November 18th, 2003 · Comments Off
Elizabeth Lane Lawley on social software:
Eventually, the message may get through to the architects of new social software environments that systems developed only by hard-core geeks arenít likely to appeal to an audience much wider than those same geeks.
Watching social software will be interesting. We will see if she is right or if some geeks [...]
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November 18th, 2003 · Comments Off
I have enjoyed reading materials published by and about Sherry Turkle since her book Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet (Simon and Schuster, November 1995; Touchstone paperback, 1997). Here is a recent interview withTurkle. Sample text:
Have you ever adopted an alternative identity online?I’ve experimented with being a man and saw how [...]
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