{"product_id":"the-social-machine-designs-for-living-online-mit-press","title":"The Social Machine: Designs for Living Online (Mit Press)","description":"\u003cp\u003eNew ways to design spaces for online interactionand how they will change society. Computers were first conceived as thinking machines  but in the twenty-first century they have become social machines  online places where people meet friends  play games  and collaborate on projects. In this book  Judith Donath argues persuasively that for social media to become truly sociable media  we must design interfaces that reflect how we understand and respond to the social world. People and their actions are still harder to perceive online than face to face: interfaces are clunky  and we have less sense of other peoples character and intentions  where they congregate  and what they do. Donath presents new approaches to creating interfaces for social interaction. She addresses such topics as visualizing social landscapes  conversations  and networks; depicting identity with knowledge markers and interaction history; delineating public and private space; and bringing the online worlds open sociability into the physical world. Donath asks fundamental questions about how we want to live online and offers thought-provoking designs that explore radically new ways of interacting and communicating.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44946856869941,"sku":"ByrdShop_0262027011","price":29.58,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780262027014_729c000c-8c42-43ab-b545-b84d1ff7106c.jpg?v=1770412469","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-social-machine-designs-for-living-online-mit-press","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}