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| '''Adrian Chan is a researcher specializing in social software and 'relations'.'''
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| Information provided by the author.
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| =Resources=
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| '''Social software blog''' at
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| http://www.gravity7.com/blog/media/
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| '''Index to writings''' in pdf format, at http://www.gravity7.com/articles_investigations.html
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| '''Index to social software postings''', at http://www.gravity7.com/articles_observations.html
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| =Projects=
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| "My project Venn is:
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| --'''Proximities.''' I believe tech of communication fundamentally changes our
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| proximity to one another, meaning we now need a sociology of proximity based
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| not on spatial copresence but on presence negotiation (access to people,
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| issues of "absence"), and built on temporality not space (routines, an
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| understanding of "open states of talk", durations (the persistence of
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| relations, norms, events, and communication over time). TIME is the least
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| understood dimension of any connective technology.
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| --'''Interaction dynamics.''' What happens when 2 or more people interact through
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| a technology. Issues of communication (information capture, archiving,
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| access, search, persistence, privacy, public/private). Issues of interaction
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| (gestural and paralinguistic handling, ambiguity, intimacies, timing, and of
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| course self-presentation). I am starting a project I would like to be an A-Z
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| of pschological experiences and transformations. Using the DSM (psychiatric
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| diagnostic manual) and my own take on psych, which is biased towards British
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| School of Object Relations, Transactional Analysis, Group dynamics, I'm
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| interested in how SSNs, IM, chat, vidchat, discussions, blogs, email, bec
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| they are asynch or near-synch, screen identities, defer confirmations and
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| acknowledgments, permit "unratified participants" (eg lurkers), disrupt
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| episodic talk, screw w/ turn taking, authority and position, etc. I have
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| ideas like "borderline or narcissists love SSN's!" You get the picture.
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| Presence is co-produced by its technology....
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| --'''Social systems.''' Culture, online community, groups, networks, p2p. All of
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| these involve: action coordination; in/formal communication; transactions;
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| trust; boundaries; rhythms; speech as text. For this I use anthro and
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| sociology, mostly french/german/british. Some ethnomethodology (eg. XOX
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| PARC). I'm big on applying Niklas Luhmann's systems theory here. Goffman,
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| Giddens, and Habermas. A bit of Foucault, Bourdieu, and Habermas. A bit of
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| Kevin Kelly/Negroponte/Linked/Six Degrees stuff. Some SNA (social network
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| analysis, tho it's too topological and never describes th nature of a
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| relation, only its traffic).
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| --'''Talk systems.''' I profoundly believe that much of mediated communication and
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| interaction must be understood as Talk. It's linguistically-mediated
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| exchange. As such, I believe it has to address habermas' three truth claims:
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| facticity, sincerity, and normative rightfulness. We need to understand the
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| stretch of talk, span of activity, sequencing and seriality of activity, in
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| a mediated talk. I separate communication tools and interaction tools, the
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| former being about capturing/archiving/searching/presenting contributions;
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| the latter being about handling meanings, implications, emotional
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| expression, timing, context, theme, and interaction dynamics of
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| interactions. Communication tool is a tribe discussion. Private message is
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| an interaction tool.
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| --'''Socially structured content.''' This is a new project, inspired by canter's
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| structured blogging (which is baked into the GoingOn platform). So I have a
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| framework of content types, their presentation modules, their sort by,
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| filter by, link to organization. All based on idea that the designer can
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| only influence participation. But that any info onscreen informs what
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| happens as populations grow, over time. In a word, if LinkedIn were to add
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| pictures, shit would change...
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