1. imus
youtube and media matters credited with racheting up the rhetoric over the weekend - imus tepid apology on friday, by monday it was much bigger deal
2. dave
weblogs.com blogs
3. meankids
3. me
firthlist
1. Find my old collective behavior textbook (found it, but it's dated 1962! damn I'm old)
2. Then library
3. Smelser
* Structural conduciveness - things that make or allow certain behaviors possible (e.g. spatial proximity)
* Structural strain - something (inequality, injustice) must strain society
* Generalized belief - explanation; participants have to come to an understanding of what the problem is
* Precipitating factors - spark to ignite the flame
* Mobilization for action - people need to become organized
* Failure of social control - how the authorities react (or don't)
Think about PDF with audio interviews embedded?
- Hil: thrill of the power of the clique (pemb); and fans to back up the power elite
- Remember in reading to see how place figures in, and how that might be represented in the online world
- Need for a scapegoat, by definition someone who is blamed for misfortunes, generally as a way of distracting attention from the real causes. The definition implies deliberate action. Not so in panics? In accusation of meankids, more something to grab onto? Related, so it would do very well.
- Drive to impress leaders, clique
- mk low-grade flavor of workplace mobbing?
Book MOBBING: Emotional Abuse in the American Workplace: mobbing victims are usually "exceptional individuals who demonstrated intelligence, competence, creativity, integrity, accomplishment and dedication"
- Mobbing in animal behavior: Mobbing behaviour has been recorded in a wide range of species, but it is particularly well developed in gulls and terns, while crows are amongst the most frequent mobbers. In addition to flying at the predator and emitting alarm calls, some birds, such as fieldfares and gulls, add to the effectiveness by defaecating or even vomiting on the predator with amazing accuracy... -- Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
- searls: don't have a commons - klaus dahl - denmark, way people treat each other in a public square vs the way people treat each other on blogs and forums - web 2.0 conference example - people in line in store vs people in a car - in europe well-developed sensibility around common places, the public square, grow outward from it unlike US (me: didn't we used to have that, i.e. Indiana courthouse square?)
- hue and cry -- citizens obligated to keep yelling, their duty -- bloggers piling on
- danah boyd - friendster moral panic
- deviancy amplification spiral
The mass media report what they consider to be newsworthy, but the new focus on the issue uncovers hidden or borderline examples which themselves would not have been newsworthy except inasmuch as they confirm the "pattern".
In the next stage, supporters of the theory contend, public concern about crime typically forces the police [sheriff!] and the whole law enforcement system to focus more resources on dealing with the specific deviancy than it warrants.
- Cohen, Stanley. Folk devils and moral panics. London: Mac Gibbon and Kee, 1972. ISBN 0-415-26712-9. - requested in interlibrary loan 4/30
- L and S different types of charismatic leaders? cynics, snarks online. cheerful hopeful types as targets for takedown. john creecy and the rained-on majorettes.
- piling on in football -- how you'd explain to a little kid why we don't do that
- Digg user riot?
- abc news. law prof: anonymity freedom from cultural norms
- Lucifer effect - Philip Zimbardo = book - situational forces (including what I think of as getting swept along) - ordered. Struck when listening to the interview that students playing the role of prison guards in the Stanford experiment so easily went into brutality and sadism. I'd always thought that types of people were attracted to control positions like police, guards, bureaucrats. So, situation trumps predisposition?
- Dig up chat transcript following my post on Cold Fusion. I remember having the feeling that the namecalling was trying to frighten me into shutting up about it. Probably they would not have tried to frighten a guy? I have no doubt the namecallers were guys.
- my attempts to break in spurned. not qualified due to assocations? if you're in that camp you can't by our definition be in this one, or even have a foot in it.
- she offered up the banner, and they took it up
- not sure if misogyny will be part of it, but Opie and Anthony - gives me shivery creeps to know this amuses people - celebrity part doesn't bug me at all - it's the idea of violent sex as a way of putting women in their place when they get too important or uppity. mostly it's underground, but does the guy sitting next to me get a secret chuckle out of it and he's just not saying
- payntr - self backlash, tired of apologizing, went too far? in defense of ad hod. http://listics.com/200705111091 - yeah. in a way it's more honest to call names. when you post about things you don't like done by people you don't like the name calling is implied anyway. parenthetical. like the understood you or silent e.
- u of penn law prof on u of seattle law panel about u.s. attorney matter: think he was quoting a student of the joan of arc case. something about how when values are challenged they get stronger
- ismael reed - how they almost rescued their chief - counterpunch
- role for reason, role for theatre (like dsm change)
- from moodle bashing in facebook thread on moodle social forum: "I agree there is much to be learned by studying this culture, but I don't think we're going to learn very much about students' real attitudes and perceptions, since most of what they're saying on Facebook or MySpace is merely posing for "friends."