From Rooms to Profiles to Feeds
In short: From shared rooms to profiles, friend networks, feeds and ranking algorithms, this film reads the history of social software as a series of design questions, each reshaping what it meant to be social online.
A 2:08 short film in the series “Being Social Online”, narrated by intellect_voice_01.
Sources used in this film: Computer History Museum (CHM Editorial), “Dialing Up Community”; Encyclopaedia Britannica, “Chat room | History, Technology, & Facts | Britannica”; Academia.edu (hosting a 2007 article from the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication), “Social Network Sites: Definition History and Scholarship”; Jeffrey Heer and danah boyd, University of California, Berkeley (IEEE InfoVis 2005 paper, hosted by the University of Washington Interactive Data Lab), “Vizster: Visualizing Online Social Networks”; Encyclopaedia Britannica, “Social network | Definition, Examples, & Facts | Britannica”; Electronic Commerce Research and Applications (Elsevier), paper by Hoadley, Xu, Lee and Rosson, hosted by Penn State College of Information Sciences and Technology, “Privacy as information access and illusory control: The case of the Facebook News Feed privacy outcry”; EDUCAUSE (EDUCAUSE Review; article by Tracy Mitrano, Cornell University, December 2006), “A Wider World: Youth, Privacy, and Social Networking Technologies”; Carolina Digital Repository, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (research article by Andrew M. Guess and colleagues), “How do social media feed algorithms affect attitudes and behavior in an election campaign?”; Tilburg University (Tilburg University Research Portal), “Does context really collapse in social media interaction?”; New Media & Society (SAGE Publications), article by Elisabetta Costa, University of Groningen; hosted on PubMed Central (US National Library of Medicine), “Affordances-in-practice: An ethnographic critique of social media logic and context collapse”; Proceedings of the 54th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (2021), via ScholarSpace, University of Hawai`i at Manoa (Yinan Sun and Daniel D. Suthers), “Microsoft Word - Cultural Affordances and Social Media FINAL VERSION NOV 21 2020 .docx”.
Sources used in this film
- Computer History Museum (CHM Editorial) — Dialing Up Community · View →
- Encyclopaedia Britannica — Chat room | History, Technology, & Facts | Britannica · View →
- Academia.edu (hosting a 2007 article from the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication) — Social Network Sites: Definition History and Scholarship · View →
- Jeffrey Heer and danah boyd, University of California, Berkeley (IEEE InfoVis 2005 paper, hosted by the University of Washington Interactive Data Lab) — Vizster: Visualizing Online Social Networks · View →
- Encyclopaedia Britannica — Social network | Definition, Examples, & Facts | Britannica · View →
- Electronic Commerce Research and Applications (Elsevier), paper by Hoadley, Xu, Lee and Rosson, hosted by Penn State College of Information Sciences and Technology — Privacy as information access and illusory control: The case of the Facebook News Feed privacy outcry · View →
- EDUCAUSE (EDUCAUSE Review; article by Tracy Mitrano, Cornell University, December 2006) — A Wider World: Youth, Privacy, and Social Networking Technologies · View →
- Carolina Digital Repository, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (research article by Andrew M. Guess and colleagues) — How do social media feed algorithms affect attitudes and behavior in an election campaign? · View →
- Tilburg University (Tilburg University Research Portal) — Does context really collapse in social media interaction? · View →
- New Media & Society (SAGE Publications), article by Elisabetta Costa, University of Groningen; hosted on PubMed Central (US National Library of Medicine) — Affordances-in-practice: An ethnographic critique of social media logic and context collapse · View →
- Proceedings of the 54th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (2021), via ScholarSpace, University of Hawai`i at Manoa (Yinan Sun and Daniel D. Suthers) — Microsoft Word - Cultural Affordances and Social Media FINAL VERSION NOV 21 2020 .docx · View →
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Sources
- Summary by Intellect · source: Computer History Museum (CHM Editorial): Dialing Up Community
- Also: Encyclopaedia Britannica: Chat room | History, Technology, & Facts | Britannica
- Also: Academia.edu (hosting the 2007 Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication article 'Social Network Sites: Definition, His: Social Network Sites: Definition History and Scholarship
- Also: Jeffrey Heer and danah boyd, University of California, Berkeley (IEEE InfoVis 2005 paper, hosted by the University of Wa: Vizster: Visualizing Online Social Networks
- Also: Encyclopaedia Britannica: Social network | Definition, Examples, & Facts | Britannica
- Also: Electronic Commerce Research and Applications (Elsevier), paper by Hoadley, Xu, Lee and Rosson, hosted by Penn State Col: Privacy as information access and illusory control: The case of the Facebook News Feed privacy outcry
- Also: EDUCAUSE (EDUCAUSE Review; article by Tracy Mitrano, Cornell University, December 2006): A Wider World: Youth, Privacy, and Social Networking Technologies
- Also: Carolina Digital Repository, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (research article by Andrew M. Guess and collea: How do social media feed algorithms affect attitudes and behavior in an election campaign?
- Also: Tilburg University (Tilburg University Research Portal): Does context really collapse in social media interaction?
- Also: New Media & Society (SAGE Publications), article by Elisabetta Costa, University of Groningen; hosted on PubMed Central : Affordances-in-practice: An ethnographic critique of social media logic and context collapse
- Also: Proceedings of the 54th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (2021), via ScholarSpace, University of Hawai: Microsoft Word - Cultural Affordances and Social Media FINAL VERSION NOV 21 2020 .docx
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