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Clay shirky, social software and the politics of groups

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Clay Shirky: Writings about the internet, Social Software and the Politics of Groups.

Clay Shirky’s hoveddefinition er, at socialt software understøtter gruppekommunikation.

”Gruppen” skal ses som den centrale enhed.

- Det er vigtige, er altid, at gruppen er mere end de individer gruppen udgives af

- Man er en del af netværket – man bruger hinanden

- Alt kan være tværfagligt

Old Systems, Old Assumptions:

Blandt andet kommer Shirky ind på at nutidens net er en global metropol, hvor man behøver beskyttelse

for at vokse for hurtigt, ”off-topic conversation” og spam.

Social Software Encodes Political Bargains:

Shirky derfra ind på ”the slashdot´s core principle” som beskrives således:

”Slashdot´s constitution (though it is not called that) specifies only three mechanisms for handling the tension between individual freedom to post irrelevant or offensive material, and the group´s desire to be able to find the interesting comments.”

1. Moderation: En jury (“..of members in good standing..”) der bedømmer kvaliteten af et indlæg.

2. Meta-moderation: En måde at tjekke moderatorne for bias

3. Karma: En måde at definere hvem der er ”a member of good standing”

Testing Group Experiences

..”Social software has progressed far less quickly than single-user software, in part because we have a much better idea of how to improve user experiences than group experience, and a much better idea of how to design interfaces than constitutions.”

..”We have historically overestimated the value of network access to computers, and underestimated the value of network access to other people, so we have spent much more time on the technical rather than social problems of software used by groups.. ”

Barriers

“..Most groups have some sort of barriers to group membership, which can be thought of as a membrane separating the group from the rest of the world. ”

Dagens perspektiv, 11. september 2007.

Såfremt man skal sætte Clay Shirky ind i et mikro vs. makro perspektiv, synes han at hælde mest til,

at ”gruppen” skal ses med et mikro-perspektiv.