You may have noticed from that desperate plinking of your email client that Facebook is taking over the world. The invasion of Denmark started for real, relatively late, around October of this year.
I wrote a little [...]]]>

Facebook, originally uploaded by Laughing Squid.

You may have noticed from that desperate plinking of your email client that Facebook is taking over the world. The invasion of Denmark started for real, relatively late, around October of this year.
I wrote a little analysis of the phenomenon for the newspaper Politiken a few weeks ago. If your Danish skills are up to it, you can read it.

The point, in essence, is that I see four main motivations for using Facebook:

1) Social necessity: You want to be where your friends are
2) Identity management: Being able to construct a self image, with great control and many options, is appealing
3) Worried curiosity: Who knows, something very important might be happening in there
4) Practical help: Keeping track of friends and weak ties through Facebook is simply practical

Of course, this list leaves out a factor: Hanging out on Facebook is simply entertaining (as Malouette mentions.). It is a constant cocktail party (although one with too little hard liqueur and too many zombies) and members of homo sapiens, as a rule, enjoy being social. Of course, to get all long-haired (and to protect my little list from criticism) one could argue that “fun” is a meta-factor. Using Facebook is “fun” because it satisfies “needs” such as the ones in my list.

Comments, questions and mad outbursts are welcome as always.

Lignende indlæg:

Facebook: Vi er blevet hypersociale (18/11/2007)

Politiken-analyse om Websitets Snarlige Død (04/05/2009)

Test dig selv: Er du voksen? (22/03/2012)

Game bibliography goes Wiki (15/12/2006)

Talk on user-generated content in virtual worlds (27/11/2008)

moz-screenshot-4.jpg, originally uploaded by counter202.

New numbers from Technorati out. The number of blogs tracked now doubles every 236 days. 55% of the blogs tracked have been active within the last 3 months.

See Sifry’s Alerts
Via Kollaborativ

Lignende indlæg: Facebook [...]]]>

moz-screenshot-4.jpg, originally uploaded by counter202.

New numbers from Technorati out. The number of blogs tracked now doubles every 236 days. 55% of the blogs tracked have been active within the last 3 months.

See Sifry’s Alerts
Via Kollaborativ

Lignende indlæg:

Facebook is upon us (11/12/2007)

The active 1% (20/07/2006)

Anmeldelse af Clay Shirkys “Cognitive Surplus” (26/07/2010)

De virtuelle verdener er fremtidens internet!!! (04/07/2010)

Sitecore – en anmeldelse (17/08/2010)

Lignende indlæg: Technically different (11/05/2005)

Trackback problem (28/06/2005)

The active 1% (20/07/2006)

State of the Blogosphere: Explosive (16/11/2006)

Facebook is upon us (11/12/2007)

It’s an emerging rule of thumb that suggests that if you get a group of
100 people online then one will create content, 10 will “interact” with
it (commenting or offering improvements) and the other 89 will just
view it.

That’s very fine and interesting, [...]]]> Writes Charles Authur of The Guardian:

It’s an emerging rule of thumb that suggests that if you get a group of
100 people online then one will create content, 10 will “interact” with
it (commenting or offering improvements) and the other 89 will just
view it.

That’s very fine and interesting, of course. But does anyone know of a credible analysis of motivations for contributing? What makes those 1% tick? What incentives do they face which the silent majority do not?

Via Kollaborativ

Lignende indlæg:

Facebook is upon us (11/12/2007)

State of the Blogosphere: Explosive (16/11/2006)

Low bandwidth still rules: SMS messages sent in Denmark (17/10/2006)

DAC calls for papers (14/02/2005)

As we may watch (28/09/2006)

If you wish to contribute to the site – in the [...]]]>

I’m tweaking WordPress to work as a CMS for www.game-research.com. Updating the old thing has been just too difficult – and so nothing will stand in the way of new content (of which various things are planned).

If you wish to contribute to the site – in the form of a book review etc. – let me know.
The new version is visible at www.game-research.com/2.

Comments? Suggestions? (Put ‘em here).

Lignende indlæg:

Game Research summit at ITU, 6 December (01/12/2006)

New article on videogames and economic game theory (28/12/2006)

Game positions offered (09/02/2007)

Game Lecture at ITU tomorrow: Can you make them cry without tearing your hair out? (06/06/2007)

Game bibliography goes Wiki (15/12/2006)

Seems I can send but not receive (ingoing trackbacks don’t show up in the [...]]]> I’m geeky enough to not accept that features don’t work. Such things are personal failures.
But I’ll be damned if I can figure out how to show trackbacks here on this blog (running the Kubrick WordPress default theme). Any ideas?

Seems I can send but not receive (ingoing trackbacks don’t show up in the database either).

Thanks.

Lignende indlæg:

Technically different (11/05/2005)

Game Research 2.0 (work in progress) (17/05/2006)

New statistics problem (23/05/2006)

Post-aesthetics (17/10/2005)

Total Spam Caught: 4016 (average karma: -592.7) (26/09/2006)

[30-09-2008] The Meaning of Method: Numbers and their (mis)use. Guest lecture, Advanced Game Theory, ITU.

[29-04-2008] Computerspilkultur. Gæsteforelæsning, Digital Kultur, ITU.

[15-04-2008] Introduktion til WordPress.

[April 2008] Skrift/billed-kommunikation i nye medier (workshop). Kommunikation, Roskilde Universitetscenter

[Feb 2008] Netmedia workshop. Communication [...]]]> Being an incomplete collection of presentation slides and such things

[30-09-2008] The Meaning of Method: Numbers and their (mis)use. Guest lecture, Advanced Game Theory, ITU.

[29-04-2008] Computerspilkultur. Gæsteforelæsning, Digital Kultur, ITU.

[15-04-2008] Introduktion til WordPress.

[April 2008] Skrift/billed-kommunikation i nye medier (workshop). Kommunikation, Roskilde Universitetscenter

[Feb 2008] Netmedia workshop. Communication studies, Roskilde University.

[29-02-2008] Akademisk Retorik. Guest lecture, Digital Retorik, ITU.

[15-01-2008] Mål og Retning: Computerspilleres adfærd. Guest lecture, Knowledge Lab, SDU.

[30-10-2007] Computerspilkultur. Guest lecture (Digital Kultur), ITU.

[25-09-2007] Goals, Reason, and Dangerous Things. Guest lecture (Advanced Game Theory), ITU.

[05-09-2007] A Practical Guide to Winning and Losing. Game Lecture, ITU.

[24-08-2007] DDK-velkomst ved linieleder. ITU.

[29-05-2007] Børn, unge og computerspil. Ungdomsringen, Rebild.

[08-05-2007] Virtuelle Verdener. Diginet Futureclass, DR.

[02-2007] Kunsten at skrive speciale på DKM/MMT. ITU.

[29-01-2007] Web 2.0 på 15 minutter. ITU.

[26-01-2007] DDK-velkomst ved linieleder. ITU.

[07-12-2006] Plans and Purposes (PhD defense). ITU.

[31-10-2006] Åbent hus: DDK-præsentation. ITU.

[18-04-2006] I Think That You Think That I Think. Game Analysis course, ITU.

[10-2005] The Aesthetics of Antagonism. Aesthetics of Play Conference, Bergen, Norway, 2005.

[09-2005] Agreeing to Disagree – Pregame Interaction and the Issue of Community. ICEC 2005 conference, Sanda-Kobe, Japan, 2005.

[17-06-2005] The Problem of Other Players. DIGRA 2005.

[13-05-2005] The Rationality Engine. ITU.

[12-05-2005] Computerspillet – nu da panikken har lagt sig. Herlev Bibliotek.

[25-04-2005] Spildesign og udvikling. Sam-data.

[25-11-2004] Computerspil og vold – hvad var egentlig spørgsmålet?. “Spillets verden”, Panum-Instituttet.

[11-11-2004] Games, Peacocks, and the Theory of Conflict. “To Kill or not to Kill – and other presentations on computer games research”, KUA.

[12-11-2003] Forskningen i børn, unge og computerspil. Multimedieforeningen.

[01-11-2003] Computerspillets Fremtid. Datalogforeningen.

[28-9-2003] The Benevolent Puppeteer. KUA.

[9-9-2003] Computerspil – Æstetik, kultur og forretning. Århus Købmandsskole.

[01-2003] Gode og onde spillere. ITU.

[23-01-2003] Tillidens Arkitektur. SIGCHI.

[12-09-2002] Computerspildesign i perspektiv. Århus Købmandsskole.

[08-08-2002] Computerspillets form og fremtid.

[22-05-2002] Børn i Cyberspace. Skovshoved Skole.

[13-02-2002] Computerspillets arkitektur. Københavns Tekniske Skole.

[02-11-2001] Kyniske fællesskaber. Framfab.

[06-12-2000] Dragen på loftet. Københavns Tekniske Skole.

[14-09-2000] Den digitale Leg.

Lignende indlæg:

Advanced Game Theory guest lecture slides (25/09/2007)

Spil som kunst – slides fra Askov Højskole (02/09/2011)

Post-aesthetics (17/10/2005)

Game seminar Friday next week (04/11/2004)

Norwegian Aesthetics (12/10/2005)