1:30 We would trade our privacy and eventually our freedom for the recognition and connection we so dearly crave.
2:50 We want our lives to matter. And we’re desperately uncomfortable with the notion that it all might be meaningless. So we seek to be remembered long before we’re gone.
With Teens And Social Media, Lack Of Context Is Everything
March 1, 2014
http://www.npr.org/2014/03/01/284338488/with-teens-and-social-media-lack-of-context-is-everything
BOYD: I have to simultaneously deal with professional situations, friends from the past, friends from the present all in one environment, and I don’t share the same thing in those worlds. For me, it’s just, you know, a world of context collapse.
BLAIR: Context collapse. Danah Boyd, who attended MIT and works for Microsoft, isn’t sure whether she or a fellow social scientist coined the phrase but she refers to it a lot.
related:
Making The Case For Face To Face In An Era Of Digital Conversation
September 26, 2015
http://www.npr.org/2015/09/26/443480452/making-the-case-for-face-to-face-in-an-era-of-digital-conversation
Sherry Turkle, a professor of Social Studies of Science and Technology at MIT … Her new book is called
Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age.
Penguin Press, October 2015
http://thepenguinpress.com/book/reclaiming-conversation-the-power-of-talk-in-a-digital-age
She is also the author of the books The Second Self and Alone Together.
I was called to consult at a middle school because the directors and the teachers were concerned about what they felt was a lack of empathy among middle school children which they associated to the presence of technology. The association they made was when they sit together at lunch they don’t talk to each other — they talk with their phones. Face to face conversation is the most human and humanizing thing that we do; it’s where we learn to put ourselves in the place of the other.
related:
https://franzcalvo.wordpress.com/2013/05/03/are-we-plugged-in-connected-but-alone
Can you connect with me now? How the presence of mobile communication technology influences face-to-face conversation quality
Journal of Social and Personal Relationships May 2013 vol. 30 no. 3 237-246
http://spr.sagepub.com/content/30/3/237.short
Andrew K. Przybylski, Netta Weinstein
University of Essex, UK
Recent advancements in communication technology have enabled billions of people to connect over great distances using mobile phones, yet little is known about how the frequent presence of these devices in social settings influences face-to-face interactions. In two experiments, we evaluated the extent to which the mere presence of mobile communication devices shape relationship quality in dyadic settings.
In both, we found evidence they can have negative effects on closeness, connection, and conversation quality. These results demonstrate that the presence of mobile phones can interfere with human relationships, an effect that is most clear when individuals are discussing personally meaningful topics.
related:
technoference
http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2014/12/03/368213774/don-t-let-technoference-ruin-your-love-life
In Google Newsroom, Brazil Defeat Is Not A Headline
July 09, 2014
http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2014/07/09/330003058/in-google-newsroom-brazil-defeat-is-not-a-headline
Google itself is choosing to steer clear of negative terms. The company has created an experimental newsroom in San Francisco to monitor the World Cup, and turn popular search results into viral content. And they’ve got a clear editorial bias.
The team decided to turn this trending question into the trend of the day. After every game, copy editors write up a fact that interprets Google search analytics. Designers put the factoid into a pretty box. Influencers enlisted by Google circulate it on Twitter and Facebook — to increase it’s reach beyond the company’s own social network Google+.
After the dramatic defeat by Germany, the team also makes a revealing choice to not publish a single trend on Brazilian search terms. Copywriter Tessa Hewson says they’re just too negative.
related:
July 10, 2014
https://franzcalvo.wordpress.com/2014/07/12/bingeing-on-bad-news-can-fuel-daily-stress
June 17, 2014
https://franzcalvo.wordpress.com/2014/07/02/facebook-emotional-contagion-without-awareness
December 7, 2011
https://franzcalvo.wordpress.com/2015/03/09/twitters-trending-algorithm
https://franzcalvo.wordpress.com/2014/04/03/wisdom-of-the-crowds
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/rub-salt-in-into-the-wound
Of This And That: Intimacy In Social Media
by Tania Lombrozo
August 11, 2014
http://www.npr.org/blogs/13.7/2014/08/11/339530855/of-this-and-that-intimacy-in-social-media
Hudson Kam also proposed an alternative idea — that people assume everyone will react the same way to the “variables” in unpredicated tweets. So these communications aren’t necessarily creating intimacy among the select (our followers or friends), but rather assuming similarity between people more broadly.
Finally, Hudson Kam noted that using social media well requires a lot of linguistic skill. That, in turn, requires reasoning about your audience and what they’ll know and infer. “So the notion that a message is being conveyed by what is not there is entirely sensible,” she says.
This.
