Social Networks as Information Filters

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Social Networks as Information Filters Lee Bryant, Headshift, June 2009

Introduction: the affordances of the social web

socialisation of information

aggregation, feeds and ﬂows

trust in loosely joined networks

open info + low cost of collective action

are we building an “architecture of participation,” or just more media consumption ?

sharing as a by-product of action

making invisible data visible

rapid feedback is the key to evolution

network productivity, not just personal

what does this mean for how we manage information ?

‘real’ facts and de facto facts

expertise: individual & distributed models

veriﬁcation: expert & community models

ﬁndability as an alternative to search

signals as an alternative to validation (cc) http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/iconolith/458099966/

information overload or ﬁlter failure?

The fallacy of codiﬁcation & storage

weaving a fabric of information, links

the wrong sort of information overload

“Fast-moving” The latest updates; also the most relevant Now updates for my work (regardless of time)... Intelligence from the wider world; what's happening this week; news that more directly affects me. Intelligence from the wider world; what's Short term happening this week; news that more recent internalme.... directly affect information; long-term exhibitions; scheduled work; stafﬁng and resourcing Recent internal information; stafﬁng and Medium term resourcing, policies... Facilities, branding, senior management, Long term organisational structure, archive, phone numbers, emergency procedures, technical platforms... phone numbers, emergency procedures, services, platforms Knowledge, market structures, culture, Generational heuristics, orthodoxy, history “Slow-moving” info has variable velocity, but tools don’t

we need better ﬁlters and radar

ambient awareness, intuition, decisions

our social network ‘places’

social networks as information ﬁlter

democratising information: negotiating language and meaning

knowledge is a social construct http://www.flickr.com/photos/zachklein/10115928/

Polysemy declines rapidly for new concepts as dominant terms emerge Semiotic dynamics and robot learning From a lecture on AI by Prof. Luc Steels, Sony CS Lab, Paris: http://www.headshift.com/archives/002386.cfm

language, tagging and signals

future for information professionals ?

information networkers, not ﬁling clerks

information & guides, notnot ﬁling clerks teachers networkers, gatekeepers

simple summary:: social networks will become our main information ﬁlters; this will allow us greater control of our own self-representation

Thanks for listening! I am lee@headshift.com and live at http://www.headshift.com You can ﬁnd this talk at http://www.slideshare.net/leebryant Except where otherwise stated, photos courtesy of Flickr using Creative Commons license. Thanks to the following photographers: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kacey/271663676/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/pagedooley/1303402061/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/victoriapeckham/164175205/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/paul_irish/2379958609/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/yuan2003/403643949/ http://innovationcreators.com/wp/?p=194 http://www.23hq.com/kosmar/photo/2073293 http://www.flickr.com/photos/nestorgalina/1832456745/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/iconolith/458099966/ http://www.digg.com http://www.flickr.com/photos/antmoose/71277315/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/jenguin/5274538/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/backpackphotography/257026830/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/brianboulos/36957265/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/markrjones/47761183/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/jurvetson/2216230980/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/fluzo/52870555/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/sgt_spanky/35811144/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/jurvetson/105123875/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/kacey/252912749/