First Monday: The Augmented Social Network: Building identity and trust into the next-generation Internet"The ASN is not a piece of software or a Web site. Rather, it is a model for a next-generation online community that could be implemented in a number of ways, using technology that largely exists today. It is a system that would enhance the power of social networks by using interactive digital media to exploit the transitive nature of trust through the principle of six degrees of connection. As a result, people will be able to inform themselves and self-organize more effectively -- in non-hierarchical, rhizomatic social formations -- leading to more opportunities for engaged citizenship."
A very interesting read. probably blog more on this whenm I have taken it all in.
Posted by Paul Goodison at August 7, 2003 10:43 AM | TrackBack