Week8
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Week 8
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[edit] Video
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[edit] Week 8
- Notes
- No class next week
- Bibliography/project outline due 11/7 - start working!
- Next week reading order: Resnick, Ellison, Millen, Engstrom
- ASIST
- Panel with boyd, Golder, Zollers and Recuero, Monday, 3:30
- Other news
- Data Comparison - Buote et. al. + Stutzman
- 2005 Freshman RL: Buote finds in one semester, 23.46 new friends, 5.65 close friends
- 2005 Freshman Facebook: 65 new connections/student, 111 connections total.
- This Week's Del.icio.us links
[edit] Research Methods in SNS
- Qualitative
- Participant-observer: boyd, Choi, Turkle, Donath
- Informant interview: Dwyer, Valentine, Turkle, Whitty
- Quantitative
- Factorial design/Social Psychology - Gosling
- Survey, stepwise regression - Lampe, Ellison et al, Mayer
- Network analysis - Golder, Kumar
Questions:
- What methods most accurately capture SNS?
- What are drawbacks to qualitative and quantitative methods?
- What methods feel most right to you?
- What designs would you use to get at the truth?
[edit] The Presentation of Self in Networked Life
[edit] Whitty and Gavin
- How do social cues shape the meaning of online relations?
- Theories
- Social presence theory - the feeling one has that other people are involved in the communcation exchange
- Social context cues - Online/offline communication modes differ due to limited social cues. Limited social cues may lead to more uninhibited behavior.
- Question: What are some cues one looks for in interaction in a SNS?
- Findings
- Relationships move online to offline
- The "internet becomes obsolete"
- Movement between communication channels signals deepening of relationship
- Question: What is the progression of communication in SNS?
- Lying and anonymity
- Women lie for safety...
- Men lie to open doors for expression
- The absence of physical limitations stimulates relationship development
[edit] Gosling
- How valid are Facebook impressions
- Findings
- We're poor at judging how others will perceive our Facebook profiles
- Observers are ok to good at estimating personality based our Facebook profiles
- We tend to inflate personality elements in the creation of a Facebook profile
- How did these findings sit? Are they valid?
- Why didn't you like this study?
[edit] Mayer and Puller
- Design questions - ethical issues of large scale analysis and correlation?
- Findings
- Racial segmentation: Homophily or structural network factors?
- How could one build an activist social network?
[edit] Goffman
- The Front: definition of the situation in the eye of the observer
- Setting: The elements of the scene
- Appearance: Identifiers of status, role
- Manner: State of the presentation
- Expressive control
- Modes of unmeant gestures
- Loss of scene control
- Over-immersion in the interaction
- Indirection of the performance
- Modes of unmeant gestures
- Question: What are the "unmeant gestures" of SNS?
- Question: Does asynchrony negatively affect performance?
- Question: Can we know a scene in SNS? Does it matter?
[edit] Class Exercise
4 Groups, representing following demographics: 12-17, 17-21, 21-30, 30-45
Grounding yourself in what we know from readings, please address:
- What are you looking for in a SNS? How is it relevant in your daily life?
- In your opinion, what are your primary threats in an SNS?
- How do you address these threats? What strategies ore techniques do you use?
- In your opinion, what are the primary threats other demographics feel affect your group?
- How do you support or refute these presumed threats?
[edit] Presentations
- Elizabeth L.
- Lindsey R.
