Thank you for the interesting points Carmela. I believe they line up with what most marketing analysist see as the value and power of facebook. Psychology ans Sociology though would view it differently as what cognitive psychologists Cheryl Coyle (Rutgers University) and Heather Vaughn (Columbia University) attests in their work - Social Networking: Communication Revolution or Evolution? For them FB along with other SNS will always be a part of an evolution. danah boyd along with a number of excellent researchers I believe hold this view too. Your article reminded me too of an earlier discussion we had on another forum I initiated "on as world without facebook". Mention was made of the coagulation of facebook and cultural imperialism, which in your work seems to be associated with "superpower". I believe there is: 1) a loose definition of superpower made. 2) loose association too of facebook and the Afghan uprising. Facebook has a dual role: space for message-core content and a service and/or medium. Both serve SNS as an evolution. Although inherently incomplete, the definition of cultural imperialism or "superpower" in global communication as "the hegemonic practice of one culture exporting its values in an inequitable exchange over another" is generally accepted with its connotation of dominance and control (Parkins, Digital utopianism and cultural imperialism in second life. Parkins is a Culture Program Assistant at Creative Commons). I actually originated from the Philippines and part of super power and cultural imperialism we were taught were the colonization years of Spain (333 years), America (45 years) and Japan (almost 3 years during WW2). Interesting too how in 1986 the people power revolution in the Philippines succeeded with the social network of people, combining their national identity and faith, even without FB. As with most SNS, contents of Facebook are user created where they express an identity. If superpower and cultural imperialism be applied to Facebook outright (exccept of course if we mean it in the field of marketing), it might mean too that the contents of facebook are the protagonists in the the concept of superpower or cultural imperialism. It is true likewise that one has and makes the choice to subscribe or not to Facebook and to make the choice to write and respond. On a practical note similarities were drawn in that earlier forum we had on Facebook as a super power or cultural imperalist with and MacDonald, KFC, TGI. Sole focus on these similarities I believe neglects one important difference that must be hightlighted - CONTENTS. McDonalds, KFC and TGI contents are not user created. The advertisment and privacy policy of Facebook might be culturally imperialistic (I believe from 1999 onwards there has been this tendency), but its CONTENTS could not be. On this, perhaps it is best not to totally generalise facebook as a superpower or cultural imperialism as doing so might, as Sturken and Cartwright maintains, make the concept likewise imperialistic. Ok, so Facebook is not "totally a super power or cultural imperialistic", how can we likewise consider it then? Facebook "as a global media understood well by employing superpower and cultural imperialism perspective" may perhaps be a bit limiting its true nature. My research findings is that SNS (Facebook being one) is an agent of symbiotic participatory exchange and rightly so, part of the development of the symbiotic web in web 2.5. What I see as emerging is its application to the fourfold symbiotic relationship natural to our biological world yet communicatively applicable to the future of SNS (facebook), minus the structural and ad framework of course: 1) Mutualism is any relationship between individuals of different species where both individuals derive a benefit. 2) Commensalism describes a relationship between two living organisms where one benefits and the other is not significantly harmed or helped. 3)A parasitic relationship is one in which one member of the association benefits while the other is harmed. 4) Amensalism is the type of symbiotic relationship that exists where one species is inhibited or completely obliterated and one is unaffected. Which stage do you think describes best Facebook currently? Norman Melchor Pena MA Communication Griffith University (Australia) norman.pena@paulus.net -------------------------------------------------- From: "Carmela Baranowska" <Carmela.Baranowska@acu.edu.au> Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2011 8:05 AM To: <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: [Air-L] article for list submission
hi,
Please find a recent article I wrote on 'Facebook is the New Superpower' for The Conversation:
http://theconversation.edu.au/articles/facebook-is-the-new-superpower-894
I would like to submit it to the list. Comments and disagreements welcome and appreciated!
all the best, Carmela Baranowska Lecturer in Media Australian Catholic University Carmela.Baranowska@acu.edu.au ________________________________________ From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of air-l-request@listserv.aoir.org [air-l-request@listserv.aoir.org] Sent: Wednesday, 13 April 2011 8:00 AM To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: Air-L Digest, Vol 81, Issue 11
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1. Open Day WebSciences Master Degree in Paris, May 5th. (Antoine Mazi?res) 2. Representations of the internet in popular culture (Delia Dumitrica)
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Hi all,
For the third year, we are opening applications for the *Master degree in Web Sciences in Paris*. The main purpose of this cursus is to allow students from the fields of sciences, design, humanities to perform interdisciplinary studies/researches on the Web and Internet, from academics, public and private contexts.
All of you are welcome at the *open day: May 5th, 5:30pm*, at the Center of Interdisciplinary Research http://masterwebscience.wordpress.com/2011/04/12/open-day/
This master degree, "Interdisciplinary Approaches of the Web" (in french "Approches Interdisciplinaires du Web", AIW) was built in order to understand how Internet transfrom more and more aspects of our societies, and how to participate to this evolution by building an interdisciplinary point of view. We aim at building a teaching around topics as the modelisation of Internet, interfaces design, services economy, usage sociology, information spreading, e-education. AIW Master, like all courses at CRI, are built on the principle of "formation by doing research". Students from very different disciplines are encouraged to work together and build projects both theoretical and with concrete outputs. In order to give means to its student to realize projects, AIW is in deep relation with Fabelier's prototyping lab ( http://fabelier.org ), hosted at the same place.
If you are a M2 student, you can follow tuesday's seminars (5:30pm-7:30pm) and get 12 university credits (ECTS). If you want to be full-time AIW student, you have to follow the tuesday's seminars and do 3 interships form different disciplines (humanities/sciences/engineering/art) and contexts (research/industry/association/personnal projects). If you just want to come by... you can !
Agenda of the May 5th: - meeting teachers and former students - open seminar (your presentations are welcomed ) - Q&A session - inscriptions - presentation of student club
See you there,
Antoine Mazi?res
Please help us spread this event by forwarding this email. You can also join and share the facebook event : http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=124371250970825 and the related facebook group : http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=36959650917 and retweeting this : http://twitter.com/mazieres/status/57838100356927489
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Message: 2 Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 15:45:02 -0600 (MDT) From: "Delia Dumitrica" <dddumitr@ucalgary.ca> To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] Representations of the internet in popular culture Message-ID: <4ca053f7a445b933e447f6323f69fd9a.squirrel@webmail.ucalgary.ca> Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1
Hello, I'm putting together a course on representations of the internet in popular culture and I was wondering if anyone on this list may have any suggestions for journal articles or book chapters focusing on the portrayal of the internet (or of computer networking) in science fiction movies and novels. Please email me off-list at dddumitr@ucalgary.ca
Thank you.
Delia Dumitrica PhD Student & Sessional Instructor Department of Communication and Culture University of Calgary
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