Comments on: What Google Could Learn From Goffman

By: Google’s Social Challenge « Fred Stutzman

Google’s Social Challenge « Fred Stutzman — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 22:39:51 +0000

[...] has demonstrated facility and creative thinking. Google has also clearly been chastened by Buzz, which was nothing less than a dangerous, brute-force attack on our social graphs. Google’s social search strategy requires our networks, and it requires networks that we [...]

By: together, in a sense : pitching vs. thinking about what it is like to live with a system

Sat, 30 Apr 2011 19:30:28 +0000

[...] On the other hand, it’s also often fairly easy to prototype and even do large-scale test deployments of software (i.e., try living with) in a way that simply isn’t possible with large buildings or urban development projects. These prototypes and field tests often let designers learn many of the unintended consequences. (Of course, you only learn about the group you test the app with.) [...]

By: Worlds Colliding | sune lehmann

Worlds Colliding | sune lehmann — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 20:29:43 +0000

[...] above. Fred Stutzman writes eloquently about buzz and colliding worlds inspired by Erving Goffman here. That post sparked additional ‘world-colliding’ thoughts from David Truss (via this [...]

By: Kickstarting the “Next Facebook” « 3Strides

Kickstarting the “Next Facebook” « 3Strides — Fri, 14 May 2010 23:29:19 +0000

[...] ingenuity, creativity, and resourcefulness so far. I think that rather than pushing people into context collapse, Facebook should be focused on making it even more clear what context it is in which people are [...]

By: elearnspace › What Google Could Learn from Goffman

elearnspace › What Google Could Learn from Goffman — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 03:00:48 +0000

[...] is one of the more insightful statements I’ve come across recently – What Google Could Learning From Goffman: “When we merge social groups together, we are challenged to manage our disclosures across [...]

By: fred

fred — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 22:57:48 +0000

Anders – Thanks for that great link!

By: Anders Lundkvist

Anders Lundkvist — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 20:33:35 +0000

Thx Fred for a great reading experience! As an old student of both Goffman and Granovetter I can’t help making another link to Silicon Valley’s embedded social network structure, as pointed out by Mark Granovetter: http://www.scribd.com/doc/24761082/Social-Networks-in-Silicon-Valley-Mark-Granovetter-et-al

By: Doug

Doug — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 15:24:29 +0000

Something must be really wrong with me because I like Buzz. I’m interacting with a ton of people who are not on Twitter or Facebook. If it’s such a failure, why am I on it more than those other two sites combined anymore? And not because it’s really my choice but because it’s where most people I know are choosing to be?

By: Larry Irons

Larry Irons — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 15:21:45 +0000

I’d also suggest that the problems you highlight are most systematically considered by Goffman in his essay, Felicity’s Condition http://www.jstor.org/pss/2779047

By: El mensaje es el medio - What Google Could Learn From Goffman « Fred Stutzman

El mensaje es el medio - What Google Could Learn From Goffman « Fred Stutzman — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 10:26:17 +0000

[...] In the week since Google introduced Buzz, the most interesting thing about the fiasco has been watching the company. For an organization as risk-averse and PR-aware as Google, a public failure offers insight that can’t be gleaned from watching daily operations. As Google attempts to fix the problems and move the conversation onward, I thought I might reflect on some of the teachable elements of this event. via fstutzman.com [...]