2026 SPE Annual Conference: Catalyst for Exchange
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Saturday, October 19 - 10:00AM to 11:00AM
Kingsley Ballroom - North
Twitter estimates there are over 50 million tweets daily and combined with the 800 million status updates of Facebook users, there is a new level of digital noise. Online over sharing is rampant, creating new social norms and patterns. Clive Thomspon and social scientists use the term ambient awareness to describe this incessant online contact as being "very much like being physically near someone and picking up on his mood through the little things he does-body language, sighs, stray comments-out of the corner of your eye Each little update-each individual bit of social information-is insignificant on its own, even supremely mundane. But taken together, over time, the little snippets coalesce into a surprisingly sophisticated portrait of your friends' and family members' livesthese little Ping Ponging messages [feel] ever more intimate than a phone call." We imagine ourselves as virtual flneurs, and ethnographers of the Internet, exploring cities 140 characters at a time through the lives of others. In Geolocation: Tributes to the Data Stream, we use publicly available embedded geotag information in Twitter updates to track the locations of user posts and make photographs to mark the location in the real world. Each of these photographs is taken on the site of the update and paired with the originating text. Our collaborative work is a means for situating this virtual communication in the physical realm. The photographs anchor and memorialize online data and challenge expectations of privacy in social networks.
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Marni Shindelman
Nate Larson
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