Young People's Hacking as Creative Practice > Gregory T. Donovan and Cindi Katz > > The Sirens' Song of Multiplayer Online Games > Nicholas A. Holt and Douglas A. Kleiber > > Learning in Technological Environments: Neomillennial Learning Styles and River City > Edward Dieterle > > Cultural Historical Activity Theory as a Tool for Informing and Evaluating Technology in Education > Kim Rybacki > > Video Games as Learning Environments for Students with Learning Disabilities > Elizabeth S. Simpson > > Lea
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