Network of Excellence in Internet Science Network of Excellence in Internet Science (EINS) 2 nd REVIEW Brussels, 4-5 February 2014 FP7-ICT EINS WP 6 Virtual Communities Chris Marsden (SUSSEX)

2nd EINS Review, Brussels, 4-5 February 2014 WP6 Vision  The history of Internet-based communication is also a history of the rise of virtual communities,  tied into the geographic penetration of access to the Internet,  creating a symbiosis between online and offline experiences.  Our strong working assumption is that virtual communities typically arise from, and respond to, offline communities.  WP6 attempts to further develop interdisciplinary research,  to bridge successfully between disciplines in a manner which enriches both quantitative and qualitative method,  while explicitly acknowledging the normative dimension of our work.  our further work packages will take this work forward. WP6

2nd EINS Review, Brussels, 4-5 February 2014 JRA6 Achievements  Substantial workshops/seminars (D6.3.1) inc. Internal to JRA6: OXF, BXL, Munich Within EINS: Co-chair 1 st ICIS; JRA4/SEA2 UN IGF & LSE With external partners WebSci (JRA3) All to be expanded in 2014: Planning for JRA6 workshop  Mobility increased rapidly in 2013:  Marsden to MIT/Wharton/Harvard; Mantelero (NEXA) to OXF; Antoniadis (ETH) to CAM; Arnaboldi (IIR) OXF; Prandini (UNIBO) to OXF; Pezzoni (affiliate Pisa), IIT-CNR to CAM  Delivered D6.1, systematized heterogeneous body of interdisciplinary knowledge sociology, media/communication, evolutionary neuroscience, economics, psychology, regulatory theory. Cataloguing of case studies continues: 12 total WP6

2nd EINS Review, Brussels, 4-5 February 2014 Example of Co-working in Practice  IIR mobility visit to OXF Q  Publication at top-ranking conference:  Arnaboldi, Conti, Passarella, Dunbar  “Dynamics of Personal Social Relationships in Online Social Networks: a Study on Twitter”  ACM Conference on Online Social Networks (ACM COSN 2013), Boston, MA, 7-8 Oct 2013 Comp sci, evolutionary neuroscience combination WP 6

2nd EINS Review, Brussels, 4-5 February 2014 Links with other activities  Strong EINS cooperation with  JRA5 (privacy/trust in social networks) & JRA4 (regulation/standards in virtual communities)  Open Call activities corresponding to JRA6 1. COMPARE [LSE, ETH] 2. REVITAL: Real and Virtual Social Interactions: Crossroads and Reciprocities 3. Foundations for Collective Awareness Platforms (NKUA) 4. CONTROPEDIA [Barcelona Media] 5. Cross-disciplinary Participation in Open Source Communities  FP7 SCAMPI project with JRA6/other EINS partners: WP6

2nd EINS Review, Brussels, 4-5 February 2014 JRA6 Challenges: Input to Internet Science Roadmap  Multistakeholder governance of the Internet is an example of an area in which qualitative-quantitative virtual community interaction needs measuring.  metrics and methods to measure the impact of the multistakeholder approach in Internet governance  variations on multistakeholderism effect on standard and policy making  This requires substantial collaboration with  other JRAs, notably JRA1/2/3/4/5,  partners funded through the ‘Open Calls’ in 2013,  other funded parties such as the CAPS programme,  Amongst others… WP6

2nd EINS Review, Brussels, 4-5 February 2014 Next Steps  Template for case studies – see next section  Continue dissemination via papers etc.  Conference presentations  Workshop 2014  Work towards D6.2 in M36 WP6

2nd EINS Review, Brussels, 4-5 February 2014 Progress in draft case studies 1. Civic Women’s Rights Platform (Pavan/NEXA) 2. Take Back the Tech! (Pavan/NEXA) 3. Online party politics - Pirate Party (Ciurcine/NEXA) 4. Local Twitter interaction with local administration/political use (NEXA) 5. Trusting ‘Bouwinfo forum’ (Talboom/iMinds) 6. Properties of users social networks (Passarella/IIT) 7. Foursquare Communities (McMillan, MLS) 8. Hybrid On/Offline Communities NetHood (Panayotis/ETH) 9. Community: ‘Real’ and ‘Virtual’ in a Rural Village (Rouncefield/LANC) 10. Integrating Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis (David-Barrett/OXF) 11. Reg. for Large-Scale Virtual Communities (Marsden/SUSS) 12. Virtual communities of vehicular nodes (Karaliopoulos/NKUA) WP6

2nd EINS Review, Brussels, 4-5 February 2014 JRA6 Workshop 2014 Option (subject to approval by Exec Board):  26 th HBES  Human Behaviour and Evolution of Society:  Natal, July 30-Aug  Robin Dunbar has agreed to keynote  Highly interdisciplinary – excellent opportunity  Organisers have agreed in principle to include conference on programme WP6

2nd EINS Review, Brussels, 4-5 February 2014 Conclusions  Year 2 increase in progress compared to Year 1  Very substantial contribution to other WP activities (JRA3/4/5/SEA2) – JRA6 workshop in Year 3  All partners engaged online and offline  Mobility visits, OXF, BXL and Munich meetings  Publications inc. substantial D6.1 and many co-authored publications between JRA6 partners (and others)  TCLR Resource reallocated to NEXA to increase junior/female researcher input  12 case studies + 5 Open Call projects to analyze contribution to D6.2 (M36) WP6

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2nd EINS Review, Brussels, 4-5 February 2014 Foundations for Collective Awareness Platforms (NKUA)  Systematically explore different dimensions market, social- and cognitive dimensions implications for design user participation  Characterization/classification of CAPs, end user participation incentives, sometimes monetary and more often non-monetary, value of private information shared in platform vulnerability to free riders  Novel modelling ideas/design experiments  quantitatively capture CAPs attributes.  Contributes to JRA1/6, interacts with JRA5/7

2nd EINS Review, Brussels, 4-5 February 2014 COMPARE [LSE, ETH]  COMPARE network research & practitioners  self-organization of sociotechnical and economic systems in online/offline contexts.  1) Learn about building the future Internet from real-life experiences of self-organization?  2) ICTs facilitate self-organization consistently with local values and agreed upon objectives?  Complementary currency (SARDEX)  Cooperative housing/eco-village (INURA) Internal rules and structure, scale, ICT, effect of current economic crisis on proliferation. WP TITLE

2nd EINS Review, Brussels, 4-5 February 2014 REVITAL : Real and Virtual Social Interactions: Crossroads and Reciprocities  Research on cross-discipline methodologies  analysing emotional information extracted from people's virtual and real social life.  Methodology: monitor/analyse activity patterns  affective real/virtual social interactions  Prototype for innovative services built on the basis of project’s conclusions and results. Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Informatics University of Crete, Psychology Department WP TITLE

2nd EINS Review, Brussels, 4-5 February 2014 Cross-disciplinary Participation in Open Source Communities LSE  Open Source (OS) development communities behave differently practices, goals, capacity utilisation, innovative outputs  Understanding the foundations of  cross-disciplinary collaboration/knowledge production; sustainable open code development.  Research methodology:  large open data repositories and the micro- histories of OS communities: social dynamics of members’ interactions over time.  visualization with qualitative research WP TITLE

2nd EINS Review, Brussels, 4-5 February 2014 EDEKO Environmental Drivers-Details- Enforcement-Key Actors-Outcomes 1.Environmental Drivers:  Policy environment, social impact of adoption 2.Design of that community’s solutions: 2. Affordances, norms, code, other 3. Enforcement of community standards  by authors, users and developers,  role of governments in attempting to regulate communities in the public interest. 3.Key actors: stakeholders  particularly explore role of bottom-up community WP TITLE