Working out the plot: the role of stories in social machines
Working out the plot: the role of stories in social machines
Although Social Machines do not have yet a formalized definition, some efforts have been made to characterize them from a “machinery” point of view. In this paper, we present a methodology by which we attempt to reveal the sociality of Social Machines; to do so, we adopt the analogy of stories. By assimilating a Social Machine to a story, we can identify the stories within and about that machine and how this storytelling perspective might reveal the sociality of Social Machines. After illustrating this storytelling approach with a few examples, we then propose three axes of inquiry to evaluate the health of a social machine: (1) assessment of the sociality of a Social Machine through evaluation of its storytelling potential and realization; (2) assessment of the sustainability of a Social Machine through evaluation of its reactivity and interactivity; and (3) assessment of emergence through evaluation of the collaboration between authors and of the distributed/mixed nature of authority.
Tarte, Ségolène
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De Roure, David
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Willcox, Pip
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Simperl, Elena
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Hendler, James
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2014
Tarte, Ségolène
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De Roure, David
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Willcox, Pip
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Simperl, Elena
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Contractor, Noshir
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Hendler, James
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Tarte, Ségolène, De Roure, David and Willcox, Pip
(2014)
Working out the plot: the role of stories in social machines.
Simperl, Elena, Contractor, Noshir, Hendler, James and Shadbolt, Nigel
(eds.)
The 23rd International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2014), Korea, Republic of, Korea, Republic of.
07 - 11 Apr 2014.
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Although Social Machines do not have yet a formalized definition, some efforts have been made to characterize them from a “machinery” point of view. In this paper, we present a methodology by which we attempt to reveal the sociality of Social Machines; to do so, we adopt the analogy of stories. By assimilating a Social Machine to a story, we can identify the stories within and about that machine and how this storytelling perspective might reveal the sociality of Social Machines. After illustrating this storytelling approach with a few examples, we then propose three axes of inquiry to evaluate the health of a social machine: (1) assessment of the sociality of a Social Machine through evaluation of its storytelling potential and realization; (2) assessment of the sustainability of a Social Machine through evaluation of its reactivity and interactivity; and (3) assessment of emergence through evaluation of the collaboration between authors and of the distributed/mixed nature of authority.
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Published date: 2014
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The 23rd International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2014), Korea, Republic of, Korea, Republic of, 2014-04-07 - 2014-04-11
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Ségolène Tarte
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David De Roure
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Pip Willcox
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Noshir Contractor
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James Hendler
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Nigel Shadbolt
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