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Computer-Mediated Communication

Computer-Mediated Communication. Introductions, terminology, & taxonomy. Your instructors…. Theoretical perspectives. The basic stuff: readings, website, etc…. Office hours: 305A South Hall Wednesday 1:30 to 2:30 pm

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Computer-Mediated Communication

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  1. Computer-Mediated Communication Introductions, terminology, & taxonomy

  2. Your instructors… Computer-Mediated Communication

  3. Theoretical perspectives Computer-Mediated Communication

  4. The basic stuff: readings, website, etc… Office hours:305A South HallWednesday 1:30 to 2:30 pm Course reader — for what’s not onlineAt Copy Central (2560 Bancroft at Telegraph) Class mailing list (directions on course homepage) i216@ischool.berkeley.edu Web site — syllabus and readings (password)http://courses.ischool.berkeley.edu/i216/s12/ Computer-Mediated Communication

  5. Your class… • Who are you? • Your Interest in Computer-Mediated Communication? Computer-Mediated Communication

  6. <cloudkid> what a… <elvis> hi there <madhatter> elvis… Computer-Mediated Communication

  7. Computer-mediated communication? Virtualcommunity? Information and Communications Technology? Social software? Technology-Mediated Social Participation? Online interaction? CMC…DC…SS…ICT…DITMSSC ! Computer-Mediated Communication

  8. AIR-L mailing list debate about “CMC” Read Online: http://courses.ischool.berkeley.edu/i216/s12/ Computer-Mediated Communication

  9. Computer-mediated communication Computer-Mediated Communication

  10. As you can see…even the title of this course is up for debate.(but now that we are in complete agreement/disagreement… back to course logistics!) Computer-Mediated Communication

  11. More logistics: Course format • Lecture + open discussion • With your class participation and weekly reading task • Several in-class activities: rapid-prototyping design projects, in-class experiments…even competitive tournaments! Computer-Mediated Communication

  12. Weekly Reading Task: Reviews! The goal: to highlight specific issues, themes, contributions, and/or problems from the readings. Computer-Mediated Communication

  13. Weekly reviews • Two short reviews required per week. • “Short but informative.” Think of a good online review (Yelp, Amazon.com, etc.). A few paragraphs is sufficient. Be honest but be specific. • Critique, explore, examine — no need to summarize. • Due by 5pm every Tuesday. No Exceptions! • Reviews are an important part of discussion. We will wrap them into our lectures and slides. • 30% of your grade — can’t pass the class without them. • Course password: ************ • This week: one review, due by Friday at 5 pm Computer-Mediated Communication

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

  15. Assignments and final projects • Problem and justification statement • Interim report • Final project report Computer-Mediated Communication

  16. Project ideas • Your ideas will be posted to a wiki (more info coming) • We will use these to help you organize into groups. • If you have a project idea already, keep thinking about it and try to write up a few sentences about your interests. Computer-Mediated Communication

  17. Final projects from the land before time… 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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  19. Final presentations and posters Final presentations: Wed, May 2nd! Computer-Mediated Communication

  20. A brief overview of course topics in no particular order… Computer-Mediated Communication

  21. Overview Social Presentation and Perception Online Communities Computer-Mediated Communication

  22. Overview (continued) Visual interfaces, information visualizations and Media “Richness” Collective Action, Information “Pools” and Collaborative Editing Computer-Mediated Communication

  23. Overview (continued) Reputation Trust and Trustworthiness Computer-Mediated Communication

  24. Overview (continued) Privacy Intimate Relationships Computer-Mediated Communication

  25. Overview (continued) Deception: Lies and the lying liars who lie! CMC and Games Computer-Mediated Communication

  26. Questions? Computer-Mediated Communication

  27. The Early Beginnings of Computer-Mediated Communication: The Virtual Community Computer-Mediated Communication

  28. Computer-Mediated Communication

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

  30. 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

  31. 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

  32. 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

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

  34. 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

  35. Critiquing how CMC changes our lives • That is, does CMC technology change people? Change society? • Can we separate online communication technologies from those who create and use them? Image Credit: http://kristiriley.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/12basics.L.jpg Computer-Mediated Communication

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

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

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

  39. The Internet as Panopticon? Computer-Mediated Communication

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  41. Group activity:CMC technologies • With your group, make a list of the CMC technologies you use, have used, or know about. • Consider the characteristics of each technology. What differentiates them? How are they similar? • Group the technologies in a way that makes sense based on their qualities. • Do they form coherent clusters? • Can you identify consistent dimensions on which you can arrange the technologies? • What are the properties of the ones you enjoy the most? Find the most useful? Computer-Mediated Communication

  42. Mailing List:i216@ischool.berkeley.edu https://calmail.berkeley.edu/manage/list/listinfo/i216@ischool.berkeley.edu Computer-Mediated Communication

  43. For next Wednesday… Social presentation, interpersonal perception, and deception • Goffman, E. (1956) Chapter 1 from The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life. New York: Doubleday. (In reader.) • Donath, J. (1998) Identity and Deception in the Virtual Community. In Smith, M., and P. Kollock (Eds.)Communities in Cyberspace. London: Routledge. • Donath, J. (2011) Signals, cues, and meaning (draft chapter). In Signals, Truth and Design. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press (forthcoming). • Hancock, J.T. (2007) Chapter 19: Digital deception: Why, when and how people lie online. In Joinson, A., McKenna, K., Postmes, T., and U-D. Reips (Eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Internet Psychology. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. (In reader.) Write one review for this weekand the normal two for next week. Computer-Mediated Communication

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