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UnderstandingSociety: Social hierarchy and popular culture
"Based on these findings, Peterson recommends junking the "elite culture-mass culture" distinction in favor of an "omnivore-univore" distinction. There is indeed a significant difference in the cultural tastes of high-status and low-status people
culture  elites  elitism  taste  music  mass  social  hierarchy  popular  class  from delicious
22 days ago by tsuomela
Rise in Scientific Journal Retractions Prompts Calls for Reform - NYTimes.com
"Ms. Bradford, of Science magazine, agreed. “I would agree that a scientist’s career advancement should not depend solely on the publications listed on his or her C.V.,” she said, “and that there is much room for improvement in how scientific talent in all its diversity can be nurtured.”

Even scientists who are sympathetic to the idea of fundamental change are skeptical that it will happen any time soon. “I don’t think they have much chance of changing what they’re talking about,” said Dr. Korn, of Harvard. "
science  sts  peer-production  incentives  academia  publisher  structure  social  reform  retractions  accuracy  from delicious
6 weeks ago by tsuomela
Peak Attention and the Colonization of Subcultures
"The question of how such coded language emerges, spreads and evolves is a big one. I am interested in a very specific question: how do members of an emerging subculture recognize each other in public, especially on the Internet, using more specialized coded language?

The question is interesting because the Web is making traditional subcultures — historically illegible to governance mechanisms, and therefore hotbeds of subversion — increasingly visible and open to cheap, large-scale economic and political exploitation. This exploitation takes the form of attention mining, and is the end-game on the path to what I called Peak Attention a while back.

Does this mean the subversive potential of the Internet is an illusion, and that it will ultimately be domesticated? Possibly." Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2012/01/27/peak-attention-and-the-colonization-of-subcultures
internet  culture  subculture  code  code-words  attention  data-mining  social  social-networking  social-media  communication  signals  society  power  government  facebook  from delicious
7 weeks ago by tsuomela
UnderstandingSociety: Social subjectivities
"So it seems fairly clear and direct to say that human subjectivity is itself an important cause of a variety of forms of social patterns: forms of collective behavior, the shaping of social practices, and the adjustment and accommodation of the behavior of other actors in society. This seems to have a fairly striking consequence, however: it seems to imply that the ways that we think about society and social relations actually has a substantial effect on the ways in which society plays out. This is a fundamentally different situation from the natural sciences
sociology  social  explanation  subjectivity  psychology  philosophy  causation  from delicious
9 weeks ago by tsuomela
The Shy Connector
shyness  introvert  networking  social  from delicious
february 2012 by tsuomela
Open the Future: The Future Isn't What It Used to Be
"And on and on. If futurists have become almost too good at technological foresight, we remain woefully primitive in our abilities to examine and forecast changes to cultural, political, and social dynamics.

Why is this? There isn't a single cause. "
futurism  futures  prediction  technology  social  change  from delicious
february 2012 by tsuomela
Even Critics of Safety Net Increasingly Depend on It - NYTimes.com
economics  politics  american  insurance  social  commons  from delicious
february 2012 by tsuomela
SciFund Success and Social Media
crowdsourcing  fundraising  science  citizen-science  social  from delicious
february 2012 by tsuomela
COPIA - Home
e-books  books  reading  social  from delicious
february 2012 by tsuomela
The Rise of the New Groupthink - NYTimes.com
"Solitude is out of fashion. Our companies, our schools and our culture are in thrall to an idea I call the New Groupthink, which holds that creativity and achievement come from an oddly gregarious place. Most of us now work in teams, in offices without walls, for managers who prize people skills above all. Lone geniuses are out. Collaboration is in. "
solitude  silence  computers  technology-effects  social  media  behavior  creativity  novelty  brainstorming  business  from delicious
january 2012 by tsuomela
From underwear to aircraft noise: logging 70 years of social change
The summer of 2011 marks the seventieth anniversary of the very first Government Social Survey.

In celebration, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) pays tribute to the thousands of interviewers who have asked the public questions on everything from underwear to aircraft noise. We have delved into the archives and picked surveys from 1941, 1951, etc to mark each decade.
country(GreatBritain)  state  survey  government  statistics  polling  social  from delicious
january 2012 by tsuomela
BBC News - Why state surveys asked about bras and haddock
From bra ownership to television interference, the government has wanted to know some strange stuff about people in the UK. Now a history of social surveys reveals why.
surveys  history  country(GreatBritain)  statistics  state  government  polls  tracking  social  from delicious
january 2012 by tsuomela
Path
iphone  social  web2.0  journal  application  from delicious
december 2011 by tsuomela
The Social Graph is Neither (Pinboard Blog)
social-media  social-networks  graphs  technology  ideology  social  behavior  from instapaper
november 2011 by tsuomela
Neurology vs. Psychiatry: The Social Production of Knowledge » Sociological Images
"The divisions between neurology and psychiatry suggested in the image above stir up lots of interesting questions not only about what we consider to be “neurological” or “psychiatric”, but more generally about the social production of knowledge."
neurology  psychiatry  knowledge  social  sociology  psychology  discipline  boundaries  from delicious
october 2011 by tsuomela
UnderstandingSociety: Causal-mechanisms theory in Europe
social  sociology  analytic  causation  from delicious
october 2011 by tsuomela
The Fans Are All Right (Pinboard Blog)
via:cshalizi  fandom  bookmarking  pinboard  online  behavior  social 
october 2011 by tsuomela
Cultural Evolution: How Darwinian Theory Can Explain Human Culture and Synthesize the Social Sciences, Mesoudi
via:cshalizi  book  publisher  evolution  culture  causation  social  objects 
october 2011 by tsuomela
Poverty isn’t just a game - Al Lewis - MarketWatch
poverty  games  simulation  policy  social-computing  social  government  gamification 
september 2011 by tsuomela
UnderstandingSociety: Current issues in causation research
Three foci of current research: meaning in explanation, methods for support, ontology of causation.
philosophy  causation  sociology  social  societies  understanding  research  science  explanation  meaning 
september 2011 by tsuomela
Jig
By founder of delicious, Joshua Schacter.
social  tools  crowdsourcing  delicious 
september 2011 by tsuomela
Forget Steve Jobs | Savage Minds
"Jobs’s saintly genius is a carefully orchestrated performance by Apple, tech journalists, venture capitalists, and MacBook fanboys to create an illusion that we are blessed to be typing away on technologies of such holy grandeur. As this narrative grows so does Apple’s stocks. Social imaginaires like that which circulate around Jobs are stories we tell ourselves about ourselves with real impacts in the world.
Apple products are great, I’m using a couple right now. But the spiritual intonations describing Jobs’s role in the production of these easy to use, trendy, flashy, and expensive devices is overstated for a purpose. The auteur visionary, who throws off tradition, rises from the ashes and returns, and kills a rigid bohemoth (Gates) are all narratives that help to sell products and stocks. These stories encase the casings of Macbook and iPads with a genius virus that users mistakenly think is contagious."
business  technology  success  personality  publicity  public-relations  imagination  social 
september 2011 by tsuomela
U.S. Intellectual History: David Harvey’s “Mental Conceptions”
"Harvey calls these cultural norms and belief systems our “mental conceptions of the world,” one of seven “distinctive activity spheres” that comprise the historical development of capitalism. All seven in Harvey’s words:

1. Technologies and organizational forms
2. Social relations
3. Institutional and administrative arrangements
4. Production and labor processes
5. Relations to nature
6. The reproduction of daily life and the species
7. Mental conceptions of the world"
sociology  social  structure  philosophy  concepts  mental 
september 2011 by tsuomela
Structure Strangeness: What is the probability of a 9/11-size terrorist attack?
Sunday is the 10-year anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. As a commemoration of the day, I'm going to investigate answers to a very simple question: what is the probability of a 9/11-size or larger terrorist attack?
terrorism  probability  complexity  prediction  model  social 
september 2011 by tsuomela
The Best Way To Evacuate A Skyscraper - Technology Review
simulation  social  computers  disaster  emergency  panic 
august 2011 by tsuomela
Confessions of a Community College Dean: Selfish Tech
"The tech world loves to bandy about the term “social,” but its concept of “social” seems to be based on what single twentysomethings do. “Social” in the sense of “families” is off the radar, as is “social” in the sense of “sharing.” It’s happy to make recommendations for individual purchases social, but shared purchases are verboten.

It’s shortsighted. If the demise of the music industry has taught us anything, it should be that walls don’t work. Sooner or later, demand will find a way around. The blistering success of itunes showed that there’s a substantial market for aboveboard, legal ways to allow people to get what they want
social  commons  books  used  technology  sharing 
august 2011 by tsuomela
The Myth of the Sole Inventor by Mark Lemley :: SSRN
"The point can be made more general: surveys of hundreds of significant new technologies show that almost all of them are invented simultaneously or nearly simultaneously by two or more teams working independently of each other. Invention appears in significant part to be a social, not an individual, phenomenon. Inventors build on the work of those who came before, and new ideas are often "in the air," or result from changes in market demand or the availability of new or cheaper starting materials. And in the few circumstances where that is not true – where inventions truly are "singletons" – it is often because of an accident or error in the experiment rather than a conscious effort to invent. "
invention  innovation  creativity  social  individual  genius  intellectual-property  patents  law 
august 2011 by tsuomela
Study Warns of Boomerang Effects in Climate Change Campaigns | Age of Engagement | Big Think
environment  global-warming  climate  climate-change  communication  science  expertise  political-science  partisanship  construal-level-theory  distance  social  psychology 
august 2011 by tsuomela
Tory ideology renders modern Britain a mystery | Speculative Humbug
"And, as ever, the problem – the obstacle to the government’s comprehension of the tensions manifesting among the populace – is a crude individualism, for which a society is nothing but an aggregate of autonomous, freely acting individuals. From such a perspective, this rioting loses its significance as a symptom. The social field is rendered devoid of structure and depth."
riots  city(London)  protests  social  reductionism  individualism 
august 2011 by tsuomela
A Big Little Idea Called Legibility
Comments on Seeing Like a State by James C. Scott.
legibility  modernism  social  control  bureaucracy  state  government  rationality 
august 2011 by tsuomela
TRIBES! - Global Guerrillas
"How do you manufacture a strong community that protects, defends and advances the interests of its members? You build a tribe. Tribal organization is the most survivable of all organizational types and it was the dominant form for 99.99% of human history. The most important aspect of tribal organization is that it is the organizational cockroach of human history. It has proven it can withstand the onslaught of the harshest of environments. Global depression? No problem."
survival  tribes  future  social 
august 2011 by tsuomela
How Facebook Secretly Ends Your Relationships - Datamation
facebook  algorithms  technology-effects  social  behavior  communication  visibility 
july 2011 by tsuomela
On Experts and Global Warming - NYTimes.com
GARY GUTTING
expertise  philosophy  global-warming  trust  truth  epistemology  social  communication 
july 2011 by tsuomela
NCAR / SIP The Societal Impacts Program
"The Collaborative Program on the Societal Impacts and Economic Benefits of Weather Information (SIP), better known as the Societal Impacts Program (SIP), focuses on improving societal gains from weather forecasting by infusing social science research, methods, and capabilities into the Weather Enterprise. SIP serves as a focal point for developing and supporting a closer relationship between weather researchers, operational forecasters, relevant end users, and social scientists concerned with the impacts of weather and weather information on society. Program activities include primary research, outreach and education, the Weather and Society*Integrated Studies (WAS*IS) program, and development and support for the weather societal-impacts community."
research  sociology  meteorology  social  social-science  weather 
june 2011 by tsuomela
Human Brain Limits Twitter Friends To 150 - Technology Review
"It turns out that when people start tweeting, their number of friends increases until they become overwhelmed. Beyond that saturation point, the conversations with less important contacts start to become less frequent and the tweeters begin to concentrate on the people they have the strongest links with.

So what is the saturation point? Or, in other words, how many people can tweeters maintain contact with before they get overwhelmed? The answer is between 100 and 200, just as Dunbar predicts. "
communication  networks  dunbar-number  social  behavior  sociology  neurology  brain  evolution  twitter  social-media 
may 2011 by tsuomela
UnderstandingSociety: Social networks as aggregators
"This passage emphasizes quite a few themes that have been important throughout UnderstandingSociety -- the heterogeneity of social phenomena, the difficulty of formulating a clear understanding of social ontology, and the challenge of representing the processes of aggregation through which individual social actions contribute to mid- and large-scale social outcomes.

So how do the analytical resources of network theory contribute to a better understanding of the ways that actions aggregate into outcomes?"
sociology  social  theory  objects  network-analysis  networks  scale 
april 2011 by tsuomela
Gamification: Ditching reality for a game isn't as fun as it sounds. - By Heather Chaplin - Slate Magazine
"In a gamified world, corporations don't have to reward us for our business by offering better service or lower prices. Rather, they can just set up a game structure that makes us feel as if we're being rewarded. McGonigal goes even further. She talks about an "engagement economy … that works by motivating and rewarding participants with intrinsic rewards, and not more lucrative compensation." This economy doesn't rely on cash—rather, it pays participants with points, peer recognition, and their names on leader boards. It's hard to tell if this is fairy-tale thinking or an evil plot."
games  gaming  serious-games  social  behavior  marketing  advertising 
april 2011 by tsuomela
Why Last Chapters Disappoint - Essay - NYTimes.com
"But in the end, most authors have themselves to blame. Having immersed themselves in a subject, almost all succumb to the hubristic idea that they can find new and unique ideas for solving intractable problems. They rarely do, and even works that do usher in specific reforms or broad social transformations — from “The Jungle” to “The Feminine Mystique” — do so by raising awareness about an issue, not by providing ready-to-go blueprints.

Yet solutions seem to be what our national temper demands. “It is one of the peculiar intellectual accompaniments of democracy that the concept of the insoluble becomes unfashionable — nay, almost infamous,” Mencken wrote in “Notes on Democracy” (1926).."
books  review  problems  social  solutions  cliche  publishing  hubris 
march 2011 by tsuomela
UnderstandingSociety: Social brains
"It seems to me that there is a sturdy intermediate position that incorporates some of both extremes and does a superior job of capturing the truth about human behavior and mind than either. Certainly human cognitive and behavioral capacities have an evolutionary history. But equally, it is plausible that there is a great deal of plasticity and multiple-realizability that has been built into these systems -- with the result that there is no one-to-one relationship between biological origins and current behavioral patterns. Culture is a powerful intervening structure. "
biology  evolution  evolutionary-psychology  social  structure  nature-v-nurture 
march 2011 by tsuomela
UnderstandingSociety: Searle on social ontology
"Searle thinks that rules, institutions, and collective intentions are the fundamental "atoms" of social phenomena
social  ontology  philosophy  theory  sociology  explanation  language  linguistics  speech 
march 2011 by tsuomela
UnderstandingSociety: Methodological localism
"I offer a social ontology that I refer to as methodological localism (ML). This theory of social entities affirms that there are large social structures and facts that influence social outcomes. But it insists that these structures are only possible insofar as they are embodied in the actions and states of socially constructed individuals. The “molecule” of all social life is the socially constructed and socially situated individual, who lives, acts, and develops within a set of local social relationships, institutions, norms, and rules."
sociology  explanation  social  ontology  philosophy  theory  localism  methodology 
march 2011 by tsuomela
UnderstandingSociety: Spartacus, Kitty Genovese, and social explanation
"The challenge of explanation for any social outcome, we might say, is that of constructing an interpretation of the states of minds of a set of actors
sociology  explanation  social  ontology  philosophy  theory 
march 2011 by tsuomela
Learning from the Japanese Example—What Makes Heroes? - TIME Healthland
Interview with Philip Zimbardo, of Stanford Prison Experiment fame.
interview  heroism  group  social  social-psychology 
march 2011 by tsuomela
Smoke Signals | the human network
When all four of these design principles are embodied in a work, another design principle emerges: resilience. Something that is distributed, transport independent, secure and open is very, very difficult to subvert, shut down, or block. It will survive all sorts of disasters. Including warfare.
design  computer  technology  freedom  open-source  privacy  transparency  social-media  graphs  social-networks  manifesto  internet  future  social  facebook  commerce 
march 2011 by tsuomela
Surveillance and the Social Layer < PopMatters
Notice how this exchange is structured. What is regarded as in inherently intolerable is that any sort of social behavior could escape digital capture, could slip through the net of commercial surveillance. Innovation has become a matter of perfecting that surveillance, allowing all our behavior to be mediated and translated into marketing data to fuel the engines of consumerism—perfect the management of demand.

The contemporary tech startup’s critical (“cool”) task is to somehow entice you to share your private information in a standardized digital form in as close to real time as possible by making it “fun” and “social” and more or less compulsive, if not compulsory. It should find ways to “drive” users to report on themselves without the burden becoming intolerable.
social  media  technology  surveillance  privacy  secrecy  business  business-model  ethics 
march 2011 by tsuomela
NASSP Home Page
"NORTH AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY HOME PAGE"
philosophy  social  professional-association 
february 2011 by tsuomela
The social side of the internet | Pew Internet
internet  behavior  survey  pew-research  social 
january 2011 by tsuomela
Forsyth's Group Dynamics Resources Page
groups  dynamics  organization  communication  psychology  community  social  collaboration 
january 2011 by tsuomela
BION AND EXPERIENCES IN GROUPS
groups  dynamics  organization  communication  psychology  community  social  collaboration  psychotherapy 
january 2011 by tsuomela
Shirky: A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy
groups  dynamics  organization  communication  psychology  community  social  collaboration 
january 2011 by tsuomela
Mother of Facebook suicide woman asks why none of her 'friends' helped - Telegraph
facebook  technology  social  technology-effects 
january 2011 by tsuomela
The Political Power of Social Media | Foreign Affairs
political-science  social-media  interaction  future  politics  social 
january 2011 by tsuomela
Welcome to the Social Science History Association
professional-association  social  social-science  history  academic 
december 2010 by tsuomela
Brenda Brathwaite: Holocaust Game Designer - The Daily Beast
"When Rob was the first to move a boxcar to the end of the line, he followed the rules and drew a Terminus card. Train’s subject was no longer hidden. The card said “Dachau.”"
games  social  holocaust  design  learning  education 
december 2010 by tsuomela
Stumbling and Mumbling: Against social mobility
Tony Blair  said yesterday that he wants to "create a Britain where work and merit, not privilege or class background, decide how far you go."
This is a bad idea. There's a lot to be said against social mobility.
social  class  mobility  economics  power 
december 2010 by tsuomela
Friends with cognitive benefits: Mental function improves after certain kinds of socializing
In previous research, Ybarra has found that social interaction provides a short-term boost to executive function that's comparable in size to playing brain games, such as solving crossword puzzles. In the current series of studies, he and colleagues tested 192 undergraduates to pinpoint which types of social interactions help—and which don't.

They found that engaging in brief (10 minute) conversations in which participants were simply instructed to get to know another person resulted in boosts to their subsequent performance on an array of common cognitive tasks. But when participants engaged in conversations that had a competitive edge, their performance on cognitive tasks showed no improvement.
psychology  experiment  social  interaction  executive-function  cognition 
november 2010 by tsuomela
Evidence for a Collective Intelligence Factor in the Performance of Human Groups -- Woolley et al., 10.1126/science.1193147 -- Science
Psychologists have repeatedly shown that a single statistical factor—often called "general intelligence"—emerges from the correlations among people's performance on a wide variety of cognitive tasks. But no one has systematically examined whether a similar kind of "collective intelligence" exists for groups of people. In two studies with 699 individuals, working in groups of two to five, we find converging evidence of a general collective intelligence factor that explains a group's performance on a wide variety of tasks. This "c factor" is not strongly correlated with the average or maximum individual intelligence of group members but is correlated with the average social sensitivity of group members, the equality in distribution of conversational turn-taking, and the proportion of females in the group.
group  intelligence  distributed  cognition  collaboration  research  psychology  science  social  collective-intelligence 
october 2010 by tsuomela
Kickstarter
Kickstarter is a new way to fund creative ideas and ambitious endeavors.

We believe that...

• A good idea, communicated well, can spread fast and wide.
• A large group of people can be a tremendous source of money and encouragement.

Kickstarter is powered by a unique all-or-nothing funding method where projects must be fully-funded or no money changes hands.
crowdsourcing  funding  creativity  business  community  ideas  projects  social 
october 2010 by tsuomela
Cormode - A manifesto for modeling and measurement in social media - First Monday - 6 September 2010
Online social networks (OSNs) have been the subject of a great deal of study in recent years. The majority of this study has used simple models, such as node–and–edge graphs, to describe the data. In this paper, we argue that such models, which necessarily limit the structures that can be described and omit temporal information, are insufficient to describe and study OSNs. Instead, we propose that a richer class of Entity Interaction Network models should be adopted. We outline a checklist of features that can help build such a model, and apply it to three popular networks (Twitter, Facebook and YouTube) to highlight important features. We also discuss important considerations for the collection, validation and sharing of OSN data.
social-networks  social-media  network-analysis  networks  research  measurement  methods  twitter  data  social  network 
october 2010 by tsuomela
'The Lonely Crowd,' at 60, Is Still Timely - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education
book  review  retrospective  1950  psychology  social  sociology  america 
september 2010 by tsuomela
CASOS: Home | CASOS
CASOS brings together computer science, dynamic network analysis and the empirical study of complex socio-technical systems. Computational and social network techniques are combined to develop a better understanding of the fundamental principles of organizing, coordinating, managing and destabilizing systems of intelligent adaptive agents (human and artificial) engaged in real tasks at the team, organizational or social level. Whether the research involves the development of metrics, theories, computer simulations, toolkits, or new data analysis techniques advances in computer science are combined with a deep understanding of the underlying cognitive, social, political, business and policy issues.
complexity  modeling  research  networks  social  analysis  network-analysis  simulation  sociology  agent-based-model  school(CarnegieMellon) 
september 2010 by tsuomela
Cyber Terrorism Ring Revealed – Part 2: Our Response to Intimidation Attempts | NEWS JUNKIE POST
youth  censorship  internet  youtube  social  conspiracy  intimidation  bullying  online  behavior  social-networks 
september 2010 by tsuomela
Massive Censorship Of Digg Uncovered « OOO
politics  censorship  internet  digg  conservative  news  social  conspiracy  propaganda  intimidation  bullying  online  behavior  social-networks 
september 2010 by tsuomela
[1009.0240] Modeling Dynamical Influence in Human Interaction Patterns
We present a new perspective, together with a model and algorithm, on a well-observed property of many social phenomena: the influence strength between individuals changes over time (e.g., friendships break and reform). We propose an unsupervised generative switching model that simultaneously captures the system dynamics as the outcome of both (i) the influence between individuals (each modeled as an HMM), and (ii) the dynamics of the influence itself. We describe here a variational Expectation-Maximization (EM) algorithm. In our experiments, we illustrate applications of detecting structural change, predicting turn taking by analyzing a real group discussion behavior dataset and understanding flu influence patterns between US states. Results demonstrate that our approach is a strong alternative for modeling complex interacting social systems.
social  interaction  influence  model  mathematics  probability  statistics  markov-chain 
september 2010 by tsuomela
ATLAS.ti: The Qualitative Data Analysis Software
software  windows  research  qualitative  analysis  academic  ethnography  social  tool  technology 
september 2010 by tsuomela
Twitter Strangers : The Frontal Cortex
And this is why we should all follow strangers on Twitter. We naturally lead manicured lives, so that our favorite blogs and writers and friends all look and think and sound a lot like us.
experience  strangers  social  horizon  awareness 
july 2010 by tsuomela
Welcome | cbcs
The Consortium for Biosocial Complex Systems at ASU falls under the umbrella of the university's Complex Adaptive Systems Initiative. Overseen by Sander van der Leeuw – a pioneer in the application of the complex adaptive systems approach to socio-environmental challenges – the consortium brings together three research units of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Through the integrated efforts of the researchers at the Center for Social Dynamics and Complexity, the Center for the Study of Institutional Diversity and the Mathematical, Computational and Modeling Sciences Center, the consortium is tasked with generating fresh insight into global challenges and transforming their findings into real-life applications that improve the human condition.
school(ArizonaU)  complexity  academic-center  agent-based-model  social  social-science 
june 2010 by tsuomela
The End of the Best Friend - NYTimes.com
friendship  children  social  sociology  generation  behavior 
june 2010 by tsuomela
HUMAN Library | Home
The Human Library is an innovative method designed to promote dialogue, reduce prejudices and encourage understanding.The main characteristics of the project are to be found in its simplicity and positive approach.

In it’s initial form the Human Library is a mobile library set up as a space for dialogue and interaction. Visitors to the Human Library are given the opportunity to speak informally with “people on loan”; this latter group being extremely varied in age, sex and cultural background.

The Human Library enables groups to break stereotypes by challenging the most common prejudices in a positive and humorous manner. It is a concrete, easily transferable and affordable way of promoting tolerance and understanding.
prejudice  education  participation  culture  library  people  events  social  community  stererotypes  tolerance 
june 2010 by tsuomela
Project ‘Gaydar’: An MIT experiment raises new questions about online privacy - The Boston Globe
Using data from the social network Facebook, they made a striking discovery: just by looking at a person’s online friends, they could predict whether the person was gay. They did this with a software program that looked at the gender and sexuality of a person’s friends and, using statistical analysis, made a prediction. The two students had no way of checking all of their predictions, but based on their own knowledge outside the Facebook world, their computer program appeared quite accurate for men, they said. People may be effectively “outing” themselves just by the virtual company they keep.
social  social-networking  social-media  facebook  privacy  research  statistics  ethics  culture  sex 
june 2010 by tsuomela
Seumas Miller - The Moral Foundations of Social Institutions - Reviewed by Alexa Forrester, Franklin & Marshall College - Philosophical Reviews - University of Notre Dame
book  review  philosophy  morality  business  institutions  power  social 
june 2010 by tsuomela
Google Wave
google  google-wave  tools  web2.0  communication  email  collaboration  social  shortcut:gw 
june 2010 by tsuomela
Society for New Communications Research
The Society for New Communications Research is a global nonprofit 501(c)(3) research and education foundation and think tank focused on the advanced study of the latest developments in new media and communications, and their effect on traditional media and business models, communications, culture and society.

SNCR is dedicated to creating a bridge between the academic and theoretical pursuit of these topics and the pragmatic implementation of new media and communications tools and methodologies.
communication  research  media  social  internet  think-tank  social-media  non-profit 
june 2010 by tsuomela
Analyze Words
The AnalyzeWords project analyzes data using the text analysis program Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) originally developed at the University of Texas at Austin and the Auckland Medical School in New Zealand. Unlike most traditional word counting methods, LIWC focuses on the almost-invisible function or junk words that we rely on. Junk words include pronouns (I, you they), articles (a, the, an), prepositions (to, with, for) and other small words that typically hold together more content-heavy nouns and regular verbs.

Across dozens of studies, junk words have proven to be powerful markers of peoples psychological states. When individuals use the word I, for example, they are briefly paying attention to themselves. People experiencing high levels of physical or mental pain automatically orient towards themselves and begin using I-words at higher rates. I-use, then, can reflect signs of depression, stress or insecurity.
twitter  psychology  language  analysis  social  words  emotions 
may 2010 by tsuomela
Journalism professor asks students to unplug | mndaily.com
technology  technology-effects  curriculum  social  journalism  generation  kids-these-days 
may 2010 by tsuomela
Gintis, H.: Game Theory Evolving: A Problem-Centered Introduction to Modeling Strategic Interaction (Second Edition).
Since its original publication in 2000, Game Theory Evolving has been considered the best textbook on evolutionary game theory. This completely revised and updated second edition of Game Theory Evolving contains new material and shows students how to apply game theory to model human behavior in ways that reflect the special nature of sociality and individuality. The textbook continues its in-depth look at cooperation in teams, agent-based simulations, experimental economics, the evolution and diffusion of preferences, and the connection between biology and economics.
book  publisher  game-theory  agent-based-model  simulation  social  cooperation  evolution  textbook 
april 2010 by tsuomela
Twin Cities Thursday Happy Hours
Twin Cities Thursday Happy Hours is a Twin Cities networking group for business professionals to get a chance to meet and greet with other Twin Cities professionals and enjoy a different Minneapolis/St. Paul happy hour spot every 3rd Thursday of each month. Locations will vary between Minneapolis and St. Paul, with occasional events in local suburbs as well.
minnesota  minneapolis  networking  social  event 
march 2010 by tsuomela
Home | Social Innovator
We have created Social Innovator to bring together the people, experience and issues involved in designing, developing and growing new ideas that meet pressing unmet needs.
The project is a collaboration between the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA) and the Young Foundation - two organisations that are committed to the role that social innovation can play in building the new social economy.
social  innovation  design  methods  research  learning  methodology  collaboration 
march 2010 by tsuomela
The Young Foundation - A centre for Social Innovation
We bring together insight, innovation and entrepreneurship to meet social needs, with a 55 year track record of success with ventures such as the Open University, Which?, the School for Social Entrepreneurs and Healthline (the precursor of NHS Direct).

Our Launchpad team creates innovative new organisations in health and education.

Our local innovation work includes practical projects involving neighbourhoods, wellbeing and the future of cities.

Our research covers changing needs, crime, social innovation, civility and belonging. We work locally around our base in east London, throughout the UK, as well as internationally.
social  innovation  research  community  activism  entrepreneurship  creativity  design  think-tank  international  city(London)  country(GreatBritain) 
march 2010 by tsuomela
Chicago Journals - The Journal of Legal Studies - Hive Psychology, Happiness, and Public Policy
We consider three hypotheses about relatedness and well‐being including the hive hypothesis, which says people need to lose themselves occasionally by becoming part of an emergent social organism in order to reach the highest levels of human flourishing. We discuss recent evolutionary thinking about multilevel selection, which offers a distal reason why the hive hypothesis might be true. We next consider psychological phenomena such as the joy of synchronized movement and the ecstatic joy of self‐loss, which might be proximal mechanisms underlying the extraordinary pleasures people get from hive‐type activities. We suggest that if the hive hypothesis turns out to be true, it has implications for public policy. We suggest that the hive hypothesis points to new ways to increase social capital and encourages a new focus on happy groups as being more than collections of happy individuals.
psychology  well-being  social-psychology  emergence  behavior  social  social-capital  public-policy 
march 2010 by tsuomela
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