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Behind the Scenes: Information Flows in Networks
Karine Nahon
[email protected] http://eKarine.org AND http://SoMeLab.net http://twitter.com/karineb
Information Flows and Social Structure
• Reproduction And at the same time: • Transformation
Information flows challenge institutions and fundamentally
transform the structures of institutions and power
relations among stakeholders.
Source: http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/the-pepper-spraying-cop-meme
העברות תקציביות
Empowering open, equal and decentralized platforms, where users have a critical role
Maybe more open and empowered but not equal
• The power law • Homophily • Fragmentation and polarization • Following the herd • Network gatekeeping • Digital Divides
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
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
דפדפנים
95.7%
• 4 blog categories
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
Following the Herd
Network Gatekeeping • Editors 83,000 • Men: 91% • Education: 65% percentile • Who creates content?
Communal Gatekeeping
(The 7th eye, 2011)
(source: Getty Images, FARS, ABC News)
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?
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?
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