Week 11
From INLS 490
Week 11
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[edit] Week 11
- Notes
- Return INLS 490 Quiz, discuss answers
- For today: email outline/bibs to me.
- For your calendars: Project presentations 4/22, projects due 4/29 at 5PM
- Questions about final projects?
- Interesting Stories
- New this week in the SNS Space
- Friendfeed
- Does Friendfeed solve the social network overload problem?
- What new problems does Friendfeed create?
- Friendfeed
- This Week's Del.icio.us links
[edit] Final Projects
- 3 minutes on your project
- What are you doing for your final project?
- What are you going to be turning in?
- Why are you interested in it, how does it fit in to your plans, etc.
[edit] Networked Place and Network Society
- Exploring the role networks play in our personal relationships and our societies.
- Big ideas
- Wellman: The role network technologies play in creating new place, and the quality of interaction these places afford.
- Castells: The enormous shifts introduced by the network society, and the new forms of culture, politics and economy created by the network society.
[edit] Personal networks and personalized networking
- Ponder: Is it still important to be near your friends?
- Primer: social networks as support structures
- Social capital (Ellison, Putnam, Resnick)
- Social support (boyd's Network Publics, etc)
- Relevant societal shifts
- Early community: door-to-door
- Small communities
- Highly localized relationships
- Limited means and/or necessity for travel
- Place-to-place
- Technological advances enable deonctextualized place-to-place movement
- Social structures become wide ranging
- The social life requires coordination
- Person-to-person
- We now carry our networks with us
- Mobile phones, social networks
- Early community: door-to-door
- Question: Is it still important to be near your friends?
- For what purpose(s)?
- Because we can now choose our F2F interaction, how does this affect social interaction?
Wellman's questions
- Are community ties - community networks - viable online?
- Is the offline-online dichotomy overdone?
- Are good online relationships equivalent to good offline relationships?
- Will CMC become more transparent as people become more experienced with it?
- Can online relationships be good enough? Can people emotionally and cognitively respond to online relationships in the same way as they respond to F2F?
- Are relationships based on online communication authentic?
- Will the internet promote two-person interactions at the expense of groups or social network contexts?
- As community becomes person-to-person, will people continue to feel responsible for their strong relationships but not for strangers and acquaintances?
- To maintain anonymity and freedom, will people not want to be always-connected?
- Does the shift to person-to-person networked connectivity mean that people can live anywhere - we no longer need physical "place"
- Will less-developed countries suffer a divide
- Role-to-role
- The context question - as we present one of our "fronts" to most community, are we really even person-to-person anymore?
- As networks become more personalized, role-based networking becomes more important.
- Who cares about the whole person anymore?
- Is role-based networking ultimately tenable?
- Questions
- Could technology be to blame for our decline in close contacts? (Does the Bowling Alone thesis hold?)
- How do we find diversity in SNS? (SNS's and other groups may be vehicles of homophily: ethnic, educational, and cognitive)
[edit] The Network Society
- The network society: Spaces of flows
- The role technology-enhanced networks play in society
- How these networks are changing society at large: Work, Power, Culture
- Relationships of Production
- The network economy
- Relationships of consumption
- Network culture, global culture
- Relationships of power
- Power moves from the organization to the network
- Power transcends the network (ATT, TIA)
- Relationships of Production
- Networks reshaping social structures at many levels.
- However, as these networks coexist at different levels and temporalities, Castells sees them as spaces of flow.
- Questions
- Where does Facebook (or other SNS) fit into the network society?
- Which has the larger impact, Facebook or Wikipedia?
- As a network society participant, What are you missing? And can you participate forever?
[edit] Potential Group Work
(If time allows)
- Respond to Wellman's 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
[edit] Presentations
- Judge J.
- Jamila T.
