Out of the StormOut of the Storm … …

Sheizaf RafaeliSheizaf RafaeliGraduate School of Business and Graduate School of Business and

The Center for the Study of Information SocietyThe Center for the Study of Information SocietyUniversity of HaifaUniversity of Haifa

פרופ' שיזף רפאליפרופ' שיזף רפאליביה"ס למוסמכים במנהל עסקיםביה"ס למוסמכים במנהל עסקים

המרכז לחקר חברת המידעהמרכז לחקר חברת המידע

אוניברסיטת חיפהאוניברסיטת חיפה

http://gsb.haifa.ac.il/~sheizafhttp://gsb.haifa.ac.il/~sheizafsheizaf@earthlink.netsheizaf@earthlink.net

OutlineOutline

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?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)Developments (I) Telecomm/Compunications

are fast Voluminous Inexpensive Attractive They are fun… (Therefore?)

Widely and rapidly diffused

Developments (II)Developments (II)

Telecomm / Compunications areAddictive (?)

Isolating, alienating? Depressing?See Stanford (Nie) and Carnegie

Mellon (Kraut et al.) studies

Boom to Bust (to boom?)Boom to Bust (to boom?)

Millenial rhetoric? “Declensionistic narratives”?Roller coaster mentalities, realities?

Booms and Busts FociBooms 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…Out of the storm…

Theoretical ConstructsTheoretical 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 projectsSome 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 Social facilitation and online auctionsauctions

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Various related topicsVarious related topics

SocialFacilitation

SocialFacilitation

ConsumerBehavior

ConsumerBehavior

Internet AuctionsInternet Auctions

How are theseissues related ?How are theseissues related ?

CollaborationCollaboration

Social facilitation in online auction contexts

Cyber-archeologyCyber-archeology

Cyber archeology (2)Cyber archeology (2)

Cyber archeology (3)Cyber archeology (3)

Cyber archeology (4)Cyber archeology (4)

Cyber archeology (5)Cyber archeology (5)(some data)(some data)

Subjective value of Subjective value of informationinformation

Subjective Value of Subjective Value of InformationInformation

Willingness to Purchase (WTP)

Willingness to Accept (WTA)

Ratio of WTA / WTP

Ownership/endowment matters!

Sharing informationSharing informationsupply (and other) chainssupply (and other) chains

Sharing information…Sharing information…http://hulia.haifa.ac.ilhttp://hulia.haifa.ac.il

Factory Distributor Wholesale Retail

GoodsGoods Goods

Info

Client

Info Info

Supply Chain Management : ניהול שרשרת התיספוקת

Sharing informationSharing informationin supply- (and other) chainsin supply- (and other) chains

http://hulia.haifa.ac.il

Sharing informationSharing informationin supply- (and other) chainsin supply- (and other) chains

Studying the Virtual GroupStudying the Virtual Group

Is this just about Yuppies?Is this just about Yuppies?

Theoretical ConstructsTheoretical Constructs

MultiMedia / Multisense Packet Switching – No Center Elasticity of Synchronicity Hypertext / Delinearization Interactivity Logs and Records Immersion / Simulation Value of Information

http://gsb.haifa.ac.il/~sheizaf