Social Machine

Designs for Living Online

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ID23492959
AuthorsJudith Donath (corresponding author)
Year2014
Pages432
Publication date2014-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueSocial Machine (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherMIT Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.7551/mitpress/8340.001.0001
OpenAlexW4254393382
Open LibraryOL29707096M
ISBN9780262323482
LanguageEN
Citations received10

New ways to design spaces for online interaction—and how they will change society. Computers were first conceived as “thinking machines,” but in the twenty-first century they have become social machines, online places where people meet friends, play games, and collaborate on projects. In this book, Judith Donath argues persuasively that for social media to become truly sociable media, we must design interfaces that reflect how we understand and respond to the social world. People and their actions are still harder to perceive online than face to face: interfaces are clunky, and we have less sense of other people's character and intentions, where they congregate, and what they do. Donath presents new approaches to creating interfaces for social interaction. She addresses such topics as visualizing social landscapes, conversations, and networks; depicting identity with knowledge markers and interaction history; delineating public and private space; and bringing the online world's open sociability into the physical world. Donath asks fundamental questions about how we want to live online and offers thought-provoking designs that explore radically new ways of interacting and communicating.

Aesthetics · Art · Face (sociological concept) · Identity (music) · Media studies · Social group · Social identity theory · Social media · Social science · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Data Visualization and Analytics · Innovative Human-Technology Interaction · Psychology · Social Psychology · Usability and User Interface Design · Online social networks

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