Relationships and social media

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1. Networked Relationships CMNS 353
2. Profile as promise Ellison et al. Presentation of self in a reduced-cue environment Asynchronicity and temporal factors Shared contextual expectations
3. Contextual Expectations Ellison et al. Facts, norms, procedures, and lexicons that can be assumed to be known to any member of a community. Slang and jargon, for example, can be assumed to be understandable within one particular community but not in another. Examples in online communication abound, such as the notion of ‘Netiquette’
4. Word association game LINK
5. Contextual expectations Where do they come from?
6. Contextual expectations Facts, norms, procedures, and lexicons that can be assumed to be known to any member of a community. Slang and jargon, for example, can be assumed to be understandable within one particular community but not in another. Examples in online communication abound, such as the notion of ‘Netiquette’
7. Naturalizing ideology through technology Technological determinism Vs Critical constructivism
9. “Quality Singles” Match.com Western middle class gaze Neoliberal (aspirational, self improving, personal branding), paternalistic. These values are not just there, or determined by technology (something which Ellison et al. Seem seem to suggest). They are created by a society which deposits them within the technological infrastructure.
10. Why is it important for designers? Technology is society made durable Therefore, technology can discriminate Fr this reason, technology design should be participatory, i.e. should include all perspectives, not only the dominant ones.
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