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"Most technology designers engage in their trade to make the world a better place. Technologists love to celebrate the amazing things that people can do with technology - bridge geography, connect communities and transform societies. Meanwhile, plenty of naysayers bemoan the changes brought on by technology, highlighting issues of distraction and attention for example. Unfortunately, this results in a battle between those with utopian and dystopian viewpoints, over who can have a more extreme perspective on technology. So where's the middle ground?"

PhD socialmedia utopianism privacy power transparency MACME12

"Associate Director for Research Kristen Purcell will share Pew Internet data on the rapid growth of mobile connectivity and social networking in the U.S., focusing on how information consumption patterns are changing in light of these two technological developments, at the annual Radiodays Europe conference in Barcelona, Spain."

PhD socialmedia research mobile socialnetworking

"We wanted to make a news service that answered the question: “What would news be like if we had networked digital media (and digital cameras and phones and laptops) but there had never been newspapers or broadcast TV news programmes?”."

PhD innovation news future ITV web2.0

"The business of news is changing at the speed of technology. Do we still need old media for news? Probably not. But the survival of the news industry is of crucial import to our society. This signal is about how the news industry will work in the months and years to come, and how publishers should adapt to changes in our cultural and technological landscapes."

PhD news innovation culture future

"Next generation knowledge artisans are amplified versions of their pre-industrial counterparts. Equipped with and augmented by technology, they rely on their human capital and skill to solve complex problems and develop new ideas, products and services. Small groups of highly productive knowledge artisans are capable of producing goods and services that used to take substantially larger teams and resources. In addition to redefining how work is done, knowledge artisans are creating new organizational structures and business models. Knowledge artisans are retrieving the older artisanal model and re-integrating previously separate skills."

PhD knowledge networkcapital

"Rather than virtual or second life, social media is actually becoming life itself- the central and increasingly transparent stage of human existence, what Silicon Valley venture capitalists are now calling an "internet of people."9 As the fictionalized version of Facebook president Sean Parker-played with such panache by Justin Timberlake- predicted in the 2010 Oscar nominated movie The Social Network: "We lived in farms, then we lived in cities, and now we're gonna live on the Internet!" Social media is, thus, like home; it is the architecture in which we now live. "

PhD socialmedia privacy utopianism criticism MACME12

"Producing papers for a growing number of journals with an ever shrinking audience risks diminishing the potential of the impact of academic work. Pat Lockley and Mark Carrigan consider the incentives of the current system of academic publishing and call for a new definition."

PhD academicpublishing

"Often when people have an idea for a great new product or service, they rush to be first to market with it. We keep hearing about first-mover advantage and how you need it.

The only problem with first-move advantage is that it doesn’t seem to exist. The academic research on the topic shows that there is no such thing.

The first definitive work on this was done by David Teece in 1986 (http://www.loc.gov/crb/proceedings/2006-3/riaa-ex-o-101-dp.pdf) . He found that innovators capture about 20% of the profits generated by their new ideas. Followers and imitators capture slightly more. Suppliers get some of the benefit, but the big winners are customers, who get about 40% of the benefit of new ideas."

PhD innovation diffusion networks

"Briefly, what we are talking about is aggregation – detecting behaviour patterns, and interests, by putting together lots of small clues.

“There’s nothing new about this: when you walk in to your local pub and the bartender pours your favourite drink, he has aggregated data about you. Sherlock Holmes is possibly one of the most famous aggregators of data."

PhD privacy google

Andrew McAfee's reaction to Cain's Groupthink article. He fails to distinguish between functional and dysfunctional groups.

"Some recent reading crystallized two hypotheses that have been rattling around in my head for a while now:

Digital crowds work better than real-world ones.

For some things, nothing works except solitude."

PhD techno-utopia criticism socialmedia collaboration

Typically of the MSM this article fails to link to the original research so that needs a look. Feist seems to have researched scientists - which is an activity which does not map directly onto corporate experience or everyday like. The article also fails to acknowledge how science has codified collaboration through the functions of literature search and peer review. And then goes onto ridicule analogous behaviour in the classroom.

What is 'creative' in the context of this article? As usual it means everything and nothing...

"SOLITUDE is out of fashion. Our companies, our schools and our culture are in thrall to an idea I call the New Groupthink, which holds that creativity and achievement come from an oddly gregarious place. Most of us now work in teams, in offices without walls, for managers who prize people skills above all. Lone geniuses are out. Collaboration is in.
But there's a problem with this view. Research strongly suggests that people are more creative when they enjoy privacy and freedom from interruption. And the most spectacularly creative people in many fields are often introverted, according to studies by the psychologists Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and Gregory Feist."

PhD techno-utopia criticism socialmedia collaboration MACME12

In the mid-1990s, as the Internet and the World Wide Web went public, a utopian nearconsensus about their likely social impact seemed to bubble up out of nowhere. The Net would level social hierarchies, distribute and personalize work, and dematerialize communication, exclaimed pundits and CEOs alike. The protocols of the Net were said to embody new, egalitarian forms of political organization. They offered the technological underpinnings for
peer-to-peer commerce, and with them, claimed many, an end to corporate power. And well above the human plains of financial and political haggling, suggested some, those same protocols might finally link the now-disembodied species in a single, harmonious electrosphere.

PhD socialmedia techno-utopia criticism MACME12

"It's fashionable to hold up the Internet as the road to democracy and liberty in countries like Iran, but it can also be a very effective tool for quashing freedom. Evgeny Morozov on the myth of the techno-utopia."

PhD socialmedia techno-utopia criticism MACME12

"The Management 2.0 Challenge is the first of three contests in a yearlong competition in which executives describe practices that make management more adaptable, innovative, inspiring, and accountable.1 In this first phase, entrants were asked to describe how Web 2.0 tools and technologies are changing management. "

PhD innovation enterprise2.0 socialmedia web2.0 McKinsey

"Given the importance of science in contemporary life, the sensitive ethical and social issues that it raises and the fact that the public looks primarily to the media for its science information, in 2010 the BBC Trust launched a review of the impartiality and accuracy of BBC science coverage. The review covered specialist and non-specialist science content on TV, radio and online. Steve Jones, Emeritus Professor of Genetics at University College London, was commissioned to write his own independent report as part of the review. "

PhD bbc science

"As Ed Vaizey offers to meet with the BBC to discuss the representation of women on air, it's time to highlight another minority group excluded by broadcasters - scientists"

PhD bbc science

Little research has been conducted on the two most important criteria for the success of social network sites (SNS), that is, content sharing and sociability, and how these affect privacy experiences and usage behavior among SNS users. This article explores these issues by employing in-depth interviews and explorative usability tests, comparing the experiences and usage of younger and older Facebook users.

PhD socialnetworking facebook privacy criticism

"Resident WHYS web guru Ben Sutherland recently did all the groundwork to set up our presence on Google Plus - Google's latest social networking venture.
After Thursday's experiment, I want to get your ideas about how we can best use it - are you as excited as Blaise about the possibilities? Let me explain more ...
A "hangout" on Google Plus lets you sit and chat online on webcam with up to 10 people at once who can dip in and out as they wish."

PhD innovation WHYS google+ hangouts

"In the last few years, a powerful consensus has emerged among scholars of digitally enabled peer production. In this view, digital technologies and social production processes are driving a dramatic democratization of culture and society. Moreover, leading scholars now suggest that these new, hyper-mediated modes of living and working are specifically challenging the hierarchical structures and concentrated power of bureaucracies. This paper first maps the assumptions underlying the new consensus on peer production so as to reveal the sources of its coherence. It then revisits Max Weber’s account of bureaucracy. With Weber in mind, the paper aims to expose analytical weaknesses in the consensus view and offer a new perspective from which to study contemporary digital media. "

PhD socialmedia criticism peer participation Weber bureaucracy

But what disappointed me was that these are NOT what the smart observers are criticising Social Media for. And Cory knows it, as in his last paragraph he notes:

There are plenty of things to worry about when it comes to social media.

They are Skinner boxes designed to condition us to undervalue our privacy and to disclose personal information. They have opaque governance structures. They are walled gardens that violate the innovative spirit of the internet.

PhD socialmedia criticism