Social%20Phenomena

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Social Phenomena

• 14 April

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Class Discussion

• Discuss the recent case of cyberbullying
• http//www.wltx.com/sports/story.aspx?storyid6075
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• Specifically, discuss is peoples behavior in
  cyberspace different?
• Why do you think that it is?

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Social Issues

• Social networking
• Multiple personae
• User as consumer
• Internet addiction

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Social Networking
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6 Degrees of Separation the Legend

• Stanley Milgram (Harvard) 1967
• asked each of several volunteers in the Midwest
  to get a letter to a stranger in Boston
• Could send a letter only to someone they knew
• Median number of intermediaries was six
• Hence six degrees of separation

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6 Degrees of Separation the Reality

• Milgram experiment
• Initial experimant only 3 of 60 letters (5)
  made it
• Later experiments only achieved 30
• First proposed in a 1929 short story
• Chains by Karinthy Frigyes

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Pretending to be someone else
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Multiple personae and avatars

• Having multiple personalities in the real world
  is considered an illness
• Is it okay in cyberspace?
• Whats the difference?
• Awareness
• Choice of focus
• Second Life

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Exploring Personailty Options

• Get control of your life
• Try new techniques
• Opportunities that you would not otherwise have
• How is this different from lying?
• Pretending that you are someone that you are not

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Internet Addiction

• Is it real?
• What is an addiction?
• Discussions
• Yee
• Internet Addiction Center