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

[Laura Dragan]

Hi,

I think email is not a social machine, but rather it can be the
supporting infrastructure for possible social machines - like Twitter
for example (although twitter as a whole can be argued to be a general
purpose social machine)

It can be used to organize humans (and machines in the form of bots) to
achieve given goals. The degree of participation from humans and
machines, and if the goals are achieved online or offline, are separate
discussions.

Laura

On 10/29/2013 10:10 AM, Wendy Hall 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
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
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