Week 9
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Week 9
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[edit] Video
[edit] Week 9
- Notes
- This Week's Del.icio.us links
- Quiz, due next week
- 4/1 - Term Project Bibliography/Outline Due
[edit] Josh Levy Guest Lecture
[edit] Online Social Networks and Social Capital
- Some questions to begin..
- What is social capital? Why is it useful?
- Can social software enable social capital?
- What types of social capital does social software best promote?
- Can social software produce things like activism or voter turnout?
[edit] Resnick
Resnick's Social Capital - how it works:
- Facilitates information routing
- Exchange of other resources besides info
- Provides emotional support to one another
- Enables coordination
- Overcome dilemmas of collective action
The resources of social capital
- Communication paths
- Shared knowledge
- Shared values
- Shared sense of collective identity
- Resources, obligations and debts
- Norms and roles
- Tust
STC Opportunities
- Remove barries to interaction
- Distant comm, asynchronous comm
- Expand interaction networks
- Large distribution - one sender, many receivers
- Restricting information flows
- Anonymity, restricted modality
- Managing dependencies
- Notifications, Concurrency controls
- Maintaining history
- Document versioning, interaction logs
- Naming
New STC Opportunities
- Enhanced groups self-awareness
- Brief interactions
- Maintaining ties while spending less time
- Peripheral participation
[edit] Ellison
Bridging vs. Bonding social capital
- How does Facebook increase social capital on campus?
- What tpes of uses on campus does Facebook compliment most?
- What are the critical affordances of Facebook?
[edit] Presentations
- Alex C.
- Sarah Y.
