Self-Organization in Social Technical Systems
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What is a social technical system?
two options:
A technical system that supports social interaction of humans (for some purpose)
Here, units are humans, interactions are mediated by technical system, total is "social system".
- Wikipedia: technically supported stigmergy-like interaction of humans to create a common knowledge base - Recommendation systems (evaluating quality of bought items in online stores) - Social networking (facebook, studiVZ,
A social system emerging from interactions of technical units (for some purpose or purpose-free)
Here, units are technical systems (e.g. robots), interactions are such that total system is "social".
- Can a technical system be social (in the sense of helping each other)? - swarms of robots
and one more:
Recurrent self-enhancing social interactions
Technology supports social interactions (Facebook) and
social Interactions leads to improved content (of Facebook)
==> "value" is created by socal interactions supported by technology by self-organization
- platforms of Web 2.0, e.g. Flickr, Facebook, Wikipedia, Google Calendar,...
- value comes from content introduced and updated by humans.
--Mtimme 12:42, 15 July 2010 (UTC)
