[Sociam-soton] Re: Is email a social machine?

[Leslie Carr]

I would argue that despite having many qualities of a social machine, email lacks some key points. Specifically, email per se has no agenda, purpose or reason - unlike galaxy zoo or Wikipedia.

It is perhaps useful social machinery, but not *a* social machine. 

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> On 29 Oct 2013, at 10:14, "Wendy Hall" <wh at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> I'm at dinner in Melbourne and the question has arisen - is email a social machine?
> 
> My initial reaction was no, because email is not of the Web. But there are people here who are persuading me otherwise
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> Wendy
> 
> PS Apologies if this question is already answered in the SM classification work but I don't have all the information to hand
> 
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