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This slides are from my keynote at the Inaugural symposium of the Global African Diaspora Development Network seminar at the University of Oklahoma. Oct 16, 2015
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This slides are from my keynote at the Inaugural symposium of the Global African Diaspora Development Network seminar at the University of Oklahoma. Oct 16, 2015
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As cheap PCs and inexpensive mobile phones flood the global market, usability and user experience professionals will encounter more and more questions like these – questions that challenge not only our research tools and methodologies, but our fundamental assumptions about how people engage with technology. In this talk, Rachel will share insights she’s gained through creating experiences that must scale across vastly different cultures. She’ll share her thoughts on the challenges and opportunities designing for global markets will present to the user experience industry in the years to come.
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Yik Yak as an Ethnographic Tool: A Look at Duke University’s Campus Culture Through the
Lens of an Anonymous, Location-based Smartphone App
Angela Silak
Loyola Marymount University
YIK&YAK&AS&ANÐNOGRAPHIC&TOOL& & & 2&
Yik Yak as an Ethnographic Tool: A Look at Duke University’s Campus Culture Through the
Lens of an Anonymous, Location-based Smartphone App
In recent education news, a new app called Yik Yak has been making headlines. Simply
put, Yik Yak is an anonymous smartphone app that displays a newsfeed for a specific geographic
location—users can log in to the app and see both a “new” and “hot” feed of recent posts within
a 1.5 mile radius of their area and may post (or “yak”) or comment on posts (Yik Yak, 2014a).
Users can “upvote” posts they like or “downvote” posts they dislike, and when a user’s post
receives a significant number of upvotes, it moves into a location’s “hot” feed and earns the user
“Yakarma,” Yik Yak’s version of reputation points (Yik Yak, 2014a). Yik Yak is specifically
targeted at college students and has become immensely popular—over 1,000 U.S. schools use
the app, and it recently raised $62 million in venture capital after its valuation was rumored to be
over $100 million (EdSurge, 2014). Unlike fellow anonymous sharing apps Whisper and Secret,
Yik Yak is less centered on confessions or private information and acts as more of a humorous
newsfeed; this may be why college students have so readily adopted it (Parkinson, 2014).
However, Yik Yak has come under fire for facilitating cyber-bullying and providing a
home for offensive and threatening content, forcing administrators to take action either by trying
to ban the app or to educate students on its use (eCampus News, 2014). Yik Yak’s response to
cyber-bullying is an internal filter that helps weed out illicit or derogatory posts—if a Yik Yak
post is downvoted to a score of -5, the post is removed (Yik Yak 2014b). It is unclear whether
Yik Yak is an actual problem on campus or if insensitive posts are simply a result of widespread
negative convictions within a campus’s culture. Can Yik Yak be blamed for issues that
administrators have failed to bring into the open and create a constructive dialogue around? Or
is Yik Yak an instigator of hateful comments?
YIK&YAK&AS&ANÐNOGRAPHIC&TOOL& & & 3&
An anthropological analysis of a sample school that uses Yik Yak could bring some
clarity to these questions. Additionally, because the app is mostly targeted at college students, it
may be a useful device for virtual ethnography on college campuses in general. Virtual
ethnography, also called online ethnography, can be defined as “the application of ethnographic
research methods to specific online communities through the observation and analysis of online
dialogue and other online artefacts” (Prior & Miller, 2012, p. 503). What is.
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Macroeconomics- Movie Location
This will be used as part of your Personal Professional Portfolio once graded.
Objective:
Prepare a presentation or a paper using research, basic comparative analysis, data organization and application of economic information. You will make an informed assessment of an economic climate outside of the United States to accomplish an entertainment industry objective.
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Presented by Adrien Joly at Bell Labs France during a "SKP" session, this slideshow includes a motivated introduction to his phd thesis subject about contextual filtering of social interactions, its technical approach relying on "contextual tag clouds", and its current state of research.
In this session, we talk about the mobile and social web, and how it shapes economy, individual behavior and well-being, political events, and society as a whole.
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How do you design a mobile money service for people in rural Uganda who’ve never had a bank account? How do you test the usability of a mobile phone’s address book for users in rural India who’ve never had an address… yet alone an analog address book?
As cheap PCs and inexpensive mobile phones flood the global market, usability and user experience professionals will encounter more and more questions like these – questions that challenge not only our research tools and methodologies, but our fundamental assumptions about how people engage with technology. In this talk, Rachel will share insights she’s gained through creating experiences that must scale across vastly different cultures. She’ll share her thoughts on the challenges and opportunities designing for global markets will present to the user experience industry in the years to come.
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Yik Yak as an Ethnographic Tool: A Look at Duke University’s Campus Culture Through the
Lens of an Anonymous, Location-based Smartphone App
Angela Silak
Loyola Marymount University
YIK&YAK&AS&ANÐNOGRAPHIC&TOOL& & & 2&
Yik Yak as an Ethnographic Tool: A Look at Duke University’s Campus Culture Through the
Lens of an Anonymous, Location-based Smartphone App
In recent education news, a new app called Yik Yak has been making headlines. Simply
put, Yik Yak is an anonymous smartphone app that displays a newsfeed for a specific geographic
location—users can log in to the app and see both a “new” and “hot” feed of recent posts within
a 1.5 mile radius of their area and may post (or “yak”) or comment on posts (Yik Yak, 2014a).
Users can “upvote” posts they like or “downvote” posts they dislike, and when a user’s post
receives a significant number of upvotes, it moves into a location’s “hot” feed and earns the user
“Yakarma,” Yik Yak’s version of reputation points (Yik Yak, 2014a). Yik Yak is specifically
targeted at college students and has become immensely popular—over 1,000 U.S. schools use
the app, and it recently raised $62 million in venture capital after its valuation was rumored to be
over $100 million (EdSurge, 2014). Unlike fellow anonymous sharing apps Whisper and Secret,
Yik Yak is less centered on confessions or private information and acts as more of a humorous
newsfeed; this may be why college students have so readily adopted it (Parkinson, 2014).
However, Yik Yak has come under fire for facilitating cyber-bullying and providing a
home for offensive and threatening content, forcing administrators to take action either by trying
to ban the app or to educate students on its use (eCampus News, 2014). Yik Yak’s response to
cyber-bullying is an internal filter that helps weed out illicit or derogatory posts—if a Yik Yak
post is downvoted to a score of -5, the post is removed (Yik Yak 2014b). It is unclear whether
Yik Yak is an actual problem on campus or if insensitive posts are simply a result of widespread
negative convictions within a campus’s culture. Can Yik Yak be blamed for issues that
administrators have failed to bring into the open and create a constructive dialogue around? Or
is Yik Yak an instigator of hateful comments?
YIK&YAK&AS&ANÐNOGRAPHIC&TOOL& & & 3&
An anthropological analysis of a sample school that uses Yik Yak could bring some
clarity to these questions. Additionally, because the app is mostly targeted at college students, it
may be a useful device for virtual ethnography on college campuses in general. Virtual
ethnography, also called online ethnography, can be defined as “the application of ethnographic
research methods to specific online communities through the observation and analysis of online
dialogue and other online artefacts” (Prior & Miller, 2012, p. 503). What is.
Bridging the Real and Virtual Worlds: The Next Evolution of Social and Mobile...Georgiana Cohen
When we talk about integrated marketing, that needs to mean more than making sure our Twitter, Facebook and website are in strategic alignment. Our web marketing has to align off-screen as well as it does on-screen. The world is increasingly becoming hypertext, rich with multiple layers of meaning and context. From Foursquare decals to chalked messages to "follow us on Facebook" to event-specific hashtags, we are surrounded by calls to link our real-life activities to their online complements. In our role as web communicators, how can we do this well in a way that serves both our needs and the needs of our audiences? Whether we're talking about geosocial/location-based services, viewbooks, flyers or tweetups, there is a large number of platforms where this is becoming increasingly relevant. How can we activate the ambient intimacy and latent connectivity around us to engage our audiences with relevant experiences and content? How can we bridge online community with off-line community? In this session, we will explore these principles as well as several concrete ideas for how to put them into action.
2009 - Connected Action - Marc Smith - Social Media Network AnalysisMarc Smith
Review of social media network analysis of Internet social spaces like twitter, flickr, email, message boards, etc. Network analysis and visualization of social media collections of connections.
Macroeconomics- Movie Location
This will be used as part of your Personal Professional Portfolio once graded.
Objective:
Prepare a presentation or a paper using research, basic comparative analysis, data organization and application of economic information. You will make an informed assessment of an economic climate outside of the United States to accomplish an entertainment industry objective.
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The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
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This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
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http://sandymillin.wordpress.com/iateflwebinar2024
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1. Distance Matters: An Exploratory Analysis of the
Linguistic Features of Flickr Photo Tag Metadata
in Relation to Impression Management
Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed & Shion Guha
Department of Information Science,
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
2. Data From The Society: Social Data
Social Influence
Social Contagions
Group Formations
Collaboration Patterns
Self-Expressions
Impression Management
etc.
3. Socializing Databases
SELECT persons FROM societyWHERE persons
are “emotional”
SELECT emotions FROM society WHERE
communities are “vulnerable to emotional
cascades”
Is
Social Data
hiding behind the
Data from the Society?
4. An image hosting and video hosting
website, web services suite, and
online community
that was created by Ludicorp in 2004 and acquired by
Yahoo!
in 2005. [Wikipedia, May 19, 2011]
Yahoo reported in June 2011 that Flickr had a total of 51 million registered me
6. Why Do People Tag Photos ?
Helping Search
Categorization
Self Identity
and ...
7. Impression Management
Goal-directed conscious or
unconscious process in which people
attempt to influence the perceptions
of other people about a person,
object or event.
They do so by regulating and
controlling information in social
interactions.
8. Dramaturgy Theory By Erving Goffman
Dramaturgy is a sociological
perspective starting from
symbolic interactionism, and
commonly used in microsociological
accounts of social interaction in
everyday life.
Human actions are dependent upon
time, place, and audience.
The goal of this presentation of self
is acceptance from the audience
through carefully conducted
performance.
12. Invisible Audience: Who?
We analyzed Flickr
Tags to investigate
this.
We used LIWC
(Linguistic Inquiry and Word
to analyze the
Counts)
linguistic features of
these tags
13. Informational Words
The words which
contains information or
facts. Emotional tags of a
photo contain the facts
about the contents of
the photo.
Example: Eiffel Tower,
Grand Canyon, Taz
Mahal, 500 feet, etc.
14. Emotional Words
The words, which
contain emotions
Example: Happy,
Enjoy, Sad, Boring,
Disgusting, Hate,
Love, WoW, etc.
15. Relative Feature
This is LIWC class
of words that
contains all words
expressing space,
time, etc.
Example: Day, Place,
Year, Faster, Slower,
etc.
18. Tagging An “away” Photo
User’s Home Location: San
Diego, CA, USA.
Photo taken at: Paris, France
Distance: 5698 miles
Tags: “Paris”, “France”,
“Europe”, “TourEiffel”, “Eiffel
Tower”, ‘Travel 2009”.
19. Tagging a “Local” Photo
User’s Home Place: Paris, France
Photo taken at: Paris, France
Tags: “night”, “city”, “lights”, “at”,
“winter”, “event”, “street”, “trade”,
“leisure”, “iPhone”, “Eiffel”,
“entertainment”, “iphonography”,
etc.
20. Hypothesis 1
Distance will be negatively correlated with the
amount of “affect” contained in the photo tags.
Example: People are less expected to say
“bored”, “happy”, etc. when they are on a travel
to a place far away from their place.
People generally post more information when
they are traveling away from their place.
21. Hypothesis 2
Distance will be negatively correlated with the
amount of “affect” contained in the photo tags.
Example: People are less expected to say “day”,
“night”, “car”, etc. when they are on a travel to a
place far away from their place.
Did you notice people almost always upload the
photo of their cars, when the cars are around
their place?
22. Hypothesis 3
Distance will be positively correlated
with the interaction effect between
tags and relativity contained in photo
tags.
Example: People talk about “A
Beautiful House”, “A Horrible
Restaurant”, when they are far away
from their place.
26. What We Got
distance = 3718.7147 - 18.3245 * affect - 8.4009 *
relativity + 0.8276 * affect * relative + e
p < 0.01
27. Discussion
Most of the time, the invisible audience is
consisted of the people living around the user.
When they share something around them, they
share less information and more emotion.
When they share a photo taken far away from
their places, they try to introduce their audience
to the new things they see.
28. Social Recommendations
Get Information
from someone who
lives far away from
the place.
Get quality, emotion,
etc. from someone
who lives around
that place.
