Panel Name: How
Social Are Social Networks?
Chair: Jakub Macek,
Masaryk University, Czech Republic
Speakers:
Filip Láb
(Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic)
Jānis Buholcs (University of Latvia)
Andrea Průchová (Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic)
Zoltan Gayer (Communication Institute BKF, Hungary)
Magdalena
Zdrodowska (Jagiellonian University, Poland)
New Media. This was the main topic of the
panel. With the revolution of social media, society must face new challenges
and find a new way how to deal with the creation of new social sphere. First
speaker, Filip Láb in his paper Photography in the Era of Social Networks focused on changing phenomenom of
photography. Photography had been stable medium for over 170 years, with
traditional structure and features as unity of space and time and with the main
role of frame. Photography used to be a window through which we could see the
reality. “With the spread of virtual
reality, here comes new kind of photography. No more there is a human autor,
the photos are taken my automatic devices,” said Láb. He argues that with
such project as a Google street view or 360 cities, the traditional features
are ruined. “There is no longer unity of
time and space, because what we see as a single picture is picture composed of
thousands of photographs, where the one from left corner was taken six days
after the photo in right corner,” comments Láb. Also the frame is no longer
frame as a bounder. The frame is the border of electronic device on which the
photography is projected.
The next speaker, Andrea Průchová, focused her part The portrait photography perception within virtual reality on the changing perception of portrait photography. “With the creation of virtual photography, we must change our view on portrait photography,” she claims. In the past, the portrait photography was regarded as a political agent, showing all the details, nature and chemicals between person and photographer. But with virtual photography, there is no longer this kond of connection. Virtual portrait is an open form, therefore we must change our view on its nature.
Third speaker, Jānis Buholcs, focused his speech Trust and self-disclosure implications on online sociability on social disclosure on social networks. He stated that basically, people are more free to open up in cyber space. Also this self disclosure on social networks brings new risks. “You don´t know, who is the audience. You don´t know, how they react,” said Buholcs. Also the important is blurring of private and public space. “It´s quite hard to distinguish who have the access to the information,” stated Buholcs. With the social network here comes the term online intimacy, but not in romantic terms, but in more wider and general term. Based on online survey, Buholcs stated that people, who share more intimate and emotional issues are more popular than these that do not. Online trust and self-disclosure are linked with positive social outcomes. Also the user are aware of the risks and they are willing to risk in order to establish new relationships and being more popular means more risks.
The next speaker, Zoltan Gayer, focused his paper on data security and awareness on Facebook (Data security, data awareness on social networks). He created fake Facebook profiles, each with unique features (beautiful girl with lots of pictures, average guy, person with no information at all). After that, he and his team tried to gather about 6OO Facebook friends. Mos of the people accepted the friends invitations without question. Also the beautiful girl get the most accepted invitations. Also profiles with showing the wall get more accepted than profiles without showing it. Most of the people show their wall but hide their personal information and friends. As a conclusion Gayer stated that about 47% of users are fully opened to public, 31% are opened in some way and the rest is hiding everything.
The last speaker Magdalena Zdrodowska in her part The Network Deaf, New Media Platforms as a New Media Sphere for the Deaf.talked about the deaf and usage of social networks. “Deaf in Poland are not strong enough to make their own public picture in real life, so the social media offers a great change for them to represent themselves,” stated Zdrodowska. Deaf feel surrounded by hearing people and they don´t have a big chance to meet other deaf people in real life. So they use social networks to create their own community, to gain the visibility and to balance the inequality.
The next speaker, Andrea Průchová, focused her part The portrait photography perception within virtual reality on the changing perception of portrait photography. “With the creation of virtual photography, we must change our view on portrait photography,” she claims. In the past, the portrait photography was regarded as a political agent, showing all the details, nature and chemicals between person and photographer. But with virtual photography, there is no longer this kond of connection. Virtual portrait is an open form, therefore we must change our view on its nature.
Third speaker, Jānis Buholcs, focused his speech Trust and self-disclosure implications on online sociability on social disclosure on social networks. He stated that basically, people are more free to open up in cyber space. Also this self disclosure on social networks brings new risks. “You don´t know, who is the audience. You don´t know, how they react,” said Buholcs. Also the important is blurring of private and public space. “It´s quite hard to distinguish who have the access to the information,” stated Buholcs. With the social network here comes the term online intimacy, but not in romantic terms, but in more wider and general term. Based on online survey, Buholcs stated that people, who share more intimate and emotional issues are more popular than these that do not. Online trust and self-disclosure are linked with positive social outcomes. Also the user are aware of the risks and they are willing to risk in order to establish new relationships and being more popular means more risks.
The next speaker, Zoltan Gayer, focused his paper on data security and awareness on Facebook (Data security, data awareness on social networks). He created fake Facebook profiles, each with unique features (beautiful girl with lots of pictures, average guy, person with no information at all). After that, he and his team tried to gather about 6OO Facebook friends. Mos of the people accepted the friends invitations without question. Also the beautiful girl get the most accepted invitations. Also profiles with showing the wall get more accepted than profiles without showing it. Most of the people show their wall but hide their personal information and friends. As a conclusion Gayer stated that about 47% of users are fully opened to public, 31% are opened in some way and the rest is hiding everything.
The last speaker Magdalena Zdrodowska in her part The Network Deaf, New Media Platforms as a New Media Sphere for the Deaf.talked about the deaf and usage of social networks. “Deaf in Poland are not strong enough to make their own public picture in real life, so the social media offers a great change for them to represent themselves,” stated Zdrodowska. Deaf feel surrounded by hearing people and they don´t have a big chance to meet other deaf people in real life. So they use social networks to create their own community, to gain the visibility and to balance the inequality.
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