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Week 11

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[edit] Week 11

  • Notes
    • Forum posts are required - 10% of grade
    • For your calendars: Project presentations 12/5, projects due 12/12
    • Next week drop Millen and Patterson
  • Publications opportunities
    • Facebook in the classroom
      • Your requirement: 750 words on a perspective of using FB in the classroom, with citations
    • CFP: Web 2.0, teenagers and libraries 4,000-6,000 Word manuscripts due 4/2008
  • Your projects
    • 2-3 minutes:
      • Refresh us on the topic
      • Tell us how you're planning to study
      • The form of your project
      • Any early/interesting/relevant ideas or findings.

[edit] Ubiquitous and Mobile Social Networks

  • Futurist hat time: What is the future of SNS?
  • Your questions:
    • What types of communication make you turn to your mobile? When do you TXT rather than call? What's the subtext when you TXT someone?
    • Are cell phones tethers (Sherry Turkle), or do they emancipate us? Esp. in the context of Palen and Dourish's negotiated "boundaries"
    • The Mobile Youth culture - how have mobile devices restructured socialization?
    • Shifting social networks - as we age, different networks become more important; as our networks populate technological spaces, we naturally migate to them.
    • As we move out of adoption years, our skills remain - i.e. will adults continue to text as if they were teens? How much does our peer group influence adoption and carrying of skills through life course?
    • Do we naturally move away from synchronous communication?
    • Zack Morris Cell Phone: Urban Dictionary, Google Results

[edit] Dourish

  • Altman's frame: Privacy as a dialectic and dynamic boundary negotiation process
  • Privacy concers:
    • Minimizing embarrassment
    • Staying in control of one's time/space
    • Interpersonal privacy values - keeping parts of life separate
  • Altman's privacy theory
    • Fine and shifting line exists between private and public, based on social context and intention
    • Privacy is modified to achieve the desired state along the spectrum of openness and closedness
    • Privacy is the management of boundaries
  • Privacy boundaries in virtual spaces
    • In virtual worlds, physical space is no longer a boundary
      • Recordable - Multiple audiences
      • Intersection of places requires differing behavioral environments
      • Our existence is understood through representation explicitly and implicitly under our control
  • Boundaries
    • Disclosure: The tension between public and private sharing
    • Identity: What we must give up to create identity representations
    • Temporality: The time boundaries of impression; future audiences, etc.
  • Cases
    • Family intercom - passive awareness
    • Calendars - sharing of patterining and sequencing
    • Active badges - sharing of location/position information; structure and control
    • Mobile phones - Boundaries
    • IM - Allows communication around traditional boundaries

[edit] Ling and Yttri

Interesting Datapoint Phonebook population - Post

  • To what extent does the mobile phone subvert parental control?
    • How do young people "communicate around" power boundaries? Examples?
    • Phone as an identity element? Sill valid?
    • Phone has lowered barriers to access; will we see pushback? What are we seeing currently?
  • Micro and hyper-coordination
    • Drawbacks of hyper-coordination? Do you feel too connected?
    • Does hyper-coordination lead to lasting intense relationships?
    • Movements of technology from the "instrumental" to the expressive; a paradigm shift?


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