Social aspects in focus Sociological perspective A community is a - PDF document

Communities…? Emergent Interaction Systems • A kind of environment in which a number of individual actors share some experience/ Background The goal of the lecture is to look at Emergent phenomenon. interaction systems from a non technical perspective, and seek answers to what is meant by "community"and • Data originating from the actors and their " virtual community”. behaviour is collected , transformed and fed back into the environment. • This feedback must have some noticeable effect on the individuals or on the collective behaviour. — Design av Samverkande System — — Design av Samverkande System — 1 2 Emergent Interaction Systems Emergent Interaction Systems • This something, emerge in the interaction among individuals , the collective , and the shared • Tectonic systems phenomenon as a result from the shared feedback Backkground Background • This kind of systems is to high degree systems loop introduces in the system. • The immediate effect may be: without or with local/regional principles of • Strengthening individuals' experience, with results on organisation - the emergens of behaviour, organsiations, etc is central. the behavior of individuals and decisions, etc. • Some kind of change in the shared phenomenon • Social systems • The kind systems are intended for community and interaction within the collective — Design av Samverkande System — — Design av Samverkande System — 3 4 Social aspects in focus Sociological perspective • A community is a construction or a model The kind of systems that are the focus of this course, is a type of system where the social • …a sociocultural construction aspects of the design of "the" digital artifact must Communities Background • That means, a collection: be in focus. Even more than the traditional design of computer systems. • Human behavior • Design and implementation in large • Interaction • Emergent interactions systems • Expactations • Applications that are focused on communities • Behavior based on shared/common • Already existing or new ones”born in the use of the • expactions, values, beliefs, opinions system” — Design av Samverkande System — — Design av Samverkande System — 5 6

“Communities…” …a sociocultural construction • With a life by itself that goes beyond the sum of • Communities in large defintion: Sociologisk perspektiv • Group of individuals (people) tied to: the lives of its members • area/region Communities • That means, a super-organic system • language • in-organic, organic, and super-organic • ethnicity, religion, values,… • As consists of the learned, not the inherited • ownership • occupation, profession,… • Dynamic and changing • interest, agreement, … • Dvs, a community is a cultural organism • • http://cec.vcn.bc.ca/cmp/whatcom.htm • — Design av Samverkande System — — Design av Samverkande System — 7 8 Charateristics Charateristics • The members are well aware of his/her Sociologisk perspektiv Sociologisk perspektiv membership • Size • ”Community life” is the core (gemeinshaft also in • Age english) for the term “Community” • Activities • Fuzzy or vague boundaries • Interactivity and communication • Communites exist within larger ones • Organsiation • More or less hetrogen in its compostion • Dynamic and changeble, more or less rapidly — Design av Samverkande System — — Design av Samverkande System — 9 10 Six dimmensions Technical • Is its capital, its tools and abilities to manage and Sociologisk perspektiv Sociologisk perspektiv • All cultures/communities have these six dimensions control the physical environment • Technical • It’s the interface between the humans and the nature • Economical • But it is not the tools themselves, which • Political represent this dimension alone, ideas and • Social behaviors that make it possible to: invent, • Ethic-values use, teach about tools belong to it also. • The easiest to implement, affect the other five • Values and views dimmensions — Design av Samverkande System — — Design av Samverkande System — 11 12

Economical Political • Are the ways and means of production and • Are the ways and means to get: power, Sociologisk perspektiv Sociologisk perspektiv allocation of resources, services, products, influence, decisivenes and other values • Includes everything from governmental power, • It is not physical things that money gang leaders, and to communities with no represents, that make this dimension, but the identifiable leader ideas and behavior that gives value for money • Many different types of leaders and forms of • Money has no value in itself, but it is society, decision paths culture, community that creates it. • All in a community can’t be done with money !!! — Design av Samverkande System — — Design av Samverkande System — 13 14 Social Aesthetic-values • Composed of how people act, interact, react and • Are structures of ideas that humans have about what is: Sociologisk perspektiv Sociologisk perspektiv expects other to act and interact • good or bad • Is about the whay people act in relations to • nice or uggly others, ie the various roles existing • right or wrong • The dimmension the people deem to be • Used to explain the way people acts and behave Sociology. • Sometime paradoxical, inconsistent, contradictory • Change slowly in a community and diffucult to change • Common/shared values are a important part of a community — Design av Samverkande System — — Design av Samverkande System — 15 16 Perceptions & Opinions The six Dimmensions • Ideas that humans have on nature, the world • Learned from "birth" ... Sociologisk perspektiv Sociologisk perspektiv around them, their role in it, cause and effect, • "if you do not learn you're dead" time perception, and behavior • Exists in all forms of human cultures • Can be seen as a religious dimension, but is much • Links all six dimensions together more • Change in one, inevitable impact on all other dimensions are more or less • Experience, allows one to predict how various changes will affect — Design av Samverkande System — — Design av Samverkande System — 17 18