[Air-L] Re Understanding Social Media
Christian Fuchs
christian.fuchs at uti.at
Wed Jun 5 17:21:05 PDT 2013
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
>
> 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.
>
>
>
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>> From: "Kelly Quinn" <kquinn8 at uic.edu>
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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
>>
>>
>>
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>> 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
>> ________________________________________
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>> on behalf of Kelly Quinn [kquinn8 at uic.edu]
>> Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2013 1:29 PM
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>> 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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>> 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]
>>> 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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>> Muhammad Babur
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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
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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
>>
>> 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
>>
>>
>>
>> ________________________________________
>> From: 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<mailto:
>> air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org> [air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org<mailto:
>> air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org>] on behalf of Kelly Quinn [
>> kquinn8 at uic.edu<mailto: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,
>>
>> Muhammad Babur
>>
>> Founder and Executive Board Member (ELLTA : www.ellta.org<
>> 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
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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
>>
>> (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/
>>
>> 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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