ASIS&T Annual Meeting Blog

Pre-Mediate

November 4th, 2006 beatrice.pulliam

posted for Deborah Swain

I am researching and trying to participate in “blending” modes with blogs and live meetings. A colleague in London (Ed Mitchell) sees how people meet up as fascinating:

” The post, telephones and now mobile technology have revolutionised the way people pre-mediate physical meet ups. And people are differentiating less between the nature of the interaction. Software and the Internet have created new interaction forms that people are still getting used to, but they are getting used to it and mixing it in with their normal lives.

“Try to organise a party without telephoning people beforehand. This sort of activity is probably best typified by Japanese youth going to Shibuya, as made famous by Howard Rheingold in SmartMobs. All these kids need to know is to go to Shibuya metro station in the evening and the organisation is carried out in real time via SMS messages and phone calls. This sort of thing is happening around the world.

“Mixed mode facilitation is happening already; lots of examples are cropping up around the world and the internet. We could use the big examples you are likely to have seen about MySpace, World of Warcraft or Second Life…”

Regards, Deborah Swain (dswain@nccu.edu as well as swainham@msn.com)

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