THE WORLD WIDE WEB

James Gillies and Robert Cailliau, How the Web Was Born : The Story of the World Wide Web.

• Which social responses can be traced through all

the emergences of the new technology forms?

• What does that say about the interaction between

the internet and individuals?

• How has this desire for „connectivity‟ evolved in

today‟s world?

• How much of an implication do you think the

government had on what is our modern internet

when we note “money for computers and for

networking computers was coming from the

government”(1,3) from the text?

THE CONCEPTION

• Paul Baran : Packet Switching 1960

• Licklider: “man-computer symbiosis” interaction > individual parts

• Post- Sputnik idea of connectivity, for both military and social

purposes.

• Important to note that the funding at this time for these computers

was coming from the government.

• Resource of connection “e-mail” turned out to be the most

appealing of the developments.

THE CREATION

• October 29, 1969 10:30pm first connection from host to host on the

ARPANET

• International Conference on Computers: Allowed people to come in

and learn/ understand this new technology

• Metcalfe‟s Law: “as the number of users on a network grows, the

value of that network increases exponentially” (2,2)

• With the emergence of new networks, importance that the world

have “one protocol” = Standardization, key factor in understanding

evolution of a new medium.

• 1985: Launched chat rooms “community trumped content” (2,4)

• Politics start getting involved with the technology (email) SHIFT in the

way evidence can be presented.

THE WEB

• Coming together of three technologies: Hypertext, personal

computer, and network.

• Emergence of “whole new world” --- social media rules/ messaging

rules/ specialized jobs

GOING PUBLIC

• Ideas of web used are increasingly related to business interests:

• Pierre Omidyar (ebay):

“Theory of markets, the idealistic theory that says if you have an

efficient marketplace, then goods are traded at their fair value”(5,2)

• SELF PROMOTION : advent of PR, fandom

S.N.S.

Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship

By: Maren Berger

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QuestionsCan some of you give an example of how you use SNS in your

daily practices?

SixDegrees.com was the first website to combine what features?

According to the article, what are some “passion-centric” SNS

sites?

Question from the reading‟s Privacy section - Do police officers

have the right to access content posted to Facebook without a

warrant?

The term Clay Shirky coined was called what?

Are profiles considered public or private if you share almost

everything?

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SNS: A Definition

“What makes social network sites

unique is not that they allow

individuals to meet strangers, but

rather that they enable users to

articulate and make visible their

social networks.”

(Boyd and Ellison, Social Network Sites: A Definition)

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(Socialportal.ballywhointeractive.com, 2014)

History“Friendster‟s servers and databases were ill-equipped to handle its

rapid growth, and the site faltered regularly, frustrating users who

replaced e-mail with Friendster. Because organic growth had been

critical to creating a coherent community, the onslaught of new

users who learned about the site from media coverage upset the

cultural balance. Furthermore, exponential growth meant a

collapse in social contexts: Users had to face their bosses and

former classmates alongside their close friends. To complicate

matters, Friendster began restricting the activities of its most

passionate users.”

(Boyd and Ellison, The Rise (and Fall) of Friendster)

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Similarities Between Some S.N.S.

(Facebook, 2014)(Twitter,

2014)

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Differentiations Between Some S.N.S.

A.K.A. Are we really “friends?”

(MySpace, 2014)

Facebook• Early 2004

• Started out as a Harvard only S.N.S.

• To join, users had to have a harvard.edu e-mail

address

• Other colleges were later able to join using

associated institution addresses

• Intimate community

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Facebook•2005 - Expanded to high school students, corporate networks, and

eventually everyone (Sigh, yes, even your parents and your uncle who

„likes‟ everything.)

•“Gross and Acquisti (2005) analyzed 4,000 Carnegie Mellon University

Facebook profiles and outlined the potential threats to privacy contained

in the personal information included on the site by students, such as the

potential ability to reconstruct users‟ social security numbers using

information often found in profiles, such as hometown and date of birth.”

(Boyd and Ellison, Privacy)

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Video:

https://www.newsy.com/videos/facebook-makes-changes-to-policy-for-deceased-user-

profiles/#ooid=ZleG5zazoWLuD75LPotti7iT_Osw5by4

Facebook

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But I‟m Majoring In Culture & Media!