Class blog for Winter 2006 "Ubiquitous Computing and Interaction"
Comments: Social Computing
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Some Thoughts......
After the last days lecture some thoughts on social meaning came to my mind.I felt that like any big technical revolution computarization also has an impact on social behaviour and hence on language or other means of communication.For example, I got an instant message which said " the last evening was gr8". 'Great' has been replaced by 'gr8' under this impact.Not only in language , it has brought changes in our social protocol.Like, if we want to report against one of our office fellow, we write him/her an e-mail and give a cc to the boss.
It has changed our way of telling lies. If we want to avoid some friends we project ourselves as offline to those friends.And sometimes even they take offense understanding that we are avoiding them.
This is a great lot of change.
Some Thoughts......
After the last days lecture some thoughts on social meaning came to my mind.I felt that like any big technical revolution computarization also has an impact on social behaviour and hence on language or other means of communication.For example, I got an instant message which said " the last evening was gr8". 'Great' has been replaced by 'gr8' under this impact.Not only in language , it has brought changes in our social protocol.Like, if we want to report against one of our office fellow, we write him/her an e-mail and give a cc to the boss.
It has changed our way of telling lies. If we want to avoid some friends we project ourselves as offline to those friends.And sometimes even they take offense understanding that we are avoiding them.
This is a great lot of change.
Posted by: Ishani Chakraborty | May 3, 2006 02:38 PM