Emerging Social Networking Services

Assertion: It's no longer the killer app, it's the killer service (stoopid).

The Web of Affiliations

Some interesting recent papers & presentations:

Graphing & Understanding

• Dennis M. Wilkinson: Strong regularities in online peer production, EC'08
• via tracking of Bluetooth usage (in Bath, UK)
• via tracking of picture sharing online
• Scott A. Golder: Measuring Social Networks with Digital Photograph Collections, Hypertext 2008
• Kostakos & O’Neill: Cityware: Urban computing to bridge online and real-world social networks
• Ostermaier & Bolliger: Creating Location-based Services by utilising a Web of Places
• Jonathan Reades, et al.: Cellular Census: Explorations in Urban Data Collection Pervasive Computing 6/3, 2007

Teaching & Learning

• Twitter - A Teaching and Learning Tool
• Mark Pesce: The Digital Education Revolution keynote, Adelaide, Monday 2 June 2008

Social Psychology

• Fang Wu, Bernardo A. Huberman: Public Discourse in the Web Does Not Exhibit Group Polarization, HP Lab, May 14, 2008
• Java, et al: Why We Twitter: Understanding Microblogging Usage and Communities
• Palmer: Radical Interdependence and Online Telepathy: How Twitter Helps Us Find One Another
• Boyd: None of This is Real: Identity and Particiapation in Friendster
• Shirky: Gin, Television, and Social Surplus
• Future of Civic Media: From Production to Produsage: Interview with Axel Bruns
• Barkhuus et al: From Awareness to Repartee: Sharing Location within Social Groups
• Pesce: Hyperpolitics (American Style) (can also view slide-set)

Crowds & Mobs

• Dave Winer: A demo of something that's not crowd sourcing, & the accompanying podcast
• Mark Pesce: Mob Rules, at AU conference

Changing Business Models

• David Cushman (who has kindly agreed to present to the seminar using virtual presence tools)
  • Why traditional advertising won't work in social networks - and what will
  • Why hits MUST have less value in the networked world
  • Communities of purpose are the business units of the 21st century
• Business Week article: Social Media Will Change Your Business

Journalism, Old & New

• Stilgherrian: Note to "old media" journalists: adapt, or stfu!
• Amy Gahran: Journalism: A Toxic Culture? (Or: Why Aren’t We Having More Fun?)

Who Controls Access to Data?

Privacy, the Courts, Services, 'Bots, & Your Data

• Peter Black: Who is watching YouTube? The US courts want to know

Politics

• from Personal Democracy ForumRebooting America (an anthology of 44 interesting essays)

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