Oriëntatie Nieuwe Media #3
Anne Helmond, Universiteit van Amsterdam, week 11

Bijeenkomst 3
1: Flew
2: Netwerk theorie en visualisaties
3: Presentatie
4: Theorie in de opdracht

Hoofdstuk 5 Flew (2008)
Real Virtuality: “There is no separation between ‘reality’ and symbolic
representation.” (Manuel Castells)
• Real/virtual
• Offline/online
• friends/Friends

(c) Het Harde Potlood
Facebook friends are not friends, not real friends

Hoofdstuk 5 Flew (2008) & HC
Network topology:
• Decentralized Network
• Centralized Network
• Distributed Network

Hoofdstuk 5 Flew (2008) & HC
Network topology

Network Theory: Six degrees of separation
Oracle of Bacon

Welke netwerken zijn er op dit moment om ons
heen? Hoe zien die er uit?

GROEPSPRESENTATIE

Besproken literatuur
boyd, danah. “Why Youth (heart) Social Network Sites: The Role of Networked
Publics in Teenage Social Life." Youth, Identity, and Digital Media. Ed. David
Buckingham. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2008: 119–142. (verplichte literatuur bij
hoorcollege 12 HMC)
Ito, Mizuko, et al. Hanging Out, Messing Around, Geeking Out: Living and
Learning with New Media. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2009: 39-71.

Why Youth (heart) Social Network Sites
I argue that social network sites are a type of networked public with four
properties that are not typically present in face-to-face public life: persistence,
searchability, exact copyability, and invisible audiences. These properties
fundamentally alter social dynamics, complicating the ways in which people
interact. (p. 2)
Friendster popularized the features that define contemporary social network
sites – profiles, public testimonials or comments, and publicly articulated,
traversable lists of friends. (p. 4)

Why Youth (heart) Social Network Sites
Friendster popularized the features that define contemporary social network
sites – profiles, public testimonials or comments, and publicly articulated,
traversable lists of friends. (p. 4)
Fundamentally, social networks sites are a category of community sites that
have profiles, friends, and comments. (p. 5)

Why Youth (heart) Social Network Sites
Profiles are constructed by filling out forms on the site.
default/uitgebreide zelf

Bevroren profielen

Update! Update!

Networked Publics
Networked publics are one type of mediated public; the network mediates the
interactions between members of the public. (p. 8)
These four properties thus fundamentally separate unmediated publics from
networked publics:
1 Persistence
2 Searchability
3 Replicability
4 Invisible audiences (p. 9)

Helmond, 2009
• Onderdeel van het netwerk
• Participatie cultuur met user-generated content
• Gedistribueerd
• Geïndexeerd door zoekmachines
• Niet te verwijderen?

Ito: Genres of Participation
Genres of Participation: Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out
These genres describe differing levels of investments in new media activities in
a way that integrates an understanding of technical, social, and cultural
patterns.
However, all of these taxonomies are based on categorizing individuals in
relation to certain practices. By contrast, our genre-based approach
emphasizes modes ofparticipationwith media, not categories of individuals. (p.
39)

Ito: “ambient virtual co-presence”

Ito: Media Ecology

Image Credits
• http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/online_communities.png
• http://www.pleon.it/web/blogs/geektalk.nsf/dx/
0501200611.35.35GCAEFB.htm/content/M2?OpenElement
• http://informationarchitects.jp/
• Het Harde Potlood
• Opte.org
• Wikimedia
• Geek and Poke