Out of the Storm … Sheizaf Rafaeli Graduate School of Business and The Center for the Study of Information Society University of Haifa פרופ' שיזף רפאלי ביה"ס למוסמכים במנהל עסקים המרכז לחקר חברת המידע אוניברסיטת חיפה
Outline Boom to bust (to boom?) a roller-coaster Constructs (multisense, synchronicity, linearity, switching, interactivity, logs, immersion, value of information) Projects (online auctions and social facilitation, cyberarcheology, value of information experiments, sharing information simulations)
Out of the Storm? Electronic Commerce E-Business E-(Distance) Learning E-Culture (books, radio, music, etc.) E-Journalism E-Government, E-Democracy E-War (E-, in Hebrew, is a negation … in Latin something else…E Pluribus Unum)
Developments (I) Telecomm/Compunications are fast Voluminous Inexpensive Attractive They are fun… (Therefore?) Widely and rapidly diffused
Developments (II) Telecomm / Compunications are Addictive (?) Isolating, alienating? Depressing? See Stanford (Nie) and Carnegie Mellon (Kraut et al.) studies
Boom to Bust (to boom?) Millenial rhetoric? “Declensionistic narratives”? Roller coaster mentalities, realities?
Booms and Busts Foci Disintermediation Reintermediation Internet and e-commerce stock bubble Digital divides: gender, age, socio-economic strata,English linguistic dominance? Technological determinism “content is king” Fun or power(ful)? “All your base are mine” Individual effects of CMC: - “addiction”? - alienation and loneliness? Too invasive and overdone encroaching on privacy Online journalism Push or pull Wireless and bandwidth gold rush
Out of the storm … Theoretical Constructs MultiMedia / Multisense Packet Switching – No Center Elasticity of Synchronicity Hypertext / Delinearization Interactivity Logs and Records Immersion / Simulation Value of Information
Multimedia / Multisense
Switching (Packet-, Route-)
The elasticity of synchronicity
Hypertextuality / Linearity
Interactivity
Logs and Records
Simulation and Immersion (in teaching, advertising, entertainment, govt.?)
Value of Information: overload, privacy, sharing
Some projects Online auctions and social facilitation Cyber-archeology of virtual groups Value of information experiments Sharing information simulations) Experimental and survey Individual and group level People and content as units of analysis
Social facilitation and online auctions
Social facilitation in online auction contexts
Cyber-archeology
Cyber archeology (2)
Cyber archeology (3)
Cyber archeology (4)
Cyber archeology (5) (some data)
Subjective value of information
Subjective Value of Information Willingness to Purchase (WTP) Willingness to Accept (WTA) Ratio of WTA / WTP Ownership/endowment matters!
Sharing information supply (and other) chains
Sharing information … FactoryDistributorWholesaleRetail Goods Info Client Info Supply Chain Management : ניהול שרשרת התיספוקת
Sharing information in supply- (and other) chains
Sharing information in supply- (and other) chains
Studying the Virtual Group
Is this just about Yuppies?
Theoretical Constructs MultiMedia / Multisense Packet Switching – No Center Elasticity of Synchronicity Hypertext / Delinearization Interactivity Logs and Records Immersion / Simulation Value of Information