Week 7 S09
From INLS 490
Week 7
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[edit] Video
- Pattie Maes & Pranav Mistry: Unveiling the "Sixth Sense," game-changing wearable tech via http://delicious.com/mantruc
- Clay Shirky - Pop!Tech 2008
[edit] Week 7
- Notes
- Feedback on proposals
- Office hour reminder
[edit] Noticed/News
- New Facebook Design Critique
- Five minute quick exercise:
- Pick out three "tags" that you would use to describe Facebook's interface
- Is it better/worse/same
- One thing you would change about the interface (could be more than one)
- Five minute quick exercise:
- Privacy expert calls for a 'digital mirror'
- In order to gain an understanding of how we are perceived online, we need the equivalent of a 'digital mirror', said MIT Media Laboratory's Judith Donath at a day two South By South West Interactive panel entitled 'Is Privacy Dead or Just Very Confused?'
- Growing (up) on Facebook
- Alternatively, I believe online spaces can be used to forward a vision of self that can serve as a roadmap forward, even with an audience of hundreds. Indeed, this ability to strategically self-present oneself online will be a critical skill (in both professional and personal contexts) for the young people Orenstein writes about. In my work on online self-presentation in online dating profiles, I've written about the ways in which users draw upon their ideal selves when constructing an online representation of self.
- ref: Growing Up on Facebook
- "Social Media is Here to Stay... Now What?"
- Specific genres of social media may come and go, but these underlying properties are here to stay. We won't turn the clock back on these. Social network sites may end up being a fad from the first decade of the 21st century, but new forms of technology will continue to leverage social network as we go forward. If we get away from thinking about the specific technologies and focus on the properties and dynamics, we can see how change is unfolding before our eyes. One of the key challenges is learning how to adapt to an environment in which these properties and dynamics play a key role. This is a systems problem. We are all implicated in it - as developers and policy makers, as parents and friends, as individuals and as citizens.
- Maintained Relationships on Facebook
- This graph shows the same data as the first graph, only combined for both genders. What it shows is that, as a function of the people a Facebook user actively communicate with, you are passively engaging with between 2 and 2.5 times more people in their network. I’m sure many people have had this feeling, but these data make this effect more transparent.
- My response: Facebook Team on Maintained Relationships
- This graph shows the same data as the first graph, only combined for both genders. What it shows is that, as a function of the people a Facebook user actively communicate with, you are passively engaging with between 2 and 2.5 times more people in their network. I’m sure many people have had this feeling, but these data make this effect more transparent.
- Rest of this Week's Del.icio.us links
[edit] Identity and Privacy
- Trends
- Trends at UNC: http://www.ibiblio.org/fred/survey/admin/admin.php?action=statistics&sid=29364
- Trends elsewhere: http://fstutzman.com/2009/03/09/ny-times-botches-sns-privacy/
- Our research: http://ibiblio.org/fred/stuff/ASIST_Writeup.pdf
- Theories
- Privacy is Dead
- Privacy is Contextual
- Privacy as a boundary regulation process
- Privacy is an optimizing action
- We regulate access to maintain an optimum
- Privacy as Norm
- Privacy as a function of observable behavior
- Privacy as a situational process
- Privacy as a function of audience
- We configure privacy as function of our goals and audience
- Privacy as Process
- Privacy is an ongoing, evolving set of behaviors and attitudes
- Privacy as a boundary regulation process
- How has privacy changed in your peer groups?
- How is privacy communicated amongst your peers?
- Who do you pay attention to for privacy guidance?
- What do you think about the "Privacy is dead" discourse?
- Identity and Signaling - http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol13/issue1/donath.html
- Assessment Signals
- Conventional Signals
- Signals as a function of costs
- Signals as a form of verification
- Identity and Authenticity
- How do we assess authenticity in a social network?
- What markers do you look at?
- How do you know someone is who they say they are?
- How do we assess authenticity in a social network?
[edit] Presentations
- Paul B
- Katie L
