lis590cmcnotes9-21

Ellison

Turkle

winter of 96 - no community in coffeeshops? how - doesn't really go into it...

relationship to the performance issues in the boyd article - testing out MUD features as a construction of your personality...

romanticized reality? not all that it cracks up to be - speed, multiplicty of experience, casts/characters...

seems like a real undercurrent of the reality bites sort of crowd

choose your own adventure

the presentations are more of a curiosity, something to consider without any notion of the consequences - no seriousness as it has no direct impact on the real life - as much impact as the MUDder wants to let it have...

personal choice and responsibility - in public spaces (bystander effect included) we are responsible for our reactions to what we see - but online this doesn't seem to be the case, do we need to intervene? is there any _real_ consequence...

ultimately unsatisfying escapism, built on a set of rules that last long enough until someone with a bit more control decides to wield it

what's compelling is how much online social behavior has changed - real information - real bits of information - we are more willing to reflect our reality rather than construct our own... even be embarassed to the quality of the reproduction - too much information, rather than a construction of false elements or fantasy - no one seems to deny their friends - again, boyd - instead they construct a cloud that mirrors their f2f relationships...

emote command - what drives the assumption that any aspect of experience can be conveyed accurately? it's an odd humanist belief to hold in the face of some of the rest of the paper - acknowledges the likelihood of pastiche and simulacra as enough to prompt "real" experience, and then confused as to the emote command compared to the real emotion? don't buy it... crocodile vs. crocodile tears...

Stutzman

Fosters a more subjective and holistic disclosure of identity information

- really??

procedure - a random selection of students?

how many - what sampling technique

point about false information placed online

specific examples - several homepages with small snips of accurate information

considering the function of the SNC - used as an online confirmation of physical friendship and connection - it's not a place for meeting people more than a step or two away

'A large number of students share

particularly personal information online. If we are to compare the trends we

observe in Figure 1, with the opinions students present in Table 3, it strongly

suggests that there is a disconnect between the value of traditional identity

information (Name, SSN) and the new types identity information being disclosed

(photo, political views, sexual orientation) in SNC’s. This disconnect identifies

the need for a new discussion of identity information protection on campus, one

that is effectively holistic and SNC-aware."

particularly personal information? seems like an odd classification

boyd

"While both are recognized as forms of

conversations [6,8,15], the simultaneously public and

private nature of this media for sharing complicates

traditional conceptions of communication."

- isn't it really just moving towards a rich reflection of other forms of communication?

more than performing identity to friends

it's performing friendship to strangers

and through connections to others, hint at aspects of an identity without having to be explicit

why the dramatic drop off?

is maintenance a problem?

passe = but what does that mean?

"By

contrast, digital interfaces are dead – they do not

show the wear of use and are often too generic to

convey meaningful social cues."

too broad a brush

obsession - ownership - but through a technology - presence in this form was so very important... why?

meaning through collage, juxtaposition, playing around with ambiguity

photosharing

testimonials

little acknolwegement of the social and demographic nature of friendster - how homophilous are the communities, really - how mayn crack dealers are exchanging drink recipes in profiles, or lauding their business practices in testimonials