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jcinthelibrary

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

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Social Informatics collectivism online community

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  • jcinthelibrary on 05 Jun 12
     
    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.
Amanda Bailey

Center for Democracy and Technology - 1 views

www.cdt.org/...net-privacy-working-group-ipwg

Social Informatics social media research privacy Information Communication Technology

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  • Amanda Bailey on 05 Jun 12
     
    From their website: "The Center for Democracy and Technology is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit public policy organization and the leading Internet freedom organization working at the critical edge of policy innovation." This group has a great collection of resources on a variety of pertinent topics such as Digital Copyright, Security and Surveillance and Free Expression. Each topic includes current News and Events and also Research and Analysis.
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.
Natalie DeAngelo

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

thefire.org

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  • Natalie DeAngelo on 04 Jun 12
     
    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.
  • Anton Angelo on 05 Jun 12
     
    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.
Pamela Hawks

Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies: Publications - 1 views

ieet.org/...publications

emerging technologies ethics technical progress human development

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  • Pamela Hawks on 04 Jun 12
     
    Their mission: The IEET's mission is to be a center for voices arguing for a responsible, constructive, ethical approach to the most powerful emerging technologies. We believe that technological progress can be a catalyst for positive human development so long as we ensure that technologies are safe and equitably distributed. Some of this organization's research is pretty wild! Check out the white paper on post-genderism. Like Anton's poem about the future of machines... will there be a future where genders will cease to exist through technology advances? How do we feel about that, ladies and gentleman?!
Meaghan Corbett

So Much for Sharing His 'Like' - NYTimes.com - 3 views

www.nytimes.com/...much-for-sharing-his-like.html

sharing privacy data mining advertising Facebook

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  • Meaghan Corbett on 04 Jun 12
     
    Another instance of Facebook overreach? Watch what you "like" on Facebook....the site's algorithms might inadvertently place your mugshot in targeted ads to your friends!
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  • Maranda Ward on 04 Jun 12
     
    Wow. I didn't know that Facebook could really do something like this. I knew, much like Google, they could track our activity and match ads according to what our interests are. But I didn't know that they could take information from our pages and re-purpose it for more than just data-mining purposes.
  • Pamela Hawks on 04 Jun 12
     
    Wow. It just goes to show you that if this is the future of advertising, than consumers better start figuring out how to leverage the endorsement bucks. Too bad there isn't a "dislike" button.
  • Karen Carter on 04 Jun 12
     
    I had no idea either...I do typically use the like button for the purpose of supporting products or causes and driving my friends to those, but there's something much more unsettling about having that like used as an aggressive marketing tool, versus a casual recommendation. It feels a little too violating, and I definitely agree with the need for a dislike button.
Maranda Ward

Social Informatics in Libraries - 4 views

informaticsinlibraries.blogspot.com

libraries ICT Social Informatics blog

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    • Maranda Ward
      Maranda Ward on 04 Jun 12
       
      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
  • Community Informatics
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  • The Social Design of ICTs
  • Maranda Ward on 04 Jun 12
     
    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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  • Meaghan Corbett on 04 Jun 12
     
    ^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?
  • Brian Peters on 04 Jun 12
     
    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.
  • Pamela Hawks on 04 Jun 12
     
    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!)
Brian Peters

IT&Society - 1 views

www.itandsociety.org/index.html

IT and society

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  • Brian Peters on 04 Jun 12
     
    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. 
Brian Peters

Internet and Society: A Preliminary Report - 0 views

www.vermario.com/...internet_society_report.pdf

Institute for the Quantitative Study of Society at Stanford University

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  • Brian Peters on 04 Jun 12
     
    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. 
Brian Peters

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

www.pewinternet.org

social informatics pew research

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  • Brian Peters on 04 Jun 12
     
    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.
Jennifer Bradley

Social-informatics.org - 1 views

www.social-informatics.org/...ABOUT

Social Informatics social media ICT research Information Communication Technology

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  • Social Informatics
  • Bibliography
  • deals with interaction of modern society and information communication technology (ICT).
  • Maranda Ward on 03 Jun 12
     
    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.
  • Jennifer Bradley on 04 Jun 12
     
    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).
  • Jennifer Bradley on 04 Jun 12
     
    Whoops, didn't see that this was already added, and now it won't let me delete!
Maranda Ward

Related Bibliography « Social Informatics Blog - 3 views

socialinformaticsblog.com/related-bibliography

Social Informatics blog ICT Indiana University

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    • Maranda Ward
      Maranda Ward on 03 Jun 12
       
      Resources on Social Informatics. Blog itself is written by students and academia... They use these resources in their posts, as well as citing additional resources in the posts themselves.
  • Social Informatics and Current Events
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      Britt Johnson on 04 Jun 12
       
      This is very informative! thanks.
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      Ronald Jay Gervacio on 04 Jun 12
       
      I find this post, (http://socialinformaticsblog.com/2012/05/15/ontology-of-students-in-interdisciplinary-programs/) very similar to this article that I've read before describing what a User Experience Design (UXD) is, (http://uxmag.com/articles/hi-im-a-ux-developer-youre-a-what). Being a graduate student studying UXD, I find it difficult sometimes to explain to people what my field entails just like how a Social Informatics student would feel. It's very unfortunate how some interdisciplinary studies just don't get the same acknowledgement as with other disciplines!
  • Barak, A., and J. Suler. (2008) Reflections on the psychology and social science of cyberspace. In A. Barak (Ed.), Psychological aspects of cyberspace: Theory, research, applications. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
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  • The goal is to give an overview of publications in the field that may be relevant for reflexion and future studies.
  • Digital Inclusion
  • Internet anonymity
  • Entries RSS
  • Patton, J.W. (2000). Protecting privacy in public? Surveillance technologies and the value of public places.” Ethics and Information Technology 2:181-187
  • Maranda Ward on 03 Jun 12
     
    This blog was created by Indiana University students and faculty who were interested in Social Informatics. On top of providing information on current events, conferences, and a pretty good bibliography, they also write their own entries about related topics in social informatics. Some of the posts seem more geared toward moderate to experts in social informatics, but there are a lot of great posts incorporating theory, literature in the field, personal opinion, and current events.
  • Pamela Hawks on 04 Jun 12
     
    I posted this blog above, Maranda, before I could see anyone else's posts... sorry about that! Great minds think alike :)
Jennifer Bradley

In Media Res | a mediaCommons project - 1 views

mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/imr

social media online community scholarship

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  • Jennifer Bradley on 04 Jun 12
     
    From the website: "In Media Res is dedicated to experimenting with collaborative, multi-modal forms of online scholarship. Our goal is to promote an online dialogue amongst scholars and the public about contemporary approaches to studying media. In Media Res provides a forum for more immediate critical engagement with media at a pace closer to how we experience mediated texts. Each weekday, a different scholar curates a 30-second to 3-minute video clip/visual image slideshow accompanied by a 300-350-word impressionistic response. We use the title "curator" because, like a curator in a museum, you are repurposing a media object that already exists and providing context through your commentary, which frames the object in a particular way. The clip/comment combination are intended both to introduce the curator's work to the larger community of scholars (as well as non-academics who frequent the site) and, hopefully, encourage feedback/discussion from that community."
  • Jennifer Bradley on 04 Jun 12
     
    One of the fun articles I read on this website was "Yes We Can; Even Though We Say Knope." Here's a link: http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/imr/2012/06/04/yes-we-can-even-though-we-say-knope Another really interesting one is "Curating the City" (http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/imr/2012/05/25/curating-city), which talks about new mobile app, which allows people to explore a geographical map of Cleveland which provides embedded history for various locations. Supposedly a new update will even allow people to provide their own tours and stories.
Ronald Jay Gervacio

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

www.pensivepuffin.com/...g-socialcomp-IEEE-IntelSys.pdf

Social Informatics Social Computing Social Intelligence ICT

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  • Ronald Jay Gervacio on 04 Jun 12
     
    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.
Meaghan Corbett

Jed Brubaker » Death and the Social Network: The Persistence of Digital Identity - 0 views

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death social network persistence identity social media

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  • Meaghan Corbett on 04 Jun 12
     
    A Ph.D candidate at U.C. Irvine, Jed Brubaker's research deals with the topic of death on social networking sites (which, admittedly, is something I've never considered before!). When an individual passes, his or her friends, family, and admirers can gather in a digital community to share memories and grieve together. Brubaker studies the language and rhetoric of posts on the social networking pages of the deceased and analyzes how these posts create a living memory in a digital space.
Meaghan Corbett

Teens, kindness and cruelty on social network sites | Pew Research Center's Internet & ... - 0 views

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social media digitalcitizenship cyberbullying research teens privacy

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  • Meaghan Corbett on 04 Jun 12
     
    A report from the Pew Research Center's Internet and American Life Project that deals with the behavior of teens on social networking sites, privacy and safety issues, and the role of parents in online social communities.
Amanda Bailey

Anne-Marie Oostveen - Publications - 0 views

www.social-informatics.net/publications.htm

Social Informatics Information Communication Technology Public Trust online identities privacy participation

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  • Amanda Bailey on 04 Jun 12
     
    This is the personal site for a research fellow at the University of Oxford, Anne-Marie Oostveen. Her work is focused on SI and I found her list of publications to be interesting, as they address several areas of SI such as online identities, online activisim and public trust issues.
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