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Notification norms: a sociological approach to information. Information without people?. Is ‘information’ just ‘data’ without people to interpret, understand, know, use? No people, no information ?
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Information without people? • Is ‘information’ just ‘data’ without people to interpret, understand, know, use? • No people, no information? • “informing” is complicated– it is subjective and may require complexity to communicate what we think of as ‘knowledge’ Info 203
Ryan’s (2006) Approach to A ‘Sociology’ of Information “…individual and collective social actors work to move information around in ways that reflect, establish, maintain, and modify social relations and social categories.” Info 203
It is not necessarily a good idea just because technology makes it possible
Notification “…in general, we are never isolated possessors of information, and that the dynamics of what we do with information, how we behave as nodes in information networks, are largely socially determined.” ***diffusion, disclosure, information and economic exchange, secrecy, information flow and social structure
The Social Organization of Notification • Dimensions of notification contexts: nature of social relationships, content of information • “Who” “When” “How” Info 203
Medium and Communication • Warm/cold • expensive/cheap • fast/slow • Personal/impersonal… Info 203
Ecology of the Information Order • Knowledge as Power? • Surveillance • Other Information Asymmetries Info 203