Articles and research on communication technology, web culture, media theory, sociology, and user experience

Social Media Research: Observations

These pieces were written in 2003 and 2004. I leave them here because there are links to them, out there, in the spreading ether of the world wide web. For more recent notes, see my social media blog, white papers, and reading notes.

Social Software: Friendship in the first degree Social networks and differences of the first degree
Social Software: Social Software Dynamics Social networks are driven not by nodes and links, but by social dynamics
Social Software: Is there Social in Software? Social software applications create relations, but what kind of social?
Insights: Communication on the Net A few of the effects of communication technology, presented as symptoms, patterns, and observations.
Social Interaction Design White Papers on the design, dynamics, and concerns of social software sites, social media, web 2.0, and other user-generated content sites.
Reading Notes on theories relevant to Social Interaction Design