Spring Training School Open Scholarly Communities on the Web: Theory and Practice Pisa (Italy), 22-26 March 2010 Andrea Salvini - Università di Pisa 24.03.2010

1. Social Networks on the web
Andrea Salvini - Università di Pisa
24.03.2010
Spring Training School
Open Scholarly Communities on the Web: Theory and Practice
Pisa (Italy), 22-26 March 2010
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2. Index
Interplay between social changes and the
internet (Barry Wellman)
Identity construction on online social
networks (Erving Goffman and
symbolic interactionism)
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4. The advent of Internet
From groupware to social networks
Social networks similarities inline and
offline
The community question
from door to door to person to person
interaction
pervasivity of internet
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5. Debate and contraddictions
Manichean
Unidimensional
Parochial
Presentist
Utopian and dystopians
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6. Internet and (in) social life
Routinization
network effect
usability of technology
instrumental vs expressive functions
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7. Towards networked individualism
network-centric everyday life
Effect on social cohesion
Less dense but increasing social
linkages
social exclusion
citizenship
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8. Identity in online communities
The quest for identity
Identity as performance
Audience segregation
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9. Symbolic interactionism
It’s a matter of interaction,
interpretation and meanings
Audience as social context
Community: sharing experiences and
information
pseudo-communities and virtual vs real
spaces
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10. Continuity
between online and off-line selves
Real vs virtual?
under what circumstances something
feels real for those involved in
interactions
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11. References
Laura Robinson, The Cyberself: the self-ing project goes online,
symbolic interaction in the digital age, in “New Media and Society”, 9
(1), 2007
Shanyang Zhao, The Digital Self: Through the Looking Glass of
Telecopresent Others, in “Symbolic Interaction”, 28(3), 2005
Barry Wellman: http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman/
publications/index.html (you can freely choose and download)
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