Better social media engagement through user experience and social practices
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
The sociologist’s main concern is understanding the manner in which the individual stretches transcends his/her physical presence with relationships that stretch across time and space. “Big” sociology goes after the structures and systems that comprise
Speech acts, which were first noted by Austin and which involve utterances that “do something,” are often cited by interaction designers as a way of structuring a software system’s conversational interactions. There’s a glaring problem
I’m knee deep in research about online community, interaction tools, wireless communication and technology, social networks, you name it. Through all the theories, methodologies, and other design approaches I’ve found, one thing stands out. And