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Week 12

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[edit] Week 12


  • Notes
    • No class next week, thanksgiving
    • For your calendars: Project presentations 12/5, projects due 12/12
    • 12/5 feel free to bring a treat/etc
    • No UNC Scores Please
  • Publications opportunities
    • Facebook in the classroom update

[edit] Little Boxes and Networked Place

My question

  • Who lives "near" their best (non-partner) friend?


Your Questions

  • Putnam vs. Wellman
  • Are we really person-to-person
  • To what extent do technologies orchestrate our social experiences?
  • What is up with Beverly Wellman?
  • Do we have proximity in SNS?
  • Does SNS promote networked individualism?
  • Have we ever really been in our communities?
  • What are the new geographies of communities?

Quick Notes

  • Is this a new "network capital"
  • A moderate take - Lin, Social Capital, Chapter 13


[edit] Group Project

  1. Are community ties - community networks - viable online?
  2. Is the offline-online dichotomy overdone?
  3. Are good online relationships equivalent to good offline relationships?
  4. Will CMC become more transparent as people become more experienced with it?
  5. Can online relationships be good enough? Can people emotionally and cognitively respond to online relationships in the same way as they respond to F2F?
  6. Are relationships based on online communication authentic?
  7. Will the internet promote two-person interactions at the expense of groups or social network contexts?
  8. As community becomes person-to-person, will people continue to feel responsible for their strong relationships but not for strangers and acquaintances?
  9. To maintain anonymity and freedom, will people not want to be always-connected?
  10. Does the shift to person-to-person networked connectivity mean that people can live anywhere - we no longer need physical "place"

Assignment:

  • Respond to question (agree/disagree why)
  • Discuss the role of SNS in the question
  • Explain how SNS has changed the discussion (if it has)
  • Looking 5-10 years down the road, explore how things might change

Group 1: 1,6 Group 2: 2, 7 Group 3: 3, 8 Group 4: 4, 9 Group 5: 5, 10


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