Being social
in the digital
age
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About me
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What does it
mean being
digitally social?
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How digitally
sociable
are you?
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Can I tweet you?
Can I post a comment on
your Facebook wall?
Can I send a message via
Linkedin or Instagram?
If the answer is yes, then you
are “digitally sociable”.
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gurus, radios,
hammers,
& observers...
Italian designers.
How (digitally) sociable are they?
Gioia Guerzoni, Stefano Mirti, Remo Ricchetti. June 2012
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Social and
digital media are
transforming the way
we communicate.
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Can we map the
transformation?
Is it possible to make
an atlas of “digitally
sociable” designers?
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3 parameters:
talking,
listening,
affecting
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Being
When they post, write,
upload photographs.
In real world the metaphor
would be how much you talk.
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Listening
When they listen and pay
attention to what other
people do. It is about paying
attention to other people’s
activities.
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Affecting
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have on others. How much
they are listened to.
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Are you a guru,
a radio, a hammer
or an observer?
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gurus
people who do
little but are very
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radios
people who do a
lot but without
much results
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hammers
people who do a
lot and have a lot
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observers
people who do
little and have little
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Who do you
want to be in the
community?
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Facebook
vsTwitter
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People say that Facebook
is for connecting with the
people you went to school
with. Twitter is for people
you wished you had gone to
school with.
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Instagram is an online
photo-­sharing, video-­sharing
and social networking
service that enables its
users to take pictures and
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Instagram is all about
creating images.
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Pinterest is a virtual
bulletin board that lets users
share inspiring images and
links. Pinterest is all about
curating images.
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whoami.it
An experimental project
exploring new methods of
sharing knowledge in higher
education. Its model is based
on blended learning and mixing
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whoami.it
a collaboration between
Abadir and IdLab.
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www.whoami.it
www.viacascia6.it
imaginaryaurora
on twitter and instagram
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