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We participate, therefore we are [1]

This section monitors the shift from individualism to relationality as the central factor of social life.

Contents 1 Introduction 2 Short Citations 3 Long Citations 3.1 Transcending the individual human mind through collaboration 3.2 The Strength of Weak Ties 3.3 Towards a science of relationships 3.4 The New Relationality 4 Key Articles 5 Key Blogs 6 Key Books 7 Key Resources

Introduction

What kind of human relationships arise in a peer to peer context? What are their dynamics?

This section examines topics related to p2p-oriented views of relations, which are, and true to the p2p tradition, inventive and exploratory.

Only the 4 first columns of the P2P Encyclopedia concepts have been ported at this stage.

1. For more context, here's already an Introduction on Individuality, Relationality, and Collectivity, by Michel Bauwens. Comments by Adrian Chan and Nathan Lovejoy
2. Evan Thompson on the Primacy of Intersubjectivity and Christophe Aguiton and Dominique Cardon on why Contemporary Individualization is Relational. Chris Lucas on Integral Intersubjectivity: "I" and "It" perspectives need to be complemented by "We" perspectives. Margaret Archer on Why Morphogenesis Implies Peer to Peer Socialization

See also:

1. New aspects of the digital self, by Grant McCracken et al: Cloudiness, Exhaust Data, Phatic Communication, Ambient Intimacy
2. Manuel De Landa: Hierarchies and Meshworks are always mixed
3. Terry Anderson: Distinguishing groups, networks, and collectives
4. Compare the New Relational Paradigm to the older one.
5. Tim Berners-Lee: Why Sharing may require some loss of control

Short Citations

our differences are our strength

- Andrew Lord

We have moved from communities of neccessity, to elective communities.

- Alan Moore [2]

There is nothing noble in being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.

- Hindu Proverb

The less you share, the less power you have. And the more you share, the more possible it is for you to get social support.

- Isaac Mao [3]

Long Citations

Transcending the individual human mind through collaboration

"The power of the unaided, individual mind is highly overrated: the Renaissance scholar no longer exists. Although creative individuals are often thought of as working in isolation, the role of interaction and collaboration with other individuals is critical. Creative activity grows out of the relationship between an individual and the world of his or her work, and from the ties between an individual and other human beings. The predominant activity in designing complex systems is that participants teach and instruct each other. Because complex problems require more knowledge than any single person possesses, it is necessary that all involved stakeholders participate, communicate, and collaborate with each other."

- Transcending the individual human mind [4]

The Strength of Weak Ties

"the organisation of exchanges doesn't require the strong involvement of the whole community, but a cluster of very active participants can lead the community in producing a lot of external effects. In massive communities, the diversity of involvements and goals of users can easily be overcome: collective activities result from the opportunities created by personal publication."

- Christophe Aguiton and Dominique Cardon

Towards a science of relationships

"It is impossible to deny that science has made great progress by taking things apart. However, what is left out of this approach is the problem of understanding relationships between the parts.

Indeed, the importance of this understanding should be self-apparent. If all systems around us were made of the same elementary particles, and their relationships were irrelevant, then all systems would be identical. Obviously, this is not the case. Our quest to understand the parts becomes so detailed that we forget what we were trying to understand at the start. Moreover the strategy of looking at parts may blind us to the way properties of a system arise from the relationships between the components. This reflects itself in what we think about in general. More specifically, it affects how we approach problem solving when we try to solve problems in society. Indeed one of the main difficulties in solving problems is that we think the problem resides in the parts themselves, when, in actuality, it is to be found in the interactions between the parts. As a result, many crucial questions can only be addressed by thinking carefully about connections in a system as a whole."

- Yaneer Bar-Yam [5]

The New Relationality

"What is emerging in the work of sociologists is a framework that sees the networked society or the networked individual as entailing an abundance of social connections and more effectively deployed attention. The concern with the decline of community conceives of a scarcity of forms of stable, nurturing, embedding relations, which are mostly fixed over the life of an individual and depend on long-standing and interdependent relations in stable groups, often with hierarchical relations. What we now see emerging is a diversity of forms of attachment and an abundance of connections that enable individuals to attain discrete components of the package of desiderata that ?community? has come to stand for in sociology."

- Yochai Benkler [6]

Key Articles

1. To read absolutely: The Historical Progression of Complexity, Networks and Hierarchy
2. Critique of the reductionism of sociality inherent in network theory, by Ulises Mejias.
3. A Meditation on Participation. By John Hopkins.
4. Jodi Dean on How Technoculture produces Subjects
5. Dave Pollard on Why our (identities in) networks are so fragile?
6. Transcending the Individual Human Mind through Collaborative Design. Ernesto Arias et al.
7. The History of Community as a Concept Arun Agrawal.

Also:

1. The Happiness - Unhappiness Continuum

Key Blogs

1. Swarming Media is an excellent blog investigating the evolution of identity in networked media, at http://www.swarmingmedia.com/
2. the Ideant blog by Ulises A. Mejias monitors the issue of proximity in Networked Sociality, at http://ideant.typepad.com/ .
3. Network Weaving, about measuring online relationships, at http://www.networkweaving.com/blog/

Key Books

1. Technically Together: Rethinking Community within Techno-Society. By Michele A. Willson.
2. Connecting: How We Form Social Bonds and Communities in the Internet Age
3. The Hyperlinked Society: Questioning Connections in the Digital Age. Joseph Turow and Lokman Tsui, Editors. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press and University of Michigan Library, 2008.

Also:

1. Mirroring People: The Science of How We Connect to Others. Marco Iacoboni. [7]

Key Resources

1. Citations on human intercourse with nature, and with the Other(s), including subtle beings, etc... By Anthony Judge. 2007
2. Universal Declaration of Responsibilities of Human Intercourse, 2007, by Anthony Judge
3. Universal Declaration of Human Responsibilities, 1997

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Articles in category "Relational"

There are 200 articles in this category.

1 16 Social Features at Amazon 4 4L and 4C Participation Models in Virtual Communities A Abundance vs. Scarcity Abundance vs. Scarcity Mentality Accidental Influential Acquaintanceship Advogado on the Mechanics of Reputation Affective Capitalism Against the professional cooptation of community Agonistic Giving Alan Moore on Community and Identity Ambient Intimacy Andreas Kluth on the New Nomadism Answer People Aperspectivism Apomediation Appropriation and Annotation Literacy Armillaria Assemblage Theory Associationism in Epistemology Assortative Network Assurance Game Attention Attention Data Attention Economy Attention Profiling Attention Trust Audience 2.0 Audience-sourcing Augmented Social Cognition Augmented Social Networks Aural Architecture Authenticity Autonomous Reputation Framework Autopoiesis B BanLink Betweenness and Closeness - Indicators Bioteaming Blog Mob Blogging Blogjects Blogposium Body Without Organs Boundary Object Bruce Sterling on the Internet of Things and Spimes Bystander Effect C Captology Catalytic Communities Category Theory Cellular Church Centrality Chaordic Organizations - Characteristics Chicken Game Christopher Allen on the Dunbar Number Circular Entertainment Circulation of the Common Citizen Dialogue and Deliberation Civic Intelligence Civil Societarian Cloud Power Cloudiness Co-Counselling Co-Intelligence Co-Production Co-Research Coliberation

C cont. Collaboration Collaboration Theory Collaborative Citizen Journalism Collaborative Defense Collaborative Filtering Collaborative Intelligence Collaborative Moderation Collaboratory information assessment Collective Action Collective Behavior Collective Consciousness Collective Effervescence Collective Identity Collective Individuals Collective Intelligence Collective Responsibility Commonalities Commons Commons-based Political Production Communal Validation Communities and Innovation Communities of Practice Communities vs Audiences Community Community Assets Community Freeloader Community Participant Lifecycle Concordia Project Conditional Cooperators Connecting Connection Commons Connectionism Connective Knowledge Connectivist Learning Theory - Siemens Connectivity - Typology Connectomics Consensus Consensus Web Filters Consent vs. Consensus Consumer-controlled Surveillance Culture Contemporary Individualization is Relational Content-driven Reputation Contingent Cooperation Continuous Partial Presence Contract Feudalism Conversation Economy Conversational Index Conversational Media Conway's Law Cooperation Cooperative Cooperative Inquiry Cooperative Wealth Building Cooperatives Coordination Format Coordination Theory Cosmobiological Tradition Coworking Creating a Legal Framework for Online Identity Crowd of One Customer Anthropology Customer Engagement Cyberspace Romance D Danah Boyd on MySpace at OReilly Dancing in the Streets Darwin Project Data Portability

D cont. Dave Pollard on Collaboration David Weinberger on How the Internet is Changing Human Relationships Decentralization of Taste Deep Dialogue Designing Online Communities Dialogical Nature of Human Activity Dialogue Mapping Digital Dossier Digital Ego Digital Identity Digital Person Digital Publics Digital Shadow Directed Scale-Free Networks Disaggregated Democracy Disassortative Network Dissipative Structures Distributed Distributed Cognition Theory - Hutchins Distributed Creativity Distributed Social Networking Dividual Dividuation Dumbness of Crowds Dunbar Number E Economy of Charism Economy of Esteem Edge Competencies Edglings Egocasting Emergence of the Relationship Economy Engagement Marketing Entredonneur Epicenter Equiveillance Ethical Surplus Evolution of Cooperation - Haskell Exchange Exhaust Data Explicit Ownership Declaration Exteriority of Relations F Face Time Facebook Faceted Identity Facilitation Field of Plenty Flaming Followship For-Giving Fred Stutzman on Understanding Facebook Freedom of Use Friend of a Friend Friendship and Social Network Sites From Intersubjectivity to Interbeing Functioning levels Fundamental Social Law Future of Reputation Fuzzyness G Game Theory Generative Internet Generative Values Giant Global Graph Gift Gift Economy Giving 2.0 Global Microstructures Grammar of the Multitude

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