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Internet conversation media: an evolutionary perspective from email to social networks

Internet conversation media: an evolutionary perspective from email to social networks

Julia Romeu
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Careful! You’re being used every day and might not even know it. We consider ourselves users of conversation systems, but who is actually being used?

This book discusses the evolution of internet conversation media. Our starting point is an analogy with the evolution of living beings: a computing system that implements a conversation medium, then would correspond to a living being, the culture would be the environment where the systems inhabit and users would be the resources fought over by the systems. Regarding the evolution of conversation media, we have developed concepts, laws, models and methods that answer fundamental questions such as: which are the internet conversation media, how do they evolve and become different from each other, why do some systems that implement conversation media survive while others become extinct, how does the competition for users among them take place? In order to have this discussion, we considered the technological and cultural aspects that have influenced the evolution of conversation media throughout time.

This perspective opposes the creationist view, according to which a technology emerges as the invention of a solitary genius, without taking into consideration the influence of others in their project. An evolutionary perspective is important in order to avoid conceptual errors such as those we have become used to seeing in the press: so-and-so is the father of email, while this is a statement that reflects a creationist view; or that social network systems will replace email, when in fact they don’t even compete.

For whom might this book be interesting?

Computing system developers, including students, researchers and professionals. We discussed the functionalities of each system and the characteristics of the conversation in each medium in order to aid the design of conversation services. We also defend the adoption of an evolutionary perspective for the analysis and design of new systems.
Cyberculture researchers, professionals and students. This book is aimed at all of those interested in the cyberculture phenomenon, which is characterized as an interdisciplinary scientific-cultural field of studies about the phenomenon of contemporary culture mediated by digital network technologies, including conversation systems and conversation media.
Linguists and scholars of new genres that are emerging in cyberculture. This book is of special interest to those who investigate how the language and textual genres that emerge from conversation media are influenced by each medium.
Media professionals. For journalists who write about digital technologies, and particularly social networks, this book is interesting because it informs what are the characteristics and differences among conversation media. For digital marketing analysts, the interest lies in the population studies about the systems, which include an analysis of the competition between systems that implement the same conversation medium.
Researchers and historians who study the evolution of technologies. In this book, we propose a conceptual framework that helps tell the history of conversation media and computing systems from an evolutionary perspective.
Pages
171
Format
Kindle Edition

Internet conversation media: an evolutionary perspective from email to social networks

Julia Romeu
0/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
Careful! You’re being used every day and might not even know it. We consider ourselves users of conversation systems, but who is actually being used?

This book discusses the evolution of internet conversation media. Our starting point is an analogy with the evolution of living beings: a computing system that implements a conversation medium, then would correspond to a living being, the culture would be the environment where the systems inhabit and users would be the resources fought over by the systems. Regarding the evolution of conversation media, we have developed concepts, laws, models and methods that answer fundamental questions such as: which are the internet conversation media, how do they evolve and become different from each other, why do some systems that implement conversation media survive while others become extinct, how does the competition for users among them take place? In order to have this discussion, we considered the technological and cultural aspects that have influenced the evolution of conversation media throughout time.

This perspective opposes the creationist view, according to which a technology emerges as the invention of a solitary genius, without taking into consideration the influence of others in their project. An evolutionary perspective is important in order to avoid conceptual errors such as those we have become used to seeing in the press: so-and-so is the father of email, while this is a statement that reflects a creationist view; or that social network systems will replace email, when in fact they don’t even compete.

For whom might this book be interesting?

Computing system developers, including students, researchers and professionals. We discussed the functionalities of each system and the characteristics of the conversation in each medium in order to aid the design of conversation services. We also defend the adoption of an evolutionary perspective for the analysis and design of new systems.
Cyberculture researchers, professionals and students. This book is aimed at all of those interested in the cyberculture phenomenon, which is characterized as an interdisciplinary scientific-cultural field of studies about the phenomenon of contemporary culture mediated by digital network technologies, including conversation systems and conversation media.
Linguists and scholars of new genres that are emerging in cyberculture. This book is of special interest to those who investigate how the language and textual genres that emerge from conversation media are influenced by each medium.
Media professionals. For journalists who write about digital technologies, and particularly social networks, this book is interesting because it informs what are the characteristics and differences among conversation media. For digital marketing analysts, the interest lies in the population studies about the systems, which include an analysis of the competition between systems that implement the same conversation medium.
Researchers and historians who study the evolution of technologies. In this book, we propose a conceptual framework that helps tell the history of conversation media and computing systems from an evolutionary perspective.
Pages
171
Format
Kindle Edition

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