A History of the Social Web
Many of you have linked to this blog essay, which was by all means merely a draft, a beginning. I kept working on it ever since but did not publish my frequent updates because the text got far too long for a blog entry. I'll post a reference to the finished text here.
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Networked sociality didn't start with the telegraph either :). "Networks" are a way of looking at things (paying attention to the links rather than the nodes) and so have always existed. Perhaps you mean "social networking technologies." The distinction gets to the whole confusion of a "social networking system" vs. "social networks" that is probably worth drawing conceptually.
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You fast forward to the memex, bypassing what continues to be the most important social networking technology ever: the telephone. Especially the automatically switched telephone, which ends up being addressed in Baran's famous switching article. See, esp., Carolyn Marvin's book.
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Can't leave out the Community Memory project :).
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I assume you are already aware of this:
http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2007/08/02/history_of_soci.html
Thanks for the reference to the Community Memory Project, I was not aware of it.
I was a bit irritated concerning the Cage/participatory culture paragraph. Maybe Brecht's radio theory would be a better example in the context of participatory media development?
I am aware that the Cage example is on the one hand an all too known and often cited work but remember that on the other hand it really is a key example of participatory art practices and as I point out, the participation in this piece is somewhat involuntary.I re-wrote that part several times. Perhaps it is still hard to make that link.
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