The machine in the ghost: a socio-technical perspective...
Social Media Trends and Topics
1. Trends, Cautions and Opportunities
in Social Media
Dr. Cliff Lampe
Department of Telecommunication, Information
Studies and Media
College of Communication Arts and Sciences
41. In reality...
Very few negative stories (that don’t involve true
stupidity)
Privacy controls are actually powerful and available
We tend to sell our privacy for cookies
Facebook knows to wait out the storm
44. In reality...
People are mostly “friending” people they know
SNS is most useful for casual friends, rather than close
friends
Reduces cost of maintaining a broader, deeper
network
46. In reality...
Never underestimate the value of frivolity
There are *many* types of uses of SNS, some very
serious
Don’t forget the wide ecology of social network sites
50. Academic Publications
Lampe, C., Wash, R., Velasquez, A., & Ozkaya, E. (2010) Motivations to Participate in
Online Communities. In the Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in
Computing Systems (CHI) (Atlanta, GA 2010
Lampe, C., & Ellison, N. (2010). Student athlete use of Facebook. In Proceedings of the
2010 Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2010).
Ellison, N., Lampe, C., Steinfield, C., & Vitak, J. (in press). With a little help from my Friends:
Social network sites and social capital. In Z. Papacharissi (Ed.), The networked self:
Identity, community and culture on social network sites. New York: Routledge.
Ganley, D. and Lampe, C. 2009. The ties that bind: Social network principles in online
communities. Decis. Support Syst. 47, 3 (Jun. 2009), 266-274.
Steinfield, C., DiMicco, J. M., Ellison, N. B., & Lampe, C. (2009). "Bowling Online: Social
Networking and Social Capital within the Organization." Proceedings of the Fourth
Communities and Technologies Conference.