Thesis outline
My EMMA (European Media Master of Arts, emma.hku.nl) consists of a group project (done, www.blockblazers.nl), a personal project (Helpalot) and a thesis.
My thesis question:
What does the new digital dimension of social networks bring about in the way an individual can influence its social context?
My thesis outline:
I. Introduction
I. Networks
- The basics of networks, nodes, relations
- Emergence within networks
- Hubs, scale free networks
- Networks are all around us
II. People in social networks
- Trust, reputation, identity
- People as a node, local connections, influence on direct context
- Spreading a message in a network
- How do people use their social network, and why?
- Trusting the network itself, what goes around, comes around.
III. Social networks, with a digital dimension
- What is the digital dimension to the social network?
- How is this different from the past?
- How are digital social networks connected to the normal social networks?
- How social network sites influence social networks (with examples)
- Media wisdom; the dangers and opportunities of the digital social networks.
- Trust, reputation and identity in the digital world.
- Spreading a message in the digital world.
- What does this mean for spreading a message in general, using normal and digital social networks?
- How do digital and normal social networks influence each other?
IV. Helpalot Case
- Summary of Helpalot project
- How do charities spread their message, gain trust and influence?
- What does the new digital dimension of social networks influence the way charities spread their message, deal with their trust and influence?
- How does Helpalot use the qualities of social networks to improve the world?
- Building the Helpalot community, how and why?
- How do I personally use my social network to create Helpalot, gain influence, trust and connections.
- Helpalot & Julius, the a message to spread in the network.
- Why neuro linguistic programming works in networks. Making success inevitable, by ‘acting’ successful.
V. Concluding, What does the digital dimension of social networks mean for the human network at large?
- There are new rules on how one can use their social network. What are they?
- Why we must accept the bad with the good and keep our social networks open.
- What does this mean for you and your social network?
The deadline for the Thesis and Helpalot is in the end of August. This doesn’t mean Helpalot will be done by then. I really think Helpalot should be built, so the way it looks now, I’ll continue to work on Helpalot after my EMMA.
If you know some good books or articles that might help me out with my Thesis, please leave a message in the comments.