JMC 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Happening Now, Filter Bubble, Social News Website
6 Nov 2017
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Time online is time away from meaningful relationships, face commodity. Our online interactions are real not virtual . Where does the community exist? space for interaction. What do members do? what are the norms? enforcement of norms. A social is not necessary a community but may be home to many different communities. Interpersonal communication - ask a person who posted earlier a question about something else. Defining event occurs- media is in the spotlight. Structured relationship represented in nodes (agents) and ties (links between. Interconnected networks: receivers on the end. networks can connect to each other. Cluster : grouping of connected nodes -- connected to each other, but not necessarily other groups. Homophily : amount of similarity between nodes on a network-- shared practices, norms, (age, gender, race, etc) related to bonding. Heterophily : amount of differences between nodes on a network -- related to bridging. Density : proportion of direct ties relative to the overall ties.
