In the case of prisons, abuse, Iraq, and reality TV, I think we learn that the reason scripted sit coms and regular TV programming is being displaced by Reality TV programming is, to put it simply, that Reality has taken over television.
It was the case there for a while that Television could manufacture reality. But the recording and distribution technologies (read: digital cameras and networks) have undermined television broadcast hegemony.
Neither broadcast nor cable TV could have thought up a scenario as sick as the one that has recently unfolded in Iraq prisons. In the hands of American soldiers, pornography is apparently not just for personal pleasure.
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- Principles of Social Interaction Design?
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- Social design of the collaborative economy
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- Enterprise systems of engagement — social designers needed
- Apple, the rise and fall of “aura,” and the social brand image
- Big UX, small UX
- Instagram profiles: the social image
- The system that breaks is not the system that repairs
- Beyond the Social Object
- The medium and its messengers: story-telling and social media
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I am currently UX lead and manager at DeloitteDigital, San Francisco.
I make your social media work better for people. Social Interaction Design (SxD) is user-centric approach to social media design, implementation, and strategy that accounts for how different kinds of users engage with social media, and how sites and application design and execution lead to emergent social practices. It applies to user experience design (UX), interaction design (IxD), user interface design (UI), and information architecture (IA). It draws on insights from psychology, sociology, anthropology, communication theory, and media theory. I am available for consulting to design agencies, social media agencies, startups, and social media campaign managers.
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Founder, SxdSalon>, a group blog