Jeremy Price's Library tagged social → View Popular

Technologically mediated sociality, rather than becoming the means by which radical democracy takes hold, is simply a testament to that very idea’s impotence.
a person’s reading proceeds geometrically while tweeted content expands exponentially
2 more annotations...
- What’s more, we face a very McLuhanesque danger in which the medium quite literally becomes the message; all these romantic imaginings of spontaneous uprising are projected onto the technology, which consequently acquires a sort of messianic aura in the process and turns reportage into gospel. Perception management thus becomes more a bottom-up that a top-down affair purely as a consequence of situational constraints: a handful of tech-enabled eyewitnesses tweet their observations, which provokes a frenzy of re-tweets from which reporters, barred access to the scene of the action, cherry-pick with nothing to guide them but their intuitions as to the information’s reliability. The net effect is, then, that rather than offering immediacy, events like Twitter Revolutions introduce added layers of mediation, such that it is incredibly difficult to evaluate information sources. Call it crowd-sourced propaganda; it’s certainly not objective reportage.
- Prophets of social-media enhanced news reporting also tend to overlook the class element of their rosy prognostications. A trip to any library serving poor inner-city neighborhoods quickly reveals what social media’s revolutionary potential means to large portions of the citizenry. It means waiting an hour for a half-hour turn on a computer that was obsolete four years ago. This, I think, the dialectical image of the Twitter Revolution, which is really just an internecine power struggle between a monied superclass and its tech-savvy auxiliary. The former seek to preserve oligarchy; the latter to establish technocracy.

Youth-Media-Exchange-Final-Report.pdf (application/pdf Object)

www.tigweb.org/...edia-Exchange-Final-Report.pdf - Preview

research education social technology web pedagogy

24 Sep 09

Science Musings Blog

www.sciencemusings.com/...scrambling-to-top.html - Preview

darwin evolution cooperation social science

21 Sep 09

Cat and Girl » Archive » Sharing

catandgirl.com/?p=2161 - Preview

social technology sharing photography humor society community comic webcomic

New bibliography of online worlds and social networking « media/anthropology

johnpostill.wordpress.com/...e-worlds-and-social-networking - Preview

reference technology social research anthropology bibliography

16 Sep 09

Can Twitter Be Saved? | The Big Money

www.thebigmoney.com/...can-twitter-be-saved - Preview

technology twitter information overload social critique

the volume of material that Twitter unleashes now puts impossible demands on its users' time and attention. The problem, in a nutshell, is information overload. The more Twitter grows and the more feeds Twitterers follow, the harder it gets to mine it for what is truly useful and engaging.
he small number of people clicking on that link seemed to me an early sign that we've reached a point of Twitter saturation, in which the result of more people following more feeds adds up not to more communication but more noise.
7 more annotations...
- network effects
- Twitter's growth has been so rapid that it is clearly bumping up against the limits of its usefulness. It is not only increasingly full of noise, but the sheer volume of stuff coming through the Twitter fire hose renders even what was useful much harder to pick apart and make sense of.
- But it does raise the question of just how much engagement we can expect with Twitter as each user signs up to follow more feeds and each active Twitterer tries to tweet more and more often to break through the static.
- inks that were closely related to the main subject of the feed did substantially better
- orporate tweeting is inherently problematic. Corporations invariably believe that they take up a much bigger part of their customers' mental space than they actually do. As the novelty of Twitter wears off, the little attention that people do devote to most corporate feeds will decline even more; I suspect that in the near future many of them will seem as pointless as the inane White Castle home page of 1996.
- the way to keep followers engaged is to narrow their focus and stay on topic. This is quite different from the strategy that many folks now seem to pursue on Twitter, which is to flood the zone with lots of tweets in the hope that simply sending out more messages is the key to getting noticed.
- A lot of people have already had the experience of seeing Twitter abruptly go from engaging to essential to all-consuming. But it's become a little bit like the map that Lewis Carroll once envisioned: having grown to be as big as the world itself, it ceases to be valuable as a map. The question now is whether Twitter can be tamed before it too has grown too world-encompassing to be useful, and the cacophony of signals turns into pure noise.

Can Twitter Be Saved? | The Big Money

www.thebigmoney.com/...can-twitter-be-saved - Preview

twitter technology social information overload interesting critique

the volume of material that Twitter unleashes now puts impossible demands on its users' time and attention. The problem, in a nutshell, is information overload. The more Twitter grows and the more feeds Twitterers follow, the harder it gets to mine it for what is truly useful and engaging.
The small number of people clicking on that link seemed to me an early sign that we've reached a point of Twitter saturation, in which the result of more people following more feeds adds up not to more communication but more noise.
1 more annotations...
- network effects

Popularity of Facebook and MySpace changes, but SES differences in use persist « Eszter’s Blog

www.esztersblog.com/...ses-differences-in-use-persist - Preview

research technology social inequality

21st century media literacies on Vimeo

vimeo.com/5659525 - Preview

technology social literacies

05 Sep 09

Cat and Girl » Archive » On Digital Photography

catandgirl.com/?p=2150 - Preview

photography technology critique social

1 - 20 of 249 Next › Last »

Showing 20▼ items per page

Selected Tags

social

Related Tags

Top Contributors

Click in to find related links.

Groups interested in social

Ad4dcss/Digital Citizenship

Members (207)

bookmarks (1540)
Web2.0

Members (1234)

bookmarks (3059)
Social Bookmark Websites

Members (219)

bookmarks (897)

Related Lists on Diigo

Social bookmarks

Everything about Social Boo...

Items: 100 | Visits: 375

Created by: Torsten Rox
China unit of work

A set of bookmarks for some...

Items: 30 | Visits: 637

Created by: Rob McTaggart
History

Great history websites to l...

Items: 65 | Visits: 708

Created by: Mrs Brown

Diigo is about better ways to research, share and collaborate on information. Learn more »

Join Diigo

Jeremy Price's Library tagged social → View Popular

"Streams of Content, Limited Attention: The Flow of Information through Social Media"

Location Is The Missing Link Between Social Networks And The Real World

Contents of The Social Life of Information

Brown & Duguid—Publications

Charter for Innovation, Creativity and Access to Knowledge: Citizens' and artists' human rights in the digital age

Social media and related books « media/anthropology

Cat and Girl » Archive » The Trap

apophenia: Some thoughts on Twitter vs. Facebook Status Updates

Research on Twitter and Microblogging

Confessions of an Aca/Fan: Archives: PBS's Digital Nation: Another Great Resource For Teaching the New Media Literacies

Paradise Tossed: Three Theses on the Impossibility of Future Progress « Generation Bubble

Youth-Media-Exchange-Final-Report.pdf (application/pdf Object)

Science Musings Blog

Cat and Girl » Archive » Sharing

New bibliography of online worlds and social networking « media/anthropology

Can Twitter Be Saved? | The Big Money

Can Twitter Be Saved? | The Big Money

Popularity of Facebook and MySpace changes, but SES differences in use persist « Eszter’s Blog

21st century media literacies on Vimeo

Cat and Girl » Archive » On Digital Photography

Selected Tags

Related Tags

Top Contributors

Groups interested in social

Ad4dcss/Digital Citizenship

Web2.0

Social Bookmark Websites

Social bookmarks

China unit of work

History