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

[Thanassis Tiropanis]

I agree with the views on email not having the qualities of a social machine in terms of purpose, output, etc.
In specific contexts however, maybe there are some social machine elements to it - e.g. email services like gmail.

A part of the discussion on social machines is still ongoing I understand but I think that there is some consensus on the fact that some of them are infrastructure or services while others have a specific purpose.

Th.

On 29 Oct 2013, at 10:29, Kieron O'Hara <kmo at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:

> 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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