Transparency, Social Media and Cultural Patterns Josef Ohlsson Collentine
When two broadcasters on Twitter or some other social media connect in the common area and create a discussion is when the magic happens. This is what social media is all about, connecting with each other and talking!...
I followed a debate over Bambuser about School 2.0 at Almedalen (a camp/convention for Swedish politics). Using Bambuser was a nice touch to such a debate and the online viewers were at the start included but later on forgotten but we had our own good chat in our channel. The debate was of varying quality but made me think about some of the things they talked about.
The main thing they seemed to want to change in school 2.0 was a use of social media but unfortunately they missed the debate over what it would be used for. This miss is something I've noticed a lot lately, much discussio...
Found a great manifesto expressing how I feel towards the internet.
The internet is made of people. People matter. This includes you. Stop trying to sell everything about yourself to everyone. Don’t just hammer away and repeat and talk at people—talk TO people. It’s organic. Make stuff for the internet that matters to you, even if it seems stupid. Do it because it’s good and feels important. Put up more cat pictures. Make more songs. Show your doodles. Give things away and take things that are free. Look at what other people are doing, not to compete, imitate, or compare . . . but...
With the emergence of new social media the gap between people seem to shrink. We share more and more about ourselves with each other over the internet and gossip has in many cases moved online. Keeping our social networks online allows us to keep track and in touch with more than the theoretical cognitive limit that we can have according to Dunbar's number (even if we may not have a 'stable social relationship' with most of them).
Another interesting aspect of when clusters of people in this size form is the effect it may have on a social scale. One example of a group's altered properties c...
Social Media is relatively new for most people and many are still exploring the possibilities and uses of it. One of the things that happen with social media is that we become more transparent, we share more of our self to more people then we normally do. This transparency is good in some ways and less good in some.
There's been several stories of sharing too much information on social media. One example is the case where a British women forgot she had befriended her boss on Facebook.
Another example is the recent case of a Swedish guy who published a picture of himself where he wore...
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