Facebook_Developer_Garage_Hamburg_2008

Framing Facebook use
Dr. Jan Schmidt
Senior Researcher for Digital Interactive Media and Political Communication
Facebook Developer Garage, Hamburg, 14.05.2008

What I‘m interested in Using facebook

Using Facebook
Facebook facilitates practices of…
Using facebook www.flickr.com/photos/44029537@N00/12760664/
Identity management (Expressing individual interests, experiences, opinions, skills, etc.)
http://flickr.com/photos/mylesdgrant/495698908/
Relationship management (articulating and maintaining existing relationships, finding and contacting new people)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/axels_bilder/1267008046/
Information management (finding, selecting and sharing information and content)

Framing facebook use Using facebook Code Functionalities of Facebook and its applications Interface design Relations Articulated „friend“ships Public & private conversations Interactions (sharing groups, playing games, collaborating, …) Rules Shared Habits Social Norms Terms of Service Laws What is possible – and what is not? „ communities of practice“ feedback (intended & unintended)

Code framing use: Privacy management

Users giving feedback: Q&A

Users giving feedback: Mobilization and protest

User bending code: Creative Use of relationship

Code & Facebook use - some open questions
To which degree is code regulating specific actions?
What is determining if and to which extent users actually follow the „suggestions“ of code?
When do users „rebel“ by articulating and mobilizing protest („voice“), when do they abandon a platform or application („exit“)?
Who is shaping and regulating the code itself?
How are the networks shaped in which code is developed and improved?
What are the power (im)balances between Facebook, external developers and the different user communities?
How can code in general (and interface design in particular) assist nuanced identity-, relationship- and information management without
being too complicated to comprehend and
giving way for unintended consequences (e.g. with respect to privacy)?

Thank You!
Dr. Jan Schmidt
Hans-Bredow-Institut
Warburgstr. 8-10, 20354 Hamburg
[email_address]
www.hans-bredow-institut.de
www.schmidtmitdete.de
twitter.com/JanSchmidt

Further Reading
Schmidt, Jan (2007): Social Software: Facilitating information-, identity- and relationship management . In: Burg, Thomas N. / Jan Schmidt (Eds.): BlogTalks Reloaded. Social Software - Research and Cases. Vienna/Norderstedt: Books on Demand. 2007. 31-49. Online: http://www.bamberg-gewinnt.de/wordpress/wp-content/pdf/blogtalksreloaded_3_schmidt.pdf .

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by Jan Schmidt on May 14, 2008

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