JOMC 191.3 Blogging, We the Media and Virtual Communities

November 3, 2005

Fear of Facebook (DTH edition)

Filed under: Virtual Communities

Today’s Daily Tar Heel warns us all about the downsides of Facebook in an article entitled “Danger, danger.”
Do you agree with their warning? Is the folks in adminstration at NCSU acting fairly and ethically in the alcohol case described?

Presentations/projects

Filed under: Virtual Communities, Blogging, We the Media

Presentation suggestions:

  • choose a virtual community or blog
  • describe the community or blog in terms we’ve used in the class (relate to readings in Gillmor and Into the Blogosphere and others where appropriate)
  • evaluate the community’s or blogs potentials and inherent conflicts and resolutions
  • does the community or blog develop trust? how? is it an example of citizen journalism? how?(Gillmor)
  • are there hierarchies in place? are issues of gender or age or ethnicity or other issues and raised in Internet in Every Day Life readings — who are the community of readers and participants? is the social network measurable?
  • are “loose ties” apparent (Granovetter)? how do they work in this community or blog?
  • how does the interface (see Preece) allow for sociability or block social interactions?

    • An example of a Friendster paper/presentation and one of a family blog and one on Tribe (using Blogger).

    suggestion?

    Filed under: Uncategorized

    I was just wondering if it’d be possible to take some class time and/or blog space to discuss in more detail our upcoming projects. I know we mentioned the notion of talking about it at some point recently, but never got around to it. They are right around the corner, and i think it definitely would be helpful.
    -amy

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