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Natalie DeAngelo

MMOs and a second (or third...) identity on the web - 2 views

us.battle.net/en

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  • Natalie DeAngelo on 04 Jun 12
     
    I have never played WoW, but I do enjoy the idea of playing a game while simultaneously adopting or constructing a new persona or identity as part of the game. WoW and other online MMOs have vast communities with diverse members interacting in various online social setting both within and outside the game realm. I have a particular interest in the way that social media and technology shapes and affects the construction or reconstruction of "our" identities, and how intertwined much of our lives are with the technology we use.
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  • Amanda Bailey on 05 Jun 12
     
    When thinking about how technology molds our own identities, it is intriguing then to consider how it helps us create these secondary or multiple identities for MMO's and RPG's. I feel we could even take this one step farther to the relationship between technology, the internet and fandom, where online communities created and populated by fans of a certain artifact create, in a sense, a whole new world to inhabit.
  • Ronald Jay Gervacio on 05 Jun 12
     
    @Natalie: Have you tried playing The Sims (http://thesims.com/en_us/what-is-the-sims)? This game is a perfect example of what you're trying to achieve, "playing a game while simultaneously adopting or constructing a new persona or identity as part of the game".
  • Meaghan Corbett on 05 Jun 12
     
    I've never played WOW either but I do buy into the whole idea of an online identity. Non-gamers create one, too, by way of social networking sites--LinkedIn, facebook, Myspace--and some via usernames on online messageboards. It's possible to have several different online identities; the clean and presentable one you use to promote yourself to employers and work colleagues on LinkedIn, the slightly more laid-back Facebook profile, and with the promise of anonymity on message boards and forums, you can really let loose!
  • Britt Johnson on 05 Jun 12
     
    My husband and I have spent hours upon hours playing Everquest, so I know first-hand the draw of creating an online persona/identity. It's a way to step out of your everyday life and become someone or something you aren't. For instance, in one game I'm a Dark Fairy with magical powers. Who wouldn't want to be one? It's also a way to have relationships with people all over the planet without giving too much away about your true identity, so the draw for those that are less than comfortable in real-life situations is huge. Not to mention you learn all kinds of things about different areas of the world, so it's a learning experience too!
Ronald Jay Gervacio

Silly fear of technology must be overcome - 3 views

www.usatoday.com/...2007-02-16-tech-fear_x.htm

Technophobia Fear of Technology

shared by Ronald Jay Gervacio on 05 Jun 12 - Cached
  • Ronald Jay Gervacio on 05 Jun 12
     
    Technophobia... Is this a real concern that we need to address?
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  • Britt Johnson on 05 Jun 12
     
    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.
  • Carrie Pyne on 06 Jun 12
     
    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!
  • Maranda Ward on 06 Jun 12
     
    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.
Lilia p

Berkman Center - 2 views

cyber.law.harvard.edu

internet society

shared by Lilia p on 07 Jun 12 - Cached
  • Lilia p on 07 Jun 12
     
    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.
  • Lilia p on 07 Jun 12
     
    I don't remember if anyone posted this -- just wanted you all to be aware of this research center.
  • Britt Johnson on 07 Jun 12
     
    This is really informative! Thanks.
Samantha Gilham

Twitter Literacy (I refuse to make up a Twittery name for it) | City Brights: Howard Rh... - 0 views

blog.sfgate.com/...make-up-a-twittery-name-for-it

Twitter social media rheingold Social Informatics online community

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  • To me, this represents a perfect example of a media literacy issue: Twitter is one of a growing breed of part-technological, part-social communication media that require some skills to use productively. Sure, Twitter is banal and trivial, full of self-promotion and outright spam. So is the Internet. The difference between seeing Twitter as a waste of time or as a powerful new community amplifier depends entirely on how you look at it – on knowing how to look at it.
  • Samantha Gilham on 05 Jun 12
     
    I love his quote about Twitter being banal and trivial, all of the superficial characteristics that many social media sites are comprised of, but also can also be a "powerful new community amplifier."  Looking at technology vs. knowing how to look at or use technology are two different things.  
Amanda Bailey

Tech Weekly podcast: Andrew Lewman on Tor and anonymity online - 1 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...h-weekly-podcast-tor-anonymity

privacy Facebook Social Informatics anonymity software

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  • Amanda Bailey on 05 Jun 12
     
    This podcast deals with a discussion of internet anonymity and the Tor software. This program allows people to be online anonymously and hides their location and activity. With many sites like Google, Facebook and Amazon tracking and monitoring our activity for many reasons, including advertising, this discussion of online privacy and anonymity is timely and informative.
Pamela Hawks

Seeing Beyond The Mass "Consensual Hallucination." | Media Working Group - 1 views

www.mwg.org/4220

mass hallucination working group

shared by Pamela Hawks on 06 Jun 12 - No Cached
  • Adam Curtis’ new documentary, All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace, gives hope that at least some of the world is waking up from the mass hallucination of disembodied information. The documentary, which is subtitled, “The Rise of the Machines,” explores how in the later part of the 20th Century, and the first decade of the 21st, much of the world became organized around the old gnostic fantasy that information or souls can be separated from the constraints of the material world, becoming free to circulate through time and space. This way of seeing the world has always unleashed powerful fantasies of power among the powerful. And it has recently led some to the ludicrous conclusion that, “information wants to be free,” or that human beings are merely meat vehicles for the transport of genetic information through time.
  • Pamela Hawks on 06 Jun 12
     
    Anton... I thought of you when I saw this in the Media Working Group Blog
  • Anton Angelo on 06 Jun 12
     
    Thanks for that: Curtis really is a provoking force, his 'power of nightmares' is a tour de force. The article says its never been screened in the US, which I find astonishing. I'm about to rewatch "all surrounded..." this weekend to see what it has for my topic for this course. His criticism of the information revolution as deluding the middle class into thinking it is something that is essentially egalitarian and flattening is a good one. I think the economic downturn has done a better job of convincing us of the fact that deep inequality exists, is incresaing and is a bad thing, though. Oh, and @Pamela: I have my bronze masters sabre medal hanging in front of me: I come from a resonably notorious fencing family... you a foilist?
  • Pamela Hawks on 06 Jun 12
     
    But if anyone in the US is curious, you can watch it for free here: http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/all-watched-over-by-machines-of-loving-grace/ and here in the Internet Archive: http://archive.org/details/AdamCurtis-AllWatchedOverByMachinesOfLovingGrace Sounds like a great rainy weekend activity! @Anton -- I actually fence epee -- although it's been a few years. I just like not having to worry about right of way :) My kids are both foilists though, so I have had to get up to scratch on directing a foil bout. Do you still fence??
Jorge Arganza

Howard Rheingold | Exploring mind amplifiers since 1964 - 5 views

rheingold.com

Social Informatics blog Online Community

shared by Jorge Arganza on 03 Jun 12 - Cached
  • Jorge Arganza on 03 Jun 12
     
    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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  • Maranda Ward on 04 Jun 12
     
    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.
  • Pamela Hawks on 04 Jun 12
     
    @ 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.
  • Ronald Jay Gervacio on 04 Jun 12
     
    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...
  • Britt Johnson on 04 Jun 12
     
    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.
  • Brian Peters on 04 Jun 12
     
    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.
  • Carrie Pyne on 06 Jun 12
     
    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.
Britt Johnson

Social Informatics Blog - 2 views

socialinformaticsblog.com

shared by Britt Johnson on 03 Jun 12 - No Cached
  • Pamela Hawks on 03 Jun 12
     
    This looks like a good, up-to-date blog created by a group of PhD students with an interest in social informatics. It includes links to recent papers and studies in many wide-ranging SI areas... some rather engaging, such as the connections b/w censorship and SI. It also has book reviews, such as a review of Virginia Eubank's Digital Deadend -- good stuff on social justice!
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  • Amanda Bailey on 04 Jun 12
     
    This is a really interesting blog! I particularly enjoyed the "where good ideas come from" video from Oct. 19. Also, I liked the tags, which allowed me to look quickly for posts about a topic that interests me, "Internet Anonymity".
  • Britt Johnson on 05 Jun 12
     
    Oops, looks like someone else already posted this. You guys have beat me to everything I've found so far! Way to go.
  • A.B.C. Dawkins on 07 Jun 12
     
    In addition to the actual blog, I found this group of researchers also has a Facebook page. I like the option of accessing information this way because Facebook provides snippets from the blog articles, which allows you to screen the content: https://www.facebook.com/SocialInformaticsBlog
Kerianne Cassidy

Facebook Users Who Are Under Age Raise Concerns - 1 views

www.nytimes.com/...12underage.html

Social Media online community networking facebook age

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  • Kerianne Cassidy on 11 Jun 12
     
    Across the nation, millions of young people are lying about their ages so they can create accounts on popular sites like Facebook and Myspace. These sites require users to be 13 or older, to avoid federal regulations that apply to sites with younger members.
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  • Kerianne Cassidy on 11 Jun 12
     
    Across the nation, millions of young people are lying about their ages so they can create accounts on popular sites like Facebook and Myspace. These sites require users to be 13 or older, to avoid federal regulations that apply to sites with younger members.
  • Pamela Hawks on 13 Jun 12
     
    The pros and cons of young people using social networking sites took on a whole new meaning for me (and this is news item was about 13-17 year olds -- not younger) when I saw this article in today's NYT: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/12/after-rapes-involving-children-skout-a-flirting-app-faces-crisis/?ref=todayspaper Yikes.
  • Amanda Jacobsen on 17 Jun 12
     
    This is all very scary, my nephew is 11, but has had a facebook account for almost 2 years. Granted he is only friends with kids in his school, and family members, but he is so computer savvy, I not sure my sister can really know who he is talking to. I don't know what kind of families his friends come from, and if he is allowing contact from "friends of friends". When Wiklund said "This is my worst fear." he is not being over-dramatic; it's appalling that people seek out ways to abuse materials to get to children. It is going to have to fall on the shoulders of parents, to really know what their children are up to at all times. This is sad because you can't just let a kid go out a ride their bike all day, all around town, like I used to, however this also means that they're spending more time indoors, and on the computer, which we know is also not safe....it seems like there is not right answer for parents.
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