Local folks: Paul Jones will give an interesting talk Tomorrow at UNC’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication. I was just reviewing his slides, and it looks like an interesting talk.
Who: Prof. Paul Jones, UNC-Chapel Hill
Where: Room 283, 2nd floor, Carroll Hall, UNC-Chapel Hill
When:Thursday March 26, at 2 pm
What: Changing Communities Inside the Media GapAbstract: We know that social networking software is creating new spaces for discourse and interaction. We see SNS forming the social lives and attitudes of our children and to some extent ourselves.
How did this come about? Certainly not overnight and not unnoticed by scholars and technologists.
In 1980, Tetsura Tomito noticed a media gap that he felt will soon be filled by new communications technologies. At the same time, work in the areas of social capital, friendship networks, brain scans (fMRI) and conceptions of community began to grapple with the changes within Tomito’s media gap.
This talk will look at selected attempts to understand how communities are constructed and what changes have already been noticed in these converging areas of research.
You are invited to read, edit and comment on the slides by going to GDocs here: http://tinyurl.com/JOMC-March-26 and during the presentation, you are invited to bring your backchannel discussion to the front by joining a gTalk commentary at the same address.
You’ll also want to mark your calendars, as next week’s speaker is Prof. Daniel Solove, noted privacy expert and author of The Future of Reputation, The Digital Person, and Understanding Privacy.
Fred Stutzman is a doctoral student, researcher and teaching fellow at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's School of Information and Library Science. He studies how people use social media.
