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FaceBook. Presentation of A Social Directory By Debbie Weissmann PhD student, Fall 2006. Goals of this Presentation. Critical Evaluation Skills Identification of Value in Product Identification of Prejudicial Outcomes Discern Personal Biases Good or Bad Useful or Harmful

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  1. FaceBook Presentation of A Social Directory By Debbie Weissmann PhD student, Fall 2006

  2. Goals of this Presentation • Critical Evaluation Skills • Identification of Value in Product • Identification of Prejudicial Outcomes • Discern Personal Biases • Good or Bad • Useful or Harmful • Is it an Essential or Recommended Reference Resource?

  3. Origins The original purpose for Harvard students to identify each other with student ID pictures and basic contact information.

  4. How It Is Used Currently • Contact with Friends • Meet Strangers • Share Highly Personal Information • Affiliations (Group and Individuals) • Personal Photos • Personal Narratives

  5. Our GSE&IS Directory:Reflection of the Institution

  6. The FaceBook Directory:Reflection of the Profile Creator

  7. Digital Play • Playfulness • Totally absorbing • Computers are experienced as a second self. • Reduced accountability • Absence of cues • Danet, B., Ruedenberg-Wright, L.& Rosenbaum-Tamari, Y. (1997). “Hmmm…Where’s That Smoke Coming From?” Writing, Play and Performance on Internet Relay Chat. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication2, Retrieved June 13, 2006, from http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol2/issue4/danet.html.

  8. Blurring The Creator / Audience • Creating a Profile for the Author or the Audience • Information Seeker or Entertainment • Who is your “Friend”? • Access to the “Friends” of your “Friends.”

  9. Limits Set By Self • Internalized notion of accepted and expected behaviors • Predicated upon “Who can see me, who can hear me? And, Who can I see, Who can I hear?” • Meyrowitz, J. (1985) No Sense of Place: The Impact of Electronic Media on Social Behavior. New York: Oxford University Press.

  10. Limits Set By Others • Social Norms • Set by the Community • Enforced by the Community • Adams, A. & Sasse, M.A. (1999) Taming the Wolf In Sheep’s Clothing: Privacy in Multimedia Communication [Electronic version]. In Proceedings of the seventh ACM international conference on Multimedia (Part 1) (pp. 101-107). New York: ACM Press.

  11. Limits Set By Law • US Constitution • 1st Amendment – Applies to Federal Actors • 14th Amendment – Apply 1st Amend. to State Actors (Not private individuals) • State Constitution • Broader than US Constitution? • California Constitution Article 1, § 2 (a) provides “Every person may freely speak, write and publish his or her sentiments on all subjects, being responsible for the abuse of this right. A law may not restrain or abridge liberty of speech or press.” • Parody is not prohibited

  12. Is It A Reference Resource? • Questionable Trustworthiness (is it true?) • Questionable Authenticity (who made the page and why?) • Questionable Authoritativeness (can it be cited?)

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