Social Web Studies

Here’s what I’ve come up with so far: I am me, wherever I go. I may have multiple personas, facets or identities that I use online, but fundamentally, I can manage them more effectively because services are oriented around me and not around the services that I use (it would be like logging into a new user account every time you want to switch applications!). I have access to my stuff, wherever I am. Even though I use lots of different web services, just like I use lots of desktop applications, I can always access my data, no matter where I created it or where it’s stored. And if I want to get all of my data out of a service into another one, I should be able to do so. My friends come with me, but continue to use only the services that they chose to. If I can send email from any domain to any domain, why can’t I join one network and then add friends from any other network? I am the master of my domain. Both literally and figuratively, I should be able to choose any identity provider to manage all my external connections to the world, including running my own, from my own domain. While remote service providers can certainly set the standards for who they allow access to their APIs, this should be done in a clear and transparent way, so that even people who host their own identity can have fair access.

Plattformen wie Eons, Rezoom, Multiply, Boomj und TeeBeeDee verfolgen ähnliche Konzepte wie MySpace und Facebook, nur eben für ältere Menschen.

You refer to this as the participation gap instead of the digital divide

I tried to use vernacular creativity as much as possible because it focuses on the practices of users in relation to their own lives;

some of the most interesting discussions of new labour theory in relation to network culture have been happening on the Institute for Distributed Creativity mailing list lately (https://lists.thing.net/pipermail/idc/2007-August/002698.html)

vernacular creativity

everyday creative practices

Vernacular creativity is ordinary.

The campaigns related to the establishment of protocols that run on the Internet were intense. The US government, for example, preferred another protocol but TCP/IP was non-proprietary and public domain and thus spread anarchically like a wild fire across small networks and in the end it would have been to expensive to switch to another standard.

"The Victorian Internet"

Vannevar Bush outlined the idea of hyperlinked pages and the “Memex

Facebook-User verbringen offenbar am meisten Zeit mit dem Social-Networking. Im August kamen diese auf insgesamt 991 Mio. Minuten online, Bebo-Nutzer verbrachten 600 Mio. Minuten auf der Webseite und MySpace-Nutzer 540 Mio. Minuten.