{"id":117,"date":"2008-01-04T12:40:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-04T19:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gravity7.com\/blog\/media\/2008\/01\/the-degree-zero-of-user-intentionality-on-social-media.html"},"modified":"2008-01-04T12:40:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-04T19:40:00","slug":"degree-zero-of-user-intentionality-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gravity7.com\/blog\/media\/2008\/01\/degree-zero-of-user-intentionality-on.html","title":{"rendered":"The degree zero of user intentionality on social media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m taking some time early this year to organize research for the months ahead. I spend some time over the holidays dipping back into the philosophers and sociologists I&#8217;ve always enjoyed reading. Habermas, Derrida, Giddens, Deleuze. There&#8217;s nothing better than a chill, rainy, winter day with a stack of your favorite works. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m trying to crack the nut this week on the meaning of user activity on social media. It&#8217;s a tough one. I suspect that there&#8217;s more data collected by social media than we can understand. And a great deal of activity is in response to or anticipation of what&#8217;s not there. For a medium that produces as much information as the social web, a great deal of our participation is a manner of coping with what&#8217;s not there. <\/p>\n<p>If I can come up with the linkages that couple the medium with psychological, linguistic, and sociological descriptions of meaning and explanations of actions, I&#8217;ll be very happy. It feels close this time.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m taking some time early this year to organize research for the months ahead. I spend some time over the holidays dipping back into the philosophers and sociologists I&#8217;ve always enjoyed reading. Habermas, Derrida, Giddens, Deleuze. There&#8217;s nothing better than a chill, rainy, winter day with a stack of your favorite works. I&#8217;m trying to&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28,14],"class_list":["post-117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-social-interaction-design","tag-theory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gravity7.com\/blog\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gravity7.com\/blog\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gravity7.com\/blog\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gravity7.com\/blog\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gravity7.com\/blog\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gravity7.com\/blog\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gravity7.com\/blog\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gravity7.com\/blog\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gravity7.com\/blog\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}