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Social Software & Senior Citizens | 10 comments
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by SophiaRawlinson on Fri Oct 31st, 2003 at 11:42:16 PM EURODISCORDIA TIME
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I think Fuller's ideas for social software seem to focus more on software that is critical of itself and software development issues, but may not necessarily be more 'user-friendly' - much like the work of Sarai and The Waag. In my project, I aimed to work towards more 'user-friendly' interfaces for senior citizens, along the lines of work by Sarai and the Waag; although it certainly would have been interesting to develop some sort of conceptual work based on Fuller's definitions of social software in his essay.
I suggest the idea of the collaborative interface, as one such way to increase usability - an example being the Wiki (as previously mentioned by Myron Turner) - a democratic form of web publishing & editing. The artist group Knowbotic Research develop collaborative interfaces using both software and hardware.

So far, most critical software I have come across is in the realm of 'net art' - if anyone knows of any other examples, I would be interested to hear about them. Also, critical writing on social software seems to be thin on the ground - in my essay I spoke mainly of Kittler, Fuller and Manovich - are there any other critical thinkers that can be applied to social software issues?
I agree that usability issues may also occur in general information design, including print publications, for example.
I am happy to email my dissertation, which discusses these ideas further, to anyone who is interested.



 

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