This is a little academic, but it has a nice premise: http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1282
"..beyond the quick enthusiasm and the rhetoric of social networks, it is urgent and necessary to develop a critical theory of social networks, and about how contemporary artistic practice could be essential for the exploration of new forms of participation, activism and democracy on the Internet." As many of us know, all these social networks are just empty vessels and useless until people actually make things happen through them. Social networks are impotent in and of themselves. In many cases, they feel more like streamlined data mining operations of our habits. Anyway....here's a list of projects that play with this idea: http://project.arnolfini.org.uk/projects/2008/antisocial/index.php# Jay -- http://jaydedman.com 917 371 6790
