#CeDEM13 day 2 afternoon, Keynotes

1. Behind the Scenes:
Information Flows in Networks
Karine Nahon
karineb@uw.edu
http://eKarine.org AND http://SoMeLab.net
http://twitter.com/karineb

4. Information Flows and
Social Structure
• Reproduction
And at the same time:
• Transformation

5. Information flows challenge
institutions and fundamentally
transform the structures of
institutions and power
relations among stakeholders.

7. Source:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/the-
pepper-spraying-cop-meme

10. ‫תקציביות‬ ‫העברות‬

14. Empowering open, equal and
decentralized platforms, where
users have a critical role

15. Maybe more open and
empowered
but not equal

16. • The power law
• Homophily
• Fragmentation and polarization
• Following the herd
• Network gatekeeping
• Digital Divides

17. Market Share of Search Engines
Search
Engines
10/02 1/03 5/04 12/08 12/10 8/11 9/12 3/13
Google
20.1
33
36.8
62.9
84.6
82.8
85.15
67.5
Yahoo
19.6
24
26.6
16.8
6.7
6.6
7.3
12.1
MSN
19.3
19
14.5
9.8
Bing
-­‐
3.3
3.8
4
16.7
AOL
13.5
12
12.8
4.1
Baidu
-­‐
3.4
4.8
1.65
Ask’s
2.6
72.5
88
90.7
93.6
98
98
98.1
98.9
Sources: Alexa, Netmarketshare, search engine watch

18. Worldwide
smartphone
operaLng
system
(OS)
market
share
in
2009-­‐2015,
according
to
Gartner
OS
2009
market
share
2010
market
share
2011
market
share
Android
3.9%
22.7%
38.5%
BlackBerry
19.9%
16.0%
13.4%
iOS
14.4%
15.7%
19.4%
Symbian
46.9%
37.6%
19.2%
Windows
Phone/
Mobile
8.7%
4.2%
5.6%
Others
6.1%
3.8%
3.9%
Total
smartphones
sold
172
million
297
million
468
million
Source:
Gartner
(April
2011)
90.5%
Source:
NetMarketShare
‫ם‬‫דפדפני‬
95.7%

19. • 4 blog categories

20. Homophily and
Fragmentation
DailyKos
Huffington Post
Talking Points Memo
Firedoglake
Crooks And Liars
Washington Monthly
Pandagon
America Blog
Five Thirty
Eight
Digby
Feministing
Juan Cole
Open Left
Talk Left
Shakespeares Sister
Sadly, No!
MyDD
Ezra Klein
Hot Air
Gateway Pundit
Newsbusters
Powerline Blog
Ann Althouse
Jawa Report
Patterico's Pontifications
IMAO
Red State
QandO

21. Following
the Herd

22. Network Gatekeeping
• Editors 83,000
• Men: 91%
• Education: 65% percentile
• Who creates content?

25. Communal Gatekeeping
(The 7th eye, 2011)

26. (source: Getty Images,
FARS, ABC News)

28. Some Democratic Illusions
• The mass: a mass or a micro?
• Big numbers = objective information?
• Wisdom of the crowd: does it represent the
population?
• Does a ‘like’ influence decision?
• Openness and participation = equality?
• Participation = deliberation?

29. More Democratic Illusions
• Towards which direction is the herd heading?
• Is the individual voice lost being part of the
wisdom of the crowd?
• Demanding (uncontrollable) transparency –
where do we stop?
• Endless/Ubiquitous information – but where
is the power?

30. What Can we do?
• Democracy by design
• Increasing inclusive participation
• Institutionalize the process of transforming
participation to decision-making
• Transparency-oriented applications
• Collaboration: people, civil society, private
sector and government