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“By studying patterns of interactions on networks—often scrutinizing us only as anonymous bits of data—researchers are working to predict which friends we trust and which we pay attention to in each area of our lives. The data can be hard to interpret, says danah boyd, a Berkeley PhD who just signed on at Microsoft Research. (She changed her name to lower case). “You may e-mail your mother less frequently than a colleague, but it’s not that she’s trusted less.”
— Learning, and Profiting, from Online Friendships - BusinessWeek
“When masses of people who own the means of production work toward a common goal and share their products in common, when they contribute labor without wages and enjoy the fruits free of charge, it’s not unreasonable to call that socialism.”
— The New Socialism: Global Collectivist Society Is Coming Online
“Regardless of whether or not this factor explains the differences between these teens, I can’t help but wonder the significance of teens’ willingness to interact with known adults on social network sites. There’s nothing worse than demanding that teens accept adults in their peer space, but there’s a lot to be said for teens who embrace adults there, especially non-custodial adults like youth pastors and “cool” teachers. I strongly believe that the healthiest environment we can create online is one where teens and trusted adults interact seamlessly. To the degree that this is not modeled elsewhere in society, I worry.”
— apophenia: is Facebook for old people?
“Keep in mind a fundamental fact: many of the 97 plus million people who downloaded the video are part of a surplus audience from the perspective of the people who produced and marketed Britain’s Got Talent. Indeed, beyond a certain point, Susan Boyle’s rapid visibility becomes a liability rather than an asset. Keep in mind that Boyle stars in a British program which does not get commercial distribution in the United States. I can’t turn on a television network — cable or broadcast — and watch the next installment of Britain’s Got Talent. I can’t go on Hulu and download that content. And I can’t at present go on iTunes and buy this content. Market demand is dramatically outpacing supply.”
— Confessions of an Aca-Fan: The Official Weblog of Henry Jenkins
“Contrary to what you may have read, Susan Boyle didn’t go “viral.” She hasn’t gained circulation through infection and contagion. The difference between “viral” and “spreadable” media has to do with the conscious agency of the consumers. In the viral model, nobody is in control. Things just go “viral.” In the Spreadability model, things spread because people choose to spread them and we need to understand what motivates their decision and what facilitates the circulation.”
— Confessions of an Aca-Fan: The Official Weblog of Henry Jenkins
“Pew found that while nearly half of online political consumers visited five or more distinct types of online news site, they preferred to visit sites that matched their own political viewpoints, rather than sites with no point of view. This was particularly true for young people and the most engaged. Furthermore, the preference for partisan sources of information has grown between 2004 and 2008, especially amongst young people, showing that fragmentation concerns may be much more relevant today than they were a decade ago”
— The Internet and the 2008 US election: participation and/or fragmentation? (via feedly)
“Think about the ways you communicate with your friends—whether on or off Facebook. The communication likely falls into one of two traditional types: reciprocal communication or direct communication. Reciprocal communication is a conversation where messages are exchanged back and forth. This can include talking on the telephone, or on Facebook it can mean a Wall-to-Wall exchange or real-time chat. Direct communication occurs when you send a message to someone specific, with or without the expectation of a reply. It can be a one-way Inbox message or Wall post on Facebook, or sending an old fashioned letter or an e-mail. On Facebook, there’s a third and new way you communicate—through the stream. Every time you log into your home page you see a running timeline or stream of the information being shared by your friends and the other things you’re connected with on Facebook. The more people share, the more you see in the stream and the more you learn about your connections. This stream communication, rather than reciprocal and direct communication, forms your active network. Whenever you interact with a story in the stream—whether you “Like” a piece of content, comment on it or simply click on it—the person sharing it becomes part of your active network. When our Data Team measured active networks for users on Facebook, it found that, in any given month, users keep up with between 2 times and 4 times more people than through more traditional communication.”
— Facebook | How Many Friends Can You Have?
“With the old economics destroyed, organizational forms perfected for industrial production have to be replaced with structures optimized for digital data.”
— Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable « Clay Shirky
“One of the key challenges is learning how to adapt to an environment in which these properties and dynamics play a key role. This is a systems problem. We are all implicated in it - as developers and policy makers, as parents and friends, as individuals and as citizens.”
— “Social Media is Here to Stay… Now What?”
“5. (de)locatability. With the mobile, you are dislocated from any particular point in space, but at the same time, location-based technologies make location much more relevant. This paradox means that we are simultaneously more and less connected to physical space.”
— “Social Media is Here to Stay… Now What?”