“Social systems only exist in and through the continuity of social practices, fading away in time.” Anthony Giddens In matters of designing social media and social tools, I don’t think we can ever fully appreciate
’Action’ is not a combination of ‘acts’: ‘acts’ are constituted only by a discursive moment of attention to the duree of lived-through experience. Nor can ‘action’ be discussed in separation from the body, its mediations
“Language is not content to go from a first party to a second party, from one who has seen to one who has not, but necessarily goes from a second party to a third party,
At the risk of speaking too soon on Facebook’s announced design changes, I want to venture some reflections on what it seems Facebook is doing. I’ve long argued for capturing user interests over needs and
Gowalla re-launched its service today in a blog post titled: A New Gowalla. The move confirms what most of us already know — gamification has but a limited appeal. Seems both Foursquare and Gowalla reached
“Talk is an intrinsic feature of nearly all encounters and also displays similarities of systemic form. Talk ordinarily manifests itself as conversation. ‘Conversation’ admits of a plural, which indicates that conversations are episodes having beginnings