Week 14 Cyberculture

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Week 14Cyberculture

• Jude Yew
• jyew_at_umich.edu

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• What is Cyberculture?
• Some definitions
• Why Cyberculture?
• Impact of Cyberculture?

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What is Cyberculture?
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Early definitions of cyberculture

• "Cyber" is derived from "cybernetic".
• That word derives from Greek "kybernetes",
  meaning "To steer or pilot"

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First use of the term cyber
Ours is a world that is both everywhere and
nowhere, but it is not where bodies live -
Declaration of the Independence of cyberspace,
1996
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"The culture arising from the use of computer
networks, as for communication, entertainment,
work, and business - Am. Heritage Dict., 2000
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This cyberculture may be purely an online
culture or it may span both virtual and physical
worlds. This is to say, that cyberculture is a
culture endemic to online communities it is not
just the culture that results from computer use,
but culture that is directly mediated by the
computer. - Wikipedia, 2008
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Access to technology
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Convergence
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2nd sense of convergence
This convergence is shaped top-down by decisions
made in corporate boardrooms by companies wishing
to tap their cross-media ownership and bottom-up
by decisions made in teens bedrooms as they want
to consume the media they want where they want it
and when they want it. - Henry Jenkins, 2006
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Disintermediation
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Ubiquity
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Keitai use
The development of keitai uses and cultures is a
complex alchemy of technological, social,
cultural, economic, and historical factors that
make wholesale transplantation difficult -
Mizuki Ito, 2005
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Techno-social tethering
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Produsers- Axel Bruns, 2006
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Impact of cyberculture

• Identity (link to last weeks lecture on privacy)
• Networked Individualism and the intimate
  stranger
• P2P democracy

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Identity
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Lifecasting
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Networked Individualism- Barry Wellman et al,
2001
The internet lets people have relationships they
could not have any other way - Cohen, 2001
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The strength of weak ties- Granovetter, 1973
Data obtained through manyeyes and graphed
http//www.esv.org/blog/2007/01/mapping.nt.social.
networks
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Six degrees of seperation- Milgram, 1967

• Gives rise to the small world phenomena - Friend
  of a friend (FOAF)

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The Daily Me- Negroponte
Emerging technologies and the growing power of
consumers to filter what they see
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P2P Democracy
The Political Blogosphere and the 2004 U.S.
Election Divided They Blog - Adamic Glance,
2005
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