Oct 15, 2008
anti-social notworking
I got this via an article SOCIAL NETWORKING IS NOT WORKING, Txt: Clemente Pestelli / Eng: Chiara Resmini in digimag.
antisocial notworking is a repository of projects that explore the pseudo-agency of online social platforms. It takes a number of recent software projects as its inspiration to reflect upon the fashion for ‘participation’ with the arts sector and culture in general. The concern is how the Internet is increasingly charactised as a ‘platform’ (or collective machine) for ‘social’ uses, but to question what is meant by the term social in such descriptions. Although social networking platforms rely on user-generated content, what is the nature of this participation? What alternatives (or antitheses) can be identified?