DISM20S05 - HackMD

## Digital Identities and Social Media // S05 <img src="https://i.imgur.com/sCpJLX3.png" width=35%> Pablo Velasco // Information Studies // [pablov.me](https://pablov.me) --- ## Plan for the day: * Networks and Sociometrics * Interpretative Ethnographic: braindumps & jottings * BB2 & BB3  ---  The seven bridges of Königsberg problem: is it possible to cross each bridge once and return to the starting point? ----  ### Graph theory Leonhardt Euler solved the problem, and inaugurated the field of graph theory: all points must have an even degree (an even number of connections). ---- Baran (1964) * Structures based on Nodes and Edges * Statistical/Quantitative relations: clusters, centrality, density (see graph glossary below) * Centralized, Decentralized and Distributed <img src="https://gitlab.com/xpablov/data-studies/-/raw/master/DS19/S07/baran.png" width="100%"> ---- <img src="https://i.imgur.com/WI43yHD.jpg" width="80%"> ---- ### ACTIVITY: trace a network (groups 1-4) This can be anything, does not have to be about you or other people 1. Identify place, actors, and activities, if these exist (Spradley ch.1) 2. What are the nodes? What are the edges? What is the *starting point*? How do you measure the weight of the edges? ---- ### Sociometrics * Moreno (1934) * Discover social life through network properties & topologies * Analysis of relational data * Gain insight into social relations and make them available to intervention (Guggenheim 2012) -> participants become observers of their own problems ---- <img src="https://gitlab.com/xpablov/data-studies/-/raw/master/DS19/S07/moreno-rooms-girls.png" width="45%"> <img src="https://gitlab.com/xpablov/data-studies/-/raw/master/DS19/S07/moreno-topological-girls.png" width="40%"> Likes and dislikes in a girl's boarding school (Moreno 1934 in Gießmann 2017) ---- ### Actor Network Theory(ANT) Actor Network Theory emphasizes a "flat" approach to the social, and argues that it can be study as a network consisting of any kind of elements. <img src="http://pablov.me/pres/media/latour-reass.jpg" width="30%"> (Latour 2007; Latour et al 2012) ---- ### ANT * Relations between “technology” and “society” * Heterogeneous networks * 1 level: neither nature and society, nor micro and macro * Actors: computers, text, humans, etc (and mostly the places they "colide") * Properties emerge from networks * No point of departure (but an epistemological point of entry) > More subtle than the notion of system, more historical than the notion of structure, more empirical than the notion of a complexity, the idea of network is the Ariadne's thread of these interwoven stories (Latour 1993) --- ## Hear (7 mins): Invisibilia [Liget](https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/06/01/529876861/an-anthropologist-discovers-the-terrible-emotion-locked-in-a-word) You can take "jottings" ---- 1. Leave notes aside and make a (blind) Braindump (5 mins) answering: *what happened?* 2. Write a small account (10 mins) from your braindump and notes >Researchers should document how these emergent processes and stages unfold rather than attempt to reconstruct them at a later point in light of some final, ultimate interpretation of their meaning (Emerson 2001, 17) --- ## Checking on BB2 1. Analyze the BB2 right after yours (the next post). If yours is the last one, analyze the first 2. Write a small account. Select to focus on description, dialogue, or characterization (Emerson ch.3) Remember to consider Goodall (2003) recommendations for interpretive ethnography: * don't assume an objective distances, politically removed relationship * don't ignore the influence of your personal history, gender, race, ethnicity, age, spiritual beliefs * do not Write in the omniscient 3rd person * be intimate/vulnerable, evocative, narratively interesting, multi-voiced, dailogic **There is no need to share these notes.** --- ## [BB3](https://hackmd.io/@dism20/SyYyGu1UD) <style> .reveal{ font-family:mono; font-size: 25px; } .reveal .censor{ background:black; color:white; } </style>