Week+Eight

Week Eight Togetherness


 * In lieu of having PowerPoint slides today, here are my notes on the chapter. Enjoy!**

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CNN and 9/11 Micro-news : local vs. non-generic… connection with blogs, twitter… forums Issues, reliability of sources, facelessness. Controlling the message… fear tactics… mob mentality

The faceless crowd. How does a community affect our space? Dynamics in interaction. School environment, social cohesion … we are always communicating in a group. Facebook / text messages … what are we missing? Are we forgetting how to relate?

Quality of the voice, volume of the message. Has the web allowed too much unchecked discussions? Can these be usurped or taken out of context? Are we focusing on the wrong people… American health debate…

New volumes of fame. Its not who you know… it’s who knows you…

Law of the group… obtaining critical mass… why is one social network more popular than the other? Would online games be successful with little users - GTA!!!

Value is exponential… while usage is linear

Issues with socialization: can’t hit delete, unsend (g-mail?)… facelessness creating a more verbal and assertive communication

Seeing how people like a book (groupthink, monoculture)… but opportunities to see what other books people like. Commentary can lead to new networks and new people outside of our physical space. We are now members of multiple groups… so secret, but unaware that these groups can also intermingle with a simple search… so we may be on guard

Time is affected by groups, relative to how large it is. Relevance is related to time, with more and more people, an answered post can be missed. Our attention spans shrink… Facebook… looking at history.. lost in the noise of useless chatter…

The new individualism, egalitarian, feudal and capitalism … periods of stress form bonds. It takes a village to raise a child… groups of influence: family, education, peer and mass-media. Media has taken over all three (the loss of adolescence, working, leisure is structured (helicopter parents), absent parents, over-influence of media. Media overload.