4th Summary

Introduction to information technology (4/2)
Class – 나




KEY POINT
: New media technologies usually reinforce existing social networks or even work to isolate people.
Example : 고립된 사람들, 방안에서 Key board 만 두드리는 사람들 etc.
: (But) When new media technologies facilitate new social networks, they simultaneously challenge existing social, political and economic relationships.





OUT LINE
: Social Networks as Science ; field – (cf). 간 학제 / 학제 간
Technology
Popular Culture
Art
Cf. network : know “each other”


☞Social Networks as science : field
: Social Network analysis is and interdisciplinary social science, but has been of especial concern to sociologists;

: Recently, physicists and mathematicians have made large contributions to understanding networks in general (as graphs) and thus contributed to and understanding of social networks too.




○Social Networks as science : definition
- social actors : people
- the links : relationships

; important consequences
; opportunities
; potential constraints on their behavior
; the patterning of links among actors
; uncovering the antecedents and consequences of recurrent patterns




○Social Networks as science : history
: J.L. Moreno (1934) Friendship choices between 4th grade boys (triangles) and girls (circles)
: Stanley Milgram (1967) “The Small World Problem,” Psychology Today
Milgram sent 60 letters to various recruits in Wichita, Kansas who were asked to forward the letter to the wife of a divinity student living at a specified location in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The participants could only pass the letters (by hand) to personal acquaintances who they thought might be able to reach the target - whether directly or via a "friend of a friend".
: “six-degrees of separation” (*degree : step)
: Mark Granovetter, “The Strength of Weak Ties”
Sometimes acquaintances are more valuable than friends (e.g., when one is looking for a job).
- weak relationship > strong relationship




○Social Networks as science : Social Captipal




○Social networks as science: bowling alone




☞ Social networks as technology
: email, newsgroups, and weblogs
: in the design of the arpanet (the forerunner to the internet) email was an afterthought!









★Social Network as sicence : Equivalence
: Centrality
: Bridges (to the another network)
: Social Capital
: Bowling alone






Introduction to information technology (4/4)
Class – 나




☞ Social Networks as popular culture
: six-degrees of Kevin Bacon
: Bacon Number ; definition
Cf. Kevin bacon has bacon number of 0.

♬ Oracle of bacon (; oracle : 예언자)
Cf. MOVIE “Matrix”




0. “Fixing” the networks : e.g., Google hacking try the query “miserable failure” at google.com

Vizster
1. Dynamin / visualization
Cf. Danah (she major “political Science”.)




☞ Social Networks as art
0. Ben discore’s Friendster Map : well, I can do that using cyworld.


*Visualizing (social) Networks
Map : visualization


*artificial intelligence













My Opinion J

This Week, We talk about “NETWORK”.
It is very interesting topic, so I really concentrated this class.
But I don’t understand anything about “NETWORK”, because It is interesting and difficult topic.

April 9th, We have no class, because April 9th is election day.
So I don’t go to the school.
And I will reading a book.
(About ‘Introduction to information technology’ Equal understand media.)

Mid exam is coming up. (already next week i_i)
I’m so tired, so I write my opinion a little. Sorry.

See You Friday~