Monday, December 26, 2011

TOP AUSTRALIA

1.REECE MASTIN - GOOD NIGHT

2) [=] LMFAO - Sexy And I Know It
3) [=Lloyd feat. Andre 3000 & Lil Wayne - Dedication To My Ex (Miss That)
4) [+1] Taio Cruz feat. Flo Rida - Hangover
5)[+6] Snoop Dogg & Wiz Khalifa - Young, Wild & Free
6)[=] Guy Sebastian - Don't Worry Be Happy
7)[-3] Ed Sheeran - The A Team
8) [-1] Coldplay - Paradise
9)[+1] Flo Rida - Good Feeling
10)[+2] One Direction - What Makes You Beautiful

TOP UK

1. MILITARY WIVES WITH GARETH MALONE - WHEREVER YOU ARE

2) [-1] Little Mix - Cannonball
3) [NEW] Lou Monte - Dominick The Donkey
4) [NEW] Alex Day - Forever Yours
5) [-3] Coldplay - Paradise
6) [-3] Olly Murs - Dance With Me Tonight
7) [-1] Flo Rida - Good Feeling
8) [-4] Lloyd - Dedication To My Ex
9) [-2] Avicii - Levels
10) [-5] Rihanna - We Found Love

TOP ASIA

1. RIHANNA FEAT. CALVIN HARRIS - WE FOUND LOVE

2) [=] David Guetta feat. Usher - Without You
3) [+1] Bruno Mars - It Will Rain
4) [-1] LMFAO - Sexy And I Know It
5) [+1] Katy Perry - The One That Got Away
6) [-1] Adele - Someone Like You
7) [+4] Lady Gaga - Marry The Night
8) [-1] Foster The People - Pumped Up Kicks
9) [=] Christina Perri - A Thousand Years
10) [=] Jason DeRulo - It Girl

Hunting dogs attack 5 people in rampage: Australia

Police say it is lucky no-one was killed during a rampage by two hunting dogs in southern New South Wales.

The staghound cross dogs attacked five people in Wagga Wagga during a 30-minute frenzy on Christmas Eve.

Inspector Jeff Barr says a 49-year-old woman suffered the most serious injuries, and was transferred to Canberra for surgery.

"The woman was attacked from behind. She was pulled off a motorcycle and dragged some 10 metres around the back of a motor vehicle," Inspector Barr said.

"Her son, being alerted by her screams, came out and put himself between the dog and his mother. He sustained some injuries there and ended up wrestling with the dog.

"The dog was very violent, very hostile, very aggressive. Police had no choice and, assisted by the young man, the dog was actually destroyed."

Earlier the dogs had attacked a cyclist then a man and his small dog.

Inspector Barr praised the bravery of a young woman who came to the man's aid and was also attacked.

He says police have now tracked down the dogs' owner, who is out of town. more

TOP ESPAÑA

1.DAVID GUETTA FEAT. SIA - TITANIUM

2)[+1] Adele - Someone Like You
3)[-1] Rihanna - We Found Love
4)[+1] Sean Paul - Got 2 Love U
5)[+5] Michel Teló - AI Se Eu Te Pego
6)[=] Enrique Iglesias - I Like How It Feels
7)[=] Flo Rida - Good Feeling
8)[-4] Maroon 5 - Moves Like Jagger
9)[NEW] La Oreja De Van Gogh - Cometas Por El Cielo
10)[NEW] Coldplay - Paradise

TOP USA



1.RIHANNA FEAT. CALVIN HARRIS - WE FOUND LOVE


2) [=] LMFAO - Sexy And I Know It
3) [=] Bruno Mars - It Will Rain
4) [+1] Flo Rida - Good Feeling
5) [-1] Katy Perry - The One That Got Away
6) [=] Jay-Z & Kanye West - Ni**as In Paris
7) [=] Adele - Someone Like You
8) [+1] David Guetta feat. Usher - Without You
9) [-1] Maroon 5 feat. Christina Aguilera - Moves Like Jagger
10) [=] T-Pain feat. Wiz Khalifa & Lily Allen - 5 O'Clock

How Social Media Fuels Social Unrest

The funniest thing about this piece at Wired is that I read it over a week ago in hard copy while out shopping for Christmas presents at Barnes and Noble. I came home that night and logged on looking for it, but the Wired homepage hadn't updated with the January magazine information. It's the holidays, so what the heck? I still thought it strange for a tech-driven magazine to basically make a social media report available in dead-tree media and not online.

In any case, the essay, by Bill Wasik, offers pretty compelling explanation for how social media enable radicals and inflame protests. See "#Riot: Self-Organized, Hyper-Networked Revolts—Coming to a City Near You." This passage was particularly interesting:
In trying to understand how and why crowds go wrong, you can have no better guide than Clifford Stott, senior lecturer in social psychology at the University of Liverpool. Stott has risked his life researching his subject. Specifically, he has spent most of his career—more than 20 years so far—conducting a firsthand study of violence among soccer fans. On one particularly dicey trip to Marseilles in 1998, Stott and a small crowd of Englishmen ran away from a cloud of tear gas only to find themselves facing a gang of 50 French toughs, some of them wielding bottles and driftwood. “If you are on your own,” a philosophical fellow Brit remarked to Stott at that moment, “you’re going to get fucked.” This, in a sense, is the fundamental wisdom at the heart of Stott’s work—though he does couch it in somewhat more respectable language.

To Stott, members of a crowd are never really “on their own.” Based on a set of ideas that he and other social psychologists call ESIM (Elaborated Social Identity Model), Stott believes crowds form what are essentially shared identities, which evolve as the situation changes. We might see a crowd doing something that appears to us to be just mindless violence, but to those in the throng, the actions make perfect sense. With this notion, Stott and his colleagues are trying to rebut an influential line of thinking on crowd violence that stretches from Gustave Le Bon, whose 1895 treatise, The Crowd, launched the field of crowd psychology, up to Philip Zimbardo, the psychologist behind the infamous Stanford Prison Experiment of 1971. To explain group disorder, Zimbardo and other mid-20th-century psychologists blamed a process they called deindividuation, by which a crowd frees its members to carry out their baser impulses. Through anonymity, in Zimbardo’s view, the strictures of society were lifted from crowds, pushing them toward a state of anarchy and thereby toward senseless violence.

By contrast, Stott sees crowds as the opposite of ruleless, and crowd violence as the opposite of senseless: What seems like anarchic behavior is in fact governed by a shared self-conception and thus a shared set of grievances. Stott’s response to the riots has been unpopular with many of his countrymen. Unlike Zimbardo, who would respond—and indeed has responded over the years—to incidents of group misbehavior by speaking darkly of moral breakdown, Stott brings the focus back to the long history of societal slights, usually by police, that primed so many young people to riot in the first place.

Meeting Stott in person, one can see how he’s been able to blend in with soccer fans over the years. He’s a stocky guy, with a likably craggy face and a nose that looks suspiciously like it’s been broken a few times. When asked why the recent riots happened, his answers always come back to poor policing—particularly in Tottenham, where questions over the death of a young man went unaddressed by police for days and where the subsequent protest was met with arbitrary violence. Stott singles out one moment when police seemed to handle a young woman roughly and an image of that mistreatment was tweeted (and BBMed) throughout London’s black community and beyond. It was around then that the identity of the crowd shifted, decisively, to outright combat against the police.

Stott boils down the violent potential of a crowd to two basic factors. The first is what he and other social psychologists call legitimacy—the extent to which the crowd feels that the police and the whole social order still deserve to be obeyed. In combustible situations, the shared identity of a crowd is really about legitimacy, since individuals usually start out with different attitudes toward the police but then are steered toward greater unanimity by what they see and hear. Paul Torrens, a University of Maryland professor who builds 3-D computer models of riots and other crowd events, imbues each agent in his simulations with an initial Legitimacy score on a scale from 0 (total disrespect for police authority) to 1 (absolute deference). Then he allows the agents to influence one another. It’s a crude model, but it’s useful in seeing the importance of a crowd’s initial perception of legitimacy. A crowd where every member has a low L will be predisposed to rebel from the outset; a more varied crowd, by contrast, will take significantly longer to turn ugly, if it ever does.

It’s easy to see how technology can significantly change this starting position. When that tweet or text or BBM blast goes out declaring, as the Enfield message did, that “police can’t stop it,” the eventual crowd will be preselected for a very low L indeed. As Stott puts it, flash-mob-style gatherings are special because they “create the identity of a crowd prior to the event itself,” thereby front-loading what he calls the “complex process of norm construction,” which usually takes a substantial amount of time. He hastens to add that crowd identity can be pre-formed through other means, too, and that such gatherings also have to draw from a huge group of willing (and determined) participants. But the technology allows a group of like-minded people to gather with unprecedented speed and scale. “You’ve only got to write one message,” Stott says, “and it can reach 50, or 500, or even 5,000 people with the touch of a button.” If only a tiny fraction of this quickly multiplying audience gets the message and already has prepared itself for disorder, then disorder is what they are likely to create.
"BBM" is BlackBerry Messenger, the main device that helped set off the rioting in Enfield, near London, earlier this year.

But check the whole piece, at the link.