(2005-05-26) Boyd Significance Social Software Cultures

Danah Boyd on "The Significance of Social Software". It smells like she's mainly still arguing against Clay Shirky's Framing of it - [z2004-10-14-Social SoftwareHistory]. While parts of these technologies have been built in research, the actual advances are impossible to construct in a laboratory due to the sociological effects necessary for maturation.

I just ran across this Don Norman piece complaining about the impracticality (for Product Development) of the knowledge of people trained in the Behavioral, Cognitive, and Social Science-s (BCSS). He talks a lot about Engineering vs Science, Analysis vs Synthesis, Business vs Academy - various pairs of Two Cultures.