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September 27, 2005
Seth Goldstein on Media Futures
Posted by Stowe Boyd
Seth Goldstein launchesd a five part series on media futures by adopting a metaphor for social medai: cellular automata. These are the game-of-life simulations that complexity theorists have used to represent the emergent order that arises from seemingly systems involving the interaction of independently operating agents, who may in fact have very simple rules to guide their behavior. The most important rules turn out to be how the agents moderate their actions based on their perceptions of what those around them are doing. As Seth points out, this interaction is through a medium -- the cellular matrix in these simulations -- and this leads to astonishingly rich effects. In the real world, he suggests we are seeing similar effects:
This would seem to be the essence of social media (props to my wife and guide Tina Sharkey for coining this years ago and registering the domain) and social computing, two memes that seem to be growing in influence. When individual decisions such as applying certain tags to pages or photos achieve a broad social consensus, then it as if these tags begin to self replicate which is the essence of automatic behavior.
The confluence of social media and social computing, which I been calling social architecture (as in the social architecture of web 2.0), is what I consider the critical meme of our day. I look forward to see where Seth plans to take this metaphorical exploration. And I was totally unaware of Tina Sharkey and her role as the coiner of "social media" -- I'd like to find the reference if anyone has one.
[Update: The mad linker points out that this piece is from March, and that Seth has completed the series... so, I intend to read them and write a longer post, then.]
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