Plone as Social Software and Ambient Art

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Laura Trippi
www.netvironments.org
Slides are posted at plone.org: PresentationMaterials (http://plone.org/events/regional/nola05/wiki/PresentationMaterials)

Overview

• Consider Plone within a wider social and cultural context
• Frame and raise questions about
  • Plone's larger social function and potential
  • Effects of formal and procedural elements

Context: Network Society

• Accelerating pace of change
  • Technological drivers : Moore's Law (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Wgsimonmooreslaw001.jpg)
• Unintended consequences (world system)
  • Mounting complexity
  • [The Planet Under Pressure (BBC) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/04/sci_nat_enl_1096888217/html/1.stm)
  • Narrowing sense of “now” Long Now Diagram (http://www.longnow.org/about/longnowdiagram.htm)
  • Loss of sense of place and context
  • Approaching a threshold
    • Hillis on the coming threshold (http://tonka.iat.sfu.ca/courses/eculture/module_3/Unit1)
• Culture as a complex system
  • Characteristics of Complex Systems (http://necsi.org/projects/mclemens/cs_char.gif) (NECSI New England Complex Systems Institute)
  • dn/a: intelligent life (http://cyberatlas.guggenheim.org/home/index.html): web as neural net
    • distributed intelligence
    • compositional tools
    • (ILife schematic (http://valiant.iat.sfu.ca/Courses/ElectronicCulture2004/Module3/week2/ILifeSchematic.png/view))
  • Emergence of Network Society
    • "The Posthuman"
    • Network society
• OSS