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Requiem for the virtual communities Long life to the Social Networks!
Get PDFWithin a broader study, published in the book Drugs and Women, we conducted a research on the Internet, drugs and women. We have thus tried to go back to the same online communities explored for other research on drugs and the Internet, conducted 3 years ago.
However, among the 7 communities analysed, we have observed online that most of those active in 2009 have become extinct.
From the remaining websites and in those that have changed domain, various social media channels have been opened.
This may mean that the discussions have moved to external social networks, and that websites or parts of websites dedicated to forum and not to other services were closed. Only two websites still have a virtual community: the first one provides content, information and services, but also a lot of pornography, while the other one has the structure and functioning, in fact, completely identical to a social network based on user-generated content.
This seems to indicate the possible end of virtual communities as they were encoded by Rheingold [1994]. As already shown in the 2009 study, those who participate in discussion on a social network site could not perceive themselves as specific members of the community, but as users of social media that can provide them contact for other pages in which they intervene, to which they adhere or for which they click “I Like”. The user does not even have to looking for news or information but simply subscribe to the RSS feed to receive news on his custom web page or smartphone [Vergani 2009].
If the feeling of belonging disappears as geopolitical-identity phenomenon in more technologically integrated society, we might imagine that the same is happening to the "traditional" online communities.
Finally, we wonder if in the web it is occurring something like a passage from mechanical solidarity community to organic solidarity society
Pictures “In The Wild”: Uncovering Privacy Concerns for Situated Snapshots
Get PDFNetworked public displays offer new ways of communication between members of place-based communities. For example, they allow for taking situated snapshots, i.e., photos taken through a display-attached camera, and viewing them on a display network or (potentially) somewhere on the web. This paper discusses some of the preliminary privacy considerations arising from the use of such media: communicating where the publicly taken situated snapshots are stored, where they appear, that no surveliance is taking place, content control for situated snapshots, where (in what place) and how interactions happening on the web will appear on a display network. The paper shows privacy perception towards situated snapshots and also informs the design of similar future networked public display systems. Author Keywords Situated snapshots; urban screens; privacy
Community Is the Message: Viewing Networked Public Displays Through McLuhan’s Media Theory
No full textExperiences from developing networked public display applications on 3rd party infrastructures
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Public Photos, Private Concerns: Uncovering Privacy Concerns of User Generated Content Created Through Networked Public Displays
Get PDFNetworked public displays offer new ways of connecting communities through user-generated content. For example, they allow taking situated snapshots, i.e., photos taken through a display-attached camera, and viewing them on displays in the network or potentially somewhere on the web. Little research has looked into users’ privacy concerns for this novel type of content. This paper reflects on two longitudinal studies of the Moment Machine application that was running in the UK and Switzerland for 12+ weeks, and summarizes some of the privacy concerns this type of user-generated content can raise, namely: communicating where the publicly taken situated snapshots are stored, where they appear, that no surveillance is taking place, content control for situated snapshots, where (in what place) and how interactions happening on the web will appear on a display network. Based on the two studies I make recommendations and inform the design of similar future networked public display systems
Understanding Future Challenges for Networked Public Display Systems in Community Settings
Get PDFNetworked public displays are envisioned as a communication medium for the 21st century, and as such they have a great potential to address place-based communities. This area has seen an increasing numbers of investigations of networked public displays effects on communities and the way they impact interactions between community members. However, most of this research stands alone in isolation, with little work looking into synthesizing the systems, processes, research questions, and evaluation procedures and effects they produce. In this paper we look at seminal works in the area, i.e., the Wray Photo Display, the Plasma Poster Network, CoCollage, and UBI-Hotspots, and analyze the systems themselves, settings in which they were deployed and respective communities, the processes leading to building up the system, the research questions that were examined, and the effects of the networked public display systems on the community. We discuss the similarities and differences in these works and provide insights for the designers and developers of similar future systems, with a goal to present open challenges for the future work
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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