4 posts tagged “social”
Tara Hunt from HorsePigCow recently linked to the JCMC Vol 13 Issue 1. There is a great article there - aside from the one on the history of social networking sites - from Judith Donath (MIT Media Lab) on "Signals in Social Supernets". She points to the grooming concept of socialization (cited from Robin Dunbar, University of Oxford)...
"In the wild, apes groom each other, picking through fur to remove parasitic bugs. This behavior helps with hygiene and is relaxing and pleasant for the recipient. Perhaps most importantly, it establishes social bonds: Apes who groom each other are more likely to help each other and not fight. Long grooming sessions are time consuming, however. Since the ape must also spend many hours finding food, sleeping, etc., it is clear that grooming can sustain only a limited number of relationships (Dunbar, 1996).
In Grooming, Gossip, and the Evolution of Language, Robin Dunbar (1996) argued eloquently that in human societies, language, especially gossip, has taken over the social function of grooming. Instead of removing lice from each other's hair, people check in with friends and colleagues, ask how they are doing, and exchange a few words about common acquaintances, the news, or the local sports team (Dunbar, 1996, 2004)."thoroughly awesome book
It is an excellent review of the impact of many, many things… free software, open source, web 2.0 (whatever you might think that is), social computing, organizational change, empowerment, etc.
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