Week 12 F08

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Week 12

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[edit] Week 12

  • Notes
    • Community Analysis due 11/17
    • Project presentations 12/1
  • Reading Changes
    • For 11/17 class, choose 3 chapters from Rebooting America (pdf) - come prepared to discuss.
    • For 11/24 class, I will be email you any readings from guests

[edit] Videos

[edit] Groups and Virtual Community

[edit] Exercise One: Virtual Community and Election 2008

[edit] Part One:

  • Matrix: Offline/Online, Strong Ties/Weak Ties (Ref: Name Generator)
    • Where in the matrix did you experience:
      • Direct influence
      • Indirect influence
      • Personally persuasive influence
      • Impersonally persuasive influence
      • Knowledge/information sharing
    • What and why was this particular "location" effective?

[edit] Part Two:

  • Information and influence in 2008
    • Your thoughts on most effective/least effective:
      • Use of social media tools
      • Information campaigns
      • Use of existing infrastructure
      • Innovations


[edit] Exercise Two: The Future of Virtual Community

  • Lets unpack where virtual community is going
    • Existing models: Purely virtual, community of practice, CNI/Overlapped Community
    • Social worlds model - one more fluid, where distinctions become less useless
  • What are examples of new forms of community afforded by the "blurring" of community distinctions?
    • Groups/communities inside Facebook - darknets?
    • Loops/Text mobs
  • What will the affordances of ubiquitous computing offer community?
    • Geo-local information?
    • A constantly-recorded public sphere?


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