One of my favorite books about community is a work by Nobel Prize winner Elias Canetti called Crowds and Power. [...]
Social media, converging streams?
Adrian Chan
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Adrian Chan is a social media expert and social interaction theorist at Gravity7. You can follow him on twitter at /gravity7
The Attention Economy of Social Media
I started wondering last evening what twitter would be like if in addition to followers we could also see who [...]
Why Online Ratings Don’t Work
Recently I came across an article in the Wall Street Journal about online ratings. The article, which surveys a number [...]
Incentives are for Games & Interests for Social Media
Incentives are a commonplace to game designers and developers. They are a means of designing activity to support goals and [...]
Re-framing the problem: Social Interaction Design
Introducing frames.
Users: Which is Which, and Who is Who?
On the phone yesterday with friend and colleague John Cass (SNCR), he happened upon an interesting topic. One for social [...]
Behavior: hard-wired or soft-aware?
Josh Porter has a nice post out this week on the importance of taking user behaviors into account in social [...]
Who’s motivating the users?
Alfred Hitchcock used to say that he never made a “Whodunnit” movie. His movies were “For whom was it done?” [...]
Discovery vs creation: relating to social media
Some time ago I was thinking about an essay Michel Foucault once wrote about two competing concepts of the Self [...]
Social Interaction Design Primer II: 6. What’s next
Marshall McLuhan taught us that every medium uses a previous medium as its content. The same applies to social media. [...]