Journal article
Working out the plot: the role of stories in social machines
- Abstract:
- Although Social Machines do not have yet a formalized definition, some efforts have been made to characterize them from a “machinery” point of view. In this paper, we present a methodology by which we attempt to reveal the sociality of Social Machines; to do so, we adopt the analogy of stories. By assimilating a Social Machine to a story, we can identify the stories within and about that machine and how this storytelling perspective might reveal the sociality of Social Machines. After illustrating this storytelling approach with a few examples, we then propose three axes of inquiry to evaluate the health of a social machine: (1) assessment of the sociality of a Social Machine through evaluation of its storytelling potential and realization; (2) assessment of the sustainability of a Social Machine through evaluation of its reactivity and interactivity; and (3) assessment of emergence through evaluation of the collaboration between authors and of the distributed/mixed nature of authority.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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(Preview, Accepted manuscript, pdf, 169.6KB, Terms of use)
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1145/2567948.2578839
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+ Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
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- Grant:
- EP/J017728/1
- EP/J017728/1
- EP/J017728/1
- Funding agency for:
- Tarte, S
- De Roure, D
- Publisher:
- Association for Computing Machinery
- Journal:
- WWW Companion '14 Proceedings of the companion publication of the 23rd international conference on World wide web companion More from this journal
- Pages:
- 909-914
- Edition:
- Accepted Manuscript
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- ISBN:
- 9781450327459
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English
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2014-02-19
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- Copyright holder:
- International World Wide Web Conference Committee (IW3C2)
- Copyright date:
- 2014
- Notes:
- This is a preprint of an article accepted for publication in the proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on the Theory and Practice of Social Machines. © 2014 International World Wide Web Conference Committee.
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