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Digital and social media companies such as Apple, Google, and
Facebook grip the globe with market, civic, and political strength
akin to large, sovereign states. Yet, these corporations are
private entities. How should states and communities protect the
individual rights of their citizens - or their national and local
interests - while keeping pace with globalized digital companies?
This scholarly compendium examines regulatory solutions which
encourage content diversity and protect fundamental rights. The
volume compares European and US regulatory approaches, including
closer focus on topics such as privacy, copyright, and freedom of
expression. Further, we propose pedagogical models for educating
students on possible regulatory regimes of the future. Our final
chapter invites readers to consider social and digital media
regulation for both this generation and the ones to come.
Chapter(s) "Introduction: New Paradigms of Media Regulation in a
Transatlantic Perspective", "From News Diversity to News Quality:
New Media Regulation Theoretical Issues" and "The Stakes and
Threats of the Convergence Between Media and Telecommunication
Industries" are available open access under a Creative Commons
Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
This book springs from a multidisciplinary, multi-organizational,
and multi-sector conversation about the privacy and ethical
implications of research in human affairs using big data. The need
to cultivate and enlist the public's trust in the abilities of
particular scientists and scientific institutions constitutes one
of this book's major themes. The advent of the Internet, the mass
digitization of research information, and social media brought
about, among many other things, the ability to harvest - sometimes
implicitly - a wealth of human genomic, biological, behavioral,
economic, political, and social data for the purposes of scientific
research as well as commerce, government affairs, and social
interaction. What type of ethical dilemmas did such changes
generate? How should scientists collect, manipulate, and
disseminate this information? The effects of this revolution and
its ethical implications are wide-ranging. This book includes the
opinions of myriad investigators, practitioners, and stakeholders
in big data on human beings who also routinely reflect on the
privacy and ethical issues of this phenomenon. Dedicated to the
practice of ethical reasoning and reflection in action, the book
offers a range of observations, lessons learned, reasoning tools,
and suggestions for institutional practice to promote responsible
big data research on human affairs. It caters to a broad audience
of educators, researchers, and practitioners. Educators can use the
volume in courses related to big data handling and processing.
Researchers can use it for designing new methods of collecting,
processing, and disseminating big data, whether in raw form or as
analysis results. Lastly, practitioners can use it to steer future
tools or procedures for handling big data. As this topic represents
an area of great interest that still remains largely undeveloped,
this book is sure to attract significant interest by filling an
obvious gap in currently available literature.
This book explores community dynamics within social media. Using
Wikipedia as an example, the volume explores communities that rely
upon commons-based peer production. Fundamental theoretical
principles spanning such domains as organizational configurations,
leadership roles, and social evolutionary theory are developed. In
the context of Wikipedia, these theories explain how a functional
elite of highly productive editors has emerged and why they are
responsible for a majority of the content. It explains how the
elite shapes the project and how this group tends to become stable
and increasingly influential over time. Wikipedia has developed a
new and resilient social hierarchy, an adhocracy, which combines
features of traditional and new, online, social organizations. The
book presents a set of practical approaches for using these
theories in real-world practice. This work fundamentally changes
the way we think about social media leadership and evolution,
emphasizing the crucial contributions of leadership, of elite
social roles, and of group global structure to the overall success
and stability of large social media projects. Written in an
accessible and direct style, the book will be of interest to
academics as well as professionals with an interest in social media
and commons-based peer production processes.
Knowledge and expertise, especially of the kind that can shape
public opinion, have been traditionally the domain of individuals
holding degrees awarded by higher learning institutions or
occupying formal positions in notable organizations. Expertise is
validated by reputations established in an institutionalized
marketplace of ideas with a limited number of "available seats" and
a stringent process of selection and retention of names, ideas,
topics and facts of interest. However, the social media revolution,
which has enabled over two billion Internet users not only to
consume, but also to produce information and knowledge, has created
a secondary and very active informal marketplace of ideas and
knowledge. Anchored by platforms like Wikipedia, YouTube, Facebook
and Twitter, this informal marketplace has low barriers to entry
and has become a gigantic and potentially questionable, knowledge
resource for the public at large. Roles, Trust and Reputation in
Social Media Knowledge Markets will discuss some of the emerging
trends in defining, measuring and operationalizing reputation as a
new and essential component of the knowledge that is generated and
consumed online. The book will propose a future research agenda
related to these issues. The ultimate goal of research agenda being
to shape the next generation of theoretical and analytic strategies
needed for understanding how knowledge markets are influenced by
social interactions and reputations built around functional roles.
The authors, including leading scholars and young innovators, will
share with the readers some of the main lessons they have learned
from their own work in these areas and will discuss the issues,
topics and sub-areas that they find under-studied or that promise
the greatest intellectual payoff in the future. The discussion will
be placed in the context of social network analysis and "big data"
research. Roles, Trust and Reputation in Social Media Knowledge
Markets exposes issues that have not been satisfactorily dealt with
in the current literature, as the research agenda in reputation and
authorship is still emerging. In a broader sense, the volume aims
to change the way in which knowledge generation in social media
spaces is understood and utilized. The tools, theories and
methodologies proposed by the contributors offer concrete avenues
for developing the next generation of research strategies and
applications that will help: tomorrow's information consumers make
smarter choices, developers to create new tools and researchers to
launch new research programs.
This book springs from a multidisciplinary, multi-organizational,
and multi-sector conversation about the privacy and ethical
implications of research in human affairs using big data. The need
to cultivate and enlist the public's trust in the abilities of
particular scientists and scientific institutions constitutes one
of this book's major themes. The advent of the Internet, the mass
digitization of research information, and social media brought
about, among many other things, the ability to harvest - sometimes
implicitly - a wealth of human genomic, biological, behavioral,
economic, political, and social data for the purposes of scientific
research as well as commerce, government affairs, and social
interaction. What type of ethical dilemmas did such changes
generate? How should scientists collect, manipulate, and
disseminate this information? The effects of this revolution and
its ethical implications are wide-ranging. This book includes the
opinions of myriad investigators, practitioners, and stakeholders
in big data on human beings who also routinely reflect on the
privacy and ethical issues of this phenomenon. Dedicated to the
practice of ethical reasoning and reflection in action, the book
offers a range of observations, lessons learned, reasoning tools,
and suggestions for institutional practice to promote responsible
big data research on human affairs. It caters to a broad audience
of educators, researchers, and practitioners. Educators can use the
volume in courses related to big data handling and processing.
Researchers can use it for designing new methods of collecting,
processing, and disseminating big data, whether in raw form or as
analysis results. Lastly, practitioners can use it to steer future
tools or procedures for handling big data. As this topic represents
an area of great interest that still remains largely undeveloped,
this book is sure to attract significant interest by filling an
obvious gap in currently available literature.
Knowledge and expertise, especially of the kind that can shape
public opinion, have been traditionally the domain of individuals
holding degrees awarded by higher learning institutions or
occupying formal positions in notable organizations. Expertise is
validated by reputations established in an institutionalized
marketplace of ideas with a limited number of "available seats" and
a stringent process of selection and retention of names, ideas,
topics and facts of interest. However, the social media revolution,
which has enabled over two billion Internet users not only to
consume, but also to produce information and knowledge, has created
a secondary and very active informal marketplace of ideas and
knowledge. Anchored by platforms like Wikipedia, YouTube, Facebook
and Twitter, this informal marketplace has low barriers to entry
and has become a gigantic and potentially questionable, knowledge
resource for the public at large. Roles, Trust and Reputation in
Social Media Knowledge Markets will discuss some of the emerging
trends in defining, measuring and operationalizing reputation as a
new and essential component of the knowledge that is generated and
consumed online. The book will propose a future research agenda
related to these issues. The ultimate goal of research agenda being
to shape the next generation of theoretical and analytic strategies
needed for understanding how knowledge markets are influenced by
social interactions and reputations built around functional roles.
The authors, including leading scholars and young innovators, will
share with the readers some of the main lessons they have learned
from their own work in these areas and will discuss the issues,
topics and sub-areas that they find under-studied or that promise
the greatest intellectual payoff in the future. The discussion will
be placed in the context of social network analysis and "big data"
research. Roles, Trust and Reputation in Social Media Knowledge
Markets exposes issues that have not been satisfactorily dealt with
in the current literature, as the research agenda in reputation and
authorship is still emerging. In a broader sense, the volume aims
to change the way in which knowledge generation in social media
spaces is understood and utilized. The tools, theories and
methodologies proposed by the contributors offer concrete avenues
for developing the next generation of research strategies and
applications that will help: tomorrow's information consumers make
smarter choices, developers to create new tools and researchers to
launch new research programs.
Digital and social media companies such as Apple, Google, and
Facebook grip the globe with market, civic, and political strength
akin to large, sovereign states. Yet, these corporations are
private entities. How should states and communities protect the
individual rights of their citizens - or their national and local
interests - while keeping pace with globalized digital companies?
This scholarly compendium examines regulatory solutions which
encourage content diversity and protect fundamental rights. The
volume compares European and US regulatory approaches, including
closer focus on topics such as privacy, copyright, and freedom of
expression. Further, we propose pedagogical models for educating
students on possible regulatory regimes of the future. Our final
chapter invites readers to consider social and digital media
regulation for both this generation and the ones to come.
Chapter(s) "Introduction: New Paradigms of Media Regulation in a
Transatlantic Perspective", "From News Diversity to News Quality:
New Media Regulation Theoretical Issues" and "The Stakes and
Threats of the Convergence Between Media and Telecommunication
Industries" are available open access under a Creative Commons
Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
The book proposes a systematic approach to big data collection,
documentation and development of analytic procedures that foster
collaboration on a large scale. This approach, designated as "data
factoring" emphasizes the need to think of each individual dataset
developed by an individual project as part of a broader data
ecosystem, easily accessible and exploitable by parties not
directly involved with data collection and documentation.
Furthermore, data factoring uses and encourages pre-analytic
operations that add value to big data sets, especially recombining
and repurposing. The book proposes a research-development agenda
that can undergird an ideal data factory approach. Several
programmatic chapters discuss specialized issues involved in data
factoring (documentation, meta-data specification, building
flexible, yet comprehensive data ontologies, usability issues
involved in collaborative tools, etc.). The book also presents case
studies for data factoring and processing that can lead to building
better scientific collaboration and data sharing strategies and
tools. Finally, the book presents the teaching utility of data
factoring and the ethical and privacy concerns related to it.
Chapter 9 of this book is available open access under a CC BY 4.0
license at link.springer.com
This ubitour version of Verne's adventure classic is enhanced with
2d codes, which extend the book into the digital world. With an
iPhone or other appropriate Internet mobile phone you can
participate in online conversations about the book, its characters,
or author. The book also links Fogg's adventure to online
interactive maps. Last, but not least, each chapter of the book is
linked to its audio and video versions, which can be streamed or
downloaded onto the mobile phone. Readers can put the book down,
get in the car or on the treadmill to follow Phileas Fogg's and
Passpartout's adventures on their iPhones or Smartphones without
missing a beat. The Ubitour was designed by Sorin Adam Matei and by
the Ideagora team. The book project was supported by the Discovery
Learning Center and by the Entrepreneurial Leadership Academy at
Purdue University. More details at http: //ubimark.com
To what degree can the human exchanges we observe online be called
"sociability"? In other words, do these exchanges amount to any
meaningful type of social organization? Are they more than the mere
froth of collective emotion discharging its energy with a lot of
noise but little consequence against the wave breakers of social
media? Do the social interactions that take place in virtual
space-all those kind or not-so-kind words sent back and
forth-suggest the same level of commitment, dedication, morality,
passion, or even depravity that we see in everyday life? Or, more
succinctly, is sociability online less "social," less "real" than
what we see in everyday life? The present collection of papers
reflects some of the most insightful contributions to the Purdue
Online Interaction Seminar. Representing a variety of interpretive
frameworks, the conversation is circumscribed by a number of
themes, of which two are most important. The first one is the
nature of online sociability. Are or could online groups be
"community-like," bound by ties as strong as those of kith and kin?
Should they be qualified as a type of contractual, rational,
self-interested "society"? Or should we propose a new interpretive
framework? Should online communities be seen as a type of
"communitas," which is a form of social aggregation that appears
during certain initiation rituals? If this is so, are
communitas-like virtual spaces characterized by the same transient,
liminal state that mixes a variety of contradictory characteristics
(temporary and permanent, close and distant, essential and
fleeting) that we observe in other types of "communitas"? Can
virtual communitas lead to social and personal transformation, just
like its traditional counterpart? Table of Contents Sorin Adam
Matei Introduction 1 The book is dead Long live the ubibook 9 User
Guide 16 Susan Huelsing Sarapin Front Porches and Public Spaces:
Planned Communities Online 20 Pamela Morris Glimpses of Community
on the Web 45 Brenda Berkelaar Van Pelt Peering Behind the Curtain:
The Virtual Wizard Offers No Guarantees 59 Brian C. Britt The
Invisible Man: Speaking into the Online Void 84 Robert N. Yale
Welcome to I-berspace: Media Gratifications in Successful Virtual
Communities 101 Christina Kalinowski Individualism Online:
Virtually Escaping the 'Massness' or Vanishing into the
'Electrovoid'? 119 W. Scott Sanders SIDE Theory, Small World
Networks, and Smart Mob Formation: A Beginner's Guide 136 Online
Interaction Seminar: Selected Readings and Discussion Topics 153
Author Biographies 162
Idolii forului este raspunsul colectiv al unui numar de specialisti
in domeniile social, politic, literar si filosofic la doua
intrebari fundamentale despre societatea in care traim. Prima
intrebare este daca ideea de intelectual public, enciclopedic, fara
o specializare data, este perimata? Cea de-a doua este daca
fascinatia publica fata de ideea de intelectual "enciclopedic"
amator poate amana, intr-o masura, remodernizarea estului Europei
si al Romaniei? Volumul este produsul colaborarii a 15 specialisti
din domeniile social, politic, literar, jurnalistic si filozofic.
Volumul reprezinta si o premiera tehnologica. El ofera coduri 2d
(sau QR), care leaga textul de situl http: //idolii.com Coauthored
by 15 Romanian authors, the book critically discusses the cultural
models adopted by Romanian and Eastern European public
intellectuals after 1989. They scrutinize the claim of intellectual
"elites" to represent a special, encyclopedic "vocation," which
should be treated with deference by the rest of society because of
its lack of specialization. The book also discusses the
"paramodern" thinking that informs this type of intellectual
discourse, which combines modern with traditional and at times
anti-modern ideological themes. Special attention is dedicated to
modernizing social discourse and to the need to include in social
debates more voices, from all social strata and intellectual
groups. Each chapter of the book has a 2d code which linkes to a
web site, http: //idolii.com . Authors/Autori SORIN ADAM MATEI,
MONA MOMESCU, MICHAEL SHAFIR, ADRIAN GAVRILESCU, DANIEL BARBU,
CAIUS DOBRESCU, MIRCEA FLONTA, GABRIEL ANDREESCU, STELU SERBAN,
LUCIAN NASTASA KOVACS, MARIUS GHILEZAN, VASILE MORAR, BRUNO STEFAN,
ALEXANDRU MATEI, ISTVAN ARANYOSI.
Cum se organizeaza intelectualii in jurul puterii? Care sunt
relatiile sociale si ideologiile produse de grupurile de
intelectuali care urmaresc si cucereasc puterea? Teza principala a
lui Sorin Matei este ca intelectualii romani se structureaza in
"grupuri de prestigiu" care duc mai departe domnia lumii
traditionale, aristocratice si instaureaza o stare sociala pe care
le numeste "paramoderne. Una din concluziile fulminante ale cartii
este ca aceasta combinatie "paramoderna" zadarniceste
remodernizarea Romaniei dupa 1989. Ciprian Siulea, Scheletul din
biblioteca, Adevarul Literar si Artistic The Mind Boyars analyzes
the manner in which Romanian intellectuals are organized, as well
as the social relationships and the ideologies produced by the
intellectual groups interested in gaining access to power.
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