Notification norms: a sociological approach to information

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Notification norms a sociological approach
toinformation
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Information without people?

• Is information just data without people to
  interpret, understand, know, use?
• No people, no information?
• informing is complicated it is subjective and
  may require complexity to communicate what we
  think of as knowledge

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Ryans (2006) Approach to A Sociology of
Information
individual and collective social actors work to
move information around in ways that reflect,
establish, maintain, and modify social relations
and social categories.
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It is not necessarily a good idea just because
technology makes it possible
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Notification

• in general, we are never isolated possessors of
  information, and that the dynamics of what we do
  with information, how we behave as nodes in
  information networks, are largely socially
  determined.
• diffusion, disclosure, information and
  economic exchange, secrecy, information flow and
  social structure

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The Social Organization of Notification

• Dimensions of notification contexts nature of
  social relationships, content of information
• Who When How

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The who and the when
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Medium and Communication

• Warm/cold
• expensive/cheap
• fast/slow
• Personal/impersonal

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Ecology of the Information Order

• Knowledge as Power?
• Surveillance
• Other Information Asymmetries