Theoretical Questions
What particular features of digital information networks, like presence of email groups and online communities, and the propensity of individual […]
What particular features of digital information networks, like presence of email groups and online communities, and the propensity of individual […]
This is from yesterday’s New York Times. One is the Hubble Telescope detected the Pillars of Creation. The other is […]
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? […]
Being two places at once, having two conversation at once is disruptive. Does this break social order? But new norms […]
“The new kind of social settings enabled through mobil communication that differ fundamentally from prior settings such as workplace, restaurant, […]
What is ethnographic research? Case studies. Traditional positivist view of research: objectivity -assumption of “the view from nowhere” In social […]
Danah told me this conference is in San Diego next week.