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Week 6

Contents

[edit] Video

Demetri Martin Trendspotting - Social Networking

[edit] Week 6


[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
  • Survey: Population survey of Freshman class, 2005.
    • Findings, Who is looking at your profile image
    • Findings, How are you using FB image
  • 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'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.

[edit] Quick Links