Week 9 - Social Organisation = Micropolitics, Networks, Designing for and Living in New Communities

What are the ways in which we organise society? There has to be a willingness to be open to new thoughts and ideas in regards to connecting people over a large space. One of these methods has proved extremely popular throughout the years - the use of social networking to remain closely in contact with familliar and unfamilliar faces around the world. We are rapidly becoming a community that is designing and living in new ways through the construction of spaces, more importantly learning to construct our own communities to sustain our networks. Although how is this really achieved and what different ways are there of keeping ourselves connected within a larger organisation?

The introduction of new media, particularly through the use of micropolitics as the creation of techniques for collaboration, involve experimentation and an openness to be experimental (Jellis 2009) This emphasises the idea that social media can be used to change the way that society organises itself and how it can be reworked to lead to a dynamic restructure of the possible oppourtunities that are available to due these new technologies. This is evident, particularly in relation to computer devices and how organisations such as Simpli could restructure searches and bring about alternative answers due to their user generated content.

This move onto online culture has become a way to not only rework society and create more personalised networks amongst ourselves, but also allowing us to reform the idea of what the social is, through how we organise ourselves. Through this innovation, it has lead to a dynamic social organisation, one that emphasises changes to open education and power and authority to the commons, amongst other changes. It has had a significant affect on how informal media and the idea how mixed ways of operating can significantly have an affect on the way data is administered within a community, but also how we organise ourselves around this.

References

Jellis, Thomas. (2009). Disorientation and micropolitics: a response.Available: http://www.spacesofexperimentation.net/montreal/disorientation-and-micropolitics-a-response/. Last accessed 2nd May 2011.