Network Community Design: A Social-Technical Design Circle
| dc.contributor.author | O'Day, Vicki L. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Bobrow, Daniel G. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Shirley, Mark | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-06-06T06:27:40Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-06-06T06:27:40Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1998 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Network communities are especially interesting and useful settings in which to look closely at the co-evolution of technology and social practice, to begin to understand how to explore the full space of design options and implications. In a network community we have a magnified view of the interactions between social practice and technical mechanisms, since boundaries between designers and users are blurred and co-evolution here is unusually responsive to user experience. This paper is a reflection on how we have worked with social and technical design elements in Pueblo, a school-centered network community supported by a MOO (an Internet-accessible, text-based virtual world). Four examples from Pueblo illustrate different ways of exploring the design space. The examples show how designers can rely on social practice to simplify a technical implementation, how they can design technical mechanisms to work toward a desirable social goal, how similar technical implementations can have different social effects, and how social and technical mechanisms co-evolve. We point to complexities of the design process and emphasize the contributions of mediators in addressing communication breakdowns among a diverse group of designers. | de |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1023/A:1008691222992 | |
| dc.identifier.pissn | 1573-7551 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1008691222992 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://dl.eusset.eu/handle/20.500.12015/3532 | |
| dc.publisher | Springer | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW): Vol. 7 | |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) | |
| dc.subject | computer supported cooperative learning | |
| dc.subject | CSCL | |
| dc.subject | CSCW design | |
| dc.subject | learning community | |
| dc.subject | MOO | |
| dc.subject | MUD | |
| dc.subject | network community | |
| dc.subject | participatory design | |
| dc.subject | sociotechnical systems | |
| dc.subject | work practice | |
| dc.title | Network Community Design: A Social-Technical Design Circle | de |
| dc.type | Text/Journal Article | |
| gi.citation.endPage | 337 | |
| gi.citation.startPage | 315 |