Notes post social-informatics seminar talk
In reply to: https://rhiaro.co.uk/2015/06/what-profile
Notes post social-informatics seminar talk
methodology: iterative, inductive
ResearchGate > Academia.edu
Research in use of avatars
Where the good enough boundary lies for managing? When is it dangerous, when serendipitous. What 'matters'? No perfect model of social management/access control.
Easier to look at different systems doing the same thing in different ways (things of a similar species)
Profiles shaped strongly by the needs of the service providers Problems of their own survival are also played out in this space Difficulties people may have managing profiles are sometimes down to easily fixable poor design things Interests of people fight with interests of service
Github
Definition of ownership
ACNE and other diseases communities on twitter - people create second accounts to participate
"epidemic communication patterns" - Robin Williams