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Samantha Gilham

Getting started - 58 views

I did, it happens to just show up as a square with a D on the top left corner of my browser, not as an actual toolbar with those functions listed out, I have to click on the D to have options come ...

started by Lilia p on 21 May 12 16 follow-ups, last by Samantha Gilham on 05 Jun 12
Samantha Gilham

Call for Papers - SocInfo 2012 - 0 views

www.socinfo2012.com/call-for-papers

papers projecttopic social informatics

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  • 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
  • Samantha Gilham on 05 Jun 12
     
    Page shared by another classmate, topics page may be a good brainstorming page to think of project topics/focus
Meaghan Corbett

About // // Culture DigitallyCulture Digitally - 1 views

culturedigitally.org/about

blog research privacy Facebook networking social media identity

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  • Meaghan Corbett on 04 Jun 12
     
    Culture Digitally is a gathering space for social informatics scholars around the world, who come from a variety of disciplines (communication, sociology, media studies, computer science, anthropology). to share and comment on the latest research in the field. The idea behind the blog is that social informatics transcends several different areas of study and so cross-disciplinary collaboration is incredibly important.
  • Amanda Bailey on 05 Jun 12
     
    What an interesting blog! The dialogue they had titled "(How) Have Technological Shifts Changed Being A Sports Fan?" was so interesting! My focus as I searched through SI literature tended to focus on issues of censorship and privacy, but the idea that technology would impact sports fandom had never occured to me. The stances made by both participants were very well thought out and presented some really good arguments. The role of technology in fandom studies is an area that could be really interesting to dive deeper into.
Jorge Arganza

Wiki:interactive media resources | Social Media CoLab - 0 views

socialmediaclassroom.com/...interactive-media-resources

presentation tools interactive socialmedia wiki

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  • Jorge Arganza on 05 Jun 12
     
    A list of useful presentation tools and interactive resources to enhance group learning.
Jorge Arganza

Google - 0 views

www.google.com

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Jorge Arganza

Social Informatics Blog - 2 views

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  • Jorge Arganza on 05 Jun 12
     
    Jennifer found the website, I just clipped this picture from it.
Karen Carter

The Rise of the Data Self - 0 views

www.popmatters.com/...153721-

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  • Karen Carter on 05 Jun 12
     
    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

www.wired.com/...nep_newsocialism

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.
Lilia p

All watched over by machines of loving grace - 24 views

I didn't read the interpretation so I don't know really what to think. My instinctual reaction was totally mixed.

Social Informatics poetry documentary Richard Brautigan Adam Curtis Dystopia Utopia

started by Anton Angelo on 04 Jun 12 7 follow-ups, last by Lilia p on 05 Jun 12
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!)
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...

Social Informatics online community digital divide information literacy

started by Anton Angelo on 04 Jun 12 1 follow-up, last by Pamela Hawks on 04 Jun 12
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.
Anton Angelo

RISKS - 2 views

RISKS is a venerable mailing list on risks to the public from computer and related systems. It has in depth discussion on transport systems, viruses, health systems - and a really really bad strea...

Social Informatics risks ICT privacy

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