tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52915107179012997192024-02-18T19:23:27.102-08:00Adventures in Social Computing: ICS691merniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10305303032797408779noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5291510717901299719.post-35076055544324797072011-04-18T00:56:00.000-07:002011-04-18T00:56:42.440-07:00Assignment #7:Rules, shmulesFor this assignment I studied <a href="http://abovethelaw.com/">Above the Law</a>. <i>Above the Law</i> is a legal tabloid. The site is run by lawyers (and <a href="http://abovethelaw.com/author/emystal/">former lawyers</a>) for the enjoyment of other lawyers, wannabe lawyers, and former lawyers.<br />
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This community is completely self aware as per the Gazan article. The commenters not only remark on the posts, the interact with and question each other ad infinitum.<br />
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I figure for this assignment I should find a lawyer-y site; as attorneys will probably be more likely to follow the rules....NOT.<br />
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Here are the <a href="http://abovethelaw.com/terms-of-service/">terms of service</a>.<br />
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Here is the <a href="http://abovethelaw.com/privacy-policy/">privacy statement</a>.<br />
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I did not have to look too hard to find examples of rule breaking. The <a href="http://abovethelaw.com/2011/04/federal-judge-benchslaps-plaintiffs-counsel-stop-being-tools/">post</a> I chose was about a Federal District court judge who granted defendant's council a short continuence, as one of the defendant's attorneys' wife was expecting to deliver their first child during trial. Basically, the lawyer wanted to postpone the trail date a couple of weeks until his wife had the baby.<br />
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I found way more than 3 examples of rule breaking.<br />
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First here are the rules:<br />
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Side note - you can't see the comments until you click on this:<br />
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I like the "for your protection" part, it's like when you check into seedy motels in Podunk towns and the toilets have that the paper band around the seat that says "Sanitized for your protection."<br />
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Most of the rule violations fall under the likely to "cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety or be likely to upset, embarrass, alarm or annoy any other person" variety.<br />
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Here are some examples that would fall in to the above category:<br />
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This one is interesting because the insults are directed at the writer:<br />
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Same with this one:<br />
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Here is how the writer responds:<br />
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When I first read through the posts I thought to myself "someone should enforce the rules." <br />
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However the writer just goes with it and responds.<br />
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In the terms of use, methods of enforcement and termination are enumerated:<br />
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But after I spent some time on the site reading other posts and comments, I realized this is just the vibe of the community. Most folks are kinda snakry and sarcastic with a hint of meanness and self loathing (insert lawyer joke here).<br />
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Below are some examples from another <a href="http://abovethelaw.com/2011/04/a-1l-who-should-stay-in-law-school/#disqus_thread">post</a>. This post/comments are about a 1L (first year law student), at the bottom of his class, attending a top 10 school. The 1L is indifferent towards law school, but his parents are paying for it (so no student loan debt). He wonders whether or not he should stay and finish.<br />
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Mean:<br />
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Self-Loathing:<br />
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Super Mean + a <i>flagged</i> comment:<br />
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Writer response - note the use of the F-word:<br />
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So it seems like even the writers and people in charge don't follow the rules. It is like a community of rogue users, especially with all the abusive comments (Gazan).<br />
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Here are the 5 unwritten rule I came up with:<br />
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1. Thou shall be funny.<br />
2. Thou shall not take thyself too seriously.<br />
3. Thou shall disguise racist tendencies in a cloak of self-loathing. (please see above screen shot of by Coincidence, mentioning the AA admit and gay Filipino).<br />
4. Thou shall share thy honest opinion.<br />
5. Thou shall be tolerant of douche bags, for eventually the most prolific contributers will wear this label.merniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10305303032797408779noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5291510717901299719.post-90224844670389390232011-04-04T02:27:00.000-07:002011-04-04T02:27:24.428-07:00Assignment #6: Interaction and Identity - PART 2<b>How is online identity shaped and expressed through interactions in this community?</b><br />
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In the proposed Internet Safety Online Community, online identity is shaped differently depending on the role of the participant. For the expert writing in their respective field, their Bios will shape identity, and inform the participants of their qualifications and experience. Also, the links they may share to other works will also help shape the experts identity. The experts will also interact with the participants who comment on their blogs, or ask them specific questions. <br />
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As for the individual participants commenting on the expert blogs, or asking questions of the experts, the identity issue is a little more complicated. Because there may be sensitive issues or topics discussed, a degree of anonymity is useful.<br />
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Also, because of the nature of this community and the importance of creating a safe place for participants (mainly K-12 students) to discuss topics relating to internet safety (predators, bullying etc...) all comments will be moderated.<br />
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Ideally the moderating will be done by the expert to whom the comment/question is addressed.<br />
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<b>Sunny Day:</b><br />
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A 6th grade student feels she is being bullied online, she wants to know what she should do.<br />
She posts an ambiguous sounding question on the Middle School Teacher's blog. The expert Middle School teacher suspects that the student is being bullied, referrers her to the appropriate people, and explains some coping and empowerment tools/skills she may utilize while the situation is being resolved.<br />
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<b>Rainy Day:</b><br />
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Same situation, except the Middle School expert fails to address the underlying bullying issue. The student then feels isolated and let down. The student no longer visits the site.merniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10305303032797408779noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5291510717901299719.post-47446113918771395562011-04-02T02:11:00.000-07:002011-04-02T02:11:43.193-07:00Assignment #6: Interaction and IdentityFor this assignment I have 3 goals:<br />
1. Update y'all on how the SUMMER OF THE SHARK shoot went. Specifically, I want to share results from the online casting <br />
2. Share my ideas for the design of the online community dealing with internet safety and children<br />
3. Discuss the Hawaii Actors Network casting experience and design ideas for the internet safety community in relation to the readings<br />
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We had four beautiful days of shooting. In that time we shot 12 re-enactments; I cast 23 featured roles, over a dozen extras, and a handful of "people on the beach." Of the featured roles 8 were from HAN, 6 were classmates/friends, 5 were actors I regularly work with, 2 were referrals from friends, and 2 were from an "actors showcase" I attended (these are put on by actors and/or acting coaches for casting directors/producers/directors to showcase talent). Of the extras, 3 were from HAN, the rest were friends or referrals from friends. <br />
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Of course, all the actors I regularly worked with did AWESOME! That is why they are my "go to" talent. Also, the referrals and friends/classmates all did well. Most of the HAN actors did fine. But there were a couple of issues.<br />
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<b>1. Exaggerated skills.</b><br />
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In the Donath article, <i>Signals in Social Supernets</i>, the author states, "Trust is belief that the other is trustworthy." I think perhaps I was too trusting of the actors. I truly trusted that then someone says they surf, they surf. It's not like we were shooting on the North Shore in the winter. We were shooting at baby Makapu'u (cockroach cove)on a small and gentle day. I had one actor who during the telephone interview stated emphatically and unequivocally that he was a surfer; he even sounded a tad bit annoyed that I was asking so many questions. He says, "I have been surfing for 34 years." So guess what, once out in the water, we shot for 2 hours and this actor could not even get up on a single wave. He could not even stand up once on the board.<br />
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Interestingly, the referrals from friends, who were very humble about their skills, even questioning if they were good enough to be out there were the BEST ones. They caught countless waves during that two hour stretch and they were graceful and natural. <br />
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Donath talks about "Assessment signals" vs. "Conventional signals." In the above example I trusted the actor's conventional signals, when perhaps an assessment signal would have clued me in real quick that this guy was a squid. However, I did not have a surf/beach casting in the budget. I guess one not so great extra is really not so bad considering most everyone else from HAN was good.<br />
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<b>2. Deceptive Pictures</b><br />
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I thought I took care of this when I asked all the folks who made the first cut to email me a recent snapshot. I know all to well that done up, photoshopped, professional headshots sometimes do not reflect an actor's real look.<br />
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There were 2 HAN actors who showed up to set quite a bit heavier than their pictures.<br />
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Perhaps my experience described in the 2 issues above can be partly explained in terms of weak ties vs. strong ties, as per the Donath article, "Weak ties are more distant acquaintances, people known in a specific context and towards whom one feels less responsibility." <br />
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Maybe because the actor felt that our ties were weak, they did not feel as "responsible" as the referrals from friends who had strong ties to their real life friends who made the introductions. <br />
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<b>Using What I Learned From The Casting Experience And The Readings To Design An Online Community</b><br />
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After reading the Liu article, I decided that the Internet Safety Online Community I am designing for my final project is not about "taste statements." The Internet Safety Online Community is focused on education and support. Trust also plays a huge role in this site.<br />
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Donath states, "The combination of these types of ties arguably makes social supernets viable: The stronger ties bring reliability to the profile, and a large set of weaker ties expands the scale and scope of the network." I would like to utilize this approach when designing the OC. <br />
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As I am working through this final project, I am refining the scope of the OC.<br />
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Here is what I got so far:<br />
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Well, that's all for now.merniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10305303032797408779noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5291510717901299719.post-46344587534236540042011-03-13T16:59:00.000-07:002011-03-13T16:59:38.226-07:00Using Social Computing Systems To Cast A Project Vs. The Old School Way (or there is still room for dinosaurs)Always wanting to work efficiently, I pondered how I could make this assignment work multiple tasks. <br />
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<b>A Little Background</b><br />
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Before this whole school thing I made a living as a producer and casting director. I still take gigs during my school breaks to pay for my kids’ tuition (that should be the subject of another blog one day). <br />
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For spring break I decided to take a gig as the Hawaii Production Coordinator for an episode airing on the Discovery Chanel’s SharkWeek. We did the same gig last year. My husband and I work as a team. As we both have other things going on (he works in house for a different company editing/directing/graphics and I got this dual degree [JD & MLISc] plus work thing); it is easier to do these big projects tag-team. <br />
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Among other tasks, I am charged with the duty of casting. I have cast everything from student films to 30 second TV spots to million dollar movies. I have done it the old school way (notices on call boards, agency calls, open call or scheduled auditions) and sometimes I have utilized newer methods (email lists, craigslist, etc...). <br />
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Old school style:<br />
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This screenshot was found at this <a href="http://blog.photoshelter.com/2008/07/shoot-the-day-casting-call.html">site</a>. This is a very real example of what you end up with at the end of the day:<br />
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And this is what I normally look like a few hours into a casting session:<br />
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For my present casting assignment, I have to cast actors for a series of re-enactments for SharkWeek. They are all non-speaking extras; some featured, but most are non-featured.<br />
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After first exhausting the group of players I like to use all the time, whenever I can (they are reliable, good and easy to work with). I decided to cast the rest via an online community of actors.<br />
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I joined the <a href="http://www.hawaiiactors.com/">Hawaii Actors Network</a>. <br />
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Here is the casting notice I posted:<br />
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<b>A Bit About Hawaii Actors Network</b><br />
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The site is like a mash up of Facebook/Myspace/LinkedIn community for actors.<br />
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They got status updates like Facebook:<br />
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They got groups you can join like FB:<br />
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You can post resumes and such like LinkedIn:<br />
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You can add music like Myspace:<br />
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<b>Alert</b> -- mean girl tangent coming up...<br />
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Honestly, when I used to do myspace, this used to annoy me to no end! This whole playing music crap when I visit your page...whatever...if I wanted to hear what kind of lame "13-year-old-girl 'I feel soooo emo so I'm gonna bring all y'all down into my quasi-passive-aggressive whine for attention' music, I turn on cable TV or the radio or call up my sister. <br />
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Sorry, my mean girl slipped out.<br />
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Anyways...back on track....<br />
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<b>Casting Online VS Casting In Real Life</b><br />
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In the <a href="http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2291/2070">Dempsey article</a>, the author states, "People connect and share themselves through ‘social objects’ (music, photos, video, links, or other shared interests) and it has been argued that successful social networks are those which form around such social objects."<br />
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The Hawaii Actors Network site is made up of users (actors) displaying all their social objects for casting directors, producers or anyone who will hire them to see.<br />
Examples of social objects included resumes, headshots, comp cards etc.....<br />
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The Dempsey article also states "Participation in a shared communications space blurs boundaries between work, social interaction and leisure." I found this to be true in the HAN. They do meet ups:<br />
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and people ask for all kinds of help:<br />
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<b>Getting Users Involved </b><br />
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To illustrate the "eight major decision points" surrounding the annotations discussed in Dr. Gazan's article, I decided to post my casting notice as a blog entry instead of posting it in the "casting call" group. <br />
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I wanted to see if people would comment. The actors did not have to comment to submit for the parts, because in the casting notice I asked interested actors to message me privately. Below, I will compare the eight points in terms of In Real Life (old school casting) and casting online.<br />
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<b>Display</b><br />
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Online: The display included an option to add comments, view comments, and view all my blogs.<br />
IRL: All you see is the notice on the call board.<br />
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<b>Ease of Annotation</b><br />
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Online: Any member can comment.<br />
IRL: Unless you write on my casting notice (frowned upon - -kinda vandalism), there is no commenting.<br />
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<b>Anonymity</b><br />
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Online: There is none. A member has to include name and profile information to comment.<br />
IRL: I guess if no one sees you marking up my casting sheet, then it is anonymous.<br />
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<b>Control of content</b><br />
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Online: I can delete comments, so can the owner.<br />
IRL: I can take down my notice, so can the stage manager or other authority person.<br />
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<b>Harvesting annotation content</b><br />
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Online: Easy to do<br />
IRL: Not so much<br />
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<b>Ease of retrieval</b><br />
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Online: Easy to do<br />
IRL: Harder - got to make calls, schedule audition, wait for submissions, look through submissions<br />
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<b>Traffic and network effects</b><br />
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Online: This is the best part of HAN! Within minutes I got tons of responses (over 50 responses in 30 minutes). The <a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2179393/fr/rss/">Leibenluft article</a> also supports this phenomenon, "Post a semicoherent question and the responses will come within minutes, if not seconds."<br />
IRL: Unless a class is letting out nearby, and even then, it does not even come close.<br />
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<b>Notification and sharing</b><br />
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Online: Easy to notify (email, private message, wall post) easy to share<br />
IRL: Not as easy (calls, waiting, meetings, waiting) <br />
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<b>Measuring Success in the Community</b><br />
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In her <a href="http://arxiv.org/pdf/cs/0612046v1">article on social networks and information filtering</a>, Kristina Lerma states, "users with active social networks are more successful in getting their stories promoted to the front page. We believe that this, coupled with the observation that top-ranked users have larger social networks, explains their success." I think this is true for my posting. All the commenting, private messaging, and friend adding made for lots of activity.<br />
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Also, I think the post was successful because, as Caroline Haythornthwaite explains in her <a href="https://laulima.hawaii.edu/access/content/group/MAN.88616.201130/Session%205%3A%20Social%20knowledge%20production%20and%20services/haythornthwaite-crowds-and-communities.pdf">article</a><br />
"Participation can be motivated by interest in the particular endeavor." The endeavor here is probably the strongest motivator for an actor - landing an acting gig.<br />
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Here is the Leaderboard, as of last night:<br />
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Interestingly the Leaderboard is viewable by the whole community.<br />
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After reading the <a href="http://www.ieee-tcdl.org/Bulletin/v4n1/geisler/geisler.html">Geisler and Burns article</a> I realized that a tagging function would have been good to have for this blog post. I think that the tags "SharkWeek" "Discovery Channel" and "Casting" would have drawn even more eyes to my post.<br />
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<b>Conclusion</b><br />
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HAN makes a casting director's life easier when it comes to casting extras. If I don't need to see you "act" it is all good. <br />
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<b>Room for the dinosaur Old School Way</b><br />
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But it can never replace the face to face - especially then the stakes are high (a featured speaking role). <br />
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Although you can do a video chat audition through HAN, I need to see the actors, get a feel for them, a lot of this business is run on instinct. I do not think I can go with my gut based on a video chat.<br />
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On a side note - This is my favorite part of the community - Pet Actors! Yay! BEST EVER!!!<br />
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Whatever you are looking for they got it....<br />
Pigs<br />
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Fish<br />
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Turtles<br />
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Cats<br />
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And dogs (this is the pet of the month)<br />
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To make my life little easier, I went to the BLAWGS section of my bookmarks. This is where I put blogs that are law related, and were recommended (like an “[i]ndirect assessment of reputation occurs when one party relies on observations” as described in the <a href="https://laulima.hawaii.edu/access/content/group/MAN.88616.201130/Session%204:%20Social%20role,%20capital%20and%20trust/allen-social-networks-of-trust.pdf">Forming Social Networks of Trust to Incentivize Cooperation</a> article) to me or that I came across, intending to read, but just not haven’t found the time to do so, in other words, the stuff on “the back burner”.<br />
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Alright, now it is time to stir the pots on the back burner . . .<br />
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First, I went to the <a href="http://www.lawlawlandblog.com/">LawLawLand Blog</a>. This is a blog published by a very young looking entertainment lawyer in LA. It looks like he gets different attorneys from his firm to write about current issues in the practice area of entertainment law. <br />
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A cursory look at the site shows that it does not get a lot of commenting, so I figure, this may not be what I am looking for in relation to this assignment.<br />
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On the author side, it seems like the individual writers garner trust by posting a picture of themselves that is clickable and links to a bio with education information and career experience. The author’s phone number and email are also displayed. <br />
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On the surface this can be seen as an action that invites the reader to think “trust me, I am an expert.” But the above examples can also be seen as the authors exhibiting social capital by telling the readers “look at all the social currency I have.” Trust or social capital - I guess it depends on how you look at it. <br />
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Before dismissing the site outright, I saw one posting that got a few comments, I read it and BINGO – it was totally about a trust mechanism as described in <i><a href="https://laulima.hawaii.edu/access/content/group/MAN.88616.201130/Session%204:%20Social%20role,%20capital%20and%20trust/eryilmaz-establishing-trust-management.pdf">Establishing Trust Management in an Open Source Collaborative Information Repository: An Emergency Response Information System Case Study</a></i>. <br />
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Under the definitions of different communities put forth in the <a href="http://www.gnuband.org/files/papers/survey_of_trust_use_and_modeling_in_current_real_systems_paolo_massa.pdf">Massa article</a>, the LawLawLand blog would be categorized as a opinion site. Massa lumps opinions with activities, but for this site, it is mostly opinions, maybe a little activity stuff. For example, one author tells about her personal <a href="http://www.lawlawlandblog.com/2011/02/could_a_bunch_of_crazed_teenag_1.html#more">Justin Bieber experiences</a> while addressing copyright issues.<br />
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The discourse between the author and the commenting contributor illustrates “that trust is subjective because every individual makes his or her own decision to trust.” <br />
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Below are a couple of screenshots of the conversation.<br />
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First the commenting contributor takes the leap, and decides to trust:<br />
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"<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">Long story short, yes the Beliebers committed a felony, but did their actions cause any harm and if they didn't should they be illegal."</span><br />
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Then the author builds on that trust:<br />
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“First, thank you for reading our blog, and an even bigger thank you for taking the time to comment. We always appreciate and encourage further discussion.”<br />
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This statement is building on the trust.<br />
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</div><div class="MsoListBullet4CxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: none; tab-stops: .5in; text-indent: 0in;">“Julia,</div><div class="MsoListBullet4CxSpLast" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: none; tab-stops: .5in; text-indent: 0in;">Thanks for responding to my
comment. I really appreciate the open discourse as I feel that is the best way
to truly understand an issue.” </div><div class="MsoListBullet4CxSpLast" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: none; tab-stops: .5in; text-indent: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoListBullet4CxSpLast" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: none; tab-stops: .5in; text-indent: 0in;">This reciprocates and further builds on trust.</div><div class="MsoListBullet4CxSpLast" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: none; tab-stops: .5in; text-indent: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoListBullet4CxSpLast" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: none; tab-stops: .5in; text-indent: 0in;">I think that was a pretty good example of a trust mechanism in action. </div><div class="MsoListBullet4CxSpLast" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: none; tab-stops: .5in; text-indent: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoListBullet4CxSpLast" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: none; tab-stops: .5in; text-indent: 0in;">Now on to stir the next pot on the back
burner….looking for examples of social capital…</div><div class="MsoListBullet4CxSpLast" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: none; tab-stops: .5in; text-indent: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoListBullet4" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: none; tab-stops: .5in; text-indent: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoListBullet4" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: none; tab-stops: .5in; text-indent: 0in;"><link href="file://localhost/Users/mericiapalma-fuller/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/msoclip/0/clip_filelist.xml" rel="File-List"></link>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt;">I went to the <a href="http://copyrightsandcampaigns.blogspot.com/">Copyrights and Campaigns</a> blog. </span>This is a blog by Ben Sheffner. It does not look as fancy as LawLawLand but there is more a little more
commenting happening with the posts. In addition, the right side panel is
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<div class="MsoListBullet4CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: none; tab-stops: .5in; text-indent: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoListBullet4CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: none; tab-stops: .5in; text-indent: 0in;">WHAT THEY'RE SAYING ABOUT
COPYRIGHTS & CAMPAIGNS</div><div class="MsoListBullet4CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: none; tab-stops: .5in; text-indent: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoListBullet4CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: none; tab-stops: .5in; text-indent: 0in;">Top 100 law blogs of 2010 -- ABA
Journal</div><div class="MsoListBullet4CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: none; tab-stops: .5in; text-indent: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoListBullet4CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: none; tab-stops: .5in; text-indent: 0in;">Top 100 law blogs of 2009 -- ABA
Journal</div><div class="MsoListBullet4CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: none; tab-stops: .5in; text-indent: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoListBullet4CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: none; tab-stops: .5in; text-indent: 0in;">"Good legal reporting ...
the best; it's not even close" -- Copycense</div><div class="MsoListBullet4CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: none; tab-stops: .5in; text-indent: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoListBullet4CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: none; tab-stops: .5in; text-indent: 0in;">"always-insightful" --
THR, Esq.</div><div class="MsoListBullet4CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: none; tab-stops: .5in; text-indent: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoListBullet4CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: none; tab-stops: .5in; text-indent: 0in;">"Interesting and new"
-- How Appealing</div><div class="MsoListBullet4CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: none; tab-stops: .5in; text-indent: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoListBullet4CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: none; tab-stops: .5in; text-indent: 0in;">"Must-read" -- Wired</div><div class="MsoListBullet4CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: none; tab-stops: .5in; text-indent: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoListBullet4CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: none; tab-stops: .5in; text-indent: 0in;">"Always insightful" --
Exclusive Rights</div><div class="MsoListBullet4CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: none; tab-stops: .5in; text-indent: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoListBullet4CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: none; tab-stops: .5in; text-indent: 0in;">"Very strong blog...just,
you know, the facts...pretty intellectually honest" -- Hitsville</div><div class="MsoListBullet4CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: none; tab-stops: .5in; text-indent: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoListBullet4CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: none; tab-stops: .5in; text-indent: 0in;">"Big time copyright
supporter," "support[er] of copyright insanity" -- Techdirt</div><div class="MsoListBullet4CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: none; tab-stops: .5in; text-indent: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoListBullet4CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: none; tab-stops: .5in; text-indent: 0in;">"From the dark
side...prolific...interesting reads...insightful commentary you can’t find
other places in the blogosphere...a just plain good read...the copyright
equivalent of Grand Moff Tarkin." -- Arbitrary and Fanciful</div><div class="MsoListBullet4CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: none; tab-stops: .5in; text-indent: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoListBullet4CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: none; tab-stops: .5in; text-indent: 0in;">"Running dog...point man for
the content cartel...pretend[er of] disinterest...ruin[er of] real peoples'
lives." -- Recording Industry vs. The People</div><div class="MsoListBullet4CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: none; tab-stops: .5in; text-indent: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoListBullet4CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: none; tab-stops: .5in; text-indent: 0in;">Also to further show his
awesomeness and huge amounts of social capital, his credentials are listed prominently. I guess this also establishes that he is
worthy of our his social trust.</div><div class="MsoListBullet4CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: none; tab-stops: .5in; text-indent: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoListBullet4CxSpLast" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: none; tab-stops: .5in; text-indent: 0in;">The one post I found that had
several comments did not seem to have the “trust statements” described in<a href="http://www.gnuband.org/files/papers/survey_of_trust_use_and_modeling_in_current_real_systems_paolo_massa.pdf"> A Survey of Trust Use and Modeling in Real Online Systems</a>, but, there was a sense that the
author was an expert rich with social capital. </div><div class="MsoListBullet4CxSpLast" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: none; tab-stops: .5in; text-indent: 0in;">
</div><div class="MsoListBullet4CxSpLast" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: none; tab-stops: .5in; text-indent: 0in;">In fact <a href="http://copyrightsandcampaigns.blogspot.com/2010/11/supreme-court-denies-cert-in-harper.html#comments">here is an example</a> of the
author making use of that trust/capitol and dispensing knowledge in a decidedly
professorial style:</div><div class="MsoListBullet4CxSpLast" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: none; tab-stops: .5in; text-indent: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoListBullet4CxSpLast" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: none; tab-stops: .5in; text-indent: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"></span></div>
<dt class="comment-author " id="c3653597155740046587" style="margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/02041892308592857971" rel="nofollow" style="color: #5588aa; text-decoration: none;">Randy</a> said...</dt>
<dd class="comment-body" id="Blog1_cmt-3653597155740046587" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.25em;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Hello Ben,
Could you please do me a favor and explain this in layman's terms. I thought I understood, but then I read Matthew's comment which to me says the opposite.
Can Harper still claim to be an innocent infringer?
Randy</div></dd><dd class="comment-footer" style="letter-spacing: 0.1em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 2em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: -0.25em; text-transform: uppercase;"><span class="comment-timestamp"><a href="http://copyrightsandcampaigns.blogspot.com/2010/11/supreme-court-denies-cert-in-harper.html?showComment=1291124878514#c3653597155740046587" style="color: #5588aa; text-decoration: none;" title="comment permalink">NOVEMBER 30, 2010 5:47 AM</a></span></dd><dd class="comment-footer" style="letter-spacing: 0.1em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 2em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: -0.25em; text-transform: uppercase;"></dd><dd class="comment-footer" style="letter-spacing: 0.1em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 2em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: -0.25em; text-transform: uppercase;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none;"></span></dd>
<dt class="comment-author blog-author" id="c9191274574989411493" style="margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/06477793715765992689" rel="nofollow" style="color: #5588aa; text-decoration: none;">Ben Sheffner</a> said...</dt>
<dd class="comment-body" id="Blog1_cmt-9191274574989411493" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.25em;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">@Randy:
The Fifth Circuit ruled that Harper cannot claim the "innocent infringer" defense because the record label plaintiffs had affixed proper notices on physical CDs embodying the works at issue. See 17 U.S.C. § 402(d) ("If a notice of copyright in the form and position specified by this section appears on the published phonorecord or phonorecords to which a defendant in a copyright infringement suit had access, then no weight shall be given to such a defendant’s interposition of a defense based on innocent infringement in mitigation of actual or statutory damages, except as provided in the last sentence of section 504."). The Supreme Court's refusal to hear the case leaves the Fifth Circuit's decision in place.</div></dd><dd class="comment-footer" style="letter-spacing: 0.1em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 2em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: -0.25em; text-transform: uppercase;"><span class="comment-timestamp"><a href="http://copyrightsandcampaigns.blogspot.com/2010/11/supreme-court-denies-cert-in-harper.html?showComment=1291130413932#c9191274574989411493" style="color: #5588aa; text-decoration: none;" title="comment permalink">NOVEMBER 30, 2010 7:20 AM</a></span></dd><dd class="comment-footer" style="letter-spacing: 0.1em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 2em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: -0.25em; text-transform: uppercase;"></dd><dd class="comment-footer" style="letter-spacing: 0.1em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 2em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: -0.25em; text-transform: uppercase;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-transform: none;"></span>
<div class="MsoListBullet4CxSpLast" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-transform: none;">Now on to the subject of the FINAL PROJECT</span></div><div class="MsoListBullet4CxSpLast" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-transform: none;">Here are a couple of areas I an interested in:</span></div><div class="MsoListBullet4CxSpLast" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoListBullet4CxSpLast" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-transform: none;">1. Non-judicial forecloses</span></div><div class="MsoListBullet4CxSpLast" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-transform: none;">Question: How do people feel about non-judicial foreclosures, especially in Hawaii. And what are some concerns with the bills that are making their way through this current legislative session.</span></div><div class="MsoListBullet4CxSpLast" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-transform: none;">I would like to create a community to inform, mobilize, and gather information and experiences.</span></div><div class="MsoListBullet4CxSpLast" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoListBullet4CxSpLast" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-transform: none;">2. Informational Privacy</span></div><div class="MsoListBullet4CxSpLast" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-transform: none;">Question: How do people feel about the recent unanimous decision by the US Supreme court in <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 21px;">NASA v Nelson et al, No. 09-530?</span></span></div><div class="MsoListBullet4CxSpLast" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-transform: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 21px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;">Again, I would like to create a community to inform, mobilize, and gather information and experiences.</span></span></span></span></div></dd>
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merniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10305303032797408779noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5291510717901299719.post-1074129898720852412011-02-22T14:34:00.000-08:002011-02-22T14:34:48.489-08:00NYT article about blogging...Hi!<br />
<br />
I know this is outside of our "assignments," but I came across this <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/21/technology/internet/21blog.html?_r=1">NYT article</a> this weekend, and it has been on my mind. The quote about a blogger not wanting to blog in the traditional sense anymore because of a "lack of readership." And, how now he twitters.<br />
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Anyways-- have a great short week, y'all!<br />
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Mmerniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10305303032797408779noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5291510717901299719.post-17498318234717714732011-02-13T15:45:00.000-08:002011-02-13T15:45:18.698-08:00Assignment #3: Motivation & Participation or That's Cool and All But I really Don't Care Enough to Make the Effort to Comment<a href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com.eres.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/doi/10.1111/j.1083-6101.2004.tb00229.x/full">Virtual Community Attraction: Why People Hang Out Online</a> <br />
explains that people “hang out” on line for four reasons: 1) Information; 2) Social Support; 3); Friendship and 4) Recreation. I agree with this statement. In fact, I can give examples from my own experiences with SNS that fit into those categories. <br />
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1. I hang out at many places for Information (<a href="http://www.cnn.com/?eref=mrss_igoogle_cnn">CNN</a>, <a href="http://www.npr.org/sections/news/?ft=1&f=1001">NPR</a>, <a href="http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/Global/category.asp?C=3497">Hawaii News Now</a>); <br />
2. For Social Support (<a href="http://www.happiness-project.com/happiness_project/ ">The Happiness Project</a> , <a href="http://thepeoplestherapist.com/">The People’s Therapist</a>); <br />
3. For Friendship (<a href="http://www.facebook.com/mericia.palma">Facebook</a>) <br />
4. For Recreation (I hang out at lots of these places, but my favorites are <a href="http://abovethelaw.com/">Above The Law</a>, <a href="http://www.npr.org/sections/books/?ft=1&f=1032">NPR books</a>, and <a href="http://corporette.com/">Copporette</a>).<br />
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The authors, referencing two earlier articles (Furlong, 1989; S. G. Jones, 1995; Wellman et al., 1996), state that, “The most frequently cited reason [for joining a virtual community] in the literature is to access information.” I agree. That is why I chose to join THR. I am currently completing at externship at a law firm, working under an attorney specializing in Intellectual Property and Entertainment Law. I want to learn as much as I can about the current cases, research and litigation trends in the field. <br />
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In the article, <a href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com.eres.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/doi/10.1111/j.1083-6101.2005.tb00273.x/full">Using Social Psychology to Motivate Contributions to Online Communities</a> the authors give a thorough explanation of studies and experiments using social psychology theories to explain and manipulate contributions to online communities. The authors posit that people will not contribute if they feel like their “contributions have little likelihood of influencing the group.” I agree with this, somewhat. I see the point, but I am not sure most participants really care about “influencing the group.” That would put the conversation in the area of debate or persuasive conversation. Perhaps for some groups like political communities , or legal communities this may be true. In fact, as I will explain later, most of the comments in the community I followed were of this nature. THR, Esq. focuses on issues in Entertainment Law. But I think the majority of people on many mainstream sites are not there to debate or persuade. <br />
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The authors state that people will contribute to the online conversations if: 1)they feel like they are unique and their comments are unique and not redundant; 2)there is a goal; 3) there is a perceived benefit (personal or group, direct or indirect) or 4) they feel that they are helping a group they value. <br />
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<a href="https://laulima.hawaii.edu/access/content/group/MAN.88616.201130/Session%203:%20Motivation%20for%20participation/java-why-we-twitter.pdf">Why We Twitter: Understanding Microblogging Usage and Communities</a> defines and explains microblogging and specifically Twitter. The authors state, “Such networks were found to have a high degree correlation and reciprocity, indicating close mutual acquaintances among users.” I do not agree with this statement, (see my previous blog entry about my experiences with Twitter). I did not experience any reciprocity even with my “close mutual aquaintances.” However, I do agree with the following statement, “New Twitter users often initially join the network on invitation from friends. Further, new friends are added to the network by browsing through user profiles and adding other known acquaintances.” I joined Twitter after my husband joined and I collected my first followers and people I follow from searching through my hubby’s followers. I also agree with “Most posts on Twitter talk about daily routine or what people are currently doing. This is the largest and most common user of Twitter.” This is mostly how I use Twitter, and I find that I read my friends tweets just to see what they are up to today. <br />
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Finally I want to discuss <a href="http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2242/2066">Examining Social Media Usage: Technology Clusters and Social Network Site Membership <br />
</a> in relation the to the second part of this assignment. <br />
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The online community I observed was <br />
<a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/blogs/thr-esq">THR, Esq. The Intersection of Hollywood and Law</a>.<br />
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I figure, for this one I would multitask a bit. When I read THR, Esq. I usually say to myself, “I gotta spend some time here looking around.” THR, Esq. is a part of <a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/">The Hollywood Reporter</a>; it focuses on the legal aspects of the entertainment business. I wanted to look around and see what’s going on in the entertainment law community outside of Hawaii. So I am glad this assignment came up. <br />
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As far as modes of participation go, anyone can comment, and anyone can comment on other’s comments. According the <a href="http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2242/2066">Schrock article</a> this a “Many to Many” technology cluster. In addition to definitions and explanations of microblogging and microbolgging terms, this article also discusses gender difference and phychological factors of SNS use and technology clusters. <br />
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In THR, Esq. participants can be anonymous or identified, and their identification can be verified and not verified. <br />
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As I read through the first posts I noticed there are no comments. Maybe there are no comments because the posts are relatively new. But the more I read I realize that most of the posts have no comments. And the ones that do get commented on usually only have a few comments. I looked at over 55 posts. Here is a list of the only posts that got more than 3 comments:<br />
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<td>Number – types of comments</td>
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<td><a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/blogs/thr-esq/read-mpaas-big-lawsuit- cyberlocking-97400">Piracy lawsuit</a></td>
<td>4 - debating both sides of issue</td>
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<td><a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/blogs/thr-esq/michael-moore-sues-weinsteins-fahrenheit-97138">Michael Moore lawsuit</a></td>
<td>Over 50 – people love or hate with this guy</td>
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<td><a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/blogs/thr-esq/cbs-sued-63-year-old-97091">CBS lawsuit (family ties song)</a></td>
<td>6 - copyright/fair use debate</td>
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<td><a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/blogs/thr-esq/75-million-kardashian-lawsuit-pretty-74487">75 million dollar Kardashian lawsuit</a></td>
<td>17 – wow people are not shy about how they feel about theKardashian- vitriolic, name calling</td>
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<td><a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/blogs/thr-esq/live-nation-chairman-michael-cohl-94640">Live nation rolling stones suit</a></td>
<td>6 – people love the stones</td>
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<td><a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/blogs/thr-esq/100000-people-sued-sharing-movies-95095">Suits against people who “share” movies</a></td>
<td>5 – debate on the merits of suing 100,000 people</td>
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<td><a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/blogs/thr-esq/kings-speech-threatened-legal-action-96849">“King’s speech” action</a></td>
<td>9 – treatment of animals in film</td>
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<td><a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/blogs/thr-esq/foxs-lie-hit-stolen-idea-74936">“Lie To Me” stolen idea lawsuit</a></td>
<td>6 - whining about stolen ideas—side note the copyright act protects the unique expression of the ideas, not the ideas themselves!</td>
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<td><a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/blogs/thr-esq?page=3">"Monster-In-Law" law suit</a></td>
<td>13 – debates about how the suit turned out</td>
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<td><a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/blogs/thr-esq/golden-globes-publicist-sues-hollywood-71667">Former Golden Globes Publicist Sues Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. Claiming 'Payola’</a></td>
<td>10 - merits of Golden Globes “wins”</td>
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<td><a href=" http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/blogs/thr-esq?page=3">Legal fight over the song from “The Fighter</a>”</td>
<td>14 – discussion about sampling</td>
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</table> <br />
I think participation is only somewhat encouraged. At the end the each post there is a large, easy to use comment box. And there are reply buttons on the comments to make it easy to comment on a comment.<br />
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There is not a lot of participation, perhaps because as described in the article <a href="https://laulima.hawaii.edu/access/content/group/MAN.88616.201130/Session%203:%20Motivation%20for%20participation/java-why-we-twitter.pdf">Why We Twitter</a>, this wasn’t a community of “mutual aquantences” as expained in the article. Why We Twitter also discusses the growth of microblogging, and the logistics and usage of microblogging sites (like Twitter). For instance, most tweets are "daily chatter" or just declarations of what folks are doing throughout their day. THR is less daily chatter and more news and information for entertainment and IP lawyers. <br />
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Not surprisingly the Kardashian post drew a lot of comments. People love to hate those girls, but that is the subject for another paper, perhaps one exploring the female negative objectification issues - that alone is at least worth 10 pages. And surprisingly, Michael Moore still makes news. People love to hate him too. But for different reasons than the Kardashians I reckon.merniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10305303032797408779noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5291510717901299719.post-54708061191209459772011-01-30T15:26:00.000-08:002011-01-30T15:33:15.991-08:00ICS assignment #2 - Unanswered QuestionMy Burning Question: Do we have a social code (civility, manners etc…) we abide by in online communities? <br />
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After reading the <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=99094257">Weeks article</a>, I decided that I would use <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/mernie">Twitter</a> as the community to which I post my burning question. Surely, someone would respond. After all, my post may not be as dramatic or urgent sounding as the mama-about-to-strangle-her-kid tweet, but I have a few followers and some IRL friends who follow my tweets. <br />
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First post . . .no response, so I re-posted (clarifying, simplifying, and improving on the original . . .still no response.<br />
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I did not get a single response. Not one. Zero. This leads me to believe that there is truth to what Weeks said, “people will respond to people who sound like they are in trouble — online or off.” There wasn’t anything dramatic or urgent about my query. Perhaps if I posted something like “OMG!! I totally need help w this project! I’m like totally failing + its like due in 2 hours!!” But that is not my style; I don’t have the energy for all that drama. Besides, that post sounded a little too SoCal-<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086525/">Valley-Girl</a>, circa 1983.<br />
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Back to the Weeks article, minutes after the tired mama’s tweet, her page blew up, the police even came to visit. Her followers and random tweeps were offering support, condemnation, help and all kinds of advice. The point is, people responded, her community showed up. Maybe because a child was involved, people checked their usual indifference at the door and spoke up. My experience with Twitter was more like the “flattening of relationships” Weeks describes early in the article. <br />
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My Twitter experience made me think about the <a href="http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/virtual-friendship-and-the-new-narcissism ">Rosen Article</a>. Specifically the quote, “the activities social networking sites promote are precisely the ones weak ties foster, like rumor-mongering, gossip, finding people, and tracking the ever-shifting movements of popular culture and fad.” My casual request for homework help was not about gossip or rumors or anything as exciting as people searching. If I followed Rosen’s theories on virtual friendship and narcissism, then perhaps I should have composed my tweet like so: “there’s this total beyotch who sits in front of me in class, WTF! She thinks she’s all that. I seriously can’t do my work & her cheap a** perfume is soooo distracting.” That hypothetical tweet would probably warrant some response, but again, not my style. Too much drama/gossip. This tweet sounds too SoCal-<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112697/">Clueless</a>, circa 1995. <br />
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The Twitterverse is too big, and there is way cooler stuff going on. My quasi-academic tweet just got lost in the swamp of gossip, narcissism, and drama. So much for having “community” on Twitter. <br />
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So, I decided to post in another community. I am a frequent visitor to <a href="http://corporette.com/ ">Corporette</a>. This community bills itself as the “Fashion and Lifestyle Blog for Overachieving Chicks.” That is so me! I found Corporette last year when I was looking for advice on how to dress for OCIs - on campus interviews with law firms. <br />
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When I posted my “burning question” to Corporette - I was not ignored. People were posting within the hour. I felt like I was part of a community; like I was having lunch with girlfriends and we were just sharing stories and advice. This kind of “girlfriend – tell it like it is” attitude is the general tone of this site. Just read any of the <a href="http://corporette.com/2011/01/24/open-thread-design-no-nos-for-womens-workwear/
http://corporette.com/2011/01/24/open-thread-design-no-nos-for-womens-workwear/
http://corporette.com/2011/01/24/open-thread-design-no-nos-for-womens-workwear/">“Open Threads”</a> and you will see what I mean. <br />
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The vibe on the Corporette site is not like the vibe on Twitter. Nor does it seem like comments are “sociotechnical capital” as described in the <a href="http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/1421/1339">Bigge article</a>. In that article the author (citing to boyd) explains that the comments on a MySpace page serve as “currency” in that community. The poor, sad, awkward-looking kid sitting at the edge of a table all by himself in the high school cafeteria is the one with the fewest comments on his page. While the rich, popular, cheerleaders and football players in this metaphor are the ones with 100’s of comments a week. Corporette is less like the high school in the above metaphor, and more like a really small charter school where your Auntie is the principal. <br />
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I asked if we have “a set of social rules, a code of civility or just plain manners that we live by in our online communities.” I got 8 responses! Yay! That is way better than zero. <br />
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Check out the whole exchange <a href="http://corporette.com/2011/01/28/weekend-open-thread-70/comment-page-1/#comments">here</a>. <br />
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Here are the highlights of my conversation:<br />
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<blockquote>“I try not to say anything here that I wouldn’t at the very least be willing to say to a friend in an email in response to a similar comment.” <br />
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“While I enjoy the cloak of anonymity, I try to not say anything that I wouldn’t have my full name attached to. Sometimes it is tempting to post something that reflects what I’m thinking, but if it’s ruder or more judgmental than I think it should be, I try to, erm, contain myself.”<br />
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“This community seems to have a rule that you can disagree or criticize things that are under your control, like clothing or makeup, but not aspects that are more hard-wired, like body shape.”<br />
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“ Don’t push your own blog too much. Don’t ask for advice then argue with the answers you get. Don’t type too many WORDS all in capital letters or talk about how BALD your managing partner it, especially if his BREATH is bad, too.”<br />
</blockquote>Comparing my experiences on Corporette and Twitter made me think of the <a href="http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2142/1949">Albrechtslund article</a>, and the idea that an “[o]nline social networking can also be empowering for the user.” I did not feel empowered at all on Twitter, in fact, I felt a kind of mild, temporary deprersssion, like the kind mentioned in the <a href="http://www.behavior.net/JOB/v1n2/paradox.html">Internet Paradox article</a>. Then posting on Corporette decreased my depression, also like mentioned in the Internet Parodox article. <br />
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I have to admit the Internet Paradox article was a bit confusing and hard to follow, I feel like I have to read it a few more times to really get it. But what I did get is that there have been some studies that found that Internet use can lead to depression, and some studies found that Internet use could build relationships and communities. Interestingly, I experienced both of these. <br />
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Part of this assignment was to ponder “What did this experience allow you to do that you couldn't have done offline?” Based on my Corporette experience, I don’t think there was much difference between what the responses online and what I would have gotten offline in the real world. However, based on my Twitter experience, I would say that the difference is that I probably would not have been ignored in real life. After all, it is rude, bad manners, and against our code of civility as human beings to ignore people when they ask you a question. Which circles us back to my burning question. It is ironic that good manners dictate that one does not ignore someone when asked a question, yet that is precisely what happened to me when I first posted my question on Twitter.merniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10305303032797408779noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5291510717901299719.post-59488620793015636192011-01-16T23:22:00.000-08:002011-01-16T23:22:33.495-08:00ICS assignment #1<link href="file://localhost/Users/mericiapalma-fuller/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/msoclip/0/clip_filelist.xml" rel="File-List"></link> <style>
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<div class="MsoListBullet4CxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: none; tab-stops: .5in; text-indent: 0in;"> In a mechanical, monotonic manner, the friendly voice inside my computer tells me the time on the hour. I hear, “It’s 9 o clock….it’s 10 o clock….it’s 11 o clock” </div><div class="MsoListBullet4CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: none; tab-stops: .5in; text-indent: 0in;"> I know this entry should not be too hard to write, I took notes on the readings, read lots of posts from sites like the New York Times, Huffington Post, CNN, and some Canadian outlets. I have ideas about what I want to write about, but here I am - stuck. Well, not really stuck, just in a state of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">not writing</i>. Lots of looking, reading and clicking on links that relate to the Arizona shooting in one way or another, but when I switch over to my word document to try to write something, I just stare at the blank screen.</div><div class="MsoListBullet4CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: none; tab-stops: .5in; text-indent: 0in;"> Other than the obvious reason: this is my first assignment after winter break, and it is sometimes difficult to get back in the swing of things after a break. I think I am avoiding this assignment because I really did not want to invest too much in this conversation, because that investment would require me to delve too deeply into the mind of this accused killer. </div><div class="MsoListBullet4CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: none; tab-stops: .5in; text-indent: 0in;"> It is one thing to read and passively surf through information, it is quite another thing to actually have to write about those events. Writing creates a connection, you are no longer just an outside observer of the conversation. And publishing what you write, even if it is just a blog for class, makes you a participant observer of the conversation. </div><div class="MsoListBullet4CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: none; tab-stops: .5in; text-indent: 0in;"> This idea of participant observer is explained in the Beer and Burrows article, <a href="http://www.socresonline.org.uk/12/5/17.html" style="text-decoration: underline;">Sociology and, of and in Web 2.0: Some Initial Considerations</a>. Beer and Burrows discuss social networking/web 2.0 research and the necessity of having more that just mere observers of the media. The authors posit that in order to research properly and effectively, we must be participant observers of the media. We have to actually get in there and create a Facebook page, post a blog, etc…the researcher must join the conversation. I am reluctant to join this conversation; in my head I know this procrastination is just avoidance behavior….oh look… Saturday Night Live is on…</div><div class="MsoListBullet4CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: none; tab-stops: .5in; text-indent: 0in;"> So, while procrastinating, I came across this tweet by self-help/spirituality guru Marriane Williamson on <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/@mernie">my twitter feed</a>. It was a Huffington Post article, <u><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marianne-williamson/arizona-shooting-words-meaning_b_809606.html#comments">Arizona Shooting: Words Have Meaning</a></u>, published on January 16, 2011. Ms. Williamson writes that “it's basically irrelevant whether Jared Loughner specifically related to the hate speech around him in some linear, causal way. Thoughts can go viral, as we have seen throughout history when group pathologies overcame the better angels of a people.” Later in the article she goes on to discuss the tone and lack of civility in the discourse surrounding the shooting and the tone and lack of civility in the general discourse on the internet and news outlets. While recognizing the First Amendment and acknowledging free speech rights, she states that it should not be “illegal” to talk about opponents in harsh, uncivil ways, but it should be “unthinkable.” </div><div class="MsoListBullet4CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: none; tab-stops: .5in; text-indent: 0in;"> That statement got me thinking about the <u><a href="http://www.juliandibbell.com/articles/a-rape-in-cyberspace/">Rape in Cyberspace Article</a></u> . There seemed to be a code of civility among the citizens of LamdaMOO. I do not think that exists anymore in the online world, or if it does, it is hard to find. </div><div class="MsoListBullet4CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: none; tab-stops: .5in; text-indent: 0in;"> In a New York Times article, <u><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/16/us/16loughner.html?pagewanted=7&_r=1&hp">Looking Behind the Mug-Shot Grin of an Accused Killer</a></u>, published on January 15, 2011, the authors point to a time in the accused shooter’s life when he was engaging in conversations “with other players in an online strategy game.” There was no mention of abusive or violent speech. Then this morning, this article was on the New York Times site: <u><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/17/us/17gaming.html?_r=1&src=twt&twt=nytimes">In an Online Gaming World, Tucson Suspect Gave Hints of Problems</a>,</u> by Jenna Worhtam. This present article went in to more detail, discussing the online gaming community of which the accused killer was a member. I imagine that the online strategy game is probably somewhat similar to the LamdaMOO world discussed in the <u>Rape in Cyberspace</u> piece. In the LamdaMOO world, words mattered, and a player was toaded for his offensive, violent, abusive words. The New York Times article mentioned “Mr. Loughner’s postings often delved into dark territory, musing about abuse and rape” but makes no mention of Mr. Laughner suffering any punishments for his words. One would assume that his speech was tolerated. I can not help but think that if Mr. Loughner posted the same comments on LamdaMOO back in the day, he would have been toaded or removed. It seems like we as a society have become used to abusive, offensive, violent speech; we have become jaded; on some level we have come to accept a certain amount of incivility in our normal public discourse, especially online. </div><div class="MsoListBullet4CxSpLast" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: none; tab-stops: .5in; text-indent: 0in;"> Perhaps Web 2.0 is contributing to our cultural downfall. In the article, <u><a href="http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6510681.html?industryid=47130">Online Databases-Web 2.0: Our Cultural Downfall?</a></u> Carol Tenopir explores Andrew Keen’s article that “addresses the trend that he sees as eroding the authority of expertise and threatening traditional journalists, authors, and other sources of quality information.” The author explains that reasons for the cultural downfall could be that the “news” we get through the Internet may not always be the real news, but advertisements and political agendas in disguise. Tenopir points to a lack of peer review as a contributor to the downfall. Taking that idea further, one could argue that the lack of peer review also contributes to the growing incivility in the discourse. </div><div class="MsoNormal"> Boyd and Ellison explain the genesis and history of online social networking in <u><a href="http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol13/issue1/boyd.ellison.html">Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship</a></u> . In their article, they walk the reader through the evolution of this media from SixDegrees.com to Facebook. The common theme seems to be the idea of showing and taking advantage of visible links and friendships of people with which we have links and friendships. The sites described in the article come and go, they expand and extinguish, but it is the idea of connections that survives. Here is where the irony of the current situation presents itself.</div><div class="MsoListBullet4CxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: none; tab-stops: .5in; text-indent: 0in;"> Much has been made of the role of social media and social networking in the accused killer’s life, but the whole idea behind social media and networking is connections, and Mr. Loughner seems to be painfully disconnected. News reports mention that one of the finals acts the accused killer did was post “Goodbye Friends” on his MySpace page, but the news reports do not mention anyone commenting back. The one thing that keeps popping into my thoughts when reading the plethora of articles about the Arizona shooting is how completely alone and disconnected Mr. Loughner was. </div><div class="MsoListBullet4CxSpLast" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: none; tab-stops: .5in; text-indent: 0in;"> From this weeks readings and my own experience the definition of social computing can by summed up in one word: Connections. As mentioned in the Boyd and Ellison article the first “recognizable social network site” was SixDegrees.com. The idea of six degrees is that all of us on earth are connected to each other by six degrees (or less) of separation. When we become a member of a social networking site and engage in social computing we not only make connections with like minded users, we also show other users our connections. </div><div class="MsoListBullet4CxSpLast" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: none; tab-stops: .5in; text-indent: 0in;"> As noted above, Marriane Williamson, and spirituality teachers of her ilk would like to use social computing as a positive force, uniting humanity, connecting humanity. But as the recent events have shown us, all this connection can also lead to a mob type mentality, one where incivility is the norm. When it becomes necessary for the President of the United States, speaking at a mourning and remembrance event to honor the victims of the Arizona shooting, to remind us, as a nation to be civil to one another, perhaps we have reached a turning point. Perhaps these tragic events is just the kick in the pant we as a nation needed. But the realist in me sees this as just another swing of the pendulum. Which brings me back to the <a href="http://www.salon.com/entertainment/2011/01/16/snl_civility">Saturday Night Live</a>….</div>merniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10305303032797408779noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5291510717901299719.post-56701368405521644642011-01-12T21:14:00.000-08:002011-01-12T21:14:09.680-08:00test postThis is a test post.merniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10305303032797408779noreply@blogger.com2