Idea #1

Topic

Social Life of Information

Rationale

Social network, one of the phenomenon of the net-generation. With the technology of Web 2.0, we are able to access to web applications which provide interactive information sharing, user-centered design, dynamic content, rich media technology, power decentralisation and much more. Some of the top social network sites include Facebook, MySpace, Twitter & Friendster. I would like to look more further into Facebook and Twitter. (the current social trend)

Good things about social network are users can bond and stay connected with their friends and family, share photos, videos and personal information and often with unknown stranger too. With the help of social sites, access to others information are much easier and effortless. Are they all the information that you want? Who are those social contributor? You might not even know them at all. Twitter, millions of status updates are posted every day by users. They rant about their daily life, love life, pet's life even notify you if they going for a loo. Most of them are "overshadowed by the dazzling claims about new technology" (The Social Life of Information by John Seely Brown, Paul Duguid)

You will be surprise by the amount of information they disclose.

Title

TMI, Too much information

Proposal

Explore on how social networking like in real space using ubiquitous technology around public spaces (QR code maybe). At the main station, gimmick of the social network place, users can update their status, personal information etc. Then the data will be updated to the symbol (QRcode) and random people in the public can access to the information easily. This is to show how easily random people in public able to access to your information effortlessly.

Problem statement

- In this information driven time, not all information are the information we needed.

- Why people getting obsess with social network (yes facebook, twitter) .

- They do not know the privacy definition in social network.

- Most of them have narcissistic fascination with self-display.

Research objectives

- To create social awareness of the creation of social networking and their impact on our society.

- To reveal human’s behavior of obsession and fascination over knowing other individual’s privacy matters because of the invisibility

- Some people might like the spotlight, some might not like being observe. Narcissisms.

References

http://www.accessproject.net/