Comments on: Public Displays of Connection

By: stef

stef — Tue, 19 Oct 2004 06:46:05 +0000

forgot to mention:

respectfully yours,

stef

By: stef

stef — Tue, 19 Oct 2004 05:17:22 +0000

I like the end of the article: it all makes sense. where will this article be presented? Just got back from the CARPE meeting and heard Jim Gemmell,and Gorden Bell talk about archiving all this stuff: it sort of goes with what liz was doing when she went up to the microsoft center
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Networks are the extension of our social world; they also act as its boundary. We may use the network to extend the range of people we can contact; we may use it to limit the people who
can contact us. Most of the networking sites so far are designed to grow networks, not limit them. Yet costs and limits can add value. The expenditure of energy to maintain a connection is a signal of its importance and of the benefits it bestows.

It seems that the actual process of socially archiving is intersecting with the process of glogging: how does one store and find meaning within the vast amount of data? The idea of storage and compressing touches more and more upon compression of data and metadata. How do we search metadata or how does one data mine compressed data?

By: Hans Henrik

Hans Henrik — Sun, 17 Oct 2004 14:07:10 +0000

Hi Danah

I just read your pjece on “Public Displays of Connection” – nice.

I’m writing a Master Thesis about Change Management. A point I wish to make is about the connection between personal blogging/personal networks aggregating them to corporate networks via corporate blogs resulting in better performance in terms of Radical Innovation.

In particular in thinking of transforming vertical introvert subroutines/organisational networks into horizontal extrovert META networks.

Is weblogs in fact a useful tool? Linkedin? Other?

To you have any thoughts about that?

Best regards
Hans Henrik

By: Mathemagenic

Mathemagenic — Sat, 16 Oct 2004 05:39:08 +0000

Public Displays of Connection

Something to read over the weekend: Public Displays of Connection

By: Smart Mobs

Smart Mobs — Fri, 15 Oct 2004 09:57:56 +0000

Public Displays of Connection

danah boyd and Judith Donath just published “Public Displays of Connection”: Abstract: Participants in social network sites create self-descriptive profiles that include their links to other members, creating a visible network of connections the ostens…

By: Smart Mobs

Smart Mobs — Fri, 15 Oct 2004 09:56:38 +0000

Public Displays of Connection

By: Smart Mobs

Smart Mobs — Fri, 15 Oct 2004 08:42:34 +0000

Public Displays of Connection

Danah Boyd and Judith Donath just published “Public Displays of Connection”: Abstract: Participants in social network sites create self-descriptive profiles that include their links to other members, creating a visible network of connections – t…

By: Irina

Irina — Wed, 13 Oct 2004 21:47:18 +0000

I am not disputing that the Internet is primarily a communications technology. In fact, my own research shows communication to be the most frequent use of the Internet for most populations. Yet there is a difference between conceptualizations of the Internet as a tool vs. as a space. It is the disregard for this distinction that I was trying to point out. While most people perceive it and use the Internet as a tool for communication, some perceive it and use it as a social space. This “some” is by far not most.

By: Alli

Alli — Wed, 13 Oct 2004 18:39:57 +0000

Hello. I found your blog doing a google search for blogs by teenagers for my teaching writing class at my univerisity. I found your blog to be very interesting, and I ended up linking to it in my required entry for class on blogging. (I hope you don’t mind.) I also wanted to say how interesting your topic is, from your sidebar “how people negotiate their presentation of self in mediated social contexts to an unknown audience”. I’m wondering how you got into this, it seems like such an odd topic. And where do you find your sources? Do you study the mediums themselves, or are there articles elsewhere you read up on?

By: Alli

Alli — Wed, 13 Oct 2004 18:38:52 +0000