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Kore7While all humans need to feel connected to each other or to some cause, there are also times when we simply want to disconnect, and disconnecting is becoming increasingly hard thanks to social networking technology. As one who was bitten early by the Blac
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10 Jul 09
Tom KrieglsteinA set of opinions from experts on the question above. Lots of great quotes here.
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Martin Baily, Danah Boyd, Steve Chazin, Judith Donath, Nicole Ellison, and William Reader
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Has social networking technology (blog-friendly phones, Facebook, Twitter, etc.) made us better or worse off as a society, either from an economic, psychological, or sociological perspective?
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Our survey included questions designed to assess students’ “social capital,” a concept that describes the benefits individuals receive from their relationships with others.
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Undergraduates who used Facebook intensively had higher bridging social capital scores than those who didn’t, and our longitudinal data show that Facebook use preceded these social capital gains.
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Bridging social capital reflects the benefits we receive from our “weak ties” — people we don’t know very well but who provide us with useful information and ideas
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IBM, for instance, has created an internal social network site, “Beehive,” to encourage more collaboration and communication across teams.
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Barry Wellman) have suggested that social capital hasn’t really declined, but has simply moved online.
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Some doom-mongers have suggested that social networking technologies will eventually lead to a society in which we no longer engage in face-to-face contact with people.
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friendships represent a considerable burden on our time, and our physical and emotional resources. Friends are, therefore, a big investment, and we want to be pretty sure that any friend is prepared to invest as much in us as we are in them
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We therefore monitor potential friends for signals of their investment in us, and some of the best indicators of people’s investment in us are those that we experience face to face.
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We know that people like to associate with people who are like them, a predilection termed “homophily” (love of the same)
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social networking will never replace face-to-face communication in the formation of close friendships.
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when many students begin university, they find themselves with a group of ready-made acquaintances
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I can know what’s on their minds (MySpace), who else they know (Facebook/LinkedIn), and even what they are doing at this very moment (Twitter).
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Today, we experience a feeling of isolation when our Internet connections go down, revealing just how dependent we’ve become on the connective power of the Web.
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The bad: they devalue the meaning of “friend.” Our traditional notion of friendship embraces trust, support, compatible values, etc. On social network sites, a “friend” may simply be someone on whose link you have clicked.
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The ugly: for teens, who can be viciously competitive, networking sites that feature a list of one’s best friends and space for everyone to comment about you can be an unpleasant venue for social humiliation and bullying. These sites can make the emotional landmines of adolescence concrete and explicit.
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social circles will consist of many more, but weaker, ties.
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Social networking technologies provide people with a low cost (in terms of time and effort) way of making and keeping social connections,
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As an ethnographer traipsing across the U.S., I have heard innumerable stories of how social media has been used to bring people together, support learning, and provide an outlet for creative expression.
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For homosexual teens in rural America, they can be tools for self-realization in the battle against depression.
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Unfortunately, those who do not understand social media look to the news, see the negative coverage, and declare all social media evil.
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t’s equally easy to look at the new technology that we don’t understand and blame it as the cause for all social ills. It’s a lot harder to accept that social media is mirroring and magnifying all of the good, bad, and ugly about today’s society, shoving it right back in our faces in the hopes that we might face the underlying problems. Technology does not create bullying; it simply makes it more visible and much harder for adults to ignore.
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06 Feb 09
Clint LalondeWe gathered a group of wise people who spend their days thinking about this issue — Martin Baily, Danah Boyd, Steve Chazin, Judith Donath, Nicole Ellison, and William Reader, — and asked them this question: Has social networking technology (blog-friendly
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21 Nov 08
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Is MySpace Good for Society?
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While all humans need to feel connected to each other or to some cause, there are also times when we simply want to disconnect, and disconnecting is becoming increasingly hard thanks to social networking technology.
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Today, we experience a feeling of isolation when our Internet connections go down, revealing just how dependent we’ve become on the connective power of the Web.
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Adam SuttinStephen Dubner and Steven Levitt, authors of Freakonomics, keep the conversation going from their best-selling book that explores the hidden side of everything.
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Adam ZiółkowskiStephen Dubner and Steven Levitt, authors of Freakonomics, keep the conversation going from their best-selling book that explores the hidden side of everything.
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Seb PaquetWe gathered a group of wise people who spend their days thinking about this issue — Martin Baily, Danah Boyd, Steve Chazin, Judith Donath, Nicole Ellison, and William Reader, — and asked them this question: Has social networking technology (blog-frien
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