[PDF] Athenian Potters and Painters Volume II: 2 by John H. Oakley; Francis Oakley; Olga Palagia in Arts-Photography

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Computers were first conceived as "thinking machines;" but in the twenty-first century they have become social machines; online places where people meet friends; play games; and collaborate on projects. In this book; Judith Donath argues persuasively that for social media to become truly sociable media; we must design interfaces that reflect how we understand and respond to the social world. People and their actions are still harder to perceive online than face to face: interfaces are clunky; and we have less sense of other peoples character and intentions; where they congregate; and what they do.Donath presents new approaches to creating interfaces for social interaction. She addresses such topics as visualizing social landscapes; conversations; and networks; depicting identity with knowledge markers and interaction history; delineating public and private space; and bringing the online worlds open sociability into the physical world. Donath asks fundamental questions about how we want to live online and offers thought-provoking designs that explore radically new ways of interacting and communicating.