Week 9 F08
From INLS 490
Week 9
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[edit] Week 9
- Notes
- Class canceled next week (ASIST)
- Solove online, read Ch 5, 6, 7 (by 11/3)
- Ning is failing - lets try something different
- Send me a reading question (by email, for the 11/3 class)
- Reading
[edit] Prompt reading
- Prompt: State of the Blogosophere
[edit] Exercise - Project Proposals
- Provide a brief overview of your project
- Present 1 or 2 questions for "brainstorming" - class will provide feedback.
[edit] Networks, Personal and Portable
See Lecture
- Social Affordances of Technologies
- Technology can change:
- Social Relations
- Social Structure
[edit] Social Affordances
- Broader Bandwidth (greater synchrony, presence)
- Global connectivity (greater access, proliferation)
- Communities that transcend the group and locality
- Transition away from door-to-door and place-to-place relationships, to more person-to-person relationships
- The shift to person-to-person and role-to-role interaction
- Door-to-door to place-to-place
[edit] The shift to network community
- Multiple social milieus
- Decreased control by milieu of inhabitants behavior
- Decreased commitment of milieu to inhabitants well-being
- Requires individual maintenance of spare ties
- Ability to quickly re-establish relationships with "neglected ties"
- Lower proportion of interactions based on "ascriptive" characteristics (age, gender, race) and increased interactions based on "achieved" characteristics (lifestyles, shared norms).
- Fostering of cross-cutting ties (link and integrate milieus)
- Increased number of milieus to get involved with
- Reduced sense of plapable group memberships that foster a sense of belonging
- Reduced identity pressures for group belonging
- Increased opportunity through globalization
- Increased emphasis on position within networks
- Community gets domesticated (Ties turn inward, as people interact without regard to local geography)
- Domestication of the internet (Glocalization, we turn inward to engage in relationships)
- Controlling connections to resources (A more fluid access as people engage between networks)
[edit] Networked Individualism
- Person-to-person networks.
- This is a shift from place-to-place networks, in which our devices and conditions of access allow personalized networks of communication, cutting across space and place.
- Individuals allowed to live unconstrained by distance
- From interhousehold networks to interpersonal networks
- The encroachment of the network into the house robs it of its placeness
- Mobile-ization
- The mobile device affords liberation from both place and group
- The mobile device allows one to create "place" at any place
- Computerization (Change in personal and familial relations due to ubiquitous computing and access)
- Is community viable online? Can true community be found online?
[edit] Wellman's questions
- Are community ties/networks viable online?
- Is the offline-online dichotomy overdone?
- Are good online relationships equivalent to good face-to-face relationships?
- Will CMC become more transparent?
- Can online relationships be good enough?
- Are relationships based on online communication as authentic?
- Will the internet promote two-person interactions at the expense of group interactions?
- Will people still feel connected/responsible for the community?
- To maintain anonymity/freedom will people not want to be always connected?
- Does the person-to-person shift mean people can live anywhere?
- Will less-developed countries suffer a digital divide?
