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Brian Peters

IT&Society - 1 views

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    Here is an interesting online, scholarly journal devoted to information technology and society. The journal comes out of Stanford and is free. The range of issues includes what gives when Internet use increases --TV and sleep, apparently -- as well as looking at the type of impact the digital divide has on a number of different countries. 
Pamela Hawks

The internet society - 2 views

Some of the statistics found on their site are mind-boggling. I saw this: "By 2047 the world's population may reach about 11 billion. If only 25% of the then-world''s population is on the Interne...

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Jennifer Bradley

Social-informatics.org - 1 views

  • Social Informatics
  • Bibliography
  • deals with interaction of modern society and information communication technology (ICT).
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    This is a great resource created by the Social Sciences faculty at the University of Ljubljana. On top of getting information about current projects and events there is also a really great bibliography that might be helpful for our final projects.
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    The website is run by Chair for Social Informatics (CSI) at Faculty of Social Sciences (University of Ljubljana), which deals with interaction of modern society and information communication technology (ICT).
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    Whoops, didn't see that this was already added, and now it won't let me delete!
Brian Peters

Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project - 1 views

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    This is a great resource for the evaluation and analysis on the developing interplay between the Internet and our society. The Pew Internet reports look at everything from 'How the internet has woven itself into American life' to 'Online Health Search,' which looks at the places people go on the Internet for health information: "Most internet users start at a search engine when looking for health information online. Very few check the source and date of the information they find." On an aside, one of the interesting things about the title of this project is the use of the word 'Internet.' That term feels outdated now, with everything moving to apps and smart phones.
Brian Peters

Internet and Society: A Preliminary Report - 0 views

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    This study published in 2002 really hits home after watching the Mike Wesch videos last week, particularly his presentation concerning villages in New Guinea. At the very top of the report, it clearly states "that the more time people spend using the Internet, the more they lose contact with their social environment. This effect is noticeable even with just 2-5 Internet hours per week, and it rises substantially for those spending more than 10 hours per week." And this was in 2002, prior to the growth of twitter, facebook, and iPhone. Not only are we constantly plugged in at home, we can take our Internet with use now. 
Samantha Gilham

Call for Papers - SocInfo 2012 - 0 views

  • Computational models of social phenomena, social simulation Social choice mechanisms in the e-society Social networks: discovery, evolution, analysis, applications Social Behavior Modeling Web mining and its social interpretations Social Influence and Diffusion Models of Social Influence Security, privacy, trust, reputation and incentive issues Social Communities and Social Network Analysis Design and analysis of social/collaborative Web applications Social Interactions and Collaboration Algorithms and protocols inspired by human societies Socio-economic Systems and Applications Mechanisms for providing fairness in information systems Virtual communities (e.g., open-source, multiplayer gaming) Impact of technology on socio-economic Recommendation systems Visualization of dynamic social networks Social applications of the Semantic Web Social Informatics Theory Social system design and architectures Trust, Privacy, Risk and Security in Social Contexts Social Intelligence and Social Cognition Social media analytics and social media intelligence Emotional Intelligence and Data Mining
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    Page shared by another classmate, topics page may be a good brainstorming page to think of project topics/focus
Lilia p

Berkman Center - 2 views

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    A research center at Harvard University focused on the impact of technology on society. Premised on the observation that what we seek to learn is not already recorded, our method is to build out into cyberspace, record data as we go, self-study, and share. Our mode is entrepreneurial nonprofit.
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    I don't remember if anyone posted this -- just wanted you all to be aware of this research center.
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    This is really informative! Thanks.
Maranda Ward

Social Informatics in Libraries - 4 views

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      Bibliography has some good resources on MLIS topics in general, as well as some interesting SI resources.
  • Using the Behavioral Sciences to Explain Browsing in ICTs
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  • The Social Design of ICTs
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    I found this blog by a librarian at Columbia University, when I was first messing around with Diigo. In this blog she writes about articles that she has read on social informatics and comments on them from the perspective of a librarian. Might be interesting as many of the articles pair social informatics and librarianship.
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    ^I found this post on e-journals and e-books to be particularly interesting, in that some scholars prefer the print versions because they find them more conducive to browsing and looking at similar content. You can browse electronic material, just not in the same way as you would search a bookshelf. By reading an article through an electronic database, such as ScienceDirect, you can obtain instantaneous access to similar articles (sometimes, ScienceDirect will even "suggest" ones you might like, or you can access articles written by one or more of the authors. If instant access isn't possible, some databases have an automated "Request via Interlibrary Loan" or other document delivery service. You can browse content that interests you and automatically download citations and snapshots to Zotero, Refworks, or another info-gathering tool, and be less likely to misplace your research. Some libraries are caught between a rock and a hard place, because of the lack of space and the cost of storing print journals. But how do you serve the users who prefer the old ways of browsing and gathering research by rifling through these print journals?
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    Maranda, this is good stuff. I think for libraries and particularly librarians to continue to be relevant we need this type of analysis of how people are using information technology, how it impacts our society (locally/nationally), and how we can leverage that knowledge to better serve the public both in providing information access and also improving information literacy.
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    That sticky note you added about the difference b/w social informatics and community informatics I think will be an interesting topic to take a look at -- particularly in regards to the political aspects of both (could be good stuff for our group presentation -- THX!)
Ronald Jay Gervacio

Silly fear of technology must be overcome - 3 views

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    Technophobia... Is this a real concern that we need to address?
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    It's a good thing that I came on here to see if someone else had posted this. I think this is a great article that points out some of the problems we've had as a society embracing technology. It may be five years old, but some of the sentiments still ring true. We need to stop thinking what we see on tv or in the movies is real and start looking at what is ACTUALLY in front of us.
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    Thanks for bringing up this article. I remember the hysteria back then. I agree with the author that some reason and logic needs to be applied! And even though the article is from 2007, I think that some of this fear still holds true, at least with some of the population. I think most of the technophobia stems from ignorance and/or misinformation. Hopefully, this is something that can be addressed, so less panics occur over battery-operated cartoon figures!
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    I came across this article a little while ago. @Carrie, I totally agree with you on your comment about technophobia and ignorance. I think a lot of the time people resist technology because a) they don't know what something is and b) they don't want to take the time to learn and explore it. I know several people who still have cell phones with absolutely no internet capabilities because they just don't have the desire to learn how to use a new phone.
Samantha Gilham

Culture Digitally // Examining Contemporary Cultural ProductionCulture Digitally // Exa... - 0 views

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      I'm extremely interested in this new book, Media, Society, World: Social Theory.  It looks like it draws upon several topics that we have been discussing and deal with on a daily basis!
  • Media are fundamental to our sense of living in a social world. Since the beginning of modernity, media have transformed the scale on which we act as social beings. And now in the era of digital media, media themselves are being transformed as platforms, content, and producers multiply. Yet the implications of social theory for understanding media and of media for rethinking social theory have been neglected; never before has it been more important to understand those implications. This book takes on this challenge.
Karen Carter

The Rise of the Data Self - 0 views

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    A couple of interesting bits from this article: "Data is the authorized way to pursue self-knowledge in the networked society; the other means are suspicious, deluded or outmoded." And on the matter of FB and specifically, the way in which the timeline feature shapes us while serving them: "The more work we put into making a coherent story out of the data Facebook collects, the more useful, marketable information we give them."
jcinthelibrary

The New Socialism: Global Collectivist Society Is Coming Online - 1 views

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    From mid-2009 so some of the Web innovations mentioned as gaining popularity are now extremely common mainstays on the scene. However, the article takes a good look at how current social media websites can be seen as a kind of "socialism without the state:" taking the communal tendencies of socialism but erasing government from the picture.
Natalie DeAngelo

The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education - FIRE - 2 views

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    The Torch Each year, FIRE'sCampus Freedom Network honors students who do outstanding work to promote liberty on their campuses. This year, we are pleased to honor Bryant Jackson-Green , Casey Given , Moriah Costa , and ten other students who earned spots in the CFN's Prometheus Society . This is a website to check out. There are many things to say about the site and the work that it does, but it is better to explore it for oneself. It demonstrates how technology and social media can be put to use to better and further one's education while defending individual rights and liberties. Technology is put to use to rally for various causes impacting education.
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    Anything that has firefly and Neil Gaiman involved is OK by me :) I wish we had something like this in my country - recent legislative changes mean that all student media is now owned by the universities, rather than the student run organizations, so that must have chilling effect on free speech.
Ronald Jay Gervacio

Social Computing: From Social Informatics to Social Intelligence - 2 views

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    I found this scholarly article that talks about the future of social computing based on the integration of technological infrastructures (e.g. Web 2.0, database, multimedia etc.) and social theories, fundamental principles of ICT.
Jorge Arganza

Howard Rheingold | Exploring mind amplifiers since 1964 - 5 views

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    I have been following Rheingold's work for some time, and I highly recommend falling down through his particular 'rabbit hole' of stuff. He studies online communities and ways in which ICT enhance the individual and the collective group's capabilities.
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    This is an interesting blog as long as you can get around the book promotions :-) I thought the Social Media section on the site particularly interesting. One of the articles I liked was the one on Smartmobbing by Howard Rheingold (http://rebooting.personaldemocracy.com/node/5484). This is an interesting idea because a lot of politically charged organizations are utilizing social media to basically create online mobs. Social media is now used to organize petitions, spread the word about marches, and basically spread information. People who were once sort of out of mainstream politics can now get involved and keep track of what is going on in the world. Social media has definitely influenced politics, changing the way parties endorse their candidates and more.
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    @ Maranda (aside... I didn't see a way to "comment on a comment" so I am posting this directly under the main post) -- I think the the social mobbing you mention is a really interesting trend. In my town, we recently started an online petition through change.org to keep our town pool. It took only a few days to get twice the signatures we needed and no gas was used or feet blisters created. I am trying to think critically of a downside to this manner of using social tools, but I cannot think of one! @Jorge -- Very nice blog. I found a great article (http://www.technologyreview.com/view/428043/there-is-no-digital-divide/) debating the other side of the digital divide argument posed by the NYT's piece from last week. I also like Rheingold's "infotention" invention. I could use a little "infotention" intervention -- every time I get involved with a tech or social tool, a new one is created that seems better and more suited to whatever task I was trying to accomplish. Sometimes I feel as if we are living in a time when nothing remains permanent.
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    This guys seems very clever and witty! I enjoyed reading his blog about Twitter (http://blog.sfgate.com/rheingold/2009/05/11/twitter-literacy-i-refuse-to-make-up-a-twittery-name-for-it/) talking about how this powerful social media can be so influential and useful if the user knows how to utilize it for the right reasons. Being a non-Twitter user, I found it interesting how he explained numerous advantages of being an active member. Now that I've read this, I might reconsider of joining it...
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    This was a very informative blog! Thanks Jorge. Like Pam, I really liked the "infotention" idea. diigo is a perfect example. I really just started looking at it today and was really confused (if you couldn't tell with my questions) on how it worked, where to comment, etc. The more I've looked at it today, the easier it has become to use. But something new will probably come along in the net couple months and then I'll have to learn how something works all over again.
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    Jorge, this guy has been around forever and really has some interesting ideas. Looking through his website, which has a nice design to it, Rheigngold does a great job of talking about the positive impact technology can have on society, particularly from the standpoint of collective cooperation. As recent history shows, the use of technology has the power to bring people together, even to the point of ending a decades-long dictatorship.
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    Howard Rheingold has very interesting points on his website/blogs. I like his Infotention definition and how he believes if we are armed with the right tools/skill-set, we can address information overload. I also liked how he stressed instead of continuing to criticize the negative impacts of the internet on us, that we find better tools and ways to learn to engage the technology in a more mindful and positive manner. it is in our capabilities to do this.
Jennifer Bradley

IdeaConnection: Open Innovation success story: Apps for Africa - 1 views

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    Mobile phones are becoming more and more numerous across the African continent. I found out about this competition a year or two ago, and thought it was really neat because it shows innovators designing unique apps to help solve social problems within their communities.
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    This is a really cool find...I volunteered with the Lubuto Library Project (http://www.lubuto.org) and there are some amazing things being done in and for Africa, as this article highlights. I also hadn't heard of Hilary Clinton's Civil Society 2.0 initiative...I'm interested to explore more about that to see what other sorts of work is developing.
A.B.C. Dawkins

Report: How Mobile Devices Are Changing the World's Info Ecosystem - 0 views

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    Continuing with the theme of my other bookmarks, this is a lengthy but accessible report by the US Center for International Media Assistance on how mobile devices are changing society and information seeking habits. I don't know about you, but I would have no idea where to dine out were it not for my Yelp app!
Britt Johnson

Violent Video Games: A Social Informatics Perspective - 1 views

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    A thoughtful video about how society blames violence on video games, ironically from a Rutgers student!
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