when the first time I come in social networking class ,I consider that social networking is talking about how people will behavior on social network site only. I regard social network as a platform for individuals to announce a variety of point of view and vice versa get other people's view about the topics which interesting them. and my first blog reflects my original cognition of social network.
I realize that social networking is far more interesting and diversified both in social psychology part and technical area after almost a whole term. However,I'd like to talk about what's new I have learned of both these two parts.
The most significant knowledge I get from the social psychology part is that environment has great impact on individuals according to SCT(social cognitive theory) so that we should make great efforts to putting ourselves locate in better groups. However,lots of people knows the theory and they continually try to do this. E.g,students always struggle to let themselves enrolled in top universities such as CUHK while employees always try to jump into better enterprises even though small companies sometimes provide more competitive treatments.
However,in my humble opinion,these people only realize part of SCT but ignore the other part which is also important: individuals in the group will also affect the environment which means that sometimes may be it's a better choice to netting your world better rather than netting a new world. For example,sometimes the opportunity for people make themselves enrolled in the top enterprises such as Google or Microsoft. Actually,this kind of fact always disappointing you. However,it doesn't obstruct you to make work harder in your current group and make enviable achievements. What's more,your hard-working will encourage other members in the group and ultimately make your group to be a better one.
This course makes me have more cognition on social networking not only in the social psychology side. When we talk about technical part ,semantic web is the part which most amazing me.
We all have the concept that IOT(Internet of things) may be a new revolution in information engineering filed which I consider that it's true. What's more,as far as I can see,semantic web will be such an important part of IOT that everyone should have the basic concept and awareness on it. Computers will no longer 'computers' but also true 'processors' within the help of semantic web technology. I think that semantic web will be widely used in searching area at first. Rather than putting into some simple key-words in the search bar and get several links from the social network like today,I consider that the searching procedure will be far more interesting in the future.For example,sometimes we cannot describe one thing both precisely and briefly by using characters but it maybe easier to be done by using figures.Perhaps we can put several pictures into search bar which we think can represent for things we want to search for instead of some key-words,and after then the social network site could understand the meaning of these pictures by using some multimedia processing algorithms and accurately put the answers back to clients.
However,I think that the development of semantic web is not only things about technology but also need perfect knowledge of various fields. Netting a strong enough world is obviously very important to push forward the development of semantic web. After all,individual's energy and talent is finite and no one can be an expert in every area.All in all,information is the most valuable resource at the present times.
2013年11月22日星期五
2013年11月3日星期日
Man in the Mirror(Assignment 3 of IEMS5720)
Social psychology part makes me most interested with no doubt.
As what we know from the lecture of this course,social psychology is the part of psychology that studies human interaction and is about understanding individual behavior in a social context.
It is obvious that individual behavior covers self-presentation in our common sense. However,self-presentation in some degree decided by self-knowledge.
Self-knowledge and self-presentation,here comes the two topics which I what to talk about.
Why the impression which we format beyond other people sometimes quite different from our self-cognition? Why what we look like in others' eyes become extremely different compared with our self-knowledge? And which one is our true self?
These question are interesting. In my opinion, our self-knowledge,in most time,is not enough to help us to evaluate ourselves precisely. However,our impression which we format beyond others is not enough as well. It is the combination of these two images makes a true 'self'.
Some researchers have showed a conclusion that when we evaluate ourselves, we intend to consider 'what we can do' ,which means that we preferred to focus on our potential when we generate self-knowledge. However,it becomes quite different when others estimate us. People intend to estimate others by what they 'have done',which means people will focus on your current capability when they are evaluating you.
Not only the current capability but also the potential of a people which should be taken into consider and vice-versa. It is the reason that I think we should combine the two images,ourselves and the man in the mirror, when we want to know what is our true self. This theory also help us how to know what we look like in others' perception,for example,when we are in an interview.
Another topic that I want to talk about is self-presentation. In the lecture,we have known that Social psychologist identified 5 different strategic motives in the way we attempt to present ourselves which are:
Self-promotion,Ingratiation,Intimidation,Exemplification and Supplication.
However,what makes me interested is that why are these five different strategic motives happen? Which kind of individuals correspond to which kind of motive? Is there a general answer behind the appearance?
To answer these questions , I focus on my friends' 'signature' or what we call 'status' on some social networks such as 'renren' or 'qq' and try to find an answer. As far as what I consider,I found that ,from some perspective,people are inclined to make up a man in the mirror when they express themselves through social network.
'A man in the mirror',I use this description again. I think everyone can understand it when I used it first time,but I consider that it is necessary for me to make some explain when I use this description again.
According to a research conclusion, when we look into the mirror,we will generate brain illusion. Everyone wants to be more beautiful and it is obvious that everyone knows their shortcoming of their appearance.For example,a girl may be think her eyes are too small while the other boy think he is not strong enough. Consequently,our brain will generate illusion when we look into mirror to make the image looks better.What's more , it is just the shortcoming which we care about will be modified at first which means the girl think her eyes are too small will see herself with bigger eyes and the boy think he is not strong enough will see a stringer man when they are looking into mirror.
This interesting phenomenon is quite similar as what people intend to express themselves on the social network. For example,I found that it is always the people who are not confident enough want to make self-promotion,which can persuade others they are competent and people who actually think themselves are not strong enough tend to make intimidation so that they think they can protect themselves. It is just like we want to see 'a man in the mirror ',which represent the man we want to be and we appreciate.
As what we know from the lecture of this course,social psychology is the part of psychology that studies human interaction and is about understanding individual behavior in a social context.
It is obvious that individual behavior covers self-presentation in our common sense. However,self-presentation in some degree decided by self-knowledge.
Self-knowledge and self-presentation,here comes the two topics which I what to talk about.
Why the impression which we format beyond other people sometimes quite different from our self-cognition? Why what we look like in others' eyes become extremely different compared with our self-knowledge? And which one is our true self?
These question are interesting. In my opinion, our self-knowledge,in most time,is not enough to help us to evaluate ourselves precisely. However,our impression which we format beyond others is not enough as well. It is the combination of these two images makes a true 'self'.
Some researchers have showed a conclusion that when we evaluate ourselves, we intend to consider 'what we can do' ,which means that we preferred to focus on our potential when we generate self-knowledge. However,it becomes quite different when others estimate us. People intend to estimate others by what they 'have done',which means people will focus on your current capability when they are evaluating you.
Not only the current capability but also the potential of a people which should be taken into consider and vice-versa. It is the reason that I think we should combine the two images,ourselves and the man in the mirror, when we want to know what is our true self. This theory also help us how to know what we look like in others' perception,for example,when we are in an interview.
Another topic that I want to talk about is self-presentation. In the lecture,we have known that Social psychologist identified 5 different strategic motives in the way we attempt to present ourselves which are:
Self-promotion,Ingratiation,Intimidation,Exemplification and Supplication.
However,what makes me interested is that why are these five different strategic motives happen? Which kind of individuals correspond to which kind of motive? Is there a general answer behind the appearance?
To answer these questions , I focus on my friends' 'signature' or what we call 'status' on some social networks such as 'renren' or 'qq' and try to find an answer. As far as what I consider,I found that ,from some perspective,people are inclined to make up a man in the mirror when they express themselves through social network.
'A man in the mirror',I use this description again. I think everyone can understand it when I used it first time,but I consider that it is necessary for me to make some explain when I use this description again.
According to a research conclusion, when we look into the mirror,we will generate brain illusion. Everyone wants to be more beautiful and it is obvious that everyone knows their shortcoming of their appearance.For example,a girl may be think her eyes are too small while the other boy think he is not strong enough. Consequently,our brain will generate illusion when we look into mirror to make the image looks better.What's more , it is just the shortcoming which we care about will be modified at first which means the girl think her eyes are too small will see herself with bigger eyes and the boy think he is not strong enough will see a stringer man when they are looking into mirror.
This interesting phenomenon is quite similar as what people intend to express themselves on the social network. For example,I found that it is always the people who are not confident enough want to make self-promotion,which can persuade others they are competent and people who actually think themselves are not strong enough tend to make intimidation so that they think they can protect themselves. It is just like we want to see 'a man in the mirror ',which represent the man we want to be and we appreciate.
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