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The science of fanboyism research
Cyril Kowaliski 03/14/13 (I like it because I picked it because I liked it.)
by Cyril Kowaliski — 9:35 PM on July 14, 2011 on alleged study by Jack Brehm in the 1950s See PDF
Trends:   Audience to Participants,Critical Journalism to Normalized Promotion

Facebook users unwittingly revealing intimate secrets
UofCambridge 03/13/13 (You're a gay, overweight left-wing Republican. And you 'Like' it. )
Or so it seems.
Trends:   Privacy is a feeling,Audience to Participants,Anonymous (private) to Profiled (public)

zzz
NationalAcademyofScences 03/11/13 ()

Facebook 'likes' predict personality
NationalAcademyofScences 03/11/13 (Will users 'like' the way they are being watched?)

Facebook Changes Outfoxed Users' Privacy Concerns
CarnagieMellonU 03/07/13 (What consumers think about privacy and how they behave on Facebook are different things.)
Realizing this, Facebook employed game theory to get their way.
Trends:   Solo to Swarm,Privacy is a feeling,Audience to Participants,Anonymous (private) to Profiled (public),Property Rights vs. Human Rights

The Secret Lives of Liberals and Conservatives
PoliticalPsycological 02/28/13 (The Secret Lives of Liberals and Conservatives: Personality Pro?les, Interaction Styles, and the Things They Leave Behind. (dd: Liberals and conservatives are different because they are different, psychologically. This is the honey that puts the "be" in "behavior.")
Although skeptics continue to doubt that most people are “ideological,” evidence suggests that meaningful left-right differences do exist and that they may be rooted in basic personality dispositions, that is, relatively stable individual differences in psychological needs, motives, and orientations toward the world. Seventy-?ve years of theory and research on personality and political orientation has produced a long list of dispositions, traits, and behaviors. Applying a theory of ideology as motivated social cognition and a “Big Five” framework, we ?nd that two traits, Openness to New Experiences and Conscientiousness, parsimoniously capture many of the ways in which individual differences underlying political orientation have been conceptualized. In three studies we investigate the relationship between personality and political orientation using multiple domains and measurement techniques, including: self-reported personality assessment; nonverbal behavior in the context of social interaction; and personal possessions and the characteristics of living and working spaces. We obtained consistent and converging evidence that personality differences between liberals and conservatives are robust, replicable, and behaviorally signi?cant, especially with respect to social (vs. economic) dimensions of ideology. In general, liberals are more open-minded, creative, curious, and Political Psychology, Vol. 29, No. 6, 2008 807 0162-895X © 2008 International Society of Political Psychology Published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc., 350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148, USA
Trends:   Government-centric vs. Culturally deterministic,Class Warfare,Property Rights vs. Human Rights

Republican Brains Differ From Democrats' In New FMRI Study
PLOSONE 02/20/13 (Left and right react differently, because our brains work differently.)
Related to the Cornell research on dem vs. rep behavior, this show differences in brain processing as well.
Trends:   Knowledge to Belief,Government-centric vs. Culturally deterministic,Class Warfare,Property Rights vs. Human Rights

Raytheon's Riot Is Attention Field Tool
Guradian 02/14/13 (Can I figure out where you go if I know everything you do?)
Duh....
Trends:   Addiction to Habit Forming Technologies,Privacy is a feeling,Audience to Participants,Anonymous (private) to Profiled (public),Location becomes Central,Property Rights vs. Human Rights

Researchers Mine Old News, Web to Predict Future Events
Parity News 02/14/13 ()
We describe and evaluate methods for learning to forecast forthcoming events of interest from a corpus containing 22 years of news stories. We consider the examples of identifying signicant increases in the likelihood of disease out-breaks, deaths, and riots in advance of the occurrence of these events in the world. We provide details of methods and studies, including the automated extraction and gener- alization of sequences of events from news corpora and multiple web resources. We evaluate the predictive power of the approach on real-world events withheld from the system.
Trends:   News to Meta News,Data to Meta News,Mass Media to Atomized

Climate sceptics likely to be conspiracy theorists
UWesternAustralia 02/14/13 (http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2012/jul/27/climate-sceptics-conspiracy-theorists)
New research finds that sceptics also tend to support conspiracy theories such as the moon landing being faked
Trends:   Knowledge to Belief,Property Rights vs. Human Rights

Do You Believe in Magic?
LifesLittleMysteries 06/20/13 (Yes, you do.)
Really. Have a look.
Trends:   Knowledge to Belief,Local to Granfalloon,Solo to Swarm

BJ Fogg's Behavior Model
BEHAVIORMODEL 03/20/12 (Motivation, Ability, and Trigger. Sounds like Information, Energy, and Workflow. Thanks to both BJ Fogg AND Roe Fleenor.)
See video See fogg1 See fogg1 You need all three (motivation, ability, and trigger) to create an action. Conversely, if you have any two of "information, energy and workflow", you can create the third.
Trends:   Solo to Swarm,Services become Games,Research

Words Spelled On Right Side of Keyboards Lead to More Positive Emotions
SCIENCEDAILY 09/24/15 (Some of those words are: you lip, lop, hip, hit, mink, ki, no, pun, and the ever-popular LOL. )
Now my hand feels guilty.
Trends:   Research

Dial 5683 for Love: Dialing Certain Numbers On a Cell Phone Changes Your Emotional State
SCIENCEDAILY 06/27/13 (So, you're saying that numerology is caused by the QWERTY keyboard? Or that numberology caused the QWERTY keyboard?)
So, that means that Dvorak was ...... the DEVIL!

People Aren't Smart Enough for Democracy to Flourish
LIESLITTLEMYSTERIES 03/06/12 (Incompetent people are inherently unable to judge the competence of other people.)
Or to tell good jokes. Or vote intelligently.

Homeland Security Monitoring Social Media
Huffington 02/17/12 (Big brother -- and his other brothers -- are watching what you tweet!) Trends:   Anonymous (private) to Profiled (public)

The materialist fallacy
NYT 02/16/12 (Government-centric vs. culturally deterministic theories, again. Still. Forever. It's what makes democracy work.)
Social disorganization has a momentum of its own, handed down through generations like alcoholism, or child abuse.
Trends:   Knowledge to Belief, Government-centric vs. Culturally deterministic

Bright Minds and Dark Attitudes
PSYCHOLOGICALSCIENCE 06/20/13 (Lower Cognitive Ability Predicts Greater Prejudice Through Right-Wing Ideology and Low Intergroup Contact)
Duh. I thought so.
Trends:   Knowledge to Belief,Research

Multitasking hinders youth social skills
CNN 01/27/12 (Social media hampers child development, especially the development of vital social skills.)
And we thought it just made them stupid, dull, self-possessed and shallow.
Trends:   Information overload vs ability to comprehend, Shared to Solo

The Speed of Information
THETECHNIUM 10/03/11 (Kevin Kelly thinks information is the fastest growing thing on this planet.)
100 Gigapixel cameras take bigger pictures, and bigger is "better", right?
Trends:   Information overload vs ability to comprehend, Data to Meta News, Research

Diffbot Sees The Web Like People Do
TECHCRUNCH 03/04/13 (Only 31 types of Web pages, and DiffBot reads them all. )
The ultimate tool for content aggregators, this puppy can slurp your web page, extract the content, and spit out the bones. At least, that's what I imagine!
Trends:   Infrastructure to Nonfrastructure,Nameplate to Disembodied

Willingness to provide information online depends on whos asking
STAMBROSE.EDU 08/18/11 (Consumers give up certain personal information willingly, )

Economic Climate Shifts Consumers Online
PRICEGRABBER 08/18/11 (Consumers respond to economic uncertainty by shifting spending online, which they perceive as less costly.)
The online shift is expected to stay in place even if the economy improves.

Characterizing User Behavior in Online Social Networks
pdf 08/16/11 (What people do, and in which order. Online.)
see pdf on hp 20110809
Trends:   Synergy at Vortex Points

Minority Rules: Scientists Discover Tipping Point for the Spread of Ideas
SCIENCEBLOG 08/03/11 (As ye think, so shall ye be.)
The influences of beliefs are routinely underestimated.
Trends:   Audience to Participants, Knowledge to Belief

The science of fanboyism
TECHREPORT 03/04/13 (I BELIEVE that I like Cheetos.)
Now that I have decided that I like Cheetos, you HAVE to like them too! Really!
Trends:   Knowledge to Belief,Information overload vs ability to comprehend

Belief-Dependent Realism
SCIENTFICAMERICAN 10/03/11 (Beliefs come first; explanations for beliefs follow. I believe that.)
I believe I'll have a drink, and then I think I'll believe that Obama was born in the Duchy of Grand Fenwick.
Trends:   Critical Journalism to Normalized Promotion, Knowledge to Belief

You get 150 Friends, then your brain stops
slashdot 08/30/11 (The Twitterverse is "unable to overcome the biological and physical constraints that limit stable social relations" because the Dunbar limit is real.) Trends:   Synergy at Vortex Points, Information overload vs ability to comprehend

Digg Ditched as Consumer Habits Drift
NEWSWEEK 03/04/13 (Fleeting is the warm glow of popularity.)
Part of Digg's demise was self-inflicted, but part was also how easy it was to manipulate Digg's recommendations through covert group action.
Trends:   Known Source to Crowdsource,Nameplate to Disembodied,Mass Media to Atomized

72% of US Adults Support Violent-Game Ban For Minors
GAMESPOT 09/16/10 (Don't teach them to shoot with video guns.)
Only real guns allowed up to age 17.
Trends:   Audience to Participants

Why a school beats Facebook: how behaviors spread through networks
ARSTECHNICA 03/04/13 (Multiple interpersonal connections speed the spread of behaviors.)
Disease, on the other hand, spreads primarily by contact.
Trends:   Local to Granfalloon,Solo to Swarm,Audience to Participants

Does the Brain Like E-Books?
NYT 03/04/13 (Talking dirty: "The future of peripheral attention is social networking, and the trick is to harness such attention some call it distraction well.")
Metaphors be with you! Turn all those distracting other things on the page into mind networked, data-mapped, socialized mind candy. Use Keywords! Oh, Wow! (sigh)
Trends:   , Homepage to Browser to AppsGadgets

Real-Time, Detailed Face Tracking On a Nokia N900
Dr. Philip A. Tresadern 08/22/10 (Open the Pod Bay door, Hal.)
You look at your phone; it looks back at you. What is it thinking?
Trends:   Audience to Participant, Centralized to Distributed, Desktop to Mobile, Homepage to Browser to AppsGadgets , Known Source to Crowdsource, Mass Media to Atomized, Shared to Solo

Incorporating Swarm Intelligence Into Computer AI
ECONOMIST 08/16/10 (Dogs do it, too.)
And Frat boys. Leaving trails of scent to communicate with others of your species is a survival behavior.
Trends:   Centralized to Distributed, Nameplate to Disembodied, Known Source to Crowdsource, Audience to Participant

Immersed In Too Much Information, We Can Sometimes Miss The Big Picture
NPR 03/04/13 (Tasking is good. Multi-tasking can be good, but it can also block our view of the road.)
Multi-multi-multi-tasking, however, is not so good.
Trends:   Audience to Participants,Information overload vs ability to comprehend

Is Twitter a national mood ring?
CNN 08/09/10 (We can see what you're thinking.) Trends:   Known Source to Crowdsource, Audience to Participant, News to Meta News, Local to Granfalloon

Good or Evil Actions Can Lead to Improved Physical Performance
HARVARDGAZETTE 07/14/10 (BWAW-HA-HA-HA!)
I am as strong a ten men, for my heart is pure. Just believing that you are Good (or Evil) increases your endurance, makes you stronger.

Heads Up, Citizen Scientists: The Moon Needs You!
NPR 05/25/10 (Meta-news (news about news) is turning out to be accurate.)
A thousand wagging tongues is worth a single picture.

The Effects of Online News on Political Behavior
STANFORD 04/14/10 (They can make you made, but they can't make you vote. )
The eects of online news readership on interest in politics do not carry over to political participation, measured in terms of either voter registration or actually turning out to vote in presidential elections.

2001 User Behavior Study
NTIA 06/06/01 (Snapshot of online user behavior in 2000.)

Evaluating User Activity in Enterprise Social Media
PARC 03/04/13 (How people attend to content and the robustness of communities formed through social media.)
Examines community behavior within major corporations.

UMaryland: Students Addicted to Social Media
UMARYLAND 04/04/12 (Addiction symptoms similar to drugs and alcohol. Addiction behavior similar to porn.)
The addicting aspect is the heightened sensory experience of anticipating the NEXT message, which is greater than the pleasure of the message still on the screen. It's the gambler's experience. It's the homicidal maniac's experience. It's the online gaming experience.
Trends:   Solo to Swarm,Information overload vs ability to comprehend

Understanding Users of Social Networks
HAVARDBIZSCHOOL 04/21/10 (People just love to look at pictures.)
The biggest usage categories are men looking at women they don't know, followed by men looking at women they do know. Overall, women receive two-thirds of all page views. But men's tweets are followed by both sexes much more than expected by chance. Go figure.

How Women and Men Use the Internet
PEW 12/28/05 (Men are first out of the blocks in trying the latest technologies.)
Women show a greater emphasis on deepening connections with people.

Two-thirds of World Internet Users Use Social Media
NIELSENWIRE 01/27/12 (Member Communities activity soaked up one in every 15 online minutes in 2007, one in 11 in 2008 worldwide. )
The number is one is six in the U.K., and one in four in Brazil. Some suspect that US Teenagers actually spend more minutes online than living.
Trends:   Local to Granfalloon, Mass Media to Atomized

Americans Spend 30 Percent of Leisure Time Online
TNSGLOBAL 04/21/10 (This, of course, gives Comcast something to think about.)
Fortunately, everybody watches TV while surfing. Well, almost everybody.

RF's New Study of Online Behavior Focuses On User Intent
RUDERFINN 03/04/13 (Authors measure online activity by the categorical intent of the user.)
Learn, Have Fun, Socialize, Express Yourself, Advocate, Do Business, Shop.
Trends:   Local to Granfalloon,Services become Games

Mindless Online Behavior: Web Navigation on Autopilot
OUTOFMYGOURD 03/08/10 ()
uSERS' SEARCH PATTERNS BUILD ON PRIOR EXPERIENCE, EVEN IN THE JUNGLE.

Top ad trends list spotlights online behavior
CNET 03/08/10 ()
Optimizing media convergence is a top priority. New models emerge to take advantage of smartphones. More cross-media ad campaigns surface. Commercialization of social networking hubs increase. More interesting and interactive online ads appear.

Dimensions of Online Behavior: Toward a User Typology
LIEBERT 03/04/13 (The salient features of online behavior are conceptualized as sociability (human connection motives), utility (efficiency orientation), and reciprocity (cognitive stimulation and active involvement))
These are the attributes of paying attention.
Trends:   Local to Granfalloon,Solo to Swarm,New Value Moment,Mass Media to Atomized

How Women and Men Use the Internet
PEW 03/08/10 (Men are more intense, but women are better communicators. )
Hmmmm. That sounds strangely familiar, sort of like, well, real life.

She Speaks: Online Survey of Women
SHESPEEAKS.COM 03/08/10 (Women are from MySpace. Men are not mentioned.)
A comprehensive look at online behavior and characteristics of women in social media.

The Global Online Media Landscape
NIELSEN 03/08/10 (Short Tails, Social Media, Mobile Internet, display Advertising, and Other Matters)
It's not about technology and wanting to be online constantly. Its about wanting to belong and be connected constantly. (Johan Jervoe, Corporate VP, Global Marketing, McDonalds Corp. at iMediaConnection, 10/16/08.

HOW INTERPERSONAL TRUST MANIFESTS ONLINE BEHAVIOR
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STUDY FINDS LINK BETWEEN FACEBOOK USE, LOWER GRADES IN COLLEGE
OHIOSTATEU 04/21/10 (Students say it ain't so. Too much of anything can be linked to lower grades, if you squint hard enough. )
Beer, Pot, Sex, Sports, Movies, Online Games, Second Life, Church, Sleep --- you name it.