On 14-Jan-08, at 11:59 AM, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote:
Was reading http://stephenfry.com/blog/?p=34 and a conversation
throwback morphed itself into a question as to how much research has
actually gone inside the social aspect of a social network. For
example,
sites like Flickr etc lend themselves well towards an increasing
number
of communes rather than a "world-is-flat" kind of monoculture thought
processes. Any pointers ?
Not exactly research, but my observations from a few years ago on
online community formation:
http://jace.seacrow.com/writing/2005/uicom/pre-proposal
Humanity abhors monocultures. Every advancement with the potential for
turning into a monoculture is pushed into being the foundation for a
new layer of diversity.
