Week 3 F08
From INLS 490
Week 3
Contents |
[edit] Video
Business tv Penny Power - why making friends online is easy
[edit] Week 3
- Notes
- Week 4 Readings
- Standage Chapters 8, 9
- Fischer Chapters 3, 6
- Prompt: Clive Thompson: I'm so Totally, Digitally Close to You
- Reminders
- Post to INLS 490 class network by noon
- First assignment due 9/22
- INLS 490 Wordle
- Week 4 Readings
- This Week's Del.icio.us links
[edit] Prompt readings
- Stefanie Olsen: SocialMedia to unveil 'friendship ranks'
- How useful is it to differentiate between "levels" of friendship online?
- Do you differentiate between types of friends online?
- Do you extend this differentiation into management/gatekeeping? Do you keep your good friends separate?
- Alex Wright: Friending, Ancient or Otherwise
- Dunbar and grooming
- Do you weave online tools into strategies of friendship management?
- When you throw a sheep at someone, how are you maintaining your relationships?
[edit] Name generator
On a sheet of paper, list 3 people (First name, Last initial) who match the following criteria:
- Your best friends
- Your best online friends (frequency/quality of communication)
- People you've met offline, and continued the relationship online
- People who you've met online, taking the friendship offline
- People you keep up with who you wouldn't without technology
Interconnections:
- Where is the overlap?
- What accounts for the overlap?
- What technologies are key in the management of scenarios 3, 4 and 5?
[edit] Social Capital Experiment
How many of your real life friends/contacts could you:
- Crash overnight on the couch - if you were passing through town?
- Borrow their car for a few hours?
How many of your real life friends/contact would:
- Tell you about an interesting job opening?
- Give you a restaurant recommendation?
How many of your online friends/contact could you:
- Borrow 75 dollars?
- Visit overnight on short notice (for example, if you were on a business trip)?
How many of your online friends/contacts would:
- Tell you about an interesting job opening?
- Give you a restaurant recommendation?
Interconnections:
- Do your online friends support bridging or bonding capital?
- What types of friends provide the most utility?
[edit] The Technologies of Friendship
[edit] DiMaggio et. al. - The Social Impact of the Internet
High level questions - Internet's impacts on:
- Community
- Social Capital
- Culture
- Politics
- Work/Groups/Participation
- Defining Social Capital
- Coleman, Burt, Bourdieu, Lin, Putnam
- Does the internet help or harm personal relations?
- Weiss - Are we just substituting? What would Shirky say?
- Pew find the internet to be positively correlated with social interaction
- Kraut found higher levels of internet use resulted in a substitution of weak ties for communication with family members, smaller social circles, increased loneliness and depression.
- Where have we heard similar discourse?
- Many years later, does the Internet Paradox hold up? Can we claim a main effect?
- Internet Paradox Revisited: The negative effects dissapear, due to increased competence, greater utility and positive effects associated with local saturation
- How does adoption affect our use of social tools?
- How does the internet affect community and participatory relations?
- Do you feel supported by virtual communities?
- Do you receive social support from online communities?
- Does local matter anymore? Or do we simply rely on personal networks? Wellman, Fischer
- How does the internet reshape our sense of community?
- Does the internet affect civic engagement?
- Have you been engaged to action via the internet? In the current election cycle?
- Does the internet affect your levels of engagement? Are meetups civic action?
- How does the internet shape political engagement?
- Internet lowers the behavioral costs of finding and sorting political information
- Where do you get your political information?
- How do you engage friends around politics? What role do technologies play?
- Does the deliberative nature of the web give rise to true, deliberative discourse? Habermas vs. Sunstein
- Does the internet replace the cultural commons of local media? Anderson
- Internet impacts on culture
- The internet democratizes the flow of information and production
- Lower costs, more channels
- Niche vs. mainstream interests
- Castells: Two populations using the web - the interacting and the interacted - the first using the medium's full capacity, the latter limited to prepackaged choices.
- The trajectories of social technologies
- How are the trajectories of technologies shaped? Social informatics perspective
- What has changed since the Web of DiMaggio et. al.?
[edit] Ling - Direct and mediated interaction in the maintenance of social relationships
- Mediation technologies and relationships
- Different media play different roles in relationships
- Addressable vs. Non addressable technologies
- Different media play different roles in relationships
- Three types of relationships
- Fully mediated
- Quasi-Mediated
- Combined
- Relational development
- Moving from the virtual to the real
- The imagined person goes away - our sense of each other changes
- How do we develop trust online?
- Moving from the virtual to the real
- What do we need to coordinate mediated relationships in everyday life?
[edit] Bargh and McKenna - The Internet and Social Life
- The internet is fast becoming "natural"
- Personal relationships motivate use - the killer app is other people
- The Internet Difference
- Relative anonymity
- Lack of non-verbal cues
- Three perspectives on computer-mediated-communication
- Filter model i.e. Reduced Social Cues
- SIDE Model - Goals/needs govern the process
- SIP/Context Model
- Identity and the internet
- Can you be your real self online?
- Internet partners tend to portray ideal qualities onto each other
- What is the roles of context?
- Group membership enabled by the internet
- Stigmatized identities - internet allows these groups to come together
- Are distinctions between the real and internet self meaningful?
