[Air-L] [REQUEST] What are internet research's iconic diagrams?

Sun Aug 28 22:06:01 PDT 2016

The hourglass model, ascribed to Steve Deering.

https://www.ofcourseimright.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/hourglass.jpg

On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 7:30 PM, Paul Henman <p.henman at uq.edu.au> wrote:

> Turing machine
> Babbage's universal engine
> Turing test
>
> Paul
>
> Paul Henman
> Associate Professor of Social Policy and Sociology
> Head of Sociology
> Program Director, BSocSci
> School of Social Science
> University of Queensland  QLD  4072
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Air-L [mailto:air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Thomas
> Ball
> Sent: Sunday, 28 August 2016 7:08 AM
> To: Alex Leavitt <alexleavitt at gmail.com>
> Cc: AoIR-L <air-l at listserv.aoir.org>
> Subject: Re: [Air-L] [REQUEST] What are internet research's iconic
> diagrams?
>
> There is some confusion in your request, at least for me. Initially, you
> refer to "iconic" Internet graphics but the examples you provide refer to
> models of communication. For instance, the Shannon-Weaver model refers only
> to data and says little or nothing about the complexity of semantically and
> symbolically based communication networks.
>
> The links below are to graphics expressive of "iconic," online
> relationships and, in the final example, expands that to biological
> ecosystems as more representative of the real complexity in these
> relationships.
>
>
> CAIDA produces great graphics of the Internet. Here's a link to one:
>
> https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=
> images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwi3nJKpvOLOAhXFGB4KHcr9B
> koQjRwIBw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.caida.org%2F&bvm=bv.131286987,d.dmo&psig=
> AFQjCNE1wOiYRBxTjZJ5-l1LuBd_j6ZHOw&ust=1472417327887840
>
>
> Here's a graphic of the dark web or anonymous Internet from Tor:
>
> http://geography.oii.ox.ac.uk/?page=tor
>
>
>
> On p. 4 of this paper,* Trend of Narratives in the Age of Misinformation*,
> by Bessi, Zollo and Vicario is a graphic of Internet conspiracy theories...
>
> http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/asset?id=10.
> 1371/journal.pone.0134641.PDF
>
>
>
> Here's a visual of the complexity of food webs by David Lavigne. Not an
> "Internet" application, but a visual that captures the underlying,
> biological ecosystem of food. Would the Internet be as complex?
>
> http://image.slidesharecdn.com/louie-ecosystemsocialmedia-20091013-
> 091020160825-phpapp02/95/an-ecosystem-approach-to-social-
> media-zaazs-21-slides-8-728.jpg?cb=1256058791
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, Aug 27, 2016 at 4:32 PM, Alex Leavitt <alexleavitt at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > One more I just thought of: the Shannon-Weaver model of communication:
> > http://communicationtheory.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/
> > 06/shannon_weaver_model.jpg
> >
> >
> > ---
> >
> > Alexander Leavitt, Ph.D.
> > USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism
> > http://alexleavitt.com
> > Twitter: @alexleavitt <http://twitter.com/alexleavitt>
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Aug 27, 2016 at 1:28 PM, Livingstone,S
> > <S.Livingstone at lse.ac.uk>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Stuart Hall's encoding/decoding
> > >
> > > Lasswell's who said what to whom etc
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > > On 27 Aug 2016, at 21:26, Alex Leavitt <alexleavitt at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > If you were to pick a handful of the most iconic diagrams across
> > internet
> > > > research, theory, and history, what would they be?
> > > >
> > > > I'm trying to compile as many diagrams as possible. They could
> > > > also be graphs, charts, photographs, drawings, etc. They could
> > > > come from
> > > sociology,
> > > > anthropology, computer science, physics, etc. They could also
> > > > relate to social theories that are particularly prescient for
> internet studies.
> > > >
> > > > For example, I think the diagram of distributed networks in Paul
> > Baran's
> > > > 1964 "On Distributed Communications" (
> > > > http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_
> > > memoranda/2006/RM3420.pdf,
> > > > diagram on p. 16 of the PDF) is a great example of what I'm
> > > > looking
> > for.
> > > >
> > > > For another example in the theoretical realm, perhaps the
> > > > "two-step
> > flow"
> > > > model from Katz & Lazarfeld's 1955 Personal Influence (
> > > > https://www.utwente.nl/cw/theorieenoverzicht/Theory%
> > > 20Clusters/Mass%20Media/Two_Step_Flow_Theory-1/,
> > > > scroll down for the diagram).
> > > >
> > > > Does anyone else have pointers to any other iconic diagrams?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Alex
> > > >
> > > > ---
> > > >
> > > > Alexander Leavitt, Ph.D.
> > > > USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism
> > > > http://alexleavitt.com
> > > > Twitter: @alexleavitt <http://twitter.com/alexleavitt>
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