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THE WORLD WIDE WEB
James Gillies and Robert Cailliau, How the Web Was Born : The Story of the World Wide Web.
• Which social responses can be traced through all
the emergences of the new technology forms?
• What does that say about the interaction between
the internet and individuals?
• How has this desire for „connectivity‟ evolved in
today‟s world?
• How much of an implication do you think the
government had on what is our modern internet
when we note “money for computers and for
networking computers was coming from the
government”(1,3) from the text?
THE CONCEPTION
• Paul Baran : Packet Switching 1960
• Licklider: “man-computer symbiosis” interaction > individual parts
• Post- Sputnik idea of connectivity, for both military and social
purposes.
• Important to note that the funding at this time for these computers
was coming from the government.
• Resource of connection “e-mail” turned out to be the most
appealing of the developments.
THE CREATION
• October 29, 1969 10:30pm first connection from host to host on the
ARPANET
• International Conference on Computers: Allowed people to come in
and learn/ understand this new technology
• Metcalfe‟s Law: “as the number of users on a network grows, the
value of that network increases exponentially” (2,2)
• With the emergence of new networks, importance that the world
have “one protocol” = Standardization, key factor in understanding
evolution of a new medium.
• 1985: Launched chat rooms “community trumped content” (2,4)
• Politics start getting involved with the technology (email) SHIFT in the
way evidence can be presented.
THE WEB
• Coming together of three technologies: Hypertext, personal
computer, and network.
• Emergence of “whole new world” --- social media rules/ messaging
rules/ specialized jobs
GOING PUBLIC
• Ideas of web used are increasingly related to business interests:
• Pierre Omidyar (ebay):
“Theory of markets, the idealistic theory that says if you have an
efficient marketplace, then goods are traded at their fair value”(5,2)
• SELF PROMOTION : advent of PR, fandom
S.N.S.
Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship
By: Maren Berger
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QuestionsCan some of you give an example of how you use SNS in your
daily practices?
SixDegrees.com was the first website to combine what features?
According to the article, what are some “passion-centric” SNS
sites?
Question from the reading‟s Privacy section - Do police officers
have the right to access content posted to Facebook without a
warrant?
The term Clay Shirky coined was called what?
Are profiles considered public or private if you share almost
everything?
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SNS: A Definition
“What makes social network sites
unique is not that they allow
individuals to meet strangers, but
rather that they enable users to
articulate and make visible their
social networks.”
(Boyd and Ellison, Social Network Sites: A Definition)
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(Socialportal.ballywhointeractive.com, 2014)
History“Friendster‟s servers and databases were ill-equipped to handle its
rapid growth, and the site faltered regularly, frustrating users who
replaced e-mail with Friendster. Because organic growth had been
critical to creating a coherent community, the onslaught of new
users who learned about the site from media coverage upset the
cultural balance. Furthermore, exponential growth meant a
collapse in social contexts: Users had to face their bosses and
former classmates alongside their close friends. To complicate
matters, Friendster began restricting the activities of its most
passionate users.”
(Boyd and Ellison, The Rise (and Fall) of Friendster)
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Similarities Between Some S.N.S.
(Facebook, 2014)(Twitter,
2014)
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Differentiations Between Some S.N.S.
A.K.A. Are we really “friends?”
(MySpace, 2014)
Facebook• Early 2004
• Started out as a Harvard only S.N.S.
• To join, users had to have a harvard.edu e-mail
address
• Other colleges were later able to join using
associated institution addresses
• Intimate community
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Facebook•2005 - Expanded to high school students, corporate networks, and
eventually everyone (Sigh, yes, even your parents and your uncle who
„likes‟ everything.)
•“Gross and Acquisti (2005) analyzed 4,000 Carnegie Mellon University
Facebook profiles and outlined the potential threats to privacy contained
in the personal information included on the site by students, such as the
potential ability to reconstruct users‟ social security numbers using
information often found in profiles, such as hometown and date of birth.”
(Boyd and Ellison, Privacy)
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Video:
https://www.newsy.com/videos/facebook-makes-changes-to-policy-for-deceased-user-
profiles/#ooid=ZleG5zazoWLuD75LPotti7iT_Osw5by4
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But I‟m Majoring In Culture & Media!