Tugging at the Seams: Understanding the Fabric of Social Sites
Tugging at the Seams: Understanding the Fabric of Social Sites
Social networking websites have become increasingly popular in recent times, yet it can be difficult to understand the way in which people use these spaces. This poster presents a systematic deconstruction method which grants insight into the nature of a given experience, and shows how this knowledge can be used to reconstruct experiences in new contexts. The authors demonstrate the method by applying it to some key facets of social websites, and discuss how the functionality might be reconstructed in different contexts such as ubiquitous computing. We evaluate the method and discuss the findings, noting that if social material can be provided in new contexts, far more people can be included in interactions which are currently limited to the web.
Owens Hooper, Clare
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1 July 2009
Owens Hooper, Clare
072bdce8-76b5-4ef1-aff2-b43e677ea823
Owens Hooper, Clare
(2009)
Tugging at the Seams: Understanding the Fabric of Social Sites.
Hypertext 2009.
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Social networking websites have become increasingly popular in recent times, yet it can be difficult to understand the way in which people use these spaces. This poster presents a systematic deconstruction method which grants insight into the nature of a given experience, and shows how this knowledge can be used to reconstruct experiences in new contexts. The authors demonstrate the method by applying it to some key facets of social websites, and discuss how the functionality might be reconstructed in different contexts such as ubiquitous computing. We evaluate the method and discuss the findings, noting that if social material can be provided in new contexts, far more people can be included in interactions which are currently limited to the web.
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Published date: 1 July 2009
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Hypertext 2009, 2009-07-01
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Web & Internet Science
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Local EPrints ID: 271347
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/271347
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Clare Owens Hooper
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