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Computer-Mediated Communication

Computer-Mediated Communication. Community, Science, and CMC. Course business. Join the mailing list! cmc@ischool.berkeley.edu Instructions in the News section of course website.

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Computer-Mediated Communication

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  1. Computer-Mediated Communication Community, Science, and CMC

  2. Course business • Join the mailing list! • cmc@ischool.berkeley.edu • Instructions in the News section of course website. • Meta-review groups for the semester will be sent out on the cmc mailing list by Wednesday evening. If you have a known conflict, email me asap (coye@ischool) Computer-Mediated Communication

  3. Course business (continued) • Megan needs information from non-ischool students so that you will have access to our Wiki (Information sheet will be passed around class) Computer-Mediated Communication

  4. Weekly reading task examples from the days of yore Computer-Mediated Communication

  5. Final projects from the before time…the long long ago… • Two Examples • Squash&Vine • user assessment, site prototype • Mediated Memory • Theory and hypotheses, experimental design Computer-Mediated Communication

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  8. Web 2.0, circa 1985? vs. Computer-Mediated Communication

  9. Rheingold’s study: An early online community (Whole Earth ’Lectronic Link) • At this time, geography still played an important role because of BBSes (local telephone access) • Less use of pseudonyms (identity persistence) • Less initial distrust • Socioeconomic skew? Computer-Mediated Communication

  10. What is an online/virtual community? Social Spaces Role-playing Professional Groups Work-related discussion groups Medical and Illness support groups Geographically related groups Tech/Software Support Computer-Mediated Communication

  11. Virtual communities are social aggregations that emerge from the Net when enough people carry on those public discussions long enough, with sufficient human feeling, to form webs of personal relationships in cyberspace. Howard Rheingold, The Virtual Community Computer-Mediated Communication

  12. Social networks • NOT the same as “social networking” sites! • Accumulate capital (Smith) … • Social capital • Knowledge capital • Communion • … through ties within the network. Computer-Mediated Communication

  13. Potential “to change our lives”Rheingold (1995) Political change (aggregatesocial level) Person-to-person interaction (interpersonal interaction level) Perception, thoughts, personalities (individual level) Macro Micro Computer-Mediated Communication

  14. But does CMC change lives? • That is, does technology change people? Change society? • What’s the role of adaptation? Computer-Mediated Communication

  15. Activity-centered design: An ecological approach to designing smart tools (Gay and Hembrooke 2004) Computer-Mediated Communication

  16. Activity-centered design: An ecological approach to designing smart tools (Gay and Hembrooke 2004) Computer-Mediated Communication

  17. The Internet as “agora”? Computer-Mediated Communication

  18. The Internet as Panopticon? Computer-Mediated Communication

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  20. How do we know if the promise is being fulfilled? How is Internet use related to general social interaction? How does offline interaction relate to online interaction? Computer-Mediated Communication

  21. Does CMC change science? • Cyberpsychology — but what about: • Cybersociology • Cybereconomics • Cyberengineering • Cyberlaw • Cyber_fill-in-blank_ • Are these truly different? Computer-Mediated Communication

  22. The Internet as virtual laboratory “Cyberspace as a scientifically legitimate social environment” Goals: — To understand human behavior in mediated channels, — To explain it, and — To predict it. Computer-Mediated Communication

  23. For Thursday • Erving Goffman. (1956) Chapter 1 from The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life. New York: Doubleday. (In reader.) • Judith Donath. (1998) Identity and Deception in the Virtual Community. In Smith, M., and P. Kollock (Eds.) Communities in Cyberspace. London: Routledge. Computer-Mediated Communication

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