Social capital seems to be a slippery term. I’m tempted to think of the term “civic society,” which would combine not only the health of social relations, expressed in a population’s reservoir of good neighborliness,
Reading Notes: Social Systems and Niklas LuhmannThe complete pdf is available here Double contingency is a fact of meaning, and the domain in which social software must be situated is a meaning-based domain: each individual
Designers like to establish who their users are before commencing with a system’s engineering and architecture, and for obvious reasons. Knowing one’s user is tantamount to knowing how one’s product or service will be used.
My Social Interaction Design project is in progress. This is an excerpt from an introductory section. Social software services that fail to develop into social practices among their users will fail in the marketplace. Social
“Note that insofar as participants in an encounter morally commit themselves to keeping conversational channels open and in good working order, whatever binds by virtue of system constraints will bind also by virtue of ritual
Graffiti or conversation? Messaging or interaction? Which is blogging? Is it a form of writing or a form of talk? We’re tempted and perhaps even required, by insufficiency of alternatives, to understand our new technologies