Week5
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Week 5
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[edit] Video
Interview: CyWorld.com CEO from CBS MarketWatch
[edit] Week 5
- Notes
- Office hours tomorrow 10-12 WSM, Friday 12:15-1:45 Campus, by appointment
- Microsoft Social Computing Symposium
- Conference Emphasis - Presence, Play, Rules and Youth
- Presence - Yahoo Fire Eagle
- Rules - Amy Jo Kim's Game mechanics for social media
- Longer discussion of AJ Kim's game mechanics
- Other news
- Related Readings
- This Week's Del.icio.us links
[edit] Exploring Digital Identity
[edit] Turkle
- Are social networks games? How should we define a game?
- What are the tradeoffs of technologic learning?
- Disconnect between natives and naturalized citizens?
- "What will CMC do to our committment to other people? Will it satisfy our needs for connection and social participation, or will it further undermine fragile relationships?"
- What parts of Turkle's treatment ring true today? What parts haven't aged well?
- When computers can offload simple taks, should we constantly remind ourselves of their non-humanness? Does it matter? Does this contribute to our virtuality?
- What happens when we start to take computers at interface value?
- Identity as a set of "roles" to be mixed and matched
- Play and its role in building identity
- Screen personae as opportunity for expression
- The "continual process of creation and recreation"
- Erickson "the playing adult steps sideways into another reality, the playing child advances forward into new stages of mastery"
- Depersonalization, deindividuation and projection in CMC
[edit] Choi
- Cross-cultural perspective - what surprised you?
- Chons (1, 2, 3-chons) - could we imagine such a model in a western OSN?
- The mini-home, virtual goods and micropayments
- Social maintenance and collectivist culture
- The role of cyworld in maintaining sociotechnical capital
