Notification norms: a sociological approach to information

1. Notification norms: a sociological approach toinformation

2. Information without people? • Is ‘information’ just ‘data’ without people to interpret, understand, know, use? • No people, no information? • “informing” is complicated– it is subjective and may require complexity to communicate what we think of as ‘knowledge’ Info 203

3. Ryan’s (2006) Approach to A ‘Sociology’ of Information “…individual and collective social actors work to move information around in ways that reflect, establish, maintain, and modify social relations and social categories.” Info 203

4. It is not necessarily a good idea just because technology makes it possible

5. Notification “…in general, we are never isolated possessors of information, and that the dynamics of what we do with information, how we behave as nodes in information networks, are largely socially determined.” ***diffusion, disclosure, information and economic exchange, secrecy, information flow and social structure

6. The Social Organization of Notification • Dimensions of notification contexts: nature of social relationships, content of information • “Who” “When” “How” Info 203

7. The ‘who’ and the ‘when’

8. Medium and Communication • Warm/cold • expensive/cheap • fast/slow • Personal/impersonal… Info 203

9. Ecology of the Information Order • Knowledge as Power? • Surveillance • Other Information Asymmetries Info 203