Social Networks as Information Filters Lee Bryant, Headshift, June 2009
Oct 17, 2014
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 [email protected] and live at
http://www.headshift.com
You can find this talk at
http://www.slideshare.net/leebryant
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