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

[Kieron O'Hara]

I agree - I just said that in another email, and only wish I had said it 
as succinctly :-)
Kieron


On 29/10/2013 10:22, Leslie Carr wrote:
> 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.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> 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
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
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