Theoretical Questions

What particular features of digital information networks, like presence of email groups and online communities, and the propensity of individual […]

Two Visions of Cosmic Destiny

This is from yesterday’s New York Times. One is the Hubble Telescope detected the Pillars of Creation. The other is […]

网络四步曲

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。

说文解字片段

“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 Epistemologies

Different discipline has different epistemologies. What is knowledge? What is research? What’s good work? What is adequate? What is interesting? […]

Continues partial attention

Being two places at once, having two conversation at once is disruptive. Does this break social order? But new norms […]

Technosocial Situations

“The new kind of social settings enabled through mobil communication that differ fundamentally from prior settings such as workplace, restaurant, […]

Ethnographic Research

What is ethnographic research? Case studies. Traditional positivist view of research: objectivity -assumption of “the view from nowhere” In social […]

Etech 2004

Danah told me this conference is in San Diego next week.