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Week 9

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[edit] Video

[edit] Week 9


[edit] Online Social Networks and Social Capital

  • Some questions to begin..
    • What is social capital? Why is it useful?
    • Can social software enable social capital?
    • What types of social capital does social software best promote?
    • Can social software produce things like activism or voter turnout?


[edit] Resnick

Resnick's Social Capital - how it works:

  • Facilitates information routing
  • Exchange of other resources besides info
  • Provides emotional support to one another
  • Enables coordination
  • Overcome dilemmas of collective action

The resources of social capital

  • Communication paths
  • Shared knowledge
  • Shared values
  • Shared sense of collective identity
  • Resources, obligations and debts
  • Norms and roles
  • Tust

STC Opportunities

  • Remove barries to interaction
    • Distant comm, asynchronous comm
  • Expand interaction networks
    • Large distribution - one sender, many receivers
  • Restricting information flows
    • Anonymity, restricted modality
  • Managing dependencies
    • Notifications, Concurrency controls
  • Maintaining history
    • Document versioning, interaction logs
  • Naming

New STC Opportunities

  • Enhanced groups self-awareness
  • Brief interactions
  • Maintaining ties while spending less time
  • Peripheral participation

[edit] Ellison

Bridging vs. Bonding social capital

  • How does Facebook increase social capital on campus?
  • What tpes of uses on campus does Facebook compliment most?
  • What are the critical affordances of Facebook?

[edit] Millen and Patterson

  • To what extent do real name avatars moderate discussion?
  • What types of communities are most amenable by this approach?

[edit] Engstrom

  • Social objects
    • What are some other examples of social objects?
    • How and why do we create social experiences around information ojects?


[edit] Presentations

  • Evan C.
  • Sheryl G.

[edit] Quick Links