What? Who Initiate, and Why? “Follow @OfficialAccountOfXXXCompany and repost this post and tag more than two friends. On next Sunday, we will choose five people randomly to send each of them a new released YYY Product, assisting by a third-party lottery platform.” –posted by an official Sina Weibo (a Chinese microblog) account of a certain…
As almost everything in life, even the way in which people interact with social media and internet is deeply influenced by their gender identity. A recent research from Carnegie Mellon University pointed out that masculine topics (i.e. those more often posted by men) receive more comments, especially when posted by women [1]. Now, let’s try…
Since this is my last post on this blog I decided to make it a challenge to myself. I decided that first of all it will be difficult because it will be personal plus it will also be quite different from what I wrote before. Looking back at my work during this class I can’t…
Continuing the discussion about social media, as well as its implications and consequences for the society, I came to think that it is important to discuss a particular case regarding the issue of digital media. Indeed, theoretical perspective and discussions concerning the use of social media cannot be complete without some representative example of social…
by saraskogsberg, Bo Bi and Qi H. We are now at our final step in the process of developing our service, and the time has come to do a user test by the intended target group. In this report we will introduce the reader to how we gathered our empirical data, we will also highlight the methods and the…
After one month of developing our social media application, our team (@zigenculten, @jmasvoulas , @giuliapunktv) finally announced last week that CRABster is ready for field testing. Although not all the functions of our application were ready due to a number of reasons, our team managed to launch the most important pages, present the design concept, and…
In recent years, optimistic discourses about the possibilities of using social media for civic engagement and political action have been very popular, especially after the Arab Spring, in which Twitter is widely believed to have played an important role. Many scholars tend to praise social media for “they can be empowering and politically transformative” [1].…
Hello, we are “Eat & Cook Together” group. Almost a month has passed after our first proposal was published. In this month, we have tried our best to make our idea into practice. And during the process, we gradually know what we want to do and what we can do. So our ideas become clearer…
Last week we (lexlibrator, Milly, sophiedoesmedia, Gong Liang) had the chance to present the alpha version of our prototype ReGame. Already on the spot we received a lot of feedback on our project. Most important were comments on the choices we made according to the formatting of app elements and their functionality. In the end of our process, we didn’t…
As I have covered in several of my previous blogposts, the Internet is rapidly transforming various aspects of our everyday life. It should be evident now to our readers, that the Internet, and especially Web 2.0. technologies like social media, have changed the way we interact with each other, share our inner thoughts and communicate…
In this blogpost we (lexlibrator, Milly, Gong Liang, sophiedoesmedia) would like to present our alpha version of our social media application. After a lot of consideration we can also reveal it’s name: ReGame. The “Re” stands for “Re-visit” the game moments and “Re-living” the game experience. Game stands in focus and has therefore a prominent position in the applications…
by saraskogsberg, Bo Bi and Qi H. Now it’s time to see what we have achieved after a month’s work on our app “Let’s Shop!”. Due to the practical reason that we do not have a programmer, we are not able to implement an up and running service. But, we can proudly say that we have tried our best…
In this blog post I aim to analyze design patterns and structure of YouTube, in order to understand effects on the social behavior among its users. According to the statistics supplied by YouTube, “more than 1 billion unique users visit YouTube each month”. I believe this is evidence to well-designed network structure. Additionally, YouTube’s data…
Data mining is related to machine learning, information retrieval, statistics, databases, and even data visualization. As Geoffrey Barbier,and Huan Liu quoted，data mining is defined as: . . .”data processing using sophisticated data search capabilities and statistical algorithms to discover patterns and correlations in large preexisting databases; a way to discover new meaning in data” [1]…
This blog post is based on an online ethnographic study of an web community where members create an avatar (virtual-self). They can have a house, own a car and those objects are given in the default settings. Moreover, they are expected to develop better (richer) visual appearance. My first observation is that the online community’s name…
Understanding Social Media 