Personal side of social media: learning from weblogs

Lilia Efimova Telematica Instituut iceberg.telin.nl blog.mathemagenic.com Personal side of social media: learning from weblogs

Study 1. Developing ideas through blogging
Reconstructing my own blogging practices
Weblog as a personal knowledge base
Weblog as an aid for moving from fuzzy feelings to finished results
Weblog archives as a starting point
Coding: chapter relevance, meta-blogging entries
Analysis  writing
23 June 2008, Telematica Instituut, Enschede, NL

Weblog as a knowledge base
Creating
Ideas that I don't know where to use, but don't want to forget
Might be useful for others
I could benefit from a feedback or want to promote
Organising
Chronological
Running titles, links to own posts
Categories and tags
Maintaining
Retrieving
Location-based browsing
Search
Patterns

From fuzzy feelings to finished results: awareness and articulation
Reading others in short bursts, awareness of what's going on
Low-threshold posting, short entries
"Pressure and pleasure" of an audience: extra motivation to capture ideas, to write in full sentences, to contextualise
Non-threatening organisation system: relate to existing posts, flexible tagging

From fuzzy feelings to finished results: sense-making
Writing as developing an idea: mangrove effect
Organising to relate, to understand, to see patterns
Social
An opportunity for a feedback
"Refactoring at the backstage"
Everyday grounded theory

From fuzzy feelings to finished results: turning into products
Need for integrating into a bigger whole
Kick-start
Getting in the flow of writing
Non-scientific drafts
Getting things out of the way
Reusing
Trying out multiple ways to structure an argument
Feedback
Notification/pre-print channel

Blogging: personal or social?
Half-baked ideas, work-in-progress – not polished texts
Short posts, lots of linking
Selfish tagging

Study 2. Conversations by KM bloggers
34 weblogs in 2004, 6320 posts
KM blogger community, semi-snowballing sample starting from my own weblog
Using tOKo ( www.toko-sigmund.org ) to map weblog conversations defined as sets of linked posts
Conversations with others – links between weblogs
Conversations with self – links within weblogs
Conversations with self and others – links within and between weblogs
With Anjo Anjewierden and Robert de Hoog

Conversations with others 23 June 2008, Telematica Instituut, Enschede, NL

Conversations with self 23 June 2008, Telematica Instituut, Enschede, NL

Conversations with self and others: personal profiles 23 June 2008, Telematica Instituut, Enschede, NL

Conversations with self and others: mega-conversation 23 June 2008, Telematica Instituut, Enschede, NL

Insights from urban studies plausible reason to be in public
Among the requirements that are satisfied, in part, in public spaces are the need for contact, the need for knowledge, and the need for stimulation. […] Satisfying these is seldom as goal-oriented and deliberate as with the more basic physical needs, such as eating, drinking, sleeping and so on. For example, adults seldom go to town with the expressed intention of satisfying the need for stimulation or the need for contact. Regardless of the true purpose may be, one goes out for a plausible, rational reason – to shop, to take a walk, to get some fresh air, to buy a paper, to wash the car, and so forth
Jan Gehl, "Life between buildings"

Insight from urban studies: safe place to linger
At the edge of the forest or near the façade, one is less exposed than if one is out in the middle of a space. One is not in the way of anyone or anything. One can see, but not be seen too much, and the personal territory is reduced to a semicircle in front of the individual. When one's back is protected, others can approach only frontally, making it easy to keep watch and to react, for example, by means of a forbidding facial expressions in the event of undesired invasion of personal territory.
Jan Gehl, "Life between buildings"

Insight from urban studies: emergent social activities 23 June 2008, Telematica Instituut, Enschede, NL

Implications for design
Comfortable, protected space
Conditions for longer-term activities meaningful for an individual
Easy switch between inward and outward oriented activities
Opportunities for low-intensity contact without commitment
"Shared space" in between to move social activity when it grows

More
Relevant links and more context
More on my research
At my blog: blog.mathemagenic.com
Published: iceberg.telin.nl
Contact: lilia.efimova@telin.nl

Personal side of social media: learning from weblogs

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