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SMALL CHANGE Why the revolution will not be tweeted - 2 views

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  • The world, we are told, is in the midst of a revolution. The new tools of social media have reinvented social activism. With Facebook and Twitter and the like, the traditional relationship between political authority and popular will has been upended, making it easier for the powerless to collaborate, coördinate, and give voice to their concerns
  • There was no Twitter Revolution inside Iran.” 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.”
  • The platforms of social media are built around weak ties. Twitter is a way of following (or being followed by) people you may never have met. Facebook is a tool for efficiently managing your acquaintances, for keeping up with the people you would not otherwise be able to stay in touch with. That’s why you can have a thousand “friends” on Facebook, as you never could in real life.
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  • “Social networks are particularly effective at increasing motivation,”
  • But that’s not true. Social networks are effective at increasing participation—by lessening the level of motivation that participation requires
  • social media are not about this kind of hierarchical organization. Facebook and the like are tools for building networks, which are the opposite, in structure and character, of hierarchies. Unlike hierarchies, with their rules and procedures, networks aren’t controlled by a single central authority. Decisions are made through consensus, and the ties that bind people to the group are loose.
  • There are many things, though, that networks don’t do well. Car companies sensibly use a network to organize their hundreds of suppliers, but not to design their cars.
  • The drawbacks of networks scarcely matter if the network isn’t interested in systemic change—if it just wants to frighten or humiliate or make a splash—or if it doesn’t need to think strategically. But if you’re taking on a powerful and organized establishment you have to be a hierarchy.
  • it is simply a form of organizing which favors the weak-tie connections that give us access to information over the strong-tie connections that help us persevere in the face of danger. It shifts our energies from organizations that promote strategic and disciplined activity and toward those which promote resilience and adaptability
  • Parycek on 13 Dec 10
     
    Twitter, Facebook, and social activism : The New Yorker by Malcolm Gladwell
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Uni Brennt: Studentenrevolte 2009 - 0 views

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  • Parycek on 23 Sep 10
     
    Novemberlüfterl oder Wegbereiter eine neuen Wissensgesellschaft?  Radio Orange
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Networks Versus Groups in Higher education | Virtual Canuck - 0 views

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  • The following is a rather long and scholarly type post arguing for the use of Networks in addition to groups commonly employed in formal campus and distance education.
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PR Blogger: Deutsche Bahn gerät mit neuem Facebook-Angebot unter Druck - 0 views

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  • Kaum hatte die Seite das Licht der Facebook-Welt erblickt, folgten auch schon die ersten negativen Kommentare. Am Anfang beschränkte sich die Kritik noch auf das "mitgelieferte" Video. Von "arm" oder "verwerflich" war die Rede, "Den Werber (...) solltet ihr rauswerfen!", kommentierte zum Beispiel Manuel. Reaktion durch die Betreuer der Seite: Null. Wenig später schoss sich dann die Facebook-Gemeinde auf die Bahn selbst und ihr Social Media-Auftreten ein. Die Frage nach einer Moderation wurde immer lauter.
  • Die Bilanz nach neun Stunden: Auf insgesamt 37 Posts (die eigenen eingeschlossen) hatten die Betreiber es geschafft, sechs Mal zu kommentieren. Fünf Mal wurde bei einem eigenen und einmal wurde auf einen "externen" Post kommentiert. Ein Online-Dialog auf Facebook sollte einfach anders aussehen. Wer sagt, die Bahn reagiere nur auf inhaltliche Posts zu ihrem "Chefticket" (das eigentlich mit der Seite beworben werden soll), liegt falsch. Fragen, wie der Kunde denn das Ticket über Facebook bezahlt oder überhaupt genau bekommt, blieben ebenfalls unbeantwortet.
  • Interessanter Punkt am Rande ist, dass die Facebook-Vanity-Url "facebook.com/deutschebahn" einer Privatperson gehört - hat die Bahn gar kein Interesse daran? Apropos: Eine allgemeine Facebook-Seite der Bahn gibt es auch. Aber ob die echt ist, ist stark zu bezweifeln. Obwohl, nach dem heutigen Fehlstart der Deutschen Bahn ist eigentlich alles möglich.
  • Parycek on 20 Oct 10
     
    Deutsche Bahn gerät mit neuem Facebook-Angebot unter Druck
  • Johann Höchtl on 21 Oct 10
     
    Superspannende Situation. Das sollten wir am Radar behalten, wie die mit der Situation umgehen.
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Social Networking Sites Study - 0 views

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  • Parycek on 03 Nov 10
     
    Christian Fuchs: A Critical Case Study of the Usage of studiVZ, Facebook, and MySpace by Students in Salzburg in the Context of Electronic Surveillance. Salzburg/Vienna: Research Group UTI. ISBN 978-3-200-01428-2.
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Facebook: Demographische Zahlen Deutschland, Schweiz, Österreich - 0 views

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    Stand 31.01.2010
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Social Networking Now More Popular on Mobile than Desktop - 0 views

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  • Parycek on 20 Mar 10
     
    A recent study from Ruder Finn revealed that Americans are spending nearly three hours per day on their mobile phones. And what are they doing there? Educating themselves, conducting business, managing finances, instant messaging, emailing? All of the above, as it turns out, and then some. But perhaps the most interesting finding from the new data is the fact that more people are using the mobile web to socialize (91%) compared to the 79% of desktop users who do the same. http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/new-study-shows-intent-behind-mobile-internet-use-84016487.html
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Getting Started on Twitter - 0 views

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Facebook, social media juggernaut (infographic) | Royal Pingdom - 1 views

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  • Parycek on 20 Mar 10
     
    Facebook has announced that it now has 400 million active users. Just one year ago Facebook had 150 million users, so 2009 was an incredible year for the social media giant.
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Iran Disrupts Internet Service Ahead of Protests - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • Parycek on 20 Mar 10
     
    In an effort to disrupt communications and head off huge opposition demonstrations planned for Thursday, the Iranian authorities on Wednesday drastically slowed Internet service in Iran and shut down text messaging services, and an official said that Gmail, the Google e-mail service, would be blocked.
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Can social media cure low student engagement? - 0 views

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  • Parycek on 20 Mar 10
     
    Keeping college students and their professors connected through social media outlets could be key in boosting graduation rates, education technology experts said during a panel discussion at Social Media Week in New York.
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Facebook Statistics, Application Statistics, Page Statistics | Facebakers.com - 1 views

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  • Parycek on 29 Mar 10
     
    Facebakers.com is a portal run by Candytech to deliver up-to-date data and statistics about Facebook - including Facebook statistics of users by countries, top Facebook Page data, and top Facebook Applications data. We love baking things for Facebook, and the portal Facebakers.com is a way of showing this.
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Defeating the Dark Side of Social Networking - 0 views

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    BusinessWeek - Companies can't rein in the conversations happening on social networks and blogs, but they can respond to their most vocal customers
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What do people do on Facebook? - 0 views

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  • Parycek on 26 Jun 11
     
    Pew Internet & American Life Project
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