Gravity7: Social Interaction Design SxD By Adrian Chan

A Mutual Friend : Mobile phones and art by Blast Theory (UK)

I met these guys at Banff years ago at an Interactive Screen (back in Sara Diamond daze)… Artists are in the fortunate position to plumb the relations between technology and society, technology and culture, concept,

Social interactions scale uniquely

Social experiences and interactions scale uniquely. Which is just one reason that social interaction design needs to pay close attention to the intervention of technology in communication and interaction. A new feature at an online

Civilization and its mis/mal/dis/contents

“Do not fold, spindle, or mutilate.” Remember that one? It was repurpased from computer manuals by students during late 60s protests (in Canada, I think) and became a tagline for the student protest movement. We

Social Software: Sociable, Social, Societal, or which is it?

I may be scratching where it doesn’t itch, but I’m feeling itchy and I’ve been scratching so I’m going to go with it. After months of working on a paper about what I call “social

Reading Notes on Social Capital

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 on Niklas Luhmann’s Social Systems

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