Post on 27-May-2015
description
transcript
D I G I TA L I D E N T I T I E S
E X P - 5 0 - C S C L A S S # 2 , 1 / 2 9 / 1 4
T U F T S U N I V E R S I T Y J E S S E L I T T L E W O O D A B O U T. M E / J E S S E . L I T T L E W O O D @ J _ L I T T L E W O O D
A G E N D A
• How To & Tips
• Links and Discussion
• Social Network Sites: Definition, History and Scholarship
!
• Digital Identity
• Making Sense of New Media
• Class Administration
• Lightning Talks
• Next Week
# E X P 5 0
• Get Twitter Account
• Fill out Google Form
• Tweet out using #exp50
• Couple of helpful tools
• https://blog.twitter.com/2010/tweet-button-bookmarklet-share-links-any-page
• https://bufferapp.com
• What did you find interesting?
S O C I A L N E T W O R K S I T E S : D E F I N I T I O N , H I S T O R Y , A N D S C H O L A R S H I P
• Consistent technology features, different cultures
• Draw some boundaries around “social media” and “social networking sites”
• (1) Public or semi-public profile
• (2) List other users & connect
• (3) Traverse the list of connections
• “Network” not “Networking”
• Friend networks
• Some smaller/niche SNSs are designed to build connections
• Rise and fall
• Friendster
• MySpace
• What did they do right?
• What did they do wrong?
• What has Facebook done differently?
Source: http://www.danah.org/papers/JCMCIntro.pdf
T H O U G H T E X P E R I M E N T S : S M A L L G R O U P S
• You are a non-profit that wants to raise high-school graduation rates. Your target audience are small, medium and large organizations already working on education, but not working together. You have a successful yearly conference you want to build on.
• Existing SNS (Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest)
• New semi-private SNS site
M A K I N G S E N S E O F N E W M E D I A
• Places social media in the context of history of personal communication technology
• Societal responses
• Perspectives to consider throughout this class
B AY M , C O N T I N U N E D
• Messages we use about technology are reflective
• Four major approaches:
• Determinism
• Social Construction
• Social Shaping
• Domestication
– M C I A D , 1 9 9 7
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioVMoeCbrig (Super Bowl 2007)
B AY M , C O N T I N U N E D
• Messages we use about technology are reflective
• Four major approaches:
• Determinism
• Social Construction
• Social Shaping
• Domestication
D I S C U S S I O N
• What is the approach have you seen the most of?
• From your family, from media, from technology evangelists?
• Which narratives about social media do you identify with?
D I G I TA L I D E N T I T Y
• In the beginning, it was just “the internet”…
W H AT I S I D E N T I T Y
• Individuality and/or group affiliations
• Self -> World
• Biological determination?
• Technical term in IT/security?
• Constructed
• Who we think we are
Source: http://facinghistoryandourselvesmhs.wikispaces.com/Unit+1+-+Identity
D I G I TA L I D E N T I T I E S
• Not the technical term
• 10010101001010101
• Data collected from us and from others
• Profile
• Photos, text, video
• Metadata
• Location, date and time
• Relationships
• Constructed by an algorithm as much as by ourselves
Is Facebook’s “Year in Review” an accurate portrait of my year?
D A N A H B O Y D
• Always-on lifestyle
• “Online is always just around the corner”
• Ecosystem
• Virtual reality is tired, augmented reality is wired
Credit: James Duncan Davidson/O'Reilly Media, Inc. Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/x180/49880384/in/set-1076331/
B R E A K - O U T G R O U P S
• Do you consider yourself “always on?”
!
• Is here such a thing as being “too connected?”
!
• Where do you draw the line?
– S H E R R Y T U R K L E
“What I'm seeing is a generation that says consistently, 'I would rather text than make a telephone call.' Why? It's less
risky. I can just get the information out there. I don't have to get all involved; it's more efficient. I would rather text than see
somebody face to face.”
http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html
• Context
• Increase in solitary living
• Decrease in confidants
• Bowling Alone
• “Passive consumption” vs. “composed communication”
• What do you do?
• What would Baym say?
• What would boyd say?
• The more digitally connected we become, the more distant and superficial our offline relationships are. True?
• A lot of online conversation is “meaningless babble.” True?
• What is your experience like?
C L A S S A D M I N
• Lightning talks
• Next week’s class
• Etc
L I G H T N I N G TA L K S
• A brief, seven minute presentation on a specific example of social media that describes it, analyzes it, and critiques it.
• Live demo, slides or still images (4-5 recommended)
• Based on the topic we are discussing that week
• Starts week after next! Details and lottery will be posted on Trunk.
N E X T W E E K : S O C I A L N E T W O R K S A N D S O C I A L M E D I A C O M M U N I T I E S
!
• Technological affordances: design and technology shape behavior.
• Community norms.
• Islands, or a global village?
N E X T W E E K : S O C I A L N E T W O R K S A N D S O C I A L M E D I A C O M M U N I T I E S• Reading:
• McLuhan, Marshall. Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man. New York: McGraw Hill, 1964. pp. 3-11
• Norman, Donald. The Design of Everyday Things. Chapter 1, The Psychopathology of Everyday Things. Pp. 1-33.
• Kendall, Lori. Community and the Internet. The Handbook of Internet Studies. Ed. Mia Consalvo and Charles Ess. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. pp. 309-325
• No assignment except for Twitter