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Week 5

Contents

[edit] Video

Interview: CyWorld.com CEO from CBS MarketWatch

[edit] Week 5


[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


[edit] Term Project proposal discussion

[edit] Presentations

[edit] Quick Links