Week 9 S09
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Week 9
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[edit] Week 9
- Notes
- Outline/Bibliography Due 4/13
- Email to me
- .doc, .pdf, and .rtf accepted. No .docx
- Expectations
- Final projects presentation on 4/27
- Final deliverable due 5/1
- Outline/Bibliography Due 4/13
[edit] Noticed/News
- Rest of this Week's Del.icio.us links
[edit] Final Projects Update
- 2 minutes on your project
- What are you doing for your final project?
- What are you going to be turning in?
- Why are you interested in it, how does it fit in to your plans, etc.
[edit] Name generator
On a sheet of paper, list 3 people (First name, Last initial) who match the following criteria:
- Your best friends
- Your best online friends (frequency/quality of communication)
- People you've met offline, and continued the relationship online
- People who you've met online, taking the friendship offline
- People you keep up with who you wouldn't without technology
Interconnections:
- Where is the overlap?
- What accounts for the overlap?
- What technologies are key in the management of scenarios 3, 4 and 5?
[edit] Social Capital Experiment
How many of your real life friends/contacts could you:
- Crash overnight on the couch - if you were passing through town?
- Borrow their car for a few hours?
How many of your real life friends/contact would:
- Tell you about an interesting job opening?
- Give you a restaurant recommendation?
How many of your online friends/contact could you:
- Borrow 75 dollars?
- Visit overnight on short notice (for example, if you were on a business trip)?
How many of your online friends/contacts would:
- Tell you about an interesting job opening?
- Give you a restaurant recommendation?
Interconnections:
- Do your online friends support bridging or bonding capital?
- What types of friends provide the most utility?
[edit] Social Networks and Social Capital
- Exploring the role networks play in our personal relationships and our societies.
- Big ideas
- Wellman: The role network technologies play in creating new place, and the quality of interaction these places afford.
- Castells: The enormous shifts introduced by the network society, and the new forms of culture, politics and economy created by the network society.
[edit] Personal networks and personalized networking
- Ponder: Is it still important to be near your friends?
- Primer: social networks as support structures
- Social capital (Ellison, Putnam, Resnick)
- Social support (boyd's Network Publics, etc)
- Relevant societal shifts
- Early community: door-to-door
- Small communities
- Highly localized relationships
- Limited means and/or necessity for travel
- Place-to-place
- Technological advances enable deonctextualized place-to-place movement
- Social structures become wide ranging
- The social life requires coordination
- Person-to-person
- We now carry our networks with us
- Mobile phones, social networks
- Early community: door-to-door
- Question: Is it still important to be near your friends?
- For what purpose(s)?
- Because we can now choose our F2F interaction, how does this affect social interaction?
Wellman's questions
- Are community ties - community networks - viable online?
- Is the offline-online dichotomy overdone?
- Are good online relationships equivalent to good offline relationships?
- Will CMC become more transparent as people become more experienced with it?
- Can online relationships be good enough? Can people emotionally and cognitively respond to online relationships in the same way as they respond to F2F?
- Are relationships based on online communication authentic?
- Will the internet promote two-person interactions at the expense of groups or social network contexts?
- As community becomes person-to-person, will people continue to feel responsible for their strong relationships but not for strangers and acquaintances?
- To maintain anonymity and freedom, will people not want to be always-connected?
- Does the shift to person-to-person networked connectivity mean that people can live anywhere - we no longer need physical "place"
- Will less-developed countries suffer a divide
- Role-to-role
- The context question - as we present one of our "fronts" to most community, are we really even person-to-person anymore?
- As networks become more personalized, role-based networking becomes more important.
- Who cares about the whole person anymore?
- Is role-based networking ultimately tenable?
- Questions
- Could technology be to blame for our decline in close contacts? (Does the Bowling Alone thesis hold?)
- How do we find diversity in SNS? (SNS's and other groups may be vehicles of homophily: ethnic, educational, and cognitive)
[edit] The Network Society
- The network society: Spaces of flows
- The role technology-enhanced networks play in society
- How these networks are changing society at large: Work, Power, Culture
- Relationships of Production
- The network economy
- Relationships of consumption
- Network culture, global culture
- Relationships of power
- Power moves from the organization to the network
- Power transcends the network (ATT, TIA)
- Relationships of Production
- Networks reshaping social structures at many levels.
- However, as these networks coexist at different levels and temporalities, Castells sees them as spaces of flow.
- Questions
- Where does Facebook (or other SNS) fit into the network society?
- Which has the larger impact, Facebook or Wikipedia?
- As a network society participant, What are you missing? And can you participate forever?
[edit] Presentations
- None
