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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
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
‘real’ facts and de facto facts
‘real’ facts and de facto facts
expertise: individual & distributed models
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
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
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Social Networks as Information Filters