EINS_JRA6

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Network of Excellence inInternet Science

Kick-off Meeting

Brussels, 21-22 December 2011

Chris Marsden (ESSEX)

FP7-ICT-2011.1.6-288021 EINS

JRA6:Virtual Communities

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Brussels, December 21-22, 2011

JRA6 Objectives

Developing social design methodologies that

underline development and experimentation withinvirtual communities o including user needs analysiso the impact on technological design choices affecting

future Internets. Methodologies take into explicit account

o socio-economic,o security,o privacy concerns.

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JRA6 develops social design methodologies

Development and experimentation within virtual

communities:o Including user needs analysiso Impact on technological design choiceso such as open standards, Quality of Service

Taking into account:o socio-economic, security and privacy concerns.


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Audience Participation!

Send a short email about your experience with:

1.Virtual communities1.what you did, what the result was

2.Virtual communities case study1.Any unusual/counter-intuitive example

1.E.g. Conflict resolution easier offline than online?3.Virtual communities literature

o Different literatures in each discipline

Email [email protected] Thank you!


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Partners in JRA6

Total Effort: 25 months (500 days) Socio-legal studies/coordination/deliverables

ESSEX 100 days Note recent ERC 5-year grant to Galeotti (Networks, Markets,

Organisation) http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~agaleo/ERC.htmAlso 'EmergingSegmentation Modelling Using SocialNetworks' http://cresi.essex.ac.uk/getproject?projectID=46

Socio-economic analysis IBBT 40 days Social science broadly drawn

UNIBO 40 days

Anthropology OXF Dunbar 20 days (NB - ERC 5 year Advanced Grant)

Communications studies TUDelft 40 days

Complimented by NEXA 50days CNR 60days TCLR 30days ULANC 40days NKUA 40days Stockholm 2mthI

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Tasks in JRA6

R6.1 Overview of user needs analysis

R6.2 Mutual impact between virtual Internet andhuman social communities

R6.3. Exploring virtual community e-democracy R6.4 Consensus building and e-voting in virtual

communities R6.5 Dissemination and collection of user cases

catalogue


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R6.1 Overview of user needs analysis

UESSEX, ULANC, IBBT, LSE, MLS

Develop needs analysiso based on methodologies such aso user experience, anthropology, sociology, economics, network analysis.

Explore the role of communitieso bottom-up user-generatedo hierarchical or centrally coordinatedo in both commercial and community ownership.

Series of events with relevant JRAso also with external communities.


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R6.2 Mutual impact between virtual Internet andhuman social communities

UESSEX, CNR, ULANC, NKUA, UiO, MLS

Analyze mutual dependence betweeno virtual communities ando underlying human social communitieso (not necessarily mediated by ICT).

To what extent known behaviours emerge within these virtualcommunities as a result of properties like commoninterests/preferences.


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R6.3. Exploring virtual community e-democracy

o UNIBO, TUD, IBBT, CNR, LSE

2 correlated & complementary Internet roles consensus building process around new political

actors, interest groups and/oro public body initiatives.

supporting emerging forms of political participation,o new channel to make citizens voice heard.

Online social networks and virtual communities asstarting point for newborn political initiatives


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R6.4 Consensus building and e-voting in virtualcommunities

UNIBO, TUD, OXF, LSE

Methods and tools to evaluate consensuso require broad societal trust in e-voting

Review of current instrumentso Common characteristics among systems.

o usability as perceived by final users To infer most effective technologies


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R6.5 Dissemination and collection of user casescatalogue

UESSEX, CNR, ULANC, OXF, MLS, LSE

R6.1-6.4 lead to collection of case studieso in successful system design and user adoption

Design &development of virtual communitieso dynamic high-speed infrastructure that should provide

the services beneath the applications investigated using outcome of R6.1-R6.2. Compare R6.1-R6.2 with R6.3-6.4 outcomes To make recommendations about future research

into virtual communities.


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Deliverables

DR6.1. (M18)

1.Overview of user needs analysis,2.draft catalogue of design responses to needs

analysiso short summary document explaining

critical needs in various types of virtual community,oAppendices dedicated to

typology of communities, degrees of virtuality, tools employed,as a basis for cataloguing.

Also catalogued data base of communities, degrees of

virtuality, tools employed, from which case studies will beselected for DR6.3.


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Further deliverables

DR6.2 Catalogue of advanced user cases and final

user need analysis (M36) DR6.3x Continuous cataloguing of dissemination

and collaboration with broader social sciencecommunity (M18, M36)


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WP Action List for the 1st Year

R6.1:o Initial Overviewo Draft user needs analysis

R6.2 Mutual impact betweeno virtual Internet and human social communitieso relying on JRA partners' existing published work, experimental outcomes and

associates' research


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Interdependencies with other WPs

Virtual communities play a part in: JRA4 Standards and

Governance

JRA5 Privacy: impacts on virtual community working

Other IAs/SEAs - EINS as a 'model' virtual community'?


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WP Impact

Brings together those involved in the design of

virtual communitieso NoE & wider scientific/stakeholder community

Develop tool set to answer design questionso e.g. economic and societal impact of solutions,o directly leading to a measure of desirabilityo as well as viability of given design choices,

Conduct use caseso demonstrating approaches of communitieso benchmarking developed set of tools.


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Issues to be discussed and decided


Mode of working:

1.Virtual presence2.Physical meeting - location, timing, participants3.Steering group4.Dissemination methods5.Absorption of funded research

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