Social Web lecture for Matching dag IMM 2016. With input from Davide Ceolin, Lora Aroyo.
Hands on session instructions can be found here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XW4UBr_dZeejI2Rp8T4tHaDxNrGsu4xxlVJh91s2AGM/edit#heading=h.jel9otx51ed
1. The Social WebThe Social Web
Matching IMM 2016Matching IMM 2016
Victor de BoerVictor de Boer
(met slides van Lora Aroyo, Davide Ceolin en Marieke van Erp)(met slides van Lora Aroyo, Davide Ceolin en Marieke van Erp)
2.
3. Our goal is to …
understand the practices, implications, culture, &
meaning of the sites, as well as users' engagement
with them
include this understanding as part of software
engineering for the new social world
agapegeek.com
4. In Social Web course to goal is to understand & try out
how the Social Web works
• What IS the Social Web?
• What do people DO on the Social Web?
• How is DATA on the Social Web ACCESSED?
• How is DATA on the Social Web STUDIED?
• What are typical Social Web APPLICATIONS?
• What are CHALLENGES on the Social Web?
6. Social Web = Social + Web
Images: http://www.flickr.com/photos/johnkay/3182986643/sizes/m/in/photostream/
om/4132/4831892926_99a2cc1db6_t.jpg, http://www.flickr.com/photos/dizfunk/3066153143/sizes/m/in/photostream/
7. How did it all start?
Social Web 2016, Davide Ceolin
8. How old is the Internet?
How old is the Web?
How old is the Social Web?
15. Classmates.com (1995)
SixDegrees.com (1997)
Friendster (2002)
MySpace, Bebo, Facebook (2004)
Social networking sites are Web sites that
allow people to stay connected with other
people in online communities
Social networking sites are Web sites that
allow people to stay connected with other
people in online communities
Social media sites are Web sites that
allow people to share UCCs.
Flickr (2004)
Youtube (2005)
Social Web = Social Networking + Social Media sites
General-purpose, e.g. Facebook,
LinkedIn
Vertical, e.g. Dogster, Couchsurfing
Media types, e.g. Flickr (photos), Last.FM
(Music), YouTube (video)
(open vs. closed) (open vs. closed)
Won Kim, Ok-Ran Jeong, Sang-Won Lee (2010). On social Web sites. Information Systems 35, 215–236
17. aka User Generated Content
material on websites that is produced by the
users of the website.
little or no cost for uploading user-generated
content
Exabytes of content
Re-mix culture
Collaborative creation
User Created Content
23. • MySpace: US & abroad
• Friendster: Pacific Islands
• Orkut: Brazil, India
• Mixi: Japan
• LunarStorm: Sweden
• Hyves: NL
• Grono: Poland
• Hi5: South America, Europe
• Bebo: UK, New Zealand, Australia
• QQ: China
• Cyworld: Korea
• Skyrock: France
• Windows Live Spaces: Mexico,
• Italy, and Spain
Diversity in Cultures
27. Diversity in Activities
• aSmallWorld & BeautifulPeople: restricted access - appear selective
& elite
• Couchsurfing: activity-centered
• BlackPlanet: identity-driven
• MyChurch: affiliation-focused
• Usenet & public discussion forums: structured by topics
• SNS are structured as personal networks
• "egocentric”: individual at the center of their own community
• mirror unmediated social structures
Social Web 2016, Davide Ceolin
28. New Form of Collaboration
• The Social Web enables
innovative types of
collaboration
• E.g., Github for collaborative
coding
• Overleaf,Authorea and
Sharelatex for collaborative
writing
Social Web 2016, Davide Ceolin
36. Social Network Analysis (SNA)
Investigates social
structures through the use
of network and graph
theories.
•Hubs
•Centrality
•Connectedness (in
degree/ out degree)
39. Watch people wake up onTwitter
http://cartodb.s3.amazonaws.com/static_vizz/sunrise.html?
title=true&description=true&search=false&shareable=true&cartodb_logo=true&layer_selector=false&legends=false&scrollwheel=true&sublayer_options=1%7C1
&sql=&zoom=2¢er_lat=22.917922936146045¢er_lon=51.328125#
48. Take home
Social media are here to stay, but it is a changing landscape
The line between consumers and producers is fading -> prosumers
We can analyse social media use using computational methods
… to better understand how the social web works
… to better understand how people work
… to solve problems
… to improve the social web
49. Hands on
• Work with online Social Web analysis tools
and visualisations
• Get an idea on how to use such tools to
answer research questions
• http://tinyurl.com/socialwebimm2016
Notas do Editor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdyBM-p05Ss
Naturally we won’t treat everything here, but just to give you a taste of what aspects are all in there. Perhaps also link to other courses in introduction.
1997
boyd, d. m., & Ellison, N. B. (2007). Social network sites: Definition, history, and scholarship. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 13(1), article 11. http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol13/issue1/boyd.ellison.html
first connecting people, bringing people together across the boundaries of email
in the beginning most of the content on the web was done by selected people
grows out of existing communities of students/classmates
Before 1997: AIM, ICQ, Classmates.com
1997: SixDegrees.com - combining all in one (2000 the service went offline) - not enough user base, not enough interaction
1997 - 2001: AsianAvenue, BlackPlanet, MiGente, LiveJournal, Cyworld (Korean), LunarStorm (Swedish)
Friendster - a social complement to Ryze to compete with Match.com - online dating site
early adopters: bloggers, attendees of the Burning Man arts festival & gay men
300,000 users in 2003 and it couldn’t handle its rapid growth
started restricted access to profiles, e.g. not more than four degrees away
"Fakesters": fake profiles representing iconic fictional characters: celebrities, concepts
only a few managed to succeed- at the time of the burst of the internet bubble (after 2001); ISPs, AmericaOnline ... value was not clear
all started with user profiles and connections; from 2003 also media starts playing a role
failures: Google's Orkut, Microsoft's Windows Live Spaces (MSN Spaces)
The time of: YASNS: "Yet Another Social Networking Service." (Clay Shirky)
After rumors emerged that Friendster would adopt a fee-based system, users posted Friendster messages encouraging people to join alternate SNSs, including Tribe.net and MySpace (T. Anderson, personal communication, August 2, 2007).
rumors that they will ask for money - so people turned to other services - allowed others to surface
passion and interests start to surface
also failures also from the big ones
2001: professional networks - Ryze.com (San Francisco business and technology community), Tribe.net, LinkedIn
professional: LinkedIn, Visible Path, Xing (formerly openBC)
passion-centric: Dogster (dogs), Care2 (activists), Couchsurfing (travel), MyChurch (christian), Flickr (photos), Last.FM (music), YouTube (video)
MySpace to compete with Friendster, Xanga, AsianAvenue;
2004 massive popularity (bands, teenagers);
2005 News Corporation purchase for $580
popularity in Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia & Indonesia
exabyte (EB)1018
1 Miljard gigabytes
As his animated map shows, over the last few years Facebook has cut down the number of top social networks around the world from 17 to just six. More specifically, there were 17 in June 2009, 16 in December 2009, 14 in June 2010, 11 in December 2010, nine in June 2011, and six in December 2011. Here are the remaining six: Facebook, QZone, V Kontakte, Odnoklassniki,Drauglem, and Zing.
Between June 2011 and December 2011, Facebook managed to conquer Netherlands, and with it the whole Europe, Brazil, after a long struggle to overtake Google's Orkut, as well as Japan (although a large part of Japanese networking activities are on mobile, including Gree, Mobage, and Mixi).
If you remember that Facebook is still banned in many countries, such as China (the world's largest Internet population with 500 million people), the service's dominance is certainly impressive. If this trend continues, it won't be long before the social network is king in all the countries it can be accessed in.
The social media sites Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter are frequent targets for censorious governments. This map from Mother Jones shows which countries restrict their users from accessing these sites. China doesn't just block access to Western social media sites, it has also cultivated home-grown alternatives that are under the thumb of the Chinese authorities. These social media sites enable users to engage in relatively unfettered discusion, but the providers are required to participate in an elaborate monitoring and censorship regime to ensure that sensitive topics do not receive widespread discussion.
- the world is composed of networks, and now they have means to communicate across geo boundaries
"privacy paradox" lack of awareness of the public nature of Internet (safety of younger users)reconstruct users' social security numbers with profile info, e.g. hometown and date of birthfrom freely accessible profile data - craft a "phishing" scheme appearing from a friendusers' ability to control impressions and manage social contexts, e.g. "News Feed" could disrupt users’ sense of controlno flexibility to handle conflicts with friends with different conceptions of privacy
One of the amazing things about the internet is the way it permits the collection and aggregation of large-scale data about human behavior. For example, this map shows where people are tweeting about sunrises over the course of a 24-hour period. There's a yellow flash of sunrise tweets whenever the sun rises above the horizon in a part of the world. You can see an interactive version of this map
Social media sites like Twitter enable a lot of public discussion of the important issues of the day. But they also enable an even larger quantity of frivolous conversation. Last September was a good example. The nation was discussing two big topics: possible US involvement in a the war in Syria and Miley Cyrus's scandalous dance moves. In Washington DC, Syria conversations on Twitter were way more common than twerking conversations. But twerking was a more popular subject in most other states.