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Foursquare: The Unexpected Criminal Hubs

“Social networks that broadcast your exact location make it easy for strangers to watch you

every moveand become part of your life without you even knowing it.” (Seville, 2010)

Social network is not only the hub for people to meet the acquaintances in the virtual world,

but also the strangers in any other part of the world. In this day and age, people that are not

following social media tend to be ‘out of the loop’ (Schawbel, 2009, as cited in Lundberg,

2015). To some extent, social media has the power to snap people’s attention and curiosity.

Everytime, a new social media comes out to the public, it spreads super quick that we click

the sign up buttonand skip the ‘Terms and Conditions’ page without thinking about the

possible risk behind it.

In 2009, I found something different in my Twitter’s timeline. My friends keeps checking in,

getting a new badge, becoming a mayor of a place, and keep making my timeline full of those

things. Yes, welcoming the Foursquare! It took me three weeks to give up to all the ‘mess’ and

sign up for Foursquare’s account. The basic idea of Foursquare is you just need to check-in in

the place wherever you go and getting the badge as the reward of your consistency of

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checking in. The other idea is to let people explore the place around them and give

recommendations of great places by showing the rating of places by other people. Moreover,

restaurants, cafes, and bars often give promotions to the mayor of their places in Foursquare.

Then, is it really nice to get the highest badge or become a mayor in Foursquare?

I do not think so. For me, the higher the badge, the riskier it is. I have never imagined that

Foursquare has the possibility to be the criminal hubs. People that are in our friend lists can

see exactly where we are and mostly, criminals have many ways to access what they desired.

As we all know that the time we share something in the internet, it will never be a secret

anymore. I tried to research my point, and surprisingly, there are several websites, such as

http://pleaserobme.com/, http://fearsquare.com/ made to raise the awareness of being too open in

sharing the locations in virtual world.

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Lastly, it is true that people can post or share anything in the internet. However, the more

posts that a person made, they will make more attention and become the stronger and

powerful hubs (Barabasi, 2003, p. 58).

References

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Barabasi, A. L. (2003). Hubs and connections. In Linked: How everything is connected to

everything else and what it means for business, science, and everyday life (pp. 58-65).

New York, NY: Plume.

Foursquare. (n.d.). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved from 13.48, July 22nd,

2015, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foursquare

Lundberg, A. (2015). BA1002 Our Space: Networks, narratives and the making of place.

Lecture 2 Power: The Panopticon. [PowerPoint Slides]. Retrieved

from: https://learnjcu.jcu.edu.au/

Nicola Formichetti [Google Images]. (n.d). Retrieved July 22nd, 2015,

from http://www.brainyquote.com/

Redeeming Foursquare [Google Images]. (2010). Retrieved July 22nd, 2015,

from http://wesleytech.com/

Seville, L. R. (2010, August 8). Foursquare’s stalker problem. The Daily Beast.Retrieved

from http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2010/08/08/foursquare-and-stalking-is-

geotagging-dangerous.html

To the Batcave [Illustration]. (2010). Retrieved July 22nd, 2015, from http://www.agent-

x.com.au/

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Ebola and Its Networks

Network has no boundaries, which it may develop across species (Lundberg, 2015). Viruses

and diseases are one kind of nature networks. In today’s blog post, I will discuss about how

the deadly disease, Ebola networks. The Ebola virus has spread widely from the very first

appeared in 1976. It is believed that fruit bats are the natural Ebola virus hosts. The virus was

then infected other wild animal, such as chimpanzees, gorillas, monkeys, and forest antelope,

which were found to be ill or dead in the rainforest (World Health Organization (WHO),

2015; Watts, 2003, p. 162). The Ebola virus was then infected human population through

close contact with the blood, secretions, organs, or other bodily fluids of the animals that

infected. Hence, the virus is transmitted between human-to-human via direct contact with the

blood, secretions, or organs which are contaminated previously. On the other hand, the virus

also has the possibility to spread through the burial ceremonies of the death from Ebola, if the

mourners have direct contact with the death body (WHO, 2015).

The process of the transmission of Ebola virus reflects the concept of nature network in

communication and exchange. The term of communication happens when the fruit bats

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infected the fruits, which will be eaten by other wild animals. Thereafter, humans have

physical contact with those animals, which the spread the viruses in human population. On

the other hand, the term of exchange explains that there are parasites in the nature. Parasitism

refers to the relationship between two different species where the symbiont benefits and the

host is harmed (Anderson, n.d.). In the Ebola disease case, the parasitism relationship

happens when the viruses infected many other kinds of species.

Reflecting to this post, we as human beings need to be really aware about the linkage in our

networks. Everything in this world is connected to something else, even deadly disease in our

surroundings!

References

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Anderson, J. (n.d.). Symbiotic relationships: Mutualism, commensalism, & parasitism. Study,

18(6). Retrieved from http://study.com/academy/lesson/symbiotic-relationships-

mutualism-commensalism-amensalism.html

Ebola The Facts [Google Images]. (2014). Retrieved September 5th, 2015, from

http://www.independent.co.uk/

Ebola virus disease. (n.d.). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved from 17.32,

September 5th, 2015, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebola_virus_disease

Jamaican Fruit-Eating Bat [Google Images]. (2000). Retrieved September 5th, 2015, from

http://m.animal.memozee.com/

Jin, J. (2014). Ebola virus disease. JAMA: the Journal of the American Medical Association,

312(18), 1942. doi: 10.1001/jama/2014.13759


Lecture 8 Nature Networks. [PowerPoint Slides]. Retrieved


Watts, D. J. (2003). Epidemics and failures. In Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age

(pp. 162-194). New York, NY: Norton & Company, Inc.

World Health Organization (WHO). (2015). Ebola virus disease. Media Center. Retrieved

from http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs103/en/

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Tourism Diaspora: How They Network?

The term ‘Diaspora’ originally comes from Greek and refers to “a scattering or sowing of

seeds”. However, diaspora is then broadened its meaning into a term to “describe the

scattering of any ethnic group” (Lundberg, 2015). In today’s blog post, I want to write about

one specific topic, tourism diaspora. Visits made by diaspora tourism may take several forms.

They may visit friends and relatives or participate in structured tours and packages or both.

Even when they travelled by themselves, they usually benefit the information from the

internet (Coles & Timothy, 2004). Touristlink.com is one of the social networks that provides

information about the traveler desired location. Tourislink networks all the people around the

world to share their knowledge of places of their own countries. On the other hand, it allows

travelers to share their photos and stories about their latest journey from specific places.

Looking through the website, I realized that tourism can be one example of people network,

by focusing through the exchange, power, and community concept of network. Tourism let

people to share their narratives, such as exchange photos and knowledge. Moreover, the

http://www.touristlink.com/

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power of narratives can also affect the travelers’ perspective. For example, travelers who

want to travel to Indonesia, instead of France. At first, they may browse about Indonesia’s

information in the internet, but when they looked that many people talk about France, the

sense of curiosity in France increase. Lastly, by having available website focusing in tourism

like Touristlink.com, it shows that travelers’ community does really exist and they connect

each other.

Can you think about the other networks in tourism? Share it!

References

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Coles, T., & Timothy. D. J. (Eds.). (2004). Tourism, diasporas and space. New York, NY:

Routledge

Diaspora. (n.d.). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved from 18.43, August 26,

2015, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaspora


Lecture 8 People Diaspora. [PowerPoint Slides]. Retrieved


Malawi Diaspora [Google Images]. (2015). Retrieved August 26, 2015, from

http://www.maravipost.com/life-and-style/south-south-learning/8880-law-professor-

says-diaspora-can-be-the-engine-for-educational-and-employment-opportunities-in-

the-country.html

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Chinatown: The Power of Naming

Name is very important that it has a unique meaning behind it. Naming a place is not for only

mapping procedure, but according to Lundberg (2015), name provides “analytical insights

into history, politics, sociology, culture, and languages”. Even in Singapore, there is place

like Chinatown that had historical background through its naming. Historically, the name of

‘Chinatown’ was given by the British. Uniquely, British allocated the Chinese to several

places inside the Chinatown, referring that Chinese has several clan groups (Chinatown, n.d.).

“The Hokkiens settled around Telok Ayer and the waterfront. The Teochews were along

Singapore River (Clarke Quay) and around Fort Canning. On the other hand, the Cantonese

an Hakka lived further out at Kreta Ayer” – (Chinatown, n.d.).

On the other hand, according to Tuan (1991), normally, only a sociopolitical revolution that

may bring a change to the name of a place, city, or a nation. It is due to the knowledge that

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changing the name of place may have the power to wipe out the past and call forth the new.

Reflecting to this idea, though Chinatown is not only restricted into the Chinese recently, the

name still have no changes. Hence, the Chinese cultures and stories still spread out to the

outside world.

Can you find out another place in Singapore that has the power of names?

References

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Chinatown. (n.d). Stories of Chinatown. Stories. Retrieved from

http://www.chinatown.sg/index.php?fx=soc-stories-page&sid=1

Chinatown Singapore [Online Images]. (n.d.). Retrieved August 6th, 2015, from

http://beautifulsingaporeus.blogspot.sg/2015/06/chinatown-singapore.html

Chinatown, Singapore. (n.d.). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved from 17.58,

August 6th, 2015, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinatown,_Singapore

Lundberg, A. (2015). BA1002: Our Space: Networks, narratives and the making of place.

Lecture 5: Stories and Place [PDF file]. Retrieved from https://learnjcu.jcu.edu

Tuan, Y.F. (1991). Language and the making of place: A narrative-descriptive approach,

81(4), 684-696. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org.stable/2563430

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COMMENT ON: The Scare of Ebola

First of all, this is a great job in discussing how Ebola networks across people. I can easily

follow your writing that according to Lundberg (2015), the virus may outgrow beyond its

primary areas through postal or airplane network. However, reflecting to my knowledge of

the spread of Ebola, I know that the host of Ebola virus is the fruit bat. I missed the

information about how the Ebola virus spread at first, before transmitting to people.

Nonetheless, I agree that no matter how much the information that we can get in the Internet,

it will not all the right information. It may lead to misunderstanding due to the wrong

information. I found this post as unique as the writer links how the information of Ebola virus

in the social medias, such as Twitter and Facebook have the same characteristic of how the

power of mouth-to-mouth information in the real life can affect a community.

Reference

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Lecture 8 Nature Networks. [PowerPoint Slides]. Retrieved


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COMMENT ON: Panopticism in Periscope

First of all, this is a great job in introducing the newest firm bought by Twitter, Periscope! I

would say that I have been leaving Twitter since last 2012, after being super active there. In

other words, I have no possibility knowing what Periscope is until I read your awesome blog

post and did my own research before writing my comment.

In your first paragraph that explained about how Periscope works, I realize that when one is

live-airing, the concept of Power occurred. I can not agree more in the Foucault’s statement

(1998, p. 63, as cited in Lundberg, 2015) that “Power is everywhere, and comes from

everywhere.” It is true that with Periscope, now all the people that have the access to the

Internet, can have their own live-airing. Something that is too fabulous that people in the past

can think of! Live-airing used to be so professional and commercial, but now, everything

seems so interesting. Everyone has the power of being noticed by whomever one can not

think of in this planet.

On the other hand, being noticed by the strangers is not always a good thing. As you

mentioned that the people who do not have any connections to our Twitter can also have the

possibility to join the conversation, I am thinking that Periscope now can be the surveillance

for people prior to the Bentham’s Panopticon idea (1787, as stated in Lundberg, 2015)

stating that “there is no freedom from the controlling gaze.” Moreover, I agree that Periscope

can be both disempowering and empowering at the same time. When one has so many

followers who treat him or her nicely, then Periscope is empowering. However, when one get

spams, or even bad words, then it will be the case of disempowering.

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Lecture 2 Power: The Panopticon. [PowerPoint Slides]. Retrieved


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Our Stuffs and the Globalization

What come out into your mind when you read or hear about globalization? Does

globalization really impact to all the people around the world? Or is it just a winning and

losing competition?

According to Dicken (2007), globalization is a savage process but it also a beneficial one,

that the winner of globalization can outnumber the loser. The winner of globalization can

benefit much by using the sources from the loser. In this case, the rate of poverty in the loser

condition will keep increasing. Many cases reported about the sweatshop labour, which draws

a picture of how factories with poor working conditions often exploiting not only women but

also children (Lundberg, 2015).

It is tragic that this condition may be very visible, yet feels like invisible. Due to the sense of

passiveness from people nowadays, people tend not to know the behind process of their stuff.

It is ironic that people behind the process suffer much to fight for the poverty, but they still

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left behind. Hence, globalization still develops in its long journey, to reach the successful

globalization that benefits all the communities of people.

References

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Dicken, P. (2007). Mapping the changing contours of the world economy. London: SAGE

Publications, Ltd.

Globalization [Online Images]. (2014). Retrieved August 13th, 2015, from

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/salman-sakir/globalization_b_5992002.html

Globalization. (n.d.). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved from 17.58, August

13th, 2015, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globalization


Lecture 6 Network of Stuff. [PowerPoint Slides]. Retrieved


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Twitter: The Freedom of Your Narration?

Twitter is an online social networking service that let users to post and read whatever the

users want to. Though the post is restricted to only 140 characters, there are no limitations of

how many posts that can be posted a day. Twitter is the example of how the narration can be

networked through people.

According to Lundberg (2015), narratives are appeared in one way, referring to the author

and the reader. It is true that Twitter gives the freedom to share your stories. However, as

McNeill (2012) mentioned that when people are in the network, there will be no such

freedom as they always think of. It is true that when people share their story in the Twitter,

they expect that only specific people in their followers will read their stories, but it does not.

Everyone, even the unregistered users can read the post if they want to.

Twitter has the features of ‘reply’, ‘mention’, and ‘retweeting’. Retweeting refers to the way

that people share what other post to their own Twitter accounts. Since there is Retweeting

button, I, personally feels that the freedom of sharing is not that free anymore. What do you

think?

References

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Lecture 6 Network of Stuff. [PowerPoint Slides]. Retrieved


McNeill, L. (2012). There is no “I” in network: Social networking sites and posthuman

auto/biography. Project Muse, 35(1), 65-82. doi: 10.1353/bio.2012.0009

Twitter. (n.d.). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved from 18.38, July 31th, 2015,

from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter

Twitter [Online Images]. (2012). Retrieved July 31th, 2015, from

https://www.shopify.com/blog/6390022-how-to-use-twitter-for-ecommerce

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COMMENT ON: Lost in the Aisles of Convenience

First of all, this is a great job in exploring food network. The writer gives me a well-written

reflection of how farmers are often left out from the chain of food networks. Even though,

farmers are the very important part of the food networks, they usually left out due to the less

power they had, comparing to the market. It was sad that according to the Patel (2007),

convenience lets people nowadays to forget how their food on their plates has been served. I

agree that people should reflect back and link to the food network.

Reference

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Patel, R. (2007). Introduction. Stuffed and Starved: Markets, Powers and the Hidden Battle

for the World’s Food System, pp. 1-19. Melbourne: Schwartz Publishing.

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COMMENT ON: Story of the Place

I agree with the writer that names are very important. Even a simple name can be very

meaningful due to each own attached meanings. I personally have only one word name, with

no family name given, due to several reasons that the parents of my country used to do. Even

though my name is very common, I also feel so special by having my own name, as I am the

one who gives the name a meaning. The writer then mentioned about how name can be

connected and linked with the power of place. According to Lundberg (2015), place names

and street names are not only for mapping, but they also provide analytical insights into the

history, politics, sociology, culture, and languages. I agree that the writer mentioned about

how Singapore named its street and places. For instance, the Chinatown in Singapore will

also refer to the history of the Chinese people in Singapore. Overall, great post!

Reference

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Lecture 5: Stories and Place [PDF file]. Retrieved from https://learnjcu.jcu.edu

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COMMENT ON: Networked Narratives: Timeline Life Chronicles

First of all, I took this blog post, as I found it to be unique for taking such as Facebook

Timeline to link to the networked narratives. I still remembered that at first, Facebook did not

offer the timeline procedure as now we do have. According to the Lundberg (2015), “life

narratives may be related to one another and create a multidimensional network that is not

linear”. Facebook timeline reflects this idea a lot that it does not come with the linear one. On

the other hand, people need to be linked to other people, whether they are families, friend,

relatives, or co-workers. By linking with those people, whoever related to one’s Facebook

can see through the person’s timeline, giving their own perspectives about the person, though

it may be wrong. This is the way that the power of narratives can work. However, people

need to educate how to set their own timeline privacies to avoid negative things, especially

for children. Overall, great post!

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Lecture 4 Networked Narratives [PDF Document]. Retrieved from

https://learnjcu.jcu.edu.au/

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COMMENT ON: Digital Revolution

First of all, the writer has a unique way of sharing how the stuff, like social media can

network to each other through the community of people. The writer brings out an interesting

point about how the social media has changed through time. People nowadays used social

media and technology in a daily portion. I can not agree more with the writer that he or she

stated that even job has no specific place restriction anymore. Job now can be done

everywhere, even in people’s own house. And according to the Lundberg (2015), there are

also businesses that can not afford the wages for workers, which they choose to recruit people

who have the capability to work online through Internet. However, I would like to see if this

revolution can bring any negative effects to the people’s community.

Reference

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Lecture 6: Stuff [PDF file]. Retrieved from https://learnjcu.jcu.edu.au/

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