Presentation for JC2 students from VJC

1. Of Facebook-Mania
& Crackberries
The effects of New Media Technologies
CHEW Han Ei
Department of Telecommunications Information Studies and Media
Michigan State University
elearning module with voice narration
Victoria Junior College, Singapore

2. Enduring questions about the media
OF FACEBOOK MANIA & CRACKBERRIES
 How will they change human relationships?
 How will they change us?

3. Describing the milieu
OF FACEBOOK MANIA & CRACKBERRIES
The Global Village
Marshall McLuhan
The Network Society
Manuel Castells
The World is Flat
Thomas Friedman
The affordances of information
communication technologies (ICTs)

4. The Internet Paradox – late 1990s
OF FACEBOOK MANIA & CRACKBERRIES
 Internet use & video games create
depressed, misogynistic troglodytes
 Why is it a paradox?
 Idea of strong and weak social ties
 Internet displaces strong with
weak
 Users become more depressed as
they have less social support
 Examples: Littleton, Virginia Tech
shootings

5. Facebook Mania
OF FACEBOOK MANIA & CRACKBERRIES
• Augmentation Carnegie Mellon Foundation
• Those who use the Internet to extend and
maintain relationships report increases in
psychological well-being
• Compensatory use: Facebook study by
Michigan State University.
• People who are low in self-esteem can use the
Internet to form meaningful relationships
• Novelty effects and regression to mean

6. Cyber Felons and Crowd-sourcing
OF FACEBOOK MANIA & CRACKBERRIES
New Zealand Police Use
Craig’s list suspect - Philip
Facebook Images To Solve
Markoff
Burglary

7. OF FACEBOOK MANIA & CRACKBERRIES
At the workplace

8. OF FACEBOOK MANIA & CRACKBERRIES
Facebook at the workplace

9. Halloween Fairy Busted! on Facebook
OF FACEBOOK MANIA & CRACKBERRIES

10. Of Crackberries and iPhonies
OF FACEBOOK MANIA & CRACKBERRIES
 Emergence of technological synecdoche

11. Perpetual linkage
OF FACEBOOK MANIA & CRACKBERRIES
 Continuous partial attention
 Yo-mama is right…
 …Multi-tasking is counterproductive
 Research at Microsoft Labs
 Is our brain capable of concentration
now?

12. Is Google making us stupid?
OF FACEBOOK MANIA & CRACKBERRIES
 Google is rewiring our neural circuits
 The Net is chipping away at our ability to
concentrate and contemplate
 Power browsing, skimming and
hyperlinks

13. Is Google making us stupid?
OF FACEBOOK MANIA & CRACKBERRIES
 Google is rewiring our neural circuits
 The Net is chipping away at our ability to
concentrate and contemplate
 Power browsing, skimming and
hyperlinks

14. Web 2.0 .The Machine is Us/ing Us
OF FACEBOOK MANIA & CRACKBERRIES
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE

15. Folksonomies
OF FACEBOOK MANIA & CRACKBERRIES
 Folksonomies versus Taxonomies
 “Most emailed/popular article”, “Amazon
recommendations”
 Power of Many
 AWARE saga was top Twitter trend just
before the EGM.

16. Keywords
OF FACEBOOK MANIA & CRACKBERRIES
 Affordances
 Displacement [Augmentation & Compensation]
 Crackberries
 Multi-tasking
 Folksonomy

17. Enduring questions about
the [new] media:
MEDIA TECH
CRIB SHEET FOR EFFECTS OF NEW
•How will they change
human relationships?
•How will they change us?
Describing the new
media environment:
•The Global Village
Marshall McLuhan
•The Network Society
Manuel Castells
•The World is Flat
Thomas Friedman
Current paradigm to describe Information Communication Technology [ICTs]: Not inherently
positive or negative but the AFFORDANCES of ICTs affect how humans interact in specific
ways . The features of ICTs predispose their use in specific ways: anonymously,
synchronously, asynchronously etc. For Web 2.0 applications, we (the users) are the Web!