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WP 6 Virtual Communities

WP 6 Virtual Communities. Chris Marsden (SUSSEX). WP6 Vision. The history of Internet-based communication is also a history of the rise of virtual communities, tied into the geographic penetration of access to the Internet, creating a symbiosis between online and offline experiences.

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WP 6 Virtual Communities

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  1. WP 6 Virtual Communities Chris Marsden (SUSSEX)

  2. WP6 Vision • The history of Internet-based communication is also a history of the rise of virtual communities, • tied into the geographic penetration of access to the Internet, • creating a symbiosis between online and offline experiences. • Our strong working assumption is that virtual communities typically arise from, and respond to, offline communities. • WP6 attempts to further develop interdisciplinary research, • to bridge successfully between disciplines in a manner which enriches both quantitative and qualitative method, • while explicitly acknowledging the normative dimension of our work. • our further work packages will take this work forward. WP6

  3. JRA6 Achievements • Substantial workshops/seminars (D6.3.1) inc. • Internal to JRA6: OXF, BXL, Munich • Within EINS: Co-chair 1stICIS; JRA4/SEA2 UN IGF & LSE • With external partners WebSci (JRA3) • All to be expanded in 2014: Planning for JRA6 workshop • Mobility increased rapidly in 2013: • Marsden to MIT/Wharton/Harvard; Mantelero (NEXA) to OXF; Antoniadis (ETH) to CAM; Arnaboldi (IIR) OXF; Prandini (UNIBO) to OXF; Pezzoni (affiliate Pisa), IIT-CNR to CAM • Delivered D6.1, systematized heterogeneous body of interdisciplinary knowledge • sociology, media/communication, evolutionary neuroscience, economics, psychology, regulatory theory. Cataloguing of case studies continues: 12 total WP6

  4. Example of Co-working in Practice • IIR mobility visit to OXF Q2 2013 • Publication at top-ranking conference: • Arnaboldi, Conti, Passarella, Dunbar • “Dynamics of Personal Social Relationships in Online Social Networks: a Study on Twitter” • ACM Conference on Online Social Networks (ACM COSN 2013), Boston, MA, 7-8 Oct 2013 • Comp sci, evolutionary neuroscience combination WP 6

  5. Links with other activities • Strong EINS cooperation with • JRA5 (privacy/trust in social networks) & JRA4 (regulation/standards in virtual communities) • Open Call activities corresponding to JRA6 • COMPARE [LSE, ETH] • REVITAL: Real and Virtual Social Interactions: Crossroads and Reciprocities • Foundations for Collective Awareness Platforms (NKUA) • CONTROPEDIA [Barcelona Media] • Cross-disciplinary Participation in Open Source Communities • FP7 SCAMPI project with JRA6/other EINS partners: • http://aoc2013.dti.supsi.ch/ WP6

  6. JRA6 Challenges: Input to Internet Science Roadmap • Multistakeholdergovernance of the Internet is an example of an area in which qualitative-quantitative virtual community interaction needs measuring. • metrics and methods to measure the impact of the multistakeholder approach in Internet governance • variations on multistakeholderism effect on standard and policy making • This requires substantial collaboration with • other JRAs, notably JRA1/2/3/4/5, • partners funded through the ‘Open Calls’ in 2013, • other funded parties such as the CAPS programme, • Amongst others… WP6

  7. Next Steps • Template for case studies – see next section • Continue dissemination via papers etc. • Conference presentations • Workshop 2014 • Work towards D6.2 in M36 WP6

  8. Progress in draft case studies • Civic Women’s Rights Platform (Pavan/NEXA) • Take Back the Tech! (Pavan/NEXA) • Online party politics - Pirate Party (Ciurcine/NEXA) • Local Twitter interaction with local administration/political use (NEXA) • Trusting ‘Bouwinfo forum’ (Talboom/iMinds) • Properties of users social networks (Passarella/IIT) • Foursquare Communities (McMillan, MLS) • Hybrid On/Offline Communities NetHood (Panayotis/ETH) • Community: ‘Real’ and ‘Virtual’ in a Rural Village (Rouncefield/LANC) • Integrating Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis (David-Barrett/OXF) • Reg. for Large-Scale Virtual Communities (Marsden/SUSS) • Virtual communities of vehicular nodes (Karaliopoulos/NKUA) WP6

  9. JRA6 Workshop 2014 Option (subject to approval by Exec Board): • 26th HBES • Human Behaviour and Evolution of Society: • Natal, July 30-Aug 2 http://www.hbes.com/conference/ • Robin Dunbar has agreed to keynote • Highly interdisciplinary – excellent opportunity • Organisers have agreed in principle to include conference on programme WP6

  10. Conclusions • Year 2 increase in progress compared to Year 1 • Very substantial contribution to other WP activities (JRA3/4/5/SEA2) – JRA6 workshop in Year 3 • All partners engaged online and offline • Mobility visits, OXF, BXL and Munich meetings • Publications inc. substantial D6.1 and many co-authored publications between JRA6 partners (and others) • TCLR Resource reallocated to NEXA to increase junior/female researcher input • 12 case studies + 5 Open Call projects to analyze contribution to D6.2 (M36) WP6

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  12. Foundations for Collective Awareness Platforms (NKUA) • Systematically explore different dimensions • market, social- and cognitive dimensions • implications for design user participation • Characterization/classification of CAPs, • end user participation incentives, sometimes monetary and more often non-monetary, • value of private information shared in platform • vulnerability to free riders • Novel modelling ideas/design experiments • quantitatively capture CAPs attributes. • Contributes to JRA1/6, interacts with JRA5/7

  13. COMPARE [LSE, ETH] • COMPARE network research & practitioners • self-organization of sociotechnical and economic systems in online/offline contexts. • 1) Learn about building the future Internet from real-life experiences of self-organization? • 2) ICTs facilitate self-organization consistently with local values and agreed upon objectives? • Complementary currency (SARDEX) • Cooperative housing/eco-village (INURA) • Internal rules and structure, scale, ICT, effect of current economic crisis on proliferation. WP TITLE

  14. REVITAL : Real and Virtual Social Interactions: Crossroads and Reciprocities • Research on cross-discipline methodologies • analysing emotional information extracted from people's virtual and real social life. • Methodology: monitor/analyse activitypatterns • affective real/virtual social interactions • Prototype for innovative services built on the basis of project’s conclusions and results. • Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Informatics • University of Crete, Psychology Department WP TITLE

  15. Cross-disciplinary Participation in Open Source Communities LSE • Open Source (OS) development communities behave differently • practices, goals, capacity utilisation, innovative outputs • Understanding the foundations of • cross-disciplinary collaboration/knowledge production; sustainable open code development. • Research methodology: • large open data repositories and the micro-histories of OS communities: social dynamics of members’ interactions over time. • visualization with qualitative research WP TITLE

  16. EDEKO Environmental Drivers-Details-Enforcement-Key Actors-Outcomes 1. Environmental Drivers: • Policy environment, social impact of adoption 2. Design of that community’s solutions: • Affordances, norms, code, other • Enforcement of community standards • by authors, users and developers, • role of governments in attempting to regulate communities in the public interest. 3. Key actors: stakeholders • particularly explore role of bottom-up community WP TITLE

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