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Karine Nahon, Behind the scenes: Information flows in networks
- 1. Behind the Scenes: Information Flows in Networks Karine Nahon karineb@uw.edu http://eKarine.org AND http://SoMeLab.net http://twitter.com/karineb
- 4. Information Flows and Social Structure • Reproduction And at the same time: • Transformation
- 5. Information flows challenge institutions and fundamentally transform the structures of institutions and power relations among stakeholders.
- 14. Empowering open, equal and decentralized platforms, where users have a critical role
- 15. Maybe more open and empowered but not equal
- 16. • The power law • Homophily • Fragmentation and polarization • Following the herd • Network gatekeeping • Digital Divides
- 17. Market Share of Search Engines Search Engines 10/02 1/03 5/04 12/08 12/10 8/11 9/12 3/13 Google 20.1 33 36.8 62.9 84.6 82.8 85.15 67.5 Yahoo 19.6 24 26.6 16.8 6.7 6.6 7.3 12.1 MSN 19.3 19 14.5 9.8 Bing -‐ 3.3 3.8 4 16.7 AOL 13.5 12 12.8 4.1 Baidu -‐ 3.4 4.8 1.65 Ask’s 2.6 72.5 88 90.7 93.6 98 98 98.1 98.9 Sources: Alexa, Netmarketshare, search engine watch
- 18. Worldwide smartphone operaLng system (OS) market share in 2009-‐2015, according to Gartner OS 2009 market share 2010 market share 2011 market share Android 3.9% 22.7% 38.5% BlackBerry 19.9% 16.0% 13.4% iOS 14.4% 15.7% 19.4% Symbian 46.9% 37.6% 19.2% Windows Phone/ Mobile 8.7% 4.2% 5.6% Others 6.1% 3.8% 3.9% Total smartphones sold 172 million 297 million 468 million Source: Gartner (April 2011) 90.5% Source: NetMarketShare םדפדפני 95.7%
- 19. • 4 blog categories
- 20. Homophily and Fragmentation DailyKos Huffington Post Talking Points Memo Firedoglake Crooks And Liars Washington Monthly Pandagon America Blog Five Thirty Eight Digby Feministing Juan Cole Open Left Talk Left Shakespeares Sister Sadly, No! MyDD Ezra Klein Hot Air Gateway Pundit Newsbusters Powerline Blog Ann Althouse Jawa Report Patterico's Pontifications IMAO Red State QandO
- 22. Network Gatekeeping • Editors 83,000 • Men: 91% • Education: 65% percentile • Who creates content?
- 25. Communal Gatekeeping (The 7th eye, 2011)
- 26. (source: Getty Images, FARS, ABC News)
- 28. Some Democratic Illusions • The mass: a mass or a micro? • Big numbers = objective information? • Wisdom of the crowd: does it represent the population? • Does a ‘like’ influence decision? • Openness and participation = equality? • Participation = deliberation?
- 29. More Democratic Illusions • Towards which direction is the herd heading? • Is the individual voice lost being part of the wisdom of the crowd? • Demanding (uncontrollable) transparency – where do we stop? • Endless/Ubiquitous information – but where is the power?
- 30. What Can we do? • Democracy by design • Increasing inclusive participation • Institutionalize the process of transforming participation to decision-making • Transparency-oriented applications • Collaboration: people, civil society, private sector and government