References:
Life "modes" in social media by Fatih Kursat Ozenc and Shelly D. Farnham.
Presented at CHI '11 Proceedings of the 2011 annual conference on Human factors in computing systems.
Author Bios:
Fatih Kursat Ozenc is a professor at Carnegie Mellon University.
Shelly D. Farnham is currently a researcher at Microsoft Research.
Summary:
Hypothesis:
People organize their lives based on various forms of social interaction.
Methods:
The first step was to interview the various participants in the study for two hours each. They were asked to draw out various pictures of various aspects of their social life. This intended to help the users visually represent the way they interact with others and patters were observed.
Results:
Most users drew their life in the form of a 'social meme' map, with the user at the center and various circles enclosing them. They also noted that the closer that someone was to someone the more communication channels existed between them.
Contents:
Here the researchers are studying the different ways that people classify their social lives. The subjects were interviewed and asked to visually represent their social lives, and then commonalities were looked for.
Discussion:
A pretty cool paper, i think social networking is something that needs to be explored. With facebook social networking is kind of the hot thing right now and any advance in that field would affect a lot of people.
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