A notícia que pulsa na rede

Redes sociais isolam as pessoas?

Nova pesquisa do Pew Internet Research mostra que novos desafio teme que o uso de novas tecnologias têm contribuído para aumentar, a longo prazo, o isolamento social nos Estados Unidos.

O que a pesquisa mostra:

"The size of people's discussion networks -- those with whom people discuss important matters -- is 12% larger amongst mobile phone users, 9% larger for those who share photos online, and 9% bigger for those who use instant messaging.

The diversity of people's core networks -- their closest and most significant confidants -- tends to be 25% larger for mobile phone users, 15% larger for basic internet users, and even larger for frequent internet users, those who use instant messaging, and those who share digital photos online."

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“Digitization of media collections, the development of Web 2.0 and the rapid growth of social media have created unique opportunities to study social and cultural processes in new ways,” said principal investigator Lev Manovich, who directs the Software Studies Initiative.

“For the first time in human history, we have access to unprecedented amounts of data about people’s cultural behavior and preferences as well as cultural assets in digital form. This grant guarantees that we’ll be able to process that data and extract real meaning from all of that information.”

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Hypertext 2009 - Call for papers

Call for papers

"Hypertext 2009 will feature papers, tutorials, and demos in all areas of hypertext, hypermedia, and social networks, including but not limited to traditional areas related to hypertexts and the Web, as well as emerging linking technologies and analytical frameworks, such as adaptive hypermedia, recommender systems, and complex networks models.

The attendees of Hypertext 2009 will also have a chance to experiment with applications mixing real-world data and on-line data. We will deploy active RFID tags in the badges of volunteers and run a data collection platform tracking the real-time relations of physical proximity between the attendees. The data collection and visualization systems will be provided by the SocioPatterns project and will expose API methods that allow developers to mash up real-world links between the attendees with other types of linking information from the Web.

Hypertext 2009 will be held from June 29th to July 1st at the Villa Gualino Convention Centre, on the hills overlooking Torino.

Plan to attend Hypertext 2009 in Torino, after the next User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization (UMAP) conference in Trento and the next International Workshop and Conference on Network Science (NetSci) in Venice."

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