Week6
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Week 6
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[edit] Video
Demetri Martin Trendspotting - Social Networking
[edit] Week 6
- Notes
- Additional office hours, Tuesdays 10-12AM, WSM. And by appointment.
- NSF Board Meeting
- Modules for integrating network studies into curricula
- Problem-based approach, ask students to employ network methodology
- My notes
- Proposal Feedback
- Term Project Outline for Research Papers and Proposals
- Related Readings
- Other news
- This Week's Del.icio.us links
[edit] Identity and Interaction
[edit] Dwyer
- Cues and the psychology of interaction
- Social context strongly perceived, behavior becomes "other focused"
- Social context weakly perceived, feeling of anonymity result in self-centered, unregulated behavior
- In CMC, nonverbal cues influence social interaction, including the formation of impression (Walthers, etc)
- SIP Model - social context cues inform impression formation, just transmitted in a different mode
- Impression management informs the behaviors we undertake to control impressions by others
- What types of nonverbal cues are unique to SNS?
- Role-play in online space
- What roles do we play in OSN? How do we decide to play these roles?
- CMC as a significant factor in the formation and management of interpersonal relationships.
- Dwyer's study: Semi-structured interview, 22 subjects, explored attitudes toward impression formation and privacy
- Findings: Motivation
- Low cost
- IM main method of maintaining social contact
- Are there different motives between technologies? Text, IM, SNS, etc?
- Modes of impression creation in SNS - Impression management in the sculpting of the profile
- Re: Holloway and Valentine, What are some key age-group differences in the type of sculpting?
- Findings: Privacy
- Students understand they are trading their data for the low-cost of the space (?)
- The barriers to switching cost are low - are they? What perspectives can we use to explore this idea?
- Findings: Relationship Mgmt
- Author describes SNS as a place to meet new people, allows one to maintain extended social net - how does this clash with Lampe et. al?
- Social maintenance role of SNS - Dunbar's "Grooming" - reminders of friend birthdays, easy ways to stay in touch.
- Visibility mgmt (interesting concept, more IM centric)
- Your experiences with visibility management?
- Pseudonymity
- Again, IM centric, but a worthwhile medium comparison.
- How many IM identities do you have? What makes the medium different? What tools empower you (blocking - between IM and Myspace, how different?)
- Channel-switching
- Can we really drop channels of communication?
- What are the characteristics of communication that bridge channels?
[edit] Lampe et. al.
- How do people use FB? Social searching vs. social browsing
- Social searching: People who want to learn more about an offline contact
- Social browsing: People who want to use the site to find people to connect to offline
- Resnick's "peripheral awareness" - social surveillance in social software.
- Survey: Population survey of Freshman class, 2005.
- Questions - Validity? How would you improve this study?
- How do we explicate the social searching and social browsing models? What additional questions would you ask?
- Do you buy the findings?
- How could we approach this RQ?
- Desired outcomes?
- Who are you browsing? Patterns?
[edit] Valentine and Holloway
- Boosters vs. Deubunkers
- Child's configuration of self in an online workd
- Many children take part in online virtual communities
- Ease of maintenance of online friendships
- Based on generic shared interests
- Anonymity affords a private space
- ICT's allow control over identity, body
- Children create identity largely grounded in self, without body constraints
- Easy to take risks/experiment
- Easy to disconnect
- No one can see you - limited cues
- No alter egos, just smoothed identites
- Children create identity largely grounded in self, without body constraints
- Children's online identity
- Grounded in heterosexual ideals
- Limited gender play due to discursive boundaries
- Constrained by real-world limitations (time, economy, routines)
- Integration of virtual worlds into real worlds
- Children use online ID to maintain, develop and reconfigure local and distant friend networks
- Use ICT to find info on hobbies or interests
- Talk about the offline world w/ goal of integrating online->offline
- Allows identity to be recontextualized
- Perspective shift - your thoughts on this article?
[edit] Boyd
- Your thoughts on Fakesters
- The collapse of the virtual and the real
- What role do Fakesters play on modern OSN?
- Do all SNS have a limited life span?
- How do we manage the tension between control and experimentation - if we want to keep a site relevant
[edit] Presentations
- Sean C.
- Jessica S.
