CHEW Han Ei

Department of Telecommunications Information Studies and Media

Michigan State University

elearning module with voice narration

Victoria Junior College, Singapore

Of Facebook-Mania Of Facebook-Mania & Crackberries& CrackberriesThe effects of New Media Technologies

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Enduring questions about the media

How will they change human relationships?

How will they change us?

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Describing the milieu

The Global Village Marshall McLuhan

The Network Society Manuel Castells

The World is Flat Thomas Friedman

The affordances of information communication technologies (ICTs)

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The Internet Paradox – late 1990s

Internet use & video games create depressed, misogynistic troglodytes

Why is it a paradox? Idea of strong and weak social ties Internet displaces strong with

weak Users become more depressed as

they have less social support Examples: Littleton, Virginia Tech

shootings

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Facebook Mania• Augmentation Carnegie Mellon Foundation• Those who use the Internet to extend and

maintain relationships report increases in psychological well-being

• Compensatory use: Facebook study by Michigan State University.

• People who are low in self-esteem can use the Internet to form meaningful relationships

• Novelty effects and regression to mean

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Cyber Felons and Crowd-sourcing

New Zealand Police Use Facebook Images To Solve Burglary

Craig’s list suspect - Philip Markoff

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At the workplace

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Facebook at the workplace

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Halloween Fairy Busted! on Facebook

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Of Crackberries and iPhonies Emergence of technological synecdoche

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Perpetual linkage Continuous partial attention Yo-mama is right… …Multi-tasking is counterproductive Research at Microsoft Labs Is our brain capable of concentration

now?

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Is Google making us stupid?

Google is rewiring our neural circuits The Net is chipping away at our ability to

concentrate and contemplate Power browsing, skimming and

hyperlinks

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Is Google making us stupid?

Google is rewiring our neural circuits The Net is chipping away at our ability to

concentrate and contemplate Power browsing, skimming and

hyperlinks

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Web 2.0 .The Machine is Us/ing Us

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE

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Folksonomies

Folksonomies versus Taxonomies “Most emailed/popular article”, “Amazon

recommendations” Power of Many AWARE saga was top Twitter trend just

before the EGM.

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Keywords

Affordances Displacement [Augmentation & Compensation] Crackberries Multi-tasking Folksonomy

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Enduring questions about the [new] media:

•How will they change human relationships?•How will they change us?

Describing the new media environment:

1.The Global Village Marshall McLuhan

2.The Network Society Manuel Castells

3.The World is Flat Thomas Friedman

Current paradigm to describe Information Communication Technology [ICTs]: Not inherently positive or negative but the AFFORDANCES of ICTs affect how humans interact in specific ways . The features of ICTs predispose their use in specific ways: anonymously, synchronously, asynchronously etc. For Web 2.0 applications, we (the users) are the Web!