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In the case of Iran’s election, Twitter served as the lifeline to news and info for a monumental and historical event. #Twitter is about approach, transparency, immediacy. #Social media are about: real people, emotion, and empathy. #from “The Cult of the Amateur”: “There’s a tipping point right now with new, traditional, and social media. It’s conversation versus fact checking. No one has answers to where this convergence is leading.” Fact checking is what separates amateurs from experts. #what Twitter represents has more to do with the culture it’s defining. # The new media economy will embrace a shift in content creation and revenue generation from a top-down model to a bottom-up groundswell. it starts to redefine the parameters and platforms for creating and distributing info and monetizing that content. #there's the lack of transparency across Twitter and media #Twitter and social media helps create a more media-literate society #Paul Saffo said, “News doesn’t break, it tweets.”

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#the human brain evolved to very quickly recognize & empathize with physical pain and fear in others, but is much slower to recognize and empathize with emotional pain, or to acknowledge and celebrate virtue or skill. What this means is that, in a media environment where our social encounters happen very quickly, we may not be giving our brains a chance to generate appropriate compassion or admiration. This is especially problematic with regards to compassion, as we may find ourselves building insufficient bonds of empathy #Any kind of rapid interaction[...]can result in this social numbness #Social technologist Linda Stone talks about "continuous partial attention," a condition of modern life where we need to pay ongoing attention to multiple streams of inputs, but can only provide limited degrees of attention to each #From a social perspective, what's limited isn't attention, but consideration. Not just hearing, but listening. Not just seeing a message, but understanding its meaning

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Clive Thompson:"ambient awareness"- by following quick, abbreviated status reports from members of your extended social network, you get a strangely satisfying glimpse of their daily routines. #Twitter - a pointing device instead of a communications channel: sharing links to longer articles, discussions, posts, videos — anything that lives behind a URL. Sites that once saw their traffic dominated by Google search queries are seeing a growing no. of new visitors coming from "passed links" at social networks like Twitter and FB. #Put those 3 elements together — social networks, live searching and link-sharing — may amount to the most interesting alternative to Google's near monopoly in searching. #the key elements of the Twitter— the follower structure, link-sharing, real-time searching #Channels of info: news & opinion, searching, advertising # MIT prof. Eric von Hippel: end-user innovation-consumers actively modify a product to adapt it to their needs.Twitter has been a hothouse of it

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Wikis and social networking sites (SNS) are arguably two of the most popular tools used by young people as part of their everyday social interactions. We propose that the concept of the wiki may be useful for understanding the kinds of virtual identities that are constructed, visually presented, and narrated in online contexts, such as MySpace. The term wikidentities is used in this paper to encapsulate the kinds of identity work which may occur through SNS. We argue that wiki–like behaviour has consequences for reconceptualizing identity as something that is mediated by (rather than at odds with) technology. Our research opens up ways for considering new forms of agency for young people appropriate to a high–tech era that encourages collaboration, negotiation, and risk.

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#80% of sample Twitter users are followed by or follow at least one user. (By comparison, only 60 to 65% of other online social networks' members had at least one friend) #men have 15% more followers than women. This is intriguing, especially given that females hold a slight majority (55%) on Twitter. # an average man is almost twice more likely to follow another man than a woman. Similarly, an average woman is 25% more likely to follow a man than a woman. Finally, an average man is 40% more likely to be followed by another man than by a woman. These results cannot be explained by different tweeting activity - both men and women tweet at the same rate. #On a typical online social network, most of the activity is focused around women - men follow content produced by women they do and do not know, and women follow content produced by women they knowi. Generally, men receive comparatively little attention from other men or from women. #Among Twitter users, the median number of lifetime tweets per user is one. This translates into over half of Twitter users tweeting less than once every 74 days. # the top 10% of prolific Twitter users accounted for over 90% of tweets. On a typical online social network, the top 10% of users account for 30% of all production.

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#the contemporary self wants to be recognized, wants to be connected: It wants to be visible. If not to the millions, on Survivor or Oprah, then to the hundreds, on Twitter or Facebook. This is the quality that validates us, this is how we become real to ourselves — by being seen by others. The great contemporary terror is anonymity. If Lionel Trilling was right, if the property that grounded the self, in Romanticism, was sincerity, and in modernism it was authenticity, then in postmodernism it is visibility.

# So we live exclusively in relation to others, and what disappears from our lives is solitude. Technology is taking away our privacy and our concentration, but it is also taking away our ability to be alone.

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A recent study published in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (Buffardi and Cambell, 2008) found how social networking web sites such as Facebook can attract narcissists .... The study reveals that social network websites can serve as a place to be shallow and not committed. Friendships can be superficial. These types of websites provide a forum where the narcissist can exercise high control of how he/she is perceived giving an edited image. Narcissists love to look at themselves, talk about themselves… narcissism is associated with such things as self-promotion, sexiness, attractiveness, and provocative pictures of themselves.

The study could imply that websites such as Facebook may contain high numbers of narcissists because of easy access to having a large social network. Social networking websites can provide narcissists with forums where they pursue their addiction to grandiosity while maintaining shallow relationships.

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The Facebook Project is a collaborative research effort dedicated to documenting, understanding, and utilizing the social networking service Facebook.com.

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everybody lies on Facebook; people represent a kind of "false self," so that it is hard to really know what a person is like from their Facebook profile. Twitter, however, holding the belief that people's tweets are a much closer representation of their true self than Facebook.... Twitter is the id, while Facebook is the ego.... The ego and the id. Our mediated self and our raw, inner being.

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Clay Shirky, who has studied these phenomena since 1993, has a theory about that response. "People are always eager to believe that their behavior is a matter of morality, not chronology, Shirky argues. “You didn’t behave like that because nobody gave you the option.”.... “It is a constant surprise to those of us over a certain age, let’s say 30, that large parts of our life can end up online,” says Shirky. “But that’s not a behavior anyone under 30 has had to unlearn.” .. “It used to be that we were all in this together. But now my job is not to demystify, but to get the students to see that it’s strange or unusual at all. Because they’re soaking in it.”...It’s hard to pinpoint when the change began. Was it 1992, the first season of The Real World?

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The Virtual Campfire explores the increasingly blurred boundaries between human and machine, public and private, voyeurism and exhibitionism, the history of media and our digitized future.

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an article on online communities distinct between: physical vs. virtual, their purpose, the software supporting, size, etc

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Sites such as Facebook, MySpace and Twitter have revolutionized interpersonal relationships for the digital age. Within these online communities, users share status updates, self-generated media, journal entries and other interpersonal communication with an ever-growing cadre of online friends. The purpose is to reinforce established friendships and form bonds with new friends. "They start in the mid-late 1990s based on this idea that Stanley Milgram had that everybody's connected by six degrees of separation—and the first one was actually called 'sixdegrees.com.'" "They're based on the premise that you're more likely to want to get to know people who know people you already know than all-out strangers. So rather than a dating site that just has people putting up profiles and trying to randomly match, what if you could put up profiles of people that had shared friends. Wouldn't those be more likely to succeed?" #Baym recently has completed research on Last.fm, a niche site that connects fans of similar music. She found that online friendships based on common taste in music tended to be more fragile, although people also used the site to maintain closer relationships. "What I found on Last.fm was that on average these relationships are not very strong," said the KU researcher. "Other people have described them as on average being weak ties, which means that you don't discuss a wide range of topics. You don't do a variety of activities together. You tend to be kind of specialized in what topics you talk about. You interact when you run into each other but you don't seek each other out and your communication is confined to fewer media." # "But what having a lot of weak-tie relationships is giving you access to are a lot of resources that you wouldn't otherwise have. Because we do tend to cluster in relationships with strong ties to people that are pretty similar to ourselves. So they don't necessarily know a whole lot that we don't know. They haven't necessarily been a lot of places that we haven't been. They can't

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the main reasons as to why lurkers did not participate was because they felt they did not need to post, they needed to find out more about the group, they thought they were being helpful, they could not make the software work and in some cases because they did not like the group. On the other extreme is a group of community members that Kim (2000) describes as ‘elders’, who are active members of the community, regularly posting to share their knowledge and the culture of the community. Hierarchical needs
theory seems to suggest that the reason lurkers do not participate is that their physiological or security needs are not being met and the reason elders participate is that they are meeting their social and esteem needs. However, whilst on the face of things this may seem
plausible, the supposition that community members are participating in order to satisfy needs is unsatisfactory. Furthermore, the idea that there is a hierarchy to an individual satisfying so-called needs is also questionable, particularly as it is possible for an individual to be sociable and be creative at the same time and it might not be necessary for them to become secure before they act out social desires....

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#"Identity is often characterized by one's personality traits, interpersonal characteristics such as the roles and relationships one takes in various interactions, the skill one process, and one's personal values or moral beliefs. #"D.I. may consists of a personal digital identity and a social digital identity. D.I. then leads to the online presentation. Establishing D.I., people people want to make a desired impression to others online and project a wanted online image (p.98)....

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#For 44%, using social networking sites such as MySpace or Facebook had no effect on their relationship with their friends; 43% said it made them closer.#"It's possible to have face-to-face friends and go online and talk to people you don't hang out with in school," she says. "It's a chance to have relationships in a different way."#There's been a fascination about new relationships and trying to pit what happens online against what happens face-to-face. It's never been the case that they are in opposition to one another. It always overlaps," she says. "If you track relationships over time, you can't tell the difference between a relationship that started online and one that began to face-to- face."

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#"As Turkle (1995) points out, people frequently use potential online communities, like multiple-user domains or chat-rooms, to deliberately experiment with their own identity and personality. Personas presented online may not be literally truthful in terms of age, gender, personality or even interests." #There is a classic New Yorker cartoon of one dog saying to another, "On the Internet no one knows you're a dog." Turkle emphasizes how people experiment with identity in how they present themselves on the Internet. Online communities would seem to offer an almost ideal minimization of the intrusive nature of the outside observer. “On the Internet, nobody knows that you are really an ethnographer.” However, communities still develop identities and online communities seem to guard membership identity as closely as any. The authors have all experienced hostility in one online community group or another when someone figured out that we were studying the group, even if we were participating actively as members.

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We no longer “go to the Internet” to interact with some shadowy user name where we pretend to be someone we’re not. Ok, maybe people on Second Life do. But sites like Facebook and Twitter are more about extending your real identity and relationships online. That’s what makes them so addictive: The little endorphin rushes from reconnecting with an old friend, the ability to passively stay in touch with people you care about but don’t have the time to call everyday.

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"Online social networks are so new that it’s impossible to know their long-term impact. There’s some evidence that college students have mixed feelings about being guinea pigs for the faux-friendship age. One student interviewed for a study of why and how college students use Facebook, which was published last year in The Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, admitted that being privy to the personal details of “friends” who she had not seen in years made her uncomfortable.... On the other hand, a study published in 2007 in The Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication suggested that hanging onto old friends via Facebook may alleviate feelings of isolation for students whose transition to campus life had proved rocky.... Perhaps they will evolve through judicious deleting and updating of profile information, through the constant awareness of their public face.... Facebook marks a return to the time when people remained embedded in their communities for life, with connections that ran deep, peers who reined them in if they strayed too far from the norm, parents who expected them to live at home until marriage... Kids, who will inevitably want to drive a stake into the heart of former lives, may simply abandon the service (remember Friendster?) and find something new: something still unformed, yet to be invented — much like themselves."

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