What particular features of digital information networks, like presence of email groups and online communities, and the propensity of individual users such as bloggers to connect across them, most favored the growth of a initial meme into a global coverage?
This is from yesterday’s New York Times. One is the Hubble Telescope detected the Pillars of Creation. The other is Capt. Bruce McCandless tested a nitrogen-propelled backpack.
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This poster is from Yezi’s blog. Are you surprised?
Congradulations, Eve.
普适互联属于物理层面，应用计算、社会软件属于知性层面，虚拟社区和网路行动族属于社会层面，而涌现智能则属于精神层面。在这数位，互动，对等，社区，局域，多对多或者任意点对任意点传播的文化背后，是人的自主和创造的价值。
新文化是普适的，并且将人际交流回归到局域关联场去，但不再全能，不再环绕单一吸引子如意义（宗教），理性（哲学），实验（科学）或者受众（媒体）而决定身份，这是和书写有深刻不同的地方。（艺术不能等同于书写。）
而一些后现代哲学家们将普适和全能混爻为一，一反全反，面对新文化，则会迷了心性。
“仓颉之初作书，盖依类象形，故谓之文。其后，形声相宜，则谓之字。文者，物像之本也。字者，言孽乳而浸多也。“
“依类象形”, 则文是抽象的符号。而字同时有声有形。利用形声相宜的手段，字可以滋生，从单体的语言单位（按照规则）滋生为复体。许慎在几乎两千年前，观点已经暗合简简致繁的思想。
Different discipline has different epistemologies.
What is knowledge? What is research? What’s good work? What is adequate? What is interesting? How are these judgments being made?
There are profound differences in epistemologies. Within a field, people often accept arguments which other field people do not accept. What’s good work is what you learn through “profesionalization”
In Science and Technology Studies. (STS), we often say: “it could have been otherwise.”
We must be refletive on epistemologies.
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Being two places at once, having two conversation at once is disruptive. Does this break social order? But new norms of behavior are also being developed.
How about this “continues partial attention “?
“If my continues partial attention is too partial to you, then you are too old.” 
“The new kind of social settings enabled through mobil communication that differ fundamentally from prior settings such as workplace, restaurant, face-to-face interaction, or landline telephony.” Mazuko Ito called “technosocial situations and settings” in her paper.
Social identity and practice are embedded in and contingent on particular social situations, including technosocial situations.
What is ethnographic research? Case studies.
Traditional positivist view of research: objectivity -assumption of “the view from nowhere”
In social sciences, we are more talking about “Situated knowledge”, there is no “the view from nowhere.”
Danah told me this conference is in San Diego next week.