The Social Machine: Designs for Living Online - Couverture rigide

Donath, Judith

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0262027011 ISBN 13 : 9780262027014

Editeur : The MIT Press, 2014

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Judith Donath is a Faculty Fellow at Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet and Society and a Visiting Scholar at MIT's Program in Science, Technology, and Society.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The MIT Press
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0262027011
• ISBN 13: 9780262027014
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 432
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• Personne responsable: non disponible