Social Network Space Research Articles

ESPACIALIDADE DO CORPO E ATIVISMOS SOCIAIS NA CIDADE CONTEMPORÂNEA the body spatiality and social activism in contemporary city

This essay seeks to argue the body spatiality in contemporary city from the analyses of the relationship between virtual social networks and the concrete urban spaces as it was expressed in the manifestations that happened on Brazilian cities streets on June, 2013. It stands up for the assumption that it is the virtual social networks that express the street manifestations and not the other way about (RISERIO, 2013), from the example of the Desocupa Salvador movement. The Desocupa Salvador is analyzed as a social activism in interaction with broader social movements, which characterizes it as a collective network articulated from horizontal contacts made possible by social networks present in virtual space. Finally it concludes that the process of body re-territorialism in the Brazilian cities streets through the manifestations shows new ways for the building of an “emancipatory politic” as Harvey (2004) defines since the virtual space of social networks does not eliminate the importance of concrete public spaces, and also evidences one dialectic of desterritorialized bodies in front of a screen and reterritorialized bodies on the street.

Living a Curriculum of Hyph-E-Nations: Diversity, Equity, and Social Media

This study considers the complexities of living a cross-cultural curriculum within the multicultural contexts of Canada through following the experience of some first generation immigrants in a project that employs the multi-dimensional space of the Internet and cyber social communities within a vocational public school in Ontario. Disrupting traditional conceptions of students’ production of literacies, the project seeks to rework the boundaries that define multiculturalism as a series of homogeneous hyphenated spaces from which students who are racialized as non-white are expected to speak. Here we consider, “what is at play in the hyphen?” and “how might the networked classroom space be considered a hyph-e-nation?” To explore these questions, we begin with an overview of multicultural education in Canada. We then employ a reading of Third Spaces and quantum physics to reread how students might open up dual Third Spaces through self representations in a social networking space: first through the social network as a Third Space and second, as certain kinds of learners caught in the hyph-e-nated middle of Canadian multiculturalism in an Ontario classroom. The case studies are followed by a discussion that problematizes discourses of comparison between cultural communities of which students with many cultural backgrounds and experiences are members.

DigitalOcean: building a platform for scientific collaboration and social and media sharing on the Drupal content management system

The DigitalOcean (DO) Project is designed to bring essential Web 2.0 capabilities to an open-source software platform built for scientific collaboration and publishing. The DO platform is being built using the Drupal content management system (CMS). The following are some of the core features of the proposed platform: social networking, media/data sharing/publishing, and collaboration spaces for scientific virtual organizations (VO); active support for VO governance and reputation systems for members and objects; Creative Commons licensing, support for preprint archives and micro-articles, and; professional user-profiles that can be saved as well formatted biosketches. The DO platform serves as a collaboration environment for active research teams, a personal repository for individual researchers, an aggregation/filter for science information, and a scientific publishing tool. This article will outline the history and goals of the DO Project, the core technology concerns and solutions, and the opportunities that this new platform will bring to scientists across the planet.

Photo-based narratives as communication mediators between grandparents and their children and grandchildren living abroad

Media-sharing Web sites are facilitating modern versions of storytelling activities. This study investigates the use of photo-based narratives to support young parents who are geographically separated from their aging parents to share stories about their young children. The case analyses Malaysian young mothers living in the UK, communicating regularly with their families back home, sharing experiences living in another country, looking for parenting advice, and opening opportunities for sharing the life and development of their young children. Sixteen families participated in the study by providing access to their social networking and web spaces and participating in exercises for creating photo stories. We identified the characteristics of the mediating system serving to establish the contact between grandparents and grandchildren as well as the characteristics of the photo stories and the practices around sharing them.

Augmenting Context Awareness by Combining Body Sensor Networks and Social Networks

Due to recent advancements in social networks, many people can consume diversified services on a daily basis and have developed an association with different communities of interest (COIs) via these services. However, a person only accesses a subset of these services at a given time either to consume certain services or to share information with a COI. This paper tries to answer two important research questions: 1) “how to dynamically capture user context from heterogeneous sources” and 2) “which services and COI are related to any given context.” To address these two challenges, we propose a framework called SenseFace, which provides user context from two sources: 1) a body sensor network (BSN) and 2) multimedia information contained the within social network space. We present the detailed design and implementation of the framework and share our preliminary test results.

Inquiry on the Global (Post)Crisis Versus Humankind Wisdom as a Turning Point: Does the Generosity-Creativity-Solidarity Triad Matter?

The humankind wisdom is supposed to be a related and open-deeper turning point. An equivalent type of statement may be referred to generosity, creativity, solidarity. Homo Sapiens, as a species, is distinguished clearly from other species by their socio-cultural nature, drawing on a deep inner universe of cultural meanings and values which inform both individual and group behaviours - within wisdom turning point. These meanings are created phenomenologically in the gestalt of consciousness, framed in the context of deep value-systems which shift as a result of psychological, biological (and existential) realities. Recent research has begun to uncover the complex waves and patterns associated with these shifts. They indicate a dynamically stable system which underpins human activity at the level of both the individual and the civilisation. In this context, the technology is an intercourse of the cultural materialisation of our civilisation and its material nature as a cultural meaning needs interactive and iterative exploration: explanation and understanding. This study presents at least six concordant directions - in order to proof, at least, the utility of both explanation and understanding: social networking and virtual space; Eastern European “power of people” and behaviour of technology providers; innovative knowledge and knowledge management; generosity in knowledge; complex process of better organizing diversity; subtle outlook upon the network of sciences vs. systemic and cybernetic knowingness; toward Consciousness Society and future prospect for the e-World. On in this way, can we really begin to understand the trajectory (or multiple trajectories) of our current civilisation, of a deeper humankind wisdom, with all its new connectivities and disconnectivities mediated as they are through information and other technologies?

Negative Double Jeopardy revisited: A longitudinal analysis

The Double Jeopardy concept indicates that strong brands have many advantages over weak brands. However, strong brands might also have some disadvantages over weak brands, which were recently conceptualized as Negative Double Jeopardy (NDJ), on the Internet (Kucuk, 2008a). With the advent of the Internet, today's consumers started to re-brand corporate brand meanings on their websites, blogs or social networking spaces, as a part of rising online consumer power. However, previous NDJ and anti-branding studies predominantly focused on anti-brand websites rather than anti-brand blogs and social networking spaces. In addition, although previous studies revealed that there might be a negative link between the levels of consumer-organized anti-branding activities and corporate brand values, this link has not been studied extensively, specifically longitudinally – over an extended time period, such as last 4 years (2005–2009). Thus, this study revisits the NDJ phenomenon with newly developing anti-branding blogs, social networking sites as well anti-branding websites, and tests the validation of previous NDJ studies. In this context, the study is the first of its kind, discussing how such consumer-generated anti-branding activities changed in the last 4 years, with a set of longitudinal analyses in order to address some solutions for better functioning markets.

From TV to Twitter: How Ambient News Became Ambient Journalism

Scholars have applied the term "ambient" to journalism to describe the omnipresent nature of news in society through the proliferation of one-way media into public spaces. This approach is based on a one-directional model of mass media where the audience is framed as the receptor of communication. However this paper suggests that we need to reassess the meaning of ambient as applied to news and journalism due to the participatory and interactive characteristics of the networked digital media. The Internet has changed the relationship between journalists and audiences from a one-way, asymmetric model of communication to a more participatory and collective system, where citizens have the ability to participate in the news production process. This paper argues that ambient news has evolved into ambient journalism – an awareness system that offers diverse means to collect, communicate, share and display news and information, from both professional and non-professional sources.

The city is connections: Seoul as an urban network

With the rise of ubiquitous computing in recent years, concepts of spatiality have become a significant topic of discussion in design and development of multimedia systems. This article investigates spatial practices at the intersection of youth, technology, and urban space in Seoul, and examines what the author calls ‘transyouth’: in the South Korean context, these people are between the ages of 18 and 24, situated on the delicate border between digital natives and immigrants in Prensky’s [46] terms. In the first section, the article sets out the technosocial environment of contemporary Seoul. This is followed by a discussion of social networking processes derived from semi-structured interviews conducted in 2007–2008 with Seoul transyouth about their ‘lived experiences of the city.’ Interviewees reported how they interact to play, work, and live with and within the city’s unique environment. The article develops a theme of how technosocial convergence (re)creates urban environments and argues for a need to consider such user-driven spatial recreation in designing cities as (ubiquitous) urban networks in recognition of its changing technosocial contours of connections. This is explored in three spaces of different scales: Cyworld as an online social networking space; cocoon housing—a form of individual residential space which is growing rapidly in many Korean cities—as a private living space; and ubiquitous City as the future macro-space of Seoul.

Moral Spaces in MySpace

My Space and Facebook are innovative digital communication tools that surpass traditional means of social interaction. However, in some instances in which educators have used these tools, public reactions to them have resulted in sanctions. With the notion that traditional ideas of privacy and teacher conduct are not yet defined in online worlds, the researchers developed a case-based reasoning intervention to support more informed decisions by preservice teachers. The case-based coursework led students to perceive a need for more definitive guidelines about their participation in social networking spaces. The findings have professional development implications for educators and educational institutions that wish to harness the positive potential of social networking tools without risking professional status.

社会ネットワークと社会空間からみた住民の定着過程

都市化した住宅地域で,旧村落時代からの祭り運営が残る大阪府堺市百舌鳥梅北町5丁を対象地域に,自治会加入全世帯についての自治会関連組織に関する行動の分析,および個人単位での社会ネットワーク・社会空間の分析を行ない,地域社会特性と住民の定着の相互関係について考察した.年齢別,性別に分化した自治会関連組織は年齢の両端に位置する子供会・老人会が空間的には限定的であるが幅広い世帯属性を包摂しているのに対し,中間の青年団・秋月会はその逆である.この重層的包摂構造が住民の定着に影響を与えており,早くから社会空間を認知し組織に参加することで自治会全域という地域社会スケールでの定着がうながされる「地域社会型定着過程」と,若い間は組織に参加せず隣組およびその周辺という近隣スケールでの定着がまず進行し,後に社会空間を認知し定着範囲が広がる「近隣型定着過程」という2つの定着過程が生じていると考えられる.