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16 Sep 09

Review: Connected by Nicholas Christakis and James Fowler - opinion - 16 September 2009 - New Scientist

"Behaviours, habits and other traits "ripple" along chains of friends and are contagious at up to three degrees of separation. Thus, my actions and moods - whether I'm happy or depressed, fat or thin, whether I smoke, even whether I vote in elections - affect my friends, my friends' friends and my friends' friends' friends. Thereafter my influence fades away."

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behaviours, habits and other traits "ripple" along chains of friends and are contagious at up to three degrees of separation.
Thus, my actions and moods - whether I'm happy or depressed, fat or thin, whether I smoke, even whether I vote in elections - affect my friends, my friends' friends and my friends' friends' friends. Thereafter my influence fades away.

14 Sep 09

The Social SoftWar By Angela Mitropoulos

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The Social SoftWar
Do blogs and social network-based sites offer the prospect of a democratic sociability without borders or wars?
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- ‘alternative’ economies of the digital commons
- Whether assigned with almighty powers from which, according to Heideggerian lamentation, ‘only a God can save us’, or serving as placeholder of eschatological hopes for the reclamation of a divine-like mastery over the world, the question of technology presents itself as the answer to a political question that has – to modify Althusser’s remark on the structure of ideology – not been overtly posed.
- copyfights
- Lockean doctrine of labour
- For him, the goal of society is the preservation of property rights – and, one can claim rights because labour has been exerted.
- coupling rights and labour together almost as precisely as Locke did. In this way, differences are slid under the equilibriating heading of ‘stakeholders’
- there is a crucial asymmetry between wage and profit
- the relation between labour and rights
- let’s recall Locke’s ‘labour theory of rights’, which is echoed in Marx’s writings.
- The resonances of Lockean justice and right are more than apparent in Marx’s writing, not least in the early theme of alienation. They are also, later, much more ambivalently put:
  
  At first the rights of property seemed to us to be based on a man’s own labour. […] Now, however, property turns out to be the right, on the part of the capitalist, to appropriate the unpaid labour of others or its product, and to be the impossibility, on the part of the labourer, of appropriating his own product. The separation of property from labour has become the necessary consequence of a law that apparently originated in their identity.[4]

02 Sep 09

Neo Cities | The American Prospect

When Yahoo announced earlier this year that it was shuttering GeoCities, an online community of user-created Web pages from the early days of the Internet, the response was more mocking than mournful. "So Long GeoCities: We Forgot You Still Existed" read one PC World headline.

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When Yahoo announced earlier this year that it was shuttering GeoCities, an online community of user-created Web pages from the early days of the Internet, the response was more mocking than mournful. "So Long GeoCities: We Forgot You Still Existed" read one PC World headline
GeoCities is an Internet punch line, with its amateur code and garish color schemes (one programmer friend termed it "an animated-gif-athon"). But it was a hot startup in the mid-1990s
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- But once those online identities are created, are they the property of the users or the corporations that host them? David Bollier, author of Viral Spiral: How the Commoners Built a Digital Republic of Their Own,
- For him, true online community spaces are defined by users having control over the terms of their interaction and owning the software or infrastructure
- The decay of an online social space cannot always be pinned on corporate ownership.
- Online communities tend to mirror the shortcomings of the real world--racism, exclusivity, and class privilege.
- But because MySpace, like the vast majority of social-networking sites and blogs, exists in corporate-owned space, it is vulnerable to being shut down if it is perceived as no longer having a profitable or attractive user base.
- Yahoo has now set an official date for the closing of GeoCities--October 26, 2009--but the question of how we protect and archive the history of our interaction in the digital commons is still unanswered
- "There need to be more public efforts to store and archive."
- ruce Sterling observed, "Bits have no archival medium. We haven't invented one yet. If you print something on acid-free paper with stable ink, and you put it in a dry, dark closet, you can read it in 200 years. We have no way to archive bits that we know will be readable in even 50 years

28 Aug 09

Geoff Cox: Antisocial Applications: Notes in support of antisocial notworking

social networking platforms are already anti-social; designed to derive profit from friendship; based on weak ties; political differentiation of friend or enemy (facebook or hatebook)

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they display contradictory tendencies (both connecting and disconnecting socialities
the emphasis in these notes is to draw attention to how the production of non-antagonistic social relations has become central to economic production and social control
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- Personal information (ID and consumer preferences) is voluntarily submitted and can then be accessed by agencies reflecting pervasive viral marketing techniques, hegemonic corporate ownership and capitalistic economic principles – all designed to derive profit from friendship
- the social relation is based on weak ties (as
  opposed to the relatively strong ties of peer production for instance
- 'The social web facilitates an unprecedented level of social sharing, but it does so mostly through the vehicle of proprietary platforms
- In such ways, the social relation is produced in restrictive form.
- the management of life itself
- whether you are a friend or not
- connectivity remains a security threat
- manifestation of ideology in itself
- Carl Schmitt's notion of enmity (in The Concept of the Political, of 1927), the political differentiation of friend or enemy
- is not simply a method that proposes a reversal of one thing with another but a deeper and more reflexive engagement.
- these notes are arranged as a series of speculations that examine the paradoxical nature of the terms in common use: 'the social' (making particular reference to Bruno Latour's Reassembling the Social)
- and 'networking' (with reference to Ned Rossiter's Organized Networks);
- moving to the antithetical term of 'notworking' to shift attention to social relations that are unfriendly in character.
- The suggestion is that without the identification of antagonisms that underpin sociality, politics simply cannot be engaged.
- The use of the term 'social' has become commonplace and somewhat emptied of meaning especially where communications technologies are concerned.
- 'socius' meaning 'someone following someone else'
- Latour
- As a consequence of expansions in science and technology, he claims that a problem arises, such that the 'social seems to be diluted everywhere and yet nowhere in particular'
- his is the 'actor-network' that describes not a source of action but a 'moving target of a vast array of entities swarming toward it'
- Correspondingly, counter positions need to take advantage of the vulnerabilities in networks by exploiting power differentials that exist in the system (as argued by Galloway and Thacker, for instance). What is required is more detail on network topologies and how power is organised.
- the term 'network' has become so pervasive that it in danger of losing its meaning or of over-determining its effects.
- nework represents a key organisational principle for understanding contemporary politics, society and life in genera
- emergent 'organized networks' are horizontal, collaborative and distributed in character offering a distinct social dynamic and new forms of agency appropriate to networks (based the movement and flow between multiple agencies).
- The potential to transform social relations is somewhat demonstrated in the dynamics of social networking technologies.
- 'The tendency to describe networks in terms of horizontality results in the occlusion of the "political", which consists of antagonisms that underpin sociality. It is technically and socially incorrect to assume that hierarchical and centralizing architectures and practices are absent from network cultures.' (p.36)
- The plurality of nodes in networks does not guarantee a more inherent democratic order,
- centralised ownership and control where the web platform itself mediates relations (unlike peer to peer file sharing for instance).
- Crucially, the software and the knowledge to shape it, is no longer stored locally on the user's hard drive but through the browser interface (and in this sense amateur production does become a pressing issue of lack of access to the means of production).
- ew management techniques tend to stress horizontal rather than hierarchical organisational structures
- As with the discussion of network control, this in itself is a technique of power that Maurizio Lazzarato takes to be more totalitarian than the production line, as it involves the willing subjectivity of the worker in the process
- raw material" of immaterial labor is subjectivity and the "ideological" environment in which this subjectivity lives and reproduces
- The production of subjectivity ceases to be only an instrument of social control
- to construct the consumer/communicator – and to construct it as "active". [...
- The quote reflects the operations of social networking sites where social relations are produced as friendly rather than antagonistic.
- 'tends not to sell
  any product at all to the consumer, but rather sells the consumer to the product'
- new forms of control over subjectivity
- The worker-user voluntarily generates themselves as complicit with the user-generated content they produce
- the networked computer has become like a factory, and has redefined social practices and relations.
- This is the 'social factory' in which work is no longer confined by the walls of the factory, and is more dispersed, intellectual, immaterial and communicative.
- The dislocation of class antagonism in the social factory is close to what Marx referred to as 'real subsumption', to conceptualise the way that exploitation is dispersed and subsumed into the wider social realm. Consequently, the control of communications, and the labour related to communications, have become the key sites of antagonism.
- Furthermore, as labour time has become more difficult to measure and is less distinct from time outside work, much of it now practised as 'nonwork', outside of traditional production processes - 'notworking' as opposed to networking.
- it is work itself that needs to be transformed and made more autonomous according to Negri,
- refusal to work by notworking.
- But is simply refusing to use certain social networking sites effective refusal?
- but the challenge is to make this into a more strategic political issue by identifying what Latour describes as redefining the 'well-assembled collective' (p.161).
- This is a socio-technical issue required better assembled collectives of people and machines.
- There is need to identify the invisible architecture of the network and its protocols locked down by proprietary interests in order to make it more open, participatory and more public.
- Rossiter
- peer production offers an obvious example of the opportunity to explore the limits of democracy
- A peer to peer system in this respect might be considered 'post-capitalist' in the production of a social relation based on sharing and the common good.
- A similar point is made by Virno, in A Grammar of the Multitude, when he argues for a political space in which 'the many' tend to common affairs
- to transform server-client relations into peer-to-peer relations
- the rise of social networking as we know it with its participatory ethic has been largely stolen from free software developmen
- However, social networking demonstrates underlying contradictions: antithetically standing for relations that reflect the dynamics of network architectures and contestational politics.
- work and nonwork related to social networking software clearly invoke antagonistic not friendly relations.
- Angela Mitropoulos refers to as the 'softwar',
- is that without the identification of antagonisms that underpin sociality, politics simply cannot be engaged.
- Geoff Cox

19 Aug 09

apophenia: Twitter: "pointless babble" or peripheral awareness social grooming?

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37.55% are conversational; 8.7% have "pass along value"; 5.85% are self-promotional; 3.75% are spam; and ::gasp:: only 3.6% are news.
Pear Analytics
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- They concluded that 40.55% of the tweets they coded are pointless babble
- I challenge each and every one of you to record every utterance that comes out of your mouth (and that of everyone you interact with) for an entire day.
- people are social creatures and a whole lot of what they express is phatic communication. (Phatic expressions do social work rather than conveying information... think "Hi" or "Thank you".)
- And what they're doing online is fundamentally a mix of social grooming and maintaining peripheral social awareness
- ey want to know what the people around them are thinking and doing and feeling, even when co-presence isn't viable.
- feel connected

11 Jul 09

Does Social Networking Breed Social Division? - Gadgetwise Blog - NYTimes.com

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s the social media revolution bringing us together? Or is it perpetuating divisions by race and class?
but Danah Boyd,
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- thinks we’re deceiving ourselves
- Facebook is growing much faster. But MySpace is far from dead.
- less educated and nonwhite teenagers were on MySpace
- divides
- Facebook users were more likely to be male and have completed college, while MySpace users were somewhat more likely to be female, black or Hispanic, and to have not completed college.
- Why the social stratification? Probably because “people use these sites to connect with people they already know,

29 Jun 09

Oh FriendFeed, What You Really Need is Accountability

The pseudo-anonymity of the internet - or at the very least, the ability to write something cruel without having to face the person eye-to-eye - often leads people to express themselves in ways that are far from how they would behave in real life. In the

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The pseudo-anonymity of the internet - or at the very least, the ability to write something cruel without having to face the person eye-to-eye - often leads people to express themselves in ways that are far from how they would behave in real life. In the past, this typically led people to hide behind pseudonyms and screen names so they could post whatever they wanted without fear of repercussions.
That's why I recently proposed that some communities put an end to online anonymity,
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- Everything a blogger writes, we're held accountable for. Why shouldn't other community contributors be treated the same?
- . It's not really anonymity that's to blame for the troll-like behavior we're seeing in online communities, it's the lack of accountability.
- That's why (some) people seem comfortable posting mean-spirited comments on sites like FriendFeed using their real name and their real identities to do so.
- So although the comment is attached to a real name, it's a single needle in a haystack of opinion.
- FriendFeed itself (or Digg or YouTube for that matter) are to blame for this shameful aspect of human behavior.
- Perhaps what we need is a rating system for the personalities of community participants

23 Jun 09

Half of All Friends Replaced Every 7 Years | LiveScience

You may have more Facebook friends as the years go by, but when it comes to your close friends, you lose about half and replace them with new ones after about seven years, new social research suggests.

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22 Jun 09

FBI catches cyber criminals with undercover forum - SC Magazine UK

The FBI has captured the details of thousands of hackers and spammers via an online forum. SpamHaus had listed Master Splynter as an Eastern European spammer named Pavel Kaminski, who was active as recently as 2005. It's possible the FBI took over the han

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forum was secretly run by a federal cybercrime agent for two years.
SpamHaus had listed Master Splynter as an Eastern European spammer named Pavel Kaminski, who was active as recently as 2005. It's possible the FBI took over the handle sometime thereafter.
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- In 2004, the Secret Service ran a similar scheme on the crime board ShadowCrew, but that agency used an informant, who went on to commit more crimes - a risk not likely present with agent Mularski.

15 Jun 09

Daily Kos: State of the Nation

One need look no further than the 140-character updates streaming in from Iran on Twitter, the photostreams pouring in on Flickr, and the blossoming Facebook pages to understand and appreciate the revolutionary effect social media has had on how civilizat

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One need look no further than the 140-character updates streaming in from Iran on Twitter, the photostreams pouring in on Flickr, and the blossoming Facebook pages to understand and appreciate the revolutionary effect social media has had on how civilizations engage in and react to democracy.
the Iranian government has apparently jammed signals so that foreign press cannot broadcast the protests)

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Social network analysis takes as its starting point the premise that social life is created primarily and most importantly by relations and the patterns formed by these relations. Social networks are formally defined as a set of nodes (or network members)

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28 Oct 08

danah m. boyd: Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship

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 l

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18 Oct 08

False Steve Jobs Heart Attack Report on CNN's iReport Is a Failure of Open Systems - Publishing 2.0

Someone posted a false report that Steve Jobs had heart attack to CNN's citizen journalism site iReport. The fallout (which could include an SEC investigation) lead to the inevitable question of whether this is a failure of citizen journalism. The problem

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Someone posted a false report that Steve Jobs had heart attack to CNN’s citizen journalism site iReport. The fallout (which could include an SEC investigation) lead to the inevitable question of whether this is a failure of citizen journalism.
ANYONE can become a citizen journalist on iReport:
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- “Citizens” — people who are not professional journalists — can use a platform like iReport to legitimately report news
- ut so can bad actors, spammers, liars, cheats, and thieves.
- Instead of trying to host the citizen journalism, to OWN it, which is of course what traditional media organizations are designed to do, news sites should find the citizen journalism already being done on the ultimate open platform — the web.
- nd when they find good reporting, and verify it according to journalistic standards, then they can LINK to it

17 Oct 08

BBC NEWS | UK | Fraudsters' website shut in swoop

A website used by criminals to buy and sell credit card details and bank log-ins has been shut down after a police operation, the BBC has learned. Darkmarket was strictly invitation only and gave criminals access to a wide range of valuable personal infor

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A website used by criminals to buy and sell credit card details and bank log-ins has been shut down after a police operation, the BBC has learned.

15 Oct 08

Colin Rhinesmith: danah boyd on “MyFriends, MySpace” at Berkman Center

notes from danah boyd at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society; Harvard Law School; June 19, 2007

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26 Aug 08

Mapping Memory: Web Designer as Information Cartographer

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02 Aug 08

Introduction to Social Network Methods: Table of Contents

This on-line textbook introduces many of the basics of formal approaches to the analysis of social networks.

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05 Jul 08

Word Spy - lifestreaming

Blogging, Twittering, Facebooking, Flickring, podcasting and YouTubing your lives. Your "lifestream" captures your whole life, in terms of chunks of information: letters, documents, bills, bank statements, video footage of your son's first birthday party,

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Your "lifestream" captures your whole life, in terms of chunks of information

Lifestreaming: a ReadWriteWeb Primer - ReadWriteWeb

Lifestreaming, according to Wordspy, is "an online record of a person's daily activities, either via direct video feed or via aggregating the person's online content such as blog posts, social network updates, and online photos.

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21 Jun 08

Life as an identity building project | Kairos Future

A hundred years ago identity was to a large extent something you were born with.Today, identity has less and less to do with where you come from, but it’s more and more about what you are doing and where you are going that matters; the shift from strict

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It is fun, my friends can see what I am up to and people can comment on my life and I can comment on theirs. It is a way to show your life and to let other people in. Everyone is doing it.”

Estonian girl, 15 years old about uploading pictures and other personal information on the internet.*
Why do people in general, and young people in particular, have a need to expose themselves and their lives on the internet in this way?
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- A hundred years ago identity was to a large extent something you were born with.Today, identity has less and less to do with where you come from, but it’s more and more about what you are doing and where you are going that matters.
- two important societal shifts that have brought about the importance of identity building: the shift from strict social hierarchy to meritocracy and the shift from collectivism to individualism
- Today, people are mostly judged by their own merits and accomplishments and less by where they come from
- focus has shifted to life being about self-realization and self-development.
- In a world where the individual has a larger extent of freedom and can become anything he or she wants (at least in theory) there is also room to build your identity and not being tied to it by birth.
- the 21st century is the era of the “chosen community”.
- We choose our relationships to a greater extent moving away from traditional connections based on family, religion, geographical and ethnic origin etc
- Instead we define ourselves based in what we do, whom we know and what we have studied.
- Importance of different identity shapers – education, profession, religion and ethnic group
- To “google” someone is often the first step when e.g. a manager needs to get a quick first glimpse of person
- Of course you do not want embarrassing photos to appear, but even worse could be not to appear at all

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