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
- 11/24 Class - Guest Lectures
- Brian Russell, Carrboro Coworking, about, videos
- Dave Johnson , Sun Microsystems, Roller Weblogger, BarCampRDU
- Wayne Sutton, SocialCarolina, 30Threads, BarCampRDU
- Abe Crystal, Ruzuku
- Cookies and snacks will be available
- Reading
- Daniel Solove list of Privacy & Technology Books
[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?
- Where in the matrix did you experience:
[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
- Your thoughts on most effective/least effective:
[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
- How will community adapt to necessary "virtualization"
- Paul Jones - Twitter ate my blog
- Ling's work on relational formation, Smart Mobs, etc.
- 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?
