Three studies examined social media use and its effects on social relationships and social capital. Study 1 found that Facebook use allowed for flexible "social multitasking" but also public displays of privacy. Study 2 analyzed Facebook photo galleries and found they demonstrated close friend groups, events, awareness of the camera, and comments reinforcing group bonds. Study 3 explored how social media architecture balances public and private spheres, allowing performances of identity in publicly private spaces.
20110128 connected action-node xl-sea of connectionsMarc Smith
Slides for the 28 January 2011 Presentation of "Finding direction in a sea of connection" at Hartnell College in Salinas, California, sponsored by the Community Foundation for Monterey County (CFMCO.org)
This presentation was part of a session run by Nicola Osborne, EDINA, for the University of Edinburgh Post Graduate Certificate in Academic Practice's Learning and Teaching Online module. Accompanying notes can be found here: http://nicolaosborne.blogs.edina.ac.uk/files/2010/10/SocMed-Notes.pdf.
Social Media Summer Workshops.
Workshop 1: Social Networking and Collaboration . Jubilee Graduate Centre, University of Nottingham. 26 July 2012, 12.00-2.00pm.
Enhancing Epidemiologic Sampling Methods with Social MediaYTH
Sean Arayasirikul of the San Francisco Health Department shares how theory-driven outreach and recruitment can be implemented to target trans female youth in the San Francisco Bay Area to participate in research. Presented at YTH Live 2014 session "The New Face of Recruitment + Questionnaires."
Scholars across many disciplines have grappled with questions of what it means for a person to
be and interact online. Who are we when we go online? How do others know we are there and
how do they perceive us? Within the context of online learning, scholarly questions tend to
reflect more specific concerns focused on how well people can learn in a setting limited to
mediated interactions lacking various communication cues. For example, how can a teacher and
students come to know each other if they cannot see each other? How can they effectively
understand and communicate with each other if they are separated by space and, in many
instances, time? These concerns are related to issues of social presence and identity, both of
which are complex, multi-faceted, closely interrelated constructs.
Personal online reputations: Managing what you can’t controlFrances Ryan
This talk for the 5th annual Discover Academic Research, Training, and Support (DARTS) conference discusses the role of online information in the building, management, and evaluation of personal reputation. It considers the existing literature surrounding reputation and social media use, as well as some early findings from Frances’ information science doctoral investigation on the same topics. A short interactive element encourages participants to think about their own social media use, online information behaviours, and digital footprints—as well as some practical advice on managing a reputation that you can’t fully control.
LSS'09 Keynote Making Sense Of The Networked Audience, Dr B HoganLocal Social Summit
Making sense of the networked audience: The case of Facebook
- Dr. Bernie Hogan is a Research Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute
Social media sites are excellent at gathering friends, but not so great at making sense of them. This leads to social information overload: too many ties, too much information and too much tedium. There is a great deal of information latent in these friendships that can be used to make sense of our networks, both spatially and relationally. Particularly through the use of social network analysis (SNA), we can discover hidden influencers and coherent clusters. This talk will give an overview of some concepts of social network analysis and demonstrate how these can be applied to online social media sites.
Bernie will use as case study his ongoing fieldwork on Facebook with Microsoft Research that demonstrates mismatches between the way individuals organize their online friendships and the way that order emerges from the friendships naturally. These findings will be distilled into some general principles that can be applied to social network sites generally.
20110128 connected action-node xl-sea of connectionsMarc Smith
Slides for the 28 January 2011 Presentation of "Finding direction in a sea of connection" at Hartnell College in Salinas, California, sponsored by the Community Foundation for Monterey County (CFMCO.org)
This presentation was part of a session run by Nicola Osborne, EDINA, for the University of Edinburgh Post Graduate Certificate in Academic Practice's Learning and Teaching Online module. Accompanying notes can be found here: http://nicolaosborne.blogs.edina.ac.uk/files/2010/10/SocMed-Notes.pdf.
Social Media Summer Workshops.
Workshop 1: Social Networking and Collaboration . Jubilee Graduate Centre, University of Nottingham. 26 July 2012, 12.00-2.00pm.
Enhancing Epidemiologic Sampling Methods with Social MediaYTH
Sean Arayasirikul of the San Francisco Health Department shares how theory-driven outreach and recruitment can be implemented to target trans female youth in the San Francisco Bay Area to participate in research. Presented at YTH Live 2014 session "The New Face of Recruitment + Questionnaires."
Scholars across many disciplines have grappled with questions of what it means for a person to
be and interact online. Who are we when we go online? How do others know we are there and
how do they perceive us? Within the context of online learning, scholarly questions tend to
reflect more specific concerns focused on how well people can learn in a setting limited to
mediated interactions lacking various communication cues. For example, how can a teacher and
students come to know each other if they cannot see each other? How can they effectively
understand and communicate with each other if they are separated by space and, in many
instances, time? These concerns are related to issues of social presence and identity, both of
which are complex, multi-faceted, closely interrelated constructs.
Personal online reputations: Managing what you can’t controlFrances Ryan
This talk for the 5th annual Discover Academic Research, Training, and Support (DARTS) conference discusses the role of online information in the building, management, and evaluation of personal reputation. It considers the existing literature surrounding reputation and social media use, as well as some early findings from Frances’ information science doctoral investigation on the same topics. A short interactive element encourages participants to think about their own social media use, online information behaviours, and digital footprints—as well as some practical advice on managing a reputation that you can’t fully control.
LSS'09 Keynote Making Sense Of The Networked Audience, Dr B HoganLocal Social Summit
Making sense of the networked audience: The case of Facebook
- Dr. Bernie Hogan is a Research Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute
Social media sites are excellent at gathering friends, but not so great at making sense of them. This leads to social information overload: too many ties, too much information and too much tedium. There is a great deal of information latent in these friendships that can be used to make sense of our networks, both spatially and relationally. Particularly through the use of social network analysis (SNA), we can discover hidden influencers and coherent clusters. This talk will give an overview of some concepts of social network analysis and demonstrate how these can be applied to online social media sites.
Bernie will use as case study his ongoing fieldwork on Facebook with Microsoft Research that demonstrates mismatches between the way individuals organize their online friendships and the way that order emerges from the friendships naturally. These findings will be distilled into some general principles that can be applied to social network sites generally.
Week 4 Mini LectureThis week, you will be studying about the pot.docxcockekeshia
Week 4 Mini Lecture
This week, you will be studying about the potential psychological impact of social media. Specifically, you will be learning about persuasion and influence through advertisements and acts of violence on social media. The article below speaks, in a very “real world” way to the psychological impact of social media. I hope you enjoy it.
Enjoy this article by Hannah Schacter on Psychology in Action – Retrieved from https://www.psychologyinaction.org/psychology-in-action-1/2015/09/07/me-myselfie-and-i-the-psychological-impact-of-social-media-activity
Me, Myselfie, and I: The Psychological Impact of Social Media Activity
Not too long ago, I relentlessly teased my 21-year-old sister when she revealed her strategies for achieving maximal positive feedback on Facebook photos. There were timing basics—don’t post on Friday or Saturday nights because no one is checking. She also recommended sensitivity to time zones so as to avoid an entire coast being asleep when your picture is posted. There was even attention to Facebook’s sharing algorithms. Rather than posting and tagging other people in the photo simultaneously, it was wise to wait on the tagging. That way, once several hours had passed and the photo filtered into the depths of everyone’s news feeds, a new tag would prompt it to resurface front and center, in turn receiving a fresh wave of "likes". And wait, there's more--after almost 10 years on the site, she could even report back to me her most liked Facebook post ever. It all sounded…ridiculous. I chalked it all up to our (whopping) three-year age difference—kids these days and their all-consuming social media obsessions. Back when I was in college…
And then several months later I sent my sister the most shameful text message of all time (for the record, I was only allowed to publish Emily Schacter’s Facebook Strategy Tell-All under the condition that I owned up to my own social media low-point). One morning last month, I posted what I thought to be quite an entertaining picture on Facebook. But, to my surprise, twenty minutes passed by and I had zero likes on the photo. Forty minutes, still nothing. Maybe I accidentally posted it with extra privacy restrictions? Nope. An hour. And still, even my two most loyal Facebook like-ers (I’m looking at you, Mom and Dad) hadn’t given my picture some love. Desperation took over.
I had cracked, and in doing so I lost my privileges to ever mock Emily for her Facebook posting habits again. Why in the world did I care so much about an un-liked photo? Was it really a lack of likes, rather than the four hours a week I dedicate to watching Bachelor in Paradise, that I was concerned made me look like a loser? When and how did Facebook likes become such a valuable social currency? For better or for worse, I am hardly alone in my experience. Recent research has documented how technology, and social networking sites (SNS; e.g., Facebook, Instagram) in particular, have given rise to a grow.
Web search engines emerged prior to the dominance of social media. What if we imagined search as integrating with
social media from the ground up? So.cl is a web application
that combines web browsing, search, and social networking
for the purposes of sharing and learning around topics of interest. In this paper, we present the results of a deployment
study examining existing learning practices around search
and social networking for students, and how these practices
shifted when participants adopted So.cl. We found prior to
using So.cl that students already heavily employed search
tools and social media for learning. With the use of So.cl,
we found that users engaged in lightweight, fun social sharing and learning for informal, personal topics, but not for
more heavyweight collaboration around school or work.
The public nature of So.cl encouraged users to post search
results as much for self expression as for searching, enabling serendipitous discovery around interests.
The 411 on Facebook: An FYI for TeachersAPatterson79
This power point presentation provides a brief description of social networking, specifically focusing on Facebook. The reasons why children use it, the pros and cons of it, and how to keep kids safe on Facebook are all addressed in this presentation.
An insight into the digital communication age of today. Social networking sites are embodied by several technological applications that shape them. See why social networking has become such a major part of our lives.
Digital Identities - Who are We in a Networked Public?Bonnie Stewart
live slides (thus some are left blank for participants to write in ideas & share content) from the final Collaborate session in #etmooc. an overview of some of my own and others' work on digital identities, particularly for educators. focuses on how networked publics operate and the effect that particular affordances of digital technologies have on the facets of self we share and connect with as we interact online.
Convergent Supersurfaces: Notes toward Theorizing the Relationship between Convergence and the (new) Political. Association of Internet Researchers, Gothenburg, October 2010.
Talk based on upcoming book:
A Private Sphere: Democracy in a Digital Age, by Zizi Papacharissi, Polity Press 2010.
http://www.polity.co.uk/digitalmediaandsociety/bookinfo_privatesphere.aspx
Hello thank you, it is a pleasure to be here For organizing and hosting Wonderful event and beautiul space Delighted to be here and hope you will enjoy this lecture I know you all came to hear a talk about social media and social people No questionmark: Because social media ARE used by people who are SOCIAL. Anti-social people simply do not use media, social or not, to communicate And to make things even more interesting , and because it is christmas, I decided to add balloons So let me begin by telling you all a little story about balloons
About 40 years ago, a number of universities + rand, working on something we now know as the Internet. This was not considered to be a very profitable business enterprised, turned it down, risky venture. ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Network What better way to celebrate, but with a large scale experiment that tests the social networking power of the internet - And here are some of the balloons
Used social network site Strong design Reward scaled up Credibility ASK – WHAT DO WE LEARN?
The power of social networking How information spreads, social information, too Why do humans take action and mobilize , work together and communicate Large scale social network experiment – crowdsourcing the entire US (locate terrorists, other threats) Online Social Networks SNSs and Social Media- What are they?
All information and social oriented: Appeal: Variety of social network sites http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/11/28/social-site-rankings-october-2007/ Public Displays of Connection (PDCs) Social cost of not joining Public information and privacy connectivity
A performance You are who your friends are – not a new thing, but amplified Gossip magazines Things we post online need to make sense to a lot of different people, without compromising our sense of identity/ who we are Social capital is a term we use to refer to relationships that generate value for us
What am I interested in? with my collaborators Produce more or less social people? CMU story
Asked questions about how people use facebook Asked questions about personality factors and demographics And about habits – mobility, life satisfaction, economic security Relaxing entertainment and habitual passtime – new kind of sociability, in the past….activity, extroversion, talking Those social use it to sustain strong ties with family Those mobile use it to sustain weak ties – remote People do not distinguish between reasons why, use it fulfill a number of needs, some information, some social, some that used to be met by other media (I will hear of late breaking news via facebook or tweeter, before I hear from anywhere else) Sociability exercised from comfort of ones own couch Not fixed
Culture of posing for the camera, enables an analysis of the semiology of photos
A semiotic and discourse analysis of college student photo albums and the associated comments reveals that photography is integral to student identity formation. Photographs are used to demonstrate the existence of friendship groups and their cohesiveness and independence from family. Further, photographs and the camera are a almost required element of college life. Events and relationships are made real through the involvement of a camera. The vast majority of the images demonstrate a clear awareness of the camera by being posed, in addition the demonstrate behavior produced specifically for the camera. Comments reinforce this relationship. The photographs are used to spark conversation for those present at the making of thew photographs and for those who missed out. Contextual elements, through backgrounds, are de-emphasized, suggesting the the primacy of the human relationships and the existing knowledge in the head of viewers required for decoding the images. Facebook images are clearly meant for a closed group, reinforcing membership and cohesiveness. One must be a member to understand the full-meaning and by recognizing the meaning one gains a greater sense of membership. Facebook photo albums ≠ all photos. Student use Facebook to play out college lives to/for each other Speaking to each other visually, publically The outfits /locations change, the poses/people don’t Meaning exists in viewers’ minds Primacy of relationships “ Proven” by quantity & nature of pics Events important only because of experiences w/ friends Suspended sociality
Definition of architecture : structure, content design How does it restrict and inspire your behavior? How does it shape, and how do you shape it? Similar to the physicality of spaces, this room No windows? Windows open? Door open, no walls? Smaller room? These are the slight differences I am talking about - what is the online equivalent to that? How do we sense it and react to it?
Inviting open, network comms conncetion everyone can join
Little less open liitte more private - professionals, to connect, you must specify a prof connection that the other person confirms
Private, by invitation only
Profile page This is everything I am and a small fraction of it at the same time Lively, colorful, open, messy and organized at at the same time
Here things get a little easier, setting more private, professional only, limited apps and opportunities to play
Here even more private, and it is like my personality has been put on mute
Facebook: carefully crafted statements, that mean different things to different people, but you communicate your social status by friend selection, and attitude toward the medium Easy to pick out celebrities, arrivistas, etc Linked in: symbolizes professional code of ethic, and a western, rather US based dogma of professionalism Smallworld:act of joining is a status statement in and of itself Tight and loose structures --- Goffman