Social Networks as Information Filters

Social Networks as

Information FiltersLee Bryant, Headshift, June 2009

Introduction:

the affordances of the social web

socialisation of information

aggregation, feeds and flows

trust in loosely joined networks

open info + low cost of collective action

are we building an

“architecture of participation,”

or just more media consumption ?

sharing as a by-product of action

making invisible data visible

rapid feedback is the key to evolution

rapid feedback is the key to evolution

network productivity, not just personal

what does this mean for

how we manage information ?

‘real’ facts and de facto facts

‘real’ facts and de facto facts

‘real’ facts and de facto facts

expertise: individual & distributed models

expertise: individual & distributed models

verification: expert & community models

findability as an alternative to search

(cc) http://www.flickr.com/photos/iconolith/458099966/signals as an alternative to validation

information overload

or filter failure?

The fallacy of codification & storage

weaving a fabric of information, links

the wrong sort of information overload

“Fast-moving”

“Slow-moving”

Intelligence from the wider world; what's happening this week; news that more directly affects me.

recent internal information; long-term exhibitions; scheduled work; staffing and resourcing

phone numbers, emergency procedures, services, platforms

Now

Short term

Medium term

Long term

The latest updates; also the most relevant updates for my work (regardless of time)...

Intelligence from the wider world; what's happening this week; news that more directly affect me....

Recent internal information; staffing and resourcing, policies...

Facilities, branding, senior management, organisational structure, archive, phone numbers, emergency procedures, technical platforms...

Generational Knowledge, market structures, culture,heuristics, orthodoxy, history

info has variable velocity, but tools don’t

we need better filters and radar

ambient awareness, intuition, decisions

our social network ‘places’

social networks as information filter

democratising information:

negotiating language and meaning

http://www.flickr.com/photos/zachklein/10115928/knowledge is a social construct

Polysemy declines

rapidly for new

concepts as dominant

terms emerge

From a lecture on AI by Prof. Luc Steels, Sony CS Lab, Paris: http://www.headshift.com/archives/002386.cfmSemiotic dynamics and robot learning

language, tagging and signals

language, tagging and signals

future for information professionals ?

information networkers, not filing clerks

information networkers, not filing clerksteachers & guides, not gatekeepers

simple summary::

social networks will become

our main information filters;

this will allow us greater control

of our own self-representation

Thanks for listening!

I am lee@headshift.com and live at

http://www.headshift.com

You can find this talk at

http://www.slideshare.net/leebryant

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