Daniel Skog, Department of informatics: Give us back our diaries! - A story on how an online community responded to a software redesign

I recently attended the conference "Internet Research 8.0" that was held in Vancouver, October 17-20. In this seminar I will begin with giving a brief conference report. Then I will present my conference paper: ”Give us back our diaries! - A story on how an online community responded to a software redesign”

By telling the story of how an online community responded to a software redesign, this paper shows how a seemingly small alteration in the software environment of an online community had a great social impact on the community.

The empirical case highlights the often-unpredictable social outcomes of design decisions and it is argued that the relationship between technological features and social interaction must not be overlooked when caring for the development of an online community.

An extended abstract can be found here: http://conferences.aoir.org/viewabstract.php?id=997&cf=6

Välkomna!
John Waterworth