In the latest Social Media Clarity podcast, hosts Randy Farmer (@frandallfarmer) and Scott Moore (@scottmoore) and I (@marc_smith) interview Howard Rheingold (@hrheingold) about his work on network literacy.
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This week features hosts Randy Farmer (@frandallfarmer) and Scott Moore (@scottmoore) interviewing danah boyd (@zephoria) about her book It’s Complicated: the social lives of networked teens, coming out February 24th and available for preorder now.
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The latest episode of the Social Media Clarity podcast is now available! This week features a discussion among the hosts Randy Farmer (@frandallfarmer), Scott Moore (@scottmoore) and I (@marc_smith) about the promise and pitfalls of selective sharing.
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Ratings, Reputation and Incentive Design
The latest episode of the Social Media Clarity podcast features an interview with Dr. Paul Resnick from the University of Michigan. Dr. Resnick is a leading researcher in incentive based design – the study and development of tools like recommender and reputation systems. In this discussion we hear about what may be the impending limits of crowdsourcing: when the long tail is poisoned.
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In the latest episode of the Social Media Clarity podcast host Randy Farmer tells an industry story about the inevitability of end users creating content that offends someone. The post was originally on Randy’s blog at http://habitatchronicles.com/ and describes the effort to create a safe social space that would make offensive content creation all but impossible. He imagines a universal law of content creation: users will find a way. The result is “BlockChat” – a hypothetical minimal social media system designed in the hope of removing all objectionable content from the system, which inevitably fails. Randy Farmer’s story is about community moderation issues for early kid-centric virtual worlds but it applies to any collection of content and people. He read’s from his 2007 Habitat Chronicles blog post: The Untold History of Toontown’s SpeedChat (or BlockChat(tm) from Disney finally arrives).
Disney’s Hercworld, Toontown, and BlockChat(tm) – S01E08
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The 7th episode of the Social Media Clarity podcast is now out.
With big announcements from the game console companies, Live Streaming has been thrust into the mainstream. Join us as we discuss the phenomenon with a leading researcher and a full-time streamer.
We have two interviews this week: Author & Researcher T.L. Taylor and Live Streamer Jeffrey Shih aka Trumpsc on twitch.tv
Live-streaming research
Raising the Stakes: E-Sports and the Professionalization of Computer Gaming
Play Between Worlds: Exploring Online Game Culture
Hearthstone Arena with Trump – Welcome to Value Town!
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Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft
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The origin of Avatars, MMOs, and Freemium – S01E06
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An interview with Chip Morningstar (and podcast hosts: Randy Farmer and Scott Moore) who created and ran the first MMOs/Virtual Worlds. This segment focuses on the emergent social phenomenon encountered the first time people used avatars with virtual currency, and artificial scarcity.
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The 5th episode of the Social Media Clarity Podcast is now out:
Crowdsourcing, Volunteers, and the Sharing Economy
In this episode host Randy Farmer (@frandallfarmer) and I talk with new co-host Scott Moore (@scottmoore) about the promise and pitfalls of crowdsourcing.
We conclude that pixels, not pennies, may be the best currency to create incentives to create quality content.
Episode 4 of the Social Media Clarity podcast has just been released.
In this episode host Randy Farmer (@frandallfarmer) and I talk about how to think about social media influence in terms of a social network. Networks can be measured and a variety of patterns can be found in them that indicate the role or pattern of connections a person has.
We talk about why influence is not a single attribute, it is a more complex function of a person’s position within a web of relationships.
People play different roles in social media networks, we talk about three: hubs, bridges and islands. Each plays a different role in a social media network. Each has a different kind of influence.
Once these different roles are measured, people can be ranked in terms of their similarity to one or the other pattern. Highly ranked people can be influential” in terms of their different locations in a network.
In a related blog post, I suggest possible strategies for using network insights to drive a social media campaign: identify key people and their content to guide targeted relationship building. See:
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The Social Media Clarity Podcast has just released a new episode:
This is the “Real Names for Social Order?” episode, featuring guest sociologist: Dr. Bernie Hogan (@blurky) from the Oxford Internet Institute speaking with host Randy Farmer (@frandallfarmer) along with me & Bryce Glass (@bryceglass).
Building on the second episode which focused on the changes at the Huffington Post’s comment posting policy, in episode 3 we talk with Bernie Hogan who explains why sociologists are concerned by “context collapse” – the loss of the ability to be different people for different people – caused by social media. Sociological research suggests this is not a positive thing because humans have always maintained different roles for different groups of people and not all roles are commensurate. While time and place once kept separate roles separate, today the net makes any interaction into every interaction.
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