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Visual Dictionary Online

Sun, 15 Jun 2008 13:35:26 -0000

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Fields & Capital « media/anthropology

Thu, 29 May 2008 10:15:54 -0000

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Global Heating, Atmosphere Cancer, Pollution Death. Whats in a Name? - Dot Earth - Climate Change and Sustainability - New York Times Blog

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 00:14:00 -0000

Tags: climate definition environment global_warming language

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Folksonomies of Interest « Open Learning

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 14:33:34 -0000

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Clusty the Clustering Engine

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 17:56:50 -0000

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Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship

Sat, 19 Jan 2008 01:11:39 -0000

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they are primarily communicating with people who are already a part of their extended social network

"Networking" emphasizes relationship initiation, often between strangers. While networking is possible on these sites, it is not the primary practice on many of them, nor is it what differentiates them from other forms of computer-mediated communication (CMC).

We define social network sites as web-based services that allow individuals to (1) construct a public or semi-public profile within a bounded system, (2) articulate a list of other users with whom they share a connection, and (3) view and traverse their list of connections and those made by others within the system. The nature and nomenclature of these connections may vary from site to site.

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apophenia: let's define our terms: what is a "social networking technology"?

Sat, 19 Jan 2008 00:38:50 -0000

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We know that there's confusion and we strongly believe that without a definition, we cannot actually have a meaningful conversation about actual substance. The ongoing use of "social networking" has been damaging to any productive conversation, both in the academy and in startup circles (who all want to be the next "social networking" app, even if there are no "Friends" involved).

our failure to define our terms makes it damn near impossible to have a functional conversation about the actual issues

Tags: definition network social technology web2.0

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The World's Fair

Sun, 06 Jan 2008 00:14:12 -0000

Tags: definition epistemology interesting philosophy

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Word Spy - dropout factory

Fri, 07 Dec 2007 18:54:40 -0000

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No. Really. It's not about the technology.

Tue, 04 Sep 2007 08:35:23 -0000

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A more philosophical and political bent on Web 2.0.
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The point isn't the features, it's the underlying philosophy of relinquishing control.

Tags: definition philosophy power technology web2.0

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Web as Platform Mash-Ups

Tue, 04 Sep 2007 08:34:24 -0000

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An attempt an "elevator speech" describing Web 2.0.
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"Its data and metadata is contributed by its users; while the interface is its own. Its API's are used by developers who tend to use its data, but not the interface (such as Mappr, Color Pickr)."

"The point isn't the features, it's the underlying philosophy of relinquishing control."

ZDNet is calling the current generation of the Web the "recombinant Web".

So the philosophy of Web 2.0 is to let go of control, share ideas and code, build on what others have built, free your data.

Tags: applications communications community definition technology

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Social network - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Fri, 24 Aug 2007 12:04:30 -0000

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The article on Wikipedia on social network theory and analysis.
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Centrality Closeness

The degree an individual is near all other individuals in a network (directly or indirectly).

Betweenness

This approach has turned out to be useful for explaining many real-world phenomena, but leaves less room for individual agency, the ability for individuals to influence their success, because so much of it rests within the structure of their network.

Social network analysis produces an alternate view, where the attributes of individuals are less important than their relationships and ties with other actors within the network.

Radiality

Degree an individual’s network reaches out into the network and provides novel information and influence

Reach

The degree any member of a network can reach other members of the network.

network analysis looks to see the extent to which the structure and composition of ties affect norms.

There is no assumption that groups are the building blocks of society: the approach is open to studying less-bounded social systems, from nonlocal communities to links among Web sites.

Eigenvector centrality is a measure of the importance of a node in a network. It assigns relative scores to all nodes in the network based on the principle that connections to nodes having a high score contribute more to the score of the node in question.

Rather than treating individuals (persons, organizations, states) as discrete units of analysis, it focuses on how the structure of ties affects individuals and their relationships.

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Word Spy - Lake Wobegon effect

Mon, 20 Aug 2007 18:06:46 -0000

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Actor-network theory (ANT) - STS Wiki

Wed, 08 Aug 2007 16:23:28 -0000

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ANT tries to explain how material-semiotic networks come together to act as a whole.

'material-semiotic' method

maps relations that are simultaneously material (between things) and 'semiotic' (between concepts)

Actor-network theory, often abbreviated as ANT, is a distinctive approach to social theory and research which originated in the field of science and technology studies. Although it is best known for its controversial insistence on the agency of nonhumans, ANT is also associated with forceful critiques of conventional and critical sociology.

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Chapter 2: How Experts Differ from Novices | How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School

Tue, 07 Aug 2007 10:34:35 -0000

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Folksonomy - New York Times

Thu, 19 Jul 2007 12:09:12 -0000

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Video: RSS in Plain English | Common Craft - Social Design for the Web

Thu, 07 Jun 2007 03:39:25 -0000

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Eight Best (Or Most Interesting) Web 2.0 Definitions and Explanations (SocialComputingMagazine.com)

Wed, 06 Jun 2007 08:44:43 -0000

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Science Musings Blog > What is science?

Fri, 29 Sep 2006 10:25:00 -0000

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it is precisely because we recognize the limits of science that we mind too poets, artists, musicians, and all who give creative expression to our intuition -- amply confirmed by the history of science -- that there is more to the world than what presently meets the eye.

quantitative observation, mathematical language, peer review, institutionalized doubt, the principle of parsimony, and -- above all -- the willingness to say "I don't know."

I would emphasize consensus: Science is the attempt by skeptical and curious men and women -- let's call them scientists -- to gain consensus knowledge of the world, by trying as best they can to minimize cultural bias (tradition, religion, politics, ethnicity, gender, etc.) and let nature have its say.

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Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog » Dazzled

Wed, 20 Sep 2006 06:28:25 -0000

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I allude to Marilyn Strathern’s later reflections on ‘the ethnographic moment,’ that encounter that lives on as an image in your mind, guiding your analysis because it is so phenomonally real or present long-after the fact.

I tend to think of culture as collated qualia, the systematic structuring of sensory perception(s) into ‘meaningful’ relations.

Tags: academic anthropology blog culture definition

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Forestfortrees's Favorite Links on definition from Diigo

Visual Dictionary Online

Fields & Capital « media/anthropology

Global Heating, Atmosphere Cancer, Pollution Death. Whats in a Name? - Dot Earth - Climate Change and Sustainability - New York Times Blog

Folksonomies of Interest « Open Learning

Clusty the Clustering Engine

Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship

apophenia: let's define our terms: what is a "social networking technology"?

The World's Fair

Word Spy - dropout factory

No. Really. It's not *about* the technology.

Web as Platform Mash-Ups

Social network - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Word Spy - Lake Wobegon effect

Actor-network theory (ANT) - STS Wiki

Chapter 2: How Experts Differ from Novices | How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School

Folksonomy - New York Times

Video: RSS in Plain English | Common Craft - Social Design for the Web

Eight Best (Or Most Interesting) Web 2.0 Definitions and Explanations (SocialComputingMagazine.com)

Science Musings Blog > What is science?

Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog » Dazzled

No. Really. It's not about the technology.