DIGC101 Week 5
Social Networks
What kinds of identities have you produced?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/whoisjenny rr/
http://www.pdfcoke.com/doc/19030355/valle tribune24august09
http://www.myspace.com/southerncrosstat too
http://connelscourt.tumblr.com/
boyd and Ellison (2007)
danah & O’Reilly (2006)
SNS i) public Profile 2) Connected Users 3) Networked Operations (Privacy, Advertising, and Moral Panics)
Identity Tropes • • • • •
Anonymity Narcissism Gender and Gendered Spaces Collective identities – fans, groups, Aggregation
Facebook Vs Myspace 2008 (Ben Heine and Erik Qualman)
SNS STATS Nielsen Techcrunch Pew Comscore
Facebook
Impression management the self The panopticon The Network
To Consider: What kind of industry are we ‘gener‚ting’? Reproduction of the Mundane Data Mining Spaces for circulation, Exchange and Transaction New Corporate Structures and connections
This Week In your blog: A) Report on your own SNS usage, with reference to at least one of the background materials from the course outline. OR
• B) research a current issue facing SNS, investigate and report on your rights as a SNS user.
Planning your Group Production
THEME: ‘Academic Integrity’
Equipment
Video Investigate YouTube User Policies
Assign Roles
Prepare a Short Script