[Air-L] Re Understanding Social Media

Peter Gloviczki glovi002 at umn.edu
Wed Jun 5 17:32:41 PDT 2013


Good evening,


This early citation might be of interest as well:


Licklider, J. C. R., & Taylor, R. W. (1968). The Computer as a
Communication Device. Science and Technology.


Hope this helps, Peter


On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 7:21 PM, Christian Fuchs <christian.fuchs at uti.at>wrote:

> My own view is that everyone uses the term "social media" quite
> confidently as if there is only one meaning of the term "social" and as a
> consequence only one definition of "social media".
>
> Internet Studies lacks grounding in philosophy and social theory and
> therefore lacks an understanding of the circumstance that sociality has
> multiple meanings in social theory.
>
> If we want to understand social media, we need to engage with social
> theory. Internet Studies is way too much a positivist science without
> acknowledgement of sociology's and the social sciences' roots in philosophy.
>
> In order to understand social media we need social theory. Almost all
> definitions of "social media" are simplistic and lack social theory...
>
> Best, CF
>
>
> On 06/06/2013 01:05, Murray Turoff wrote:
>
>> The EIES system was probably the first real social media system even
>> though
>> it was limited initially to text.  Suggest you go back to read the Network
>> Nation form 1978 (reprinted in 1993 by mit press and still available.
>> Roxanne Hiltz wrote a few early paper even before that about social
>> communities on computers.  Probably the second system which a group built
>> after using EIES was "The Well" which i think is still around.  But a lot
>> of early bulletin boards were clearly social systems and it is amusing
>> that
>> only recently did they finally introduce groups and group discussion in
>> the
>> social media systems which were standard along with many things they have
>> not yet discovered on EIES.   EIES and also EMISARI before EIES also had
>> group chats back as early as 1971 for EMISARI.   The EMISARI user manual
>> along with all the research reports on EIES experiments and field studies
>> as well design manual are part of an NJIT library online collection.
>> http://library.njit.edu/**archives/cccc-materials/index.**php<http://library.njit.edu/archives/cccc-materials/index.php>
>>
>> By the way the network nation on pages 42-46 talked about and defined
>> "collective intelligent"  The first EIES controlled experiment compared
>> face to face and online discussions and actually measured whether
>> "collective intelligence" occurred.  Some later work dealt with devising
>> decision support properties for generating "collective intelligence"
>> including the use of Delphi structures.  I can send a specific paper
>> summarizing a thesis on that.
>>
>> Roxanne just got the ACM SIGCAS Making a Difference Award for 2012
>>
>> We both had the following papers on  our early work in the following in
>> 2012 and 2013
>>
>>     - Subramanian, R., "Murray Turoff: Father of Computer Conferencing,"
>>     IEEE Annuals of the History of Computing, IEEE Computer Society,
>>     January-March, 2012, pages 2-8
>>     - Subramanian, R., "Starr Roxanne Hiltz: Pioneer Digital Sociologist,"
>>     IEEE Annuals of the History of Computing, IEEE Computer Society,
>>     January-March 2013, pages 78-85
>>
>> Roxanne's talks about when she submitted her first paper on ASA on social
>> communities on computers the editor refused to send it for reviews because
>> social communities were impossible to exist on computers.  After that she
>> published mostly in the computer literature even though she was a
>> sociologist.
>>
>> Those doing research in this area should have a good understanding of
>> where
>> it started!  Those teaching a subject should even more know the roots of
>> what they are teaching.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 6:00 PM, <air-l-request at listserv.aoir.**org<air-l-request at listserv.aoir.org>>
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>>>     3. Re: Understanding Social Media (Muhammad Babur)
>>>     4. Re: Understanding Social Media (Cronin, Catherine)
>>>     5. Re: Understanding Social Media (Glassman, Michael)
>>>     6. Re: Understanding Social Media (Tyler Handley)
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>>> Message: 1
>>> Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2013 12:29:09 -0500
>>> From: "Kelly Quinn" <kquinn8 at uic.edu>
>>> To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
>>> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Understanding Social Media
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>>> Hi Kayla,
>>>
>>> I teach a course in social media and, like Marj, find that it is really
>>> difficult to cover all of the related topics. I organize the course
>>> around
>>> four 'themes': privacy, copyright, digital inclusion and political
>>> participation.
>>>
>>> Last semester, I used Mandiberg's Social Media Reader as a source of
>>> foundational material--good material for a grad student course. But I
>>> also
>>> have found it neccessary to supplement quite a bit with additional
>>> readings. I am happy to share my syllabus off-list if it would be
>>> helpful.
>>>
>>> Kindest regards,
>>>
>>> Kelly Quinn
>>>
>>> --
>>> Kelly Quinn, PhD
>>> Visiting Assistant Professor
>>> Department of Communication
>>> University of Illinois at Chicago
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ------------------------------
>>>
>>> Message: 2
>>> Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2013 17:39:57 +0000
>>> From: "Glassman, Michael" <glassman.13 at osu.edu>
>>> To: Kelly Quinn <kquinn8 at uic.edu>, "air-l at listserv.aoir.org"
>>>          <air-l at listserv.aoir.org>
>>> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Understanding Social Media
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>>> I wonder if people have thought about throwing out written materials and
>>> treating social media not only as the topic but as the means of the
>>> course?
>>>   Provide students with interesting links about social media.  Forward
>>> them
>>> interesting discussion from this and other interesting lists.  Have them
>>> follow interesting scholars through Twitter or an SNS and have them bring
>>> links back to the class (and yes I have taught a course like this, but
>>> not
>>> on Social Media).  Most of the best stuff I have read recently I have
>>> found
>>> through links not through books.
>>>
>>> A new type of education for a new age.
>>>
>>> Michael
>>> ______________________________**__________
>>> From: air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.**org<air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org>[
>>> air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.**org <air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org>]
>>> on behalf of Kelly Quinn [kquinn8 at uic.edu]
>>> Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2013 1:29 PM
>>> To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
>>> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Understanding Social Media
>>>
>>> Hi Kayla,
>>>
>>> I teach a course in social media and, like Marj, find that it is really
>>> difficult to cover all of the related topics. I organize the course
>>> around
>>> four 'themes': privacy, copyright, digital inclusion and political
>>> participation.
>>>
>>> Last semester, I used Mandiberg's Social Media Reader as a source of
>>> foundational material--good material for a grad student course. But I
>>> also
>>> have found it neccessary to supplement quite a bit with additional
>>> readings. I am happy to share my syllabus off-list if it would be
>>> helpful.
>>>
>>> Kindest regards,
>>>
>>> Kelly Quinn
>>>
>>> --
>>> Kelly Quinn, PhD
>>> Visiting Assistant Professor
>>> Department of Communication
>>> University of Illinois at Chicago
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>> Message: 3
>>> Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2013 22:42:41 +0500
>>> From: Muhammad Babur <baburanwer at gmail.com>
>>> To: "Glassman, Michael" <glassman.13 at osu.edu>
>>> Cc: "air-l at listserv.aoir.org" <air-l at listserv.aoir.org>,        Kelly
>>> Quinn
>>>          <kquinn8 at uic.edu>
>>> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Understanding Social Media
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>>> Hi Michael
>>>
>>> You make a lot of sense . Can you share some of your most favorite links
>>> ..
>>>
>>> KR
>>>
>>> On 5 June 2013 22:39, Glassman, Michael <glassman.13 at osu.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>>  I wonder if people have thought about throwing out written materials and
>>>> treating social media not only as the topic but as the means of the
>>>>
>>> course?
>>>
>>>>   Provide students with interesting links about social media.  Forward
>>>>
>>> them
>>>
>>>> interesting discussion from this and other interesting lists.  Have them
>>>> follow interesting scholars through Twitter or an SNS and have them
>>>> bring
>>>> links back to the class (and yes I have taught a course like this, but
>>>>
>>> not
>>>
>>>> on Social Media).  Most of the best stuff I have read recently I have
>>>>
>>> found
>>>
>>>> through links not through books.
>>>>
>>>> A new type of education for a new age.
>>>>
>>>> Michael
>>>> ______________________________**__________
>>>> From: air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.**org<air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org>[
>>>> air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.**org <air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org>]
>>>> on behalf of Kelly Quinn [kquinn8 at uic.edu]
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2013 1:29 PM
>>>> To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
>>>> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Understanding Social Media
>>>>
>>>> Hi Kayla,
>>>>
>>>> I teach a course in social media and, like Marj, find that it is really
>>>> difficult to cover all of the related topics. I organize the course
>>>>
>>> around
>>>
>>>> four 'themes': privacy, copyright, digital inclusion and political
>>>> participation.
>>>>
>>>> Last semester, I used Mandiberg's Social Media Reader as a source of
>>>> foundational material--good material for a grad student course. But I
>>>>
>>> also
>>>
>>>> have found it neccessary to supplement quite a bit with additional
>>>> readings. I am happy to share my syllabus off-list if it would be
>>>>
>>> helpful.
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Kindest regards,
>>>>
>>>> Kelly Quinn
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Kelly Quinn, PhD
>>>> Visiting Assistant Professor
>>>> Department of Communication
>>>> University of Illinois at Chicago
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>
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>>>
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>>> Message: 4
>>> Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2013 17:47:15 +0000
>>> From: "Cronin, Catherine" <catherine.cronin at nuigalway.ie**>
>>> To: Kelly Quinn <kquinn8 at uic.edu>, "air-l at listserv.aoir.org"
>>>          <air-l at listserv.aoir.org>
>>> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Understanding Social Media
>>> Message-ID:
>>>          <
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>>>
>>> Hi Kayla and all,
>>>
>>> Have you seen the Social Media Literacies syllabus created and shared by
>>> Howard Rheingold?
>>>
>>> https://docs.google.com/**document/d/**1whawicjQdSDh1ohWF4-**
>>> CDnSrrpkjfFtnpc6632vGBvg/edit<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1whawicjQdSDh1ohWF4-CDnSrrpkjfFtnpc6632vGBvg/edit>
>>>
>>> I've found Howard's resources, particularly this one, very useful when
>>> planning courses and resources lists re: social media.
>>>
>>> I teach a 2nd year module in IT Professional Skills which includes a
>>> digital literacies/social media strand. Our course website is here:
>>> http://ct231.wordpress.com. It will not be at the same level of detail
>>> as
>>> the Masters course you are planning, but you might find the course
>>> outline
>>> and reading list helpful.
>>>
>>> As Michael has suggested, I've found that using social media in teaching
>>> the course is the most powerful approach. I use Twitter mostly, and we
>>> have
>>> engaged in Twitter chats with bloggers (e.g. Bonnie Stewart, after
>>> studying
>>> her "6 Selves of Digital Identity" post), with academic staff at our
>>> university (discussing use of Facebook and Twitter for learning), etc.
>>>
>>> Kind regards,
>>> Catherine
>>>
>>>
>>> ______________________________**__
>>> Catherine Cronin | Academic Coordinator online IT programmes | Department
>>> of Information Technology | NUI Galway
>>> E-mail: catherine.cronin at nuigalway.ie | Twitter: @catherinecronin |
>>> about.me/catherinecronin
>>> MScSED and IT Online programmes: www.nuigalway.ie/ITonline
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ______________________________**__________
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>>> air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.**org <air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org>]
>>> on behalf of Kelly Quinn [kquinn8 at uic.edu]
>>> Sent: 05 June 2013 18:29
>>> To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
>>> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Understanding Social Media
>>>
>>> Hi Kayla,
>>>
>>> I teach a course in social media and, like Marj, find that it is really
>>> difficult to cover all of the related topics. I organize the course
>>> around
>>> four 'themes': privacy, copyright, digital inclusion and political
>>> participation.
>>>
>>> Last semester, I used Mandiberg's Social Media Reader as a source of
>>> foundational material--good material for a grad student course. But I
>>> also
>>> have found it neccessary to supplement quite a bit with additional
>>> readings. I am happy to share my syllabus off-list if it would be
>>> helpful.
>>>
>>> Kindest regards,
>>>
>>> Kelly Quinn
>>>
>>> --
>>> Kelly Quinn, PhD
>>> Visiting Assistant Professor
>>> Department of Communication
>>> University of Illinois at Chicago
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>> Message: 5
>>> Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2013 17:47:49 +0000
>>> From: "Glassman, Michael" <glassman.13 at osu.edu>
>>> To: Muhammad Babur <baburanwer at gmail.com>
>>> Cc: "air-l at listserv.aoir.org" <air-l at listserv.aoir.org>,        Kelly
>>> Quinn
>>>          <kquinn8 at uic.edu>
>>> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Understanding Social Media
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>>>
>>> Well I don't think I have links that would be of great interest to this
>>> list because I teach Child Development and Educational Philosophy, but if
>>> it works for that it would definitely work for social media.  One of the
>>> great links was recently provided on this list by Sarah Oates I think
>>> (sorry if I got the name wrong) to a paper about Google Trends that was
>>> really at the cutting edge.  The technology writer at Salon.com for
>>> instance like Andrew Leonard and Natasha Lennard especially for social
>>> media are phenomenal and always provide links.  There are just so many
>>> out
>>> there.
>>>
>>> Michael
>>> ______________________________**__
>>> From: Muhammad Babur [baburanwer at gmail.com]
>>> Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2013 1:42 PM
>>> To: Glassman, Michael
>>> Cc: Kelly Quinn; air-l at listserv.aoir.org
>>> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Understanding Social Media
>>>
>>> Hi Michael
>>>
>>> You make a lot of sense . Can you share some of your most favorite links
>>> ..
>>>
>>> KR
>>>
>>> On 5 June 2013 22:39, Glassman, Michael <glassman.13 at osu.edu<mailto:
>>> glassman.13 at osu.edu>> wrote:
>>> I wonder if people have thought about throwing out written materials and
>>> treating social media not only as the topic but as the means of the
>>> course?
>>>   Provide students with interesting links about social media.  Forward
>>> them
>>> interesting discussion from this and other interesting lists.  Have them
>>> follow interesting scholars through Twitter or an SNS and have them bring
>>> links back to the class (and yes I have taught a course like this, but
>>> not
>>> on Social Media).  Most of the best stuff I have read recently I have
>>> found
>>> through links not through books.
>>>
>>> A new type of education for a new age.
>>>
>>> Michael
>>> ______________________________**__________
>>> From: air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.**org<air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org>
>>> <mailto:
>>> air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.**org <air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org>> [
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>>> on behalf of Kelly Quinn [
>>> kquinn8 at uic.edu<mailto:kquinn8**@uic.edu <kquinn8 at uic.edu>>]
>>> Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2013 1:29 PM
>>> To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org<**mailto:air-l at listserv.aoir.org**>
>>> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Understanding Social Media
>>>
>>> Hi Kayla,
>>>
>>> I teach a course in social media and, like Marj, find that it is really
>>> difficult to cover all of the related topics. I organize the course
>>> around
>>> four 'themes': privacy, copyright, digital inclusion and political
>>> participation.
>>>
>>> Last semester, I used Mandiberg's Social Media Reader as a source of
>>> foundational material--good material for a grad student course. But I
>>> also
>>> have found it neccessary to supplement quite a bit with additional
>>> readings. I am happy to share my syllabus off-list if it would be
>>> helpful.
>>>
>>> Kindest regards,
>>>
>>> Kelly Quinn
>>>
>>> --
>>> Kelly Quinn, PhD
>>> Visiting Assistant Professor
>>> Department of Communication
>>> University of Illinois at Chicago
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>> Kind Regards,
>>>
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>>>
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>>> http://www.ellta.org>)
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>> Message: 6
>>> Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2013 13:58:30 -0400
>>> From: Tyler Handley <tylerhandley at gmail.com>
>>> To: "Kayla D. Hales" <haleskay at msu.edu>
>>> Cc: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
>>> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Understanding Social Media
>>> Message-ID:
>>>          <
>>> CAPpZ-s-nTvLJYrD_**hK6yuB3aUrpzMTdqtNhpqEcAekmbSN**q5rw at mail.gmail.com<CAPpZ-s-nTvLJYrD_hK6yuB3aUrpzMTdqtNhpqEcAekmbSNq5rw at mail.gmail.com>
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>>>
>>> Hi Kayla,
>>>
>>> I wrote this guide on Business to Customer Social Media Marketing for my
>>> start-up.  Some of it may be of use to you.
>>>
>>> http://www.blurbi.ca/**brandingmanual.pdf<http://www.blurbi.ca/brandingmanual.pdf>
>>>
>>> (mind the spelling as I haven't yet had anyone edit it)
>>>
>>> Also, have a look at the Salesforce E-Books on Social Media:
>>>
>>> http://www.**salesforcemarketingcloud.com/**resources/ebooks/<http://www.salesforcemarketingcloud.com/resources/ebooks/>
>>>
>>> Hope this helps a bit.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Tyler
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 5:58 PM, Kayla D. Hales <haleskay at msu.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>>  Hello All,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I am designing a new Masters level course titled "Understanding Social
>>>> Media." Information from the course description is below. If any of you
>>>> have
>>>> taken or taught similar courses or have ideas about the most relevant
>>>> content to include in the course, I would greatly appreciate you sharing
>>>> those thoughts/that content; this includes any journal articles or
>>>>
>>> syllabi
>>>
>>>> you have personally written/created. Thank you in advance.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Course objectives: To develop an understanding of social media and their
>>>> implications.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Outline of major topics:
>>>>
>>>> 1.      Social media in politics
>>>>
>>>> 2.      Social media applications
>>>>
>>>> 3.      Social media technologies
>>>>
>>>> 4.      Social media uses
>>>>
>>>> 5.      Social media effects
>>>>
>>>> 6.      Social media in organizations
>>>>
>>>> 7.      Social media research
>>>>
>>>> 8.      Trends in social media industries
>>>>
>>>> 9.      Mobile and location-based social media
>>>>
>>>> 10.  Social media for interpersonal communication
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>>
>>>> Best Regards,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Kayla D. Hales, Ph.D.
>>>>
>>>> Email:  <mailto:HalesKay at msu.edu> HalesKay at msu.edu
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Assistant Professor
>>>>
>>>> Michigan State University
>>>>
>>>> College of Communication Arts & Sciences
>>>>
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>>>
>>> --
>>> Tyler Handley
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>>> >
>>> 289-696-7516
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