Wrapup
From SocialSoftwareSymposium
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Social Networks Wrapup
- Thomas - Politically motivated terms, how to take across disciplines
- Songphan - Methodologies for studying SNS
- Carolyn - How to study SNS
- Jacob - Definitions of terms - how do we normalize terms and vocabulary across disciplines to talk about things
- Terrell - Are we accellerating our loss of disversity by sharing meaning across cultures
- Jackson - Havent talked about non-Western perspectives
- Sri - Nomenclature - these things are identity claims. How do we characterize the effectiveness of identity claims. Has big impression formation efx. SNS blurs persona - needs to be extrapolated.
- Zeynep - A lot of folks feel connected to other people through social tools. Does this relate to 'bowling alone' - we are losing public spaces and places. Does our identity production break the loss of public space.
- Andrea - The issue of context - the SNS sites we talk about aren't designed for practice. Interesting to look at the way SNS sites/features differ when the context is different - how can the site be designed differently if the goals/outcomes of the SNS were different.
- David - Curious about what things are going to be like in 20 years.
- Addy - Does SNS == online dating? How are they different? Do they afford the same things or are they completely different.
- Susan - Interested in the strategies people use to create their identity online. Do we want to aggregate identity/do we want to aggregate identity.
- Paul - The definition isses - at war with each other. What we are dealing with collections of metaphors - social, network - all metaphors. What about older people and how people are using SNS places to connect like eons for over 50s. We might want to study people who are like us and not like us. is this a Social Capital research center based on your definitions?
- Sarita - Methodology: as a researcher, are the lines blurred enough that you can be part of the community. How does this change when you are part of the community. Broadening participation from communities - how different is editing a myspace page from computer science.
- Barbara - Saturation of technologies in different technologies - how different social tagging is from social networking sites. The differences are so vast - why?
- Jade - Come to a conclusion for social networking sites/social networking communities - what participants are learning and what the transfer is inside outside that. Effects of privacy knowledge on privacy uses.
- Kara - Methodology discussion - how different people are collecting data. What questions are we asking - what research questions should we be identifying. What are the broad areas that we're going take on. Setting a broad research agenda is a good idea - what is important to the field. How do we translate our good work to the media and influence the discussion.
- Alla - Research themes - how the designs of the sites afford and restrict behaviors and how do we work around the restrictions? How dot hey break free of the restrictions.
- Jung Sun - Cross-cultural differences are very interesting - there are differences between what heard yesterday and what we talked about yesterday - there are cross-cultural differences. Differences in how people make friends. In cyworld - the system evolves - the privacy settings evolve over time, dependent on what network you are in. Identity - identity as individuals and members of group - different conception.
- Gary - xSpheres - blogo, webo - the uses are driven by intentionality - one to everyone. Blogosphere is one to a big many. In SNS the intentionality is a one to small many. People are looking for new types of value - the tribe or group that you get to choose. The ongoing struggle is to think about identity - but this is heavily age dependent. Across age groups we are studying a very small subset.
- Simon - Passive metrics for sns study?
- Amanda - SNS provide an opportunity for us to shoehorn really complex relationships into an uncomplex medium. What is the answer - is it a design problem or is it social complexity. Is the refuge there is no nuance? More nuances privacy controls - we can show different layers to ourselves.
- Deborah - What does community really mean in the SNS environment - can we study how they effect interaction. In this environment there is ephemeral permanance.
- Cathy - Interesting: the nature of the artifacts and how permanent or transient are the artifacts - knowing the edges to save your part of a SNS. What is the role of place in SNS. How do people across generations read these things.
- Kristina - When writing a profile what are we claiming? Notions of faceted identity - LiveJournal - how can other tools foster the facet/private multiplex profiles.
- Nicole - Throwing down the gauntlet. What are the big research questions that we're facing - how do we make the case that this is a worthy topic of inquiry - we are preaching to the converted here - what are the big research questions here? Had to make this case with online dating - what are our research questions and how do we relate them to cultural differences. What are the theories? This is a topic that lends itself to interdisciplinary study. danah and Nicole have started a discussion group (http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/sns-researchers/) to continue these conversations...
- Lilly - SNS are difficulty. The terminology is confusing - people arent using the term community and instead using networks. Network communities vs. online/social communities. Concepts of community? Connecting the nodes and the links. What is the space that enfoces the cluster?
- Alice - Discussion of top 8, informal research - 79% says they are mad if they arent in the top 8. There is emotional resonance of SNS in people's lives - people are deeply affected by SNS. There is a real need for ethnographic work on real world communities interact through the SNS - these connections are important as they are one way to see how non tivial the actions are.
- Fred - Ethics of SNS research, SNS as ubiquity, are SNS smply social tags.
- Cal - Place yourself in 2106 - what would we actually have to know about these environments to understand them. Do we need the primary sources? What do we keep, who is going to keep it and how.
- Cliff - These issues raise design qestions - we we need to know the motivation and context. Constrction issues.
- Chirag - Cost model in SNS, comparing it with the dot com boom - who is paying for this, if it is the user? Who is paying for this. Sharing the ideas - but can we also share things like data, copora, tools?
- Senom - The kind of research we would like to see - what memories are we creating? What will we record? What does it mean for humans to be able to erase our memories?
- Laura - the continuum of online and offline lives. If the memories do stick around - what does this mean.
