Lee Rainie gave a speech about the rise of networked individuals. Some key points:
1) The internet has transformed from a stationary technology used by a minority in 2000 to a ubiquitous, mobile, and cloud-based technology used by most adults and teens by 2010.
2) This shift has changed how people access media and information, socialize, and participate in social networks which are now bigger, looser, more segmented, and layered.
3) These changes are pushing society toward "networked individualism" as people manage more aspects of their lives independently through various online and mobile networks.
Lee Rainie, the Director of the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project, describes the latest research findings of the Project about the internet and cell phones have affected people's relationship to information and to each other. He explains how digital technology is helping "networked individuals" gather social support, make decisions, and understand the world. He details how this affects the way students and scholars function in universities.
Director Lee Rainie shares the latest research of the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project and the predictions of experts about the impact of internet and mobile connectivity.
iMediaShare integrates smartphones with internet-enabled TVs and game consoles, PS3 and Xbox included, making it possible to browse and play the phone media content from other devices.
Digital ethnography: The
next wave in understanding
the consumer experience
In the search for market insights, Tim Plowman and Davis Masten maintain that
the pathways to information should include PCs, cell phones,Webcams, global
positioning equipment, digital cameras, and a growing number of other technologies.
Structured creatively for self-reporting, passive observation, and participant
observation, these media can yield facts businesses can analyze to shape individual
and strategic design decisions.
'Mobile Exposure: Mobile media usage data' - Orange Advertising Network (Mobi...QuestBack AG
Orange’s Mobile Exposure research offers a unique insight into mobile media usage across Europe. The findings have interesting implications for market researchers using the mobile platform in Europe and globally, highlighting how consumers use their phones, their relationship with them and some of the technological challenges to be overcome. Bruce will supplement the data from this survey with additional markets to give a truly worldwide view.
Lee Rainie, the Director of the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project, describes the latest research findings of the Project about the internet and cell phones have affected people's relationship to information and to each other. He explains how digital technology is helping "networked individuals" gather social support, make decisions, and understand the world. He details how this affects the way students and scholars function in universities.
Director Lee Rainie shares the latest research of the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project and the predictions of experts about the impact of internet and mobile connectivity.
iMediaShare integrates smartphones with internet-enabled TVs and game consoles, PS3 and Xbox included, making it possible to browse and play the phone media content from other devices.
Digital ethnography: The
next wave in understanding
the consumer experience
In the search for market insights, Tim Plowman and Davis Masten maintain that
the pathways to information should include PCs, cell phones,Webcams, global
positioning equipment, digital cameras, and a growing number of other technologies.
Structured creatively for self-reporting, passive observation, and participant
observation, these media can yield facts businesses can analyze to shape individual
and strategic design decisions.
'Mobile Exposure: Mobile media usage data' - Orange Advertising Network (Mobi...QuestBack AG
Orange’s Mobile Exposure research offers a unique insight into mobile media usage across Europe. The findings have interesting implications for market researchers using the mobile platform in Europe and globally, highlighting how consumers use their phones, their relationship with them and some of the technological challenges to be overcome. Bruce will supplement the data from this survey with additional markets to give a truly worldwide view.
A decade ago, the higher education Web experience was segmented into walled gardens -- the public Web site, the course management system, online transactions, alumni communities, events calendars. The legacy of that structure was that our lifelong relationships with the college were interrupted as we students, faculty, staff, parents, and alumni moved from system to system.
The next-generation online ecosystem will let us re-organize these experiences, allowing for deepening engagement throughout our lives: from prospective student to elder alum. How will software like WordPress fit in? How can we evaluate, select, and configure systems to support our users' needs, rather than the other way around?
Information Services and Web 2.0: New Challenges and Opportunities. Yasar Tonta
Electronic Library: International Scientific Conference, Belgrade, September 25th-28th, 2008 –Summary book- Ed. By A. Vranes, L. Markovic & V. Crnogorac. Belgrade, 2008.
ByTim Walker, Co-Founder & Managing Director, The Leading Question (UK)
Discover key learning from a survey of music fans in Europe, Asia and the USA, exploring their relationship with music and artists today, through areas including digital music consumption to business models, possible solutions to piracy and file sharing, and the role of ISPs.
Vringo (NYSE Amex: VRNG) is a provider of software platforms for mobile social and mobile video services. With its award-winning video ringtone application and other mobile software platforms - including Facetones™, Video Remix and Fan Loyalty - Vringo transforms the basic act of making and receiving mobile phone calls into a highly visual, social experience. Vringo’s video ringtone service enables users to create or take video, images and slideshows from virtually anywhere and turn it into their visual call signature. In a first for the mobile industry, Vringo has introduced its patented VringForward technology, which allows users to share video clips with friends with a simple call. Vringo’s Facetones™ product creates an automated video slideshow using friends’ photos from social media web sites, which is played each time a user makes or receives a mobile call. Vringo’s Video ReMix application, in partnership with music artists and brands, allows users to create their own music video by tapping on a Smartphone or tablet. Lastly, Fan Loyalty is a platform that lets users interact, vote and communicate with contestants in reality TV series that it partners with, as well as downloading and setting clips from such shows as video ringtones. Vringo’s video ringtone application has been heralded by The New York Times as "the next big thing in ringtones" and USA Today said it has "to be seen to be believed." For more information, visit: www.vringo.com
Director Lee Rainie describes how the social world of “networked individuals” is different from previous generations and how libraries can plug into the information needs and habits of this new tribe of media users. More at pewinternet.org
Keynote talk given at Downscale2012 workshop (http://worldwidesemanticweb.wordpress.com/downscale2012) describing the VOICES project and the RadioMarche use case.
Presentation by Erik Dejonghe - University of Ghent - MICT - for Workshop 'The media consumer becomes Digital' @ Future Internet Week (Ghent - December 17th 2010)
A decade ago, the higher education Web experience was segmented into walled gardens -- the public Web site, the course management system, online transactions, alumni communities, events calendars. The legacy of that structure was that our lifelong relationships with the college were interrupted as we students, faculty, staff, parents, and alumni moved from system to system.
The next-generation online ecosystem will let us re-organize these experiences, allowing for deepening engagement throughout our lives: from prospective student to elder alum. How will software like WordPress fit in? How can we evaluate, select, and configure systems to support our users' needs, rather than the other way around?
Information Services and Web 2.0: New Challenges and Opportunities. Yasar Tonta
Electronic Library: International Scientific Conference, Belgrade, September 25th-28th, 2008 –Summary book- Ed. By A. Vranes, L. Markovic & V. Crnogorac. Belgrade, 2008.
ByTim Walker, Co-Founder & Managing Director, The Leading Question (UK)
Discover key learning from a survey of music fans in Europe, Asia and the USA, exploring their relationship with music and artists today, through areas including digital music consumption to business models, possible solutions to piracy and file sharing, and the role of ISPs.
Vringo (NYSE Amex: VRNG) is a provider of software platforms for mobile social and mobile video services. With its award-winning video ringtone application and other mobile software platforms - including Facetones™, Video Remix and Fan Loyalty - Vringo transforms the basic act of making and receiving mobile phone calls into a highly visual, social experience. Vringo’s video ringtone service enables users to create or take video, images and slideshows from virtually anywhere and turn it into their visual call signature. In a first for the mobile industry, Vringo has introduced its patented VringForward technology, which allows users to share video clips with friends with a simple call. Vringo’s Facetones™ product creates an automated video slideshow using friends’ photos from social media web sites, which is played each time a user makes or receives a mobile call. Vringo’s Video ReMix application, in partnership with music artists and brands, allows users to create their own music video by tapping on a Smartphone or tablet. Lastly, Fan Loyalty is a platform that lets users interact, vote and communicate with contestants in reality TV series that it partners with, as well as downloading and setting clips from such shows as video ringtones. Vringo’s video ringtone application has been heralded by The New York Times as "the next big thing in ringtones" and USA Today said it has "to be seen to be believed." For more information, visit: www.vringo.com
Director Lee Rainie describes how the social world of “networked individuals” is different from previous generations and how libraries can plug into the information needs and habits of this new tribe of media users. More at pewinternet.org
Keynote talk given at Downscale2012 workshop (http://worldwidesemanticweb.wordpress.com/downscale2012) describing the VOICES project and the RadioMarche use case.
Presentation by Erik Dejonghe - University of Ghent - MICT - for Workshop 'The media consumer becomes Digital' @ Future Internet Week (Ghent - December 17th 2010)
Lee Rainie, Director of Internet and Technology Research at the Pew Research Center, presented this material on October 29, 2020 to scholars, policy makers and civil society advocates convened by New York University’s Governance Lab (GovLab). He described findings from two canvassings of hundreds of technology and democracy experts that captured their views about the future of democracy and the future of social and civic innovation by the year 2030. Among other subjects, the experts looked at the impact of misinformation, “techlash” and trust in government institutions.
Lee Rainie, Director of Internet and Technology Research at the Pew Research Center, presented this material on October 14, 2020 at a gathering sponsored by the International Institute of Communications. He described the most recent Center public opinion surveys since mid-March, covering the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak, racial justice protests that began in the summer, and the final stages of the 2020 presidential election campaign. He particularly examined how and why people are using the internet in the midst of multiple national crises and their concerns about digital divide and homework gap issues. And he covered how the Center has researched the impact of misinformation in recent years.
Lee Rainie, director of internet and technology research, presented a synthesis of the Pew Research Center’s growing explorations of issues related to trust, facts and democracy at a forum hosted by the International Institute of Communications on December 5, 2018. His presentation covered Center findings related to declining trust in institutions, increasing challenges tied to misinformation and the ways in which concerns about trust and truth are linked to public attitudes about democracy.
Lee Rainie, Director of Internet and Technology research, spoke about the skills requirements for jobs in the future at the International Telecommunications Union’s “capacity building symposium” for digital technologies. He discussed the changing structure of jobs and the broad labor force and the attitudes of Americans about the likely changes that robots, artificial intelligence (AI) and other advances in digital life will create in workplaces. The session took place in Santo Domingo on June 18, 2018.
Lee Rainie, director of Internet and Technology research at the Pew Research Center, gave the Holmes Distinguished Lecture at Colorado State University on April 13, 2018. He discussed the research the Center conducted with Elon University’s Imagining the Internet Center about the future of the internet and the way digital technologies will spread to become the “internet of everywhere” and “artificial intelligence” everywhere. He also explored the ways in which experts say this will create improvements in people’s lives and the new challenges – including privacy, digital divides, anti-social behavior and stress tests for how human social and political systems adapt.
Lee Rainie, director of internet and technology research at Pew Research Center, discussed recent findings about the prevalence and impact of online harassment at the Cyber Health and Safety Virtual Summit: 41% of American adults have been harassed online and 66% have witnessed harassment. The findings come from the Center’s recent report on these issues.
Lee Rainie, director of internet and technology research at Pew Research Center, presented these findings at the International Monetary Fund/World Bank’s Youth Dialogue and its program, “A World Without Work?” The findings tie to several pieces of research at the Center, including reports on the state of American jobs, automation in everyday life, and the future of jobs training programs.
Lee Rainie, director of Internet, Science and Technology research at the Pew Research Center, described the Center’s research about public views related to facts and trust after the 2016 election at UPCEA's “Summit on Online Leadership.” He explored how education is affected as students face challenges finding and using knowledge. In addition, he covered the Center’s latest research about how ubiquitous technology shapes the new information landscape for students.
Lee Rainie, director of Internet, Science and Technology Research at the Pew Research Center, spoke on May 10, 2017 to the American Bar Association’s Section of Science and Technology Law about the rise of the Internet of Things and its implications for privacy and cybersecurity. The velocity of change today is remarkable and increasingly challenging to navigate. Rainie discussed Pew Research Center’s reports about “Digital Life in 2025” and “The Internet of Things Will Thrive by 2025,” which present the views of hundreds of “technology builders and analysts” on the future of the internet. He also highlighted the implications of the Center’s reports on “Americans and Cybersecurity” and “What the Public Knows about Cybersecurity.”
Lee Rainie, director of Internet, Science and Technology research at the Pew Research Center, discussed the Center's latest findings at the Mid-Atlantic Marketing Summit in Washington. He talked about how people use social media, how they think about news in the Trump Era, how they try to establish and act on trust and where they turn for expertise in a period where so much information is contested.
Lee Rainie, director of Internet, Science and Technology research at the Pew Research Center, discussed his group’s latest findings about the role of libraries and librarians on April 3 at Innovative Users Group conference. The latest work shows that many people struggle to find the most trustworthy information and they express a clear hope that librarians can help them. He explored recent research about how people are becoming “lifelong learners” and that library services are an element of how they hope to stay relevant in their jobs, as well as find ways to enrich their lives. He drew on Pew Research Center studies about the information and media sources people use and how they decide what to trust.
Lee Rainie, director of Internet, Science and Technology research at the Pew Research Center, presented at the Computers in Libraries 2017 conference on March 30 new findings about how people have shifted to the mindset of lifelong learners and the implications of that for librarians. He discussed how people’s disposition towards information and knowledge – are they engaged or are they wary? – shapes how they use library resources. He also discussed future technology trends and how librarians will have to adjust to them.
Lee Rainie, director of internet, science and technology research at Pew Research Center, gave this speech at Flagler College in St. Augustine, Florida on Feb. 16, 2017, about the new age of politics and media. He described what Donald Trump's campaign and the dawn of the Trump presidency have taught us about the historic shifts in politics and media that have occurred in the last generation.
Lee Rainie, director of Internet, Science and Technology research at the Pew Research Center, discussed the Center’s latest findings on digital divides based a survey conducted from Sept. 29 to Nov. 6, 2016. The presentation was to the board of Feeding America. Rainie looked at differences tied to internet access, home broadband ownership, and smartphone ownership by several demographic measures, including household income, educational attainment, race and ethnicity, age, and community type. He also discussed the Center’s research related to “digital readiness gaps” among technology users.
Lee Rainie, Director of Internet, Science, and Technology research at the Pew Research Center, presented this material on December 12, 2016 to a working group at the National Academy of Sciences. The group is exploring how to think about creating an academic discipline around "data science."
Lee Rainie, director of Internet, Science and Technology research at the Pew Research Center, presented the Center’s latest findings about the use of digital technology and its future at the Federal Reserve Board’s Editors and Designers conference in Philadelphia on October 6, 2016. During the keynote he discussed the impact of social media, collaboration, and future trends in technology with a special focus on the issues tied to security and reputational risk that face the Federal Reserve System. He described how the Center’s research can help communicators:
-Disseminate their messages across multiple digital and traditional media channels
-Engage their audience and encourage amateur evangelism
-Assess the impact of their outreach and observe challenges to their material
-Think like long a long-tail organization that also has real-time immediacy
Lee Rainie, director of Internet, Science and Technology Research at the Pew Research Center will cover the latest findings of the center’s public opinion polling about Americans use of libraries and their feelings about the role that libraries play in their lives and in their communities at the American Library Association Conference in Orlando. The new findings will cover the latest library-usage trends, book-reading trends, and insights into the ways more and more Americans hope libraries will offer community-oriented and educational services.
Lee Rainie will present findings from Pew Research Center’s report titled "The Internet of Things Will Thrive by 2025" to the American Bar Association Section of Science & Technology law on March 30, 2016. The report presents the views of hundreds of “technology builders and analysts” on the question of whether Internet of Things will have widespread and beneficial effects on the everyday lives of the public.
Innovation and technology go hand in hand in developing the vision and strategy for the business solutions these leaders employ to engage current and new customers (boomers and beyond), and to establish new business models. Explore the best practices in innovation that drive new revenue generation. How is innovation affected by the adoption of technology by older consumers? Lee Rainie and Andrew Perrin present what works and what doesn’t when innovating in large public and nonprofit organizations at the Boomer Summit in Washington.
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Technology Adoption by Baby Boomers (and everybody else)
Networked Individuals
1. THE RISE OF NETWORKED
INDIVIDUALS
Lee Rainie
Director – Pew Internet Project
Speech at University of Minnesota
4.22.10
Email: Lrainie@pewinternet.org
Twitter: http://twitter.com/Lrainie
202-419-4500
2. The internet is the change agent
Then and now
2000 2010
46% of adults use internet 75% of adults use internet
5% with broadband at home 62% with broadband at home
50% own a cell phone 80% own a cell phone
0% connect to internet 53% connect to internet
wirelessly wirelessly
<10% use “cloud” >two-thirds use “cloud”
= slow, stationary = fast, mobile connections
connections built around my built around outside servers
computer and storage
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3. Media ecology – then (industrial age)
Product Route to home Display Local storage
TV stations phone TV Cassette/ 8-track
broadcast TV radio
broadcast radio stereo Vinyl album
News mail
Advertising newspaper delivery phone
paper
Radio Stations non-electronic
Tom Wolzien, Sanford C. Bernstein & Co
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4. Media ecology – now (information age)
Product Route to home Display Local storage
cable TiVo (PVR) VCR
TV stations DSL TV Satellite radio player
Info wireless/phone radio DVD
“Daily me” broadcast TV PC Web-based storage
content books iPod /MP3 server/ TiVo (PVR)
Cable Nets broadcast radio stereo PC
Web sites Ubiquitous computing age
satellite monitor web storage/servers
Local news mail headphones CD/CD-ROM
Content from Cloud computing
express delivery pager satellite player cell phone memory
“Internet of things”
individuals iPod / storage portable gamer MP3 player / iPod
Peer-to-peer subcarriers / WIFI cell phone pagers - PDAs
Advertising newspaper delivery non-electronic cable box
Radio stations camcorder/camera PDA/Palm game console
game console paper
Satellite radio e-reader / Kindle storage sticks/disks
e-reader/Kindle
Adapted from Tom Wolzien, Sanford C. Bernstein & Co
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5. 37% of adults own DVRs –
Media ecology – now (information age) 2002
up from 3% in
48% of Route to homeown laptops – Local storage
Product adults Display
cable TiVo (PVR) VCR
TV stations up from 30% in 2006
DSL TV Satellite radio player
Info wireless/phone radio DVD
“Daily me” broadcast TV PC Web-based storage
content 37% of adults own game consoles
books iPod /MP3 server/ TiVo (PVR)
Cable Nets broadcast radio stereo PC
Web sites satellite monitor web storage/servers
Local news mail headphones CD/CD-ROM
18% of adults own
Content from
individuals
express delivery pager
iPod / storage
satellite player
portable gamer
cell phone memory
MP3 player / iPod
personal gaming devices
Peer-to-peer subcarriers / WIFI cell phone pagers - PDAs
Advertising newspaper delivery non-electronic cable box
Radio stations camcorder/camera PDA/Palm game console
game console paper
Satellite radio 43% of adults own MP3 players –
e-reader / Kindle storage sticks/disks
e-reader/Kindle
up from 11% in 2005
Adapted from Tom Wolzien, Sanford C. Bernstein & Co
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6. Media ecology – now (information age)
Product Route to home Display Local storage
cable TiVo (PVR) VCR
TV stations DSL TV Satellite radio player
Info wireless/phone radio DVD
“Daily me” … and this all affects social networks
broadcast TV PC Web-based storage
content books iPod /MP3 server/ TiVo (PVR)
Cable Nets 1) their composition
broadcast radio stereo PC
Web sites
Local news 2) the way people use them
satellite
mail
monitor
headphones
web storage/servers
CD/CD-ROM
Content from
individuals
3) their importance
express delivery pager
iPod / storage
satellite player
portable gamer
cell phone memory
MP3 player / iPod
4) the way organizations can play a part in them
Peer-to-peer
Advertising
subcarriers / WIFI
newspaper delivery
cell phone
non-electronic
pagers - PDAs
cable box
Radio stations camcorder/camera PDA/Palm game console
game console paper
Satellite radio e-reader / Kindle storage sticks/disks
e-reader/Kindle
Adapted from Tom Wolzien, Sanford C. Bernstein & Co
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7. Behold the idea of networked individualism
Barry Wellman – University of Toronto
The turn by
people from
groups to social
networks = a
new social
operating
system
Rise of Networked Individuals April 22, 2010 7
8. Technology affects network creation, composition
• Bigger
• Looser
• More segmented
• More layered
=
• More liberated
• More work
• More important as sources of support and
information, filters, curators, audience
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9. Big societal forces pushing/pulling us toward
networked individualism
1. Affluence and affordable technology
2. Changes in family composition, roles, responsibilities
3. Expanding consumer options
4. Income and wealth volatility
5. Job security and longevity
6. Rise of free agency and freelancing
7. Employer changes pushing workers towards
management of retirement and health care
8. Rise of DIY politics and religion
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10. 8 ways the inform and
influence ecosystem has
changed in the digital age and
pushed along networked
individualism
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13. Information ecosystem change – 2
The variety of
info sources
increases and
democratizes
and the
visibility of new
creators is
enhanced in the
age of social
media.
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14. Social networking
57% of online adults use social
network sites
73% of online teens use them
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15. Picture sharing
~50% of online adults post pictures online
~70% of online teens do that
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16. Posting comments on websites/blogs
26% of adults post comments on sites
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17. Twitter
19% of adults use Twitter or other status
update methods
8% of teens use them
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18. Blogs
11% of online adults keep blogs
14% of online teens keep them
>40% of internet users read blogs
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19. Information ecosystem change – 3
People’s vigilance
for information
changes in two
directions:
1) attention is
truncated (Linda
Stone)
2) attention is
elongated (Andrew
Keen; Terry Fisher)
20. Information ecosystem change – 4
Velocity of
information
increases and
smart mobs
emerge
84% of online adults are in a group with online presence
~50% belong to listservs or regular group emails
~40% get email- or text-alerts
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21. Information ecosystem change – 5
Venues of
intersecting with
information and
people multiply and
the availability of
information expands
to all hours of the
day and all places
people are
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22. Information ecosystem change – 6
The vibrance and 1) Augmented Reality
immersive
qualities of
media
environments
makes them
more compelling
places to hang
out and interact
-- Metaverse Roadmap
Project
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23. Information ecosystem change – 6
The vibrance and 2) Mirror Worlds
immersive
qualities of
media
environments
makes them
more compelling
places to hang
out and interact
-- Metaverse Roadmap
Project
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24. Information ecosystem change – 7
Valence (relevance)
of information
improves – search
and customization
get better as we
create the “Daily
Me” and “Daily Us”
~40% of online adults get RSS feeds
~35% customize web pages for info they want
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25. Information ecosystem change – 8
Voting on and
ventilating about
information
proliferates as
tagging, rating, and
commenting occurs
and collective
intelligence asserts
itself
31% of online adults rated person, product, service
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26. What technology has done to networks
• Reified networks and made them more vivid
• Allowed for immediate, ad hoc creation of networks
(“Here Comes Everybody” and “Smart Mobs”)
• Added more segments to networks, especially
communities of interest and “just in time, just like me”
groups
• Turned media making into a social activity and a
network-building, network-sustaining activity
• Made it possible for “impersonal” organizations,
enterprises to become nodes in people’s networks
• Created “consequential strangers” and “audience” as
social network layers
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27. What technology has done for Networked
Individuals. They have a different …
• Sense of information availability – it’s ambient
and “I control the playlist”
• Sense of time – it’s oriented around “continuous
partial attention” and then intense digging
• Sense of community and connection – it’s about
“absent presence” as much as it is about
“membership” – and it is portable
• Sense of the rewards and challenges of
networking for social, economic, political, and
cultural purposes – new layers and new
audiences
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28. The dark sides of networked individualism
• Tech-induced isolation
• Tech-induced distractions – danger and
diversions
• Tech-induced disclosure - loss of privacy
• Tech-induced social balkanization and
extremism – bonding rather than bridging
• Tech-abetted failures of “information
markets”
• Tech-abetted awful activities
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29. Why good social networks (and social
networking) matter
• Healthier
• Wealthier
• Happier
• More civically engaged = better communities
-----------------------------
• Diversity matters – “bridging” is as essential as
“bonding” social capital
• Size matters – networked individuals add to
stores of social capital
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30. Thank you!
Lee Rainie
Director
Pew Internet & American Life Project
1615 L Street NW
Suite 700
Washington, DC 20036
Email: Lrainie@pewinternet.org
Twitter: http://twitter.com/lrainie
202-419-4500
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