Socially-Sensitive Systems Design: Exploring Social Potential

Bellman, Kirstie L.; Botev, Jean; Hildmann, Hanno; Lewis, Peter R.; Marsh, Stephen; Pitt, Jeremy; Scholtes, Ingo; Tomforde, Sven

doi:10.1109/mts.2017.2728727

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“…It is unfortunate that the term 'social capital' is potentially misleading, or open to a reductionist, literal misinterpretation, as it suggests something that can be owned, traded or (even worse) 'spent'. For this reason, socially-sensitive systems design [24] prefers the term 'social potential', more in keeping with the definition offered earlier. However, digitalisation of social capital using blockchain technology exposes it to a number of processes which might serve to diminish values: these are metrication, commodification, dissolution, indirection, and extraction (neo-colonialism).…”

Section: The Devaluation Of Valuesmentioning

confidence: 98%

Values, Axial Currencies, and Computational Axiology: Digital Currencies Can Do More than Buy Stuff

Pitt

Clippinger²,

Sørensen

2018

IEEE Technol. Soc. Mag.

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11-12 thousand years ago, early humans lived in small communities with no discernible hierarchy. The result of the 'agrarian revolution' resulted in communities growing on such a scale that mechanisms of self-organisation-e.g. for monitoring, keeping order, and ensuring a 'satisfactory' allocation of resources-were no longer efficient or effective. However, the concurrent 'cognitive' revolution resulted in the faculty of imagination, in particular, the imagination of rules, to solve such problems [1]. However, agriculture created dependency (for example, on the success of a particular crop), dependency created the conditions for crisis, and crisis created the opportunity for power (i.e. it was simply more efficient for a small group to impose order and distribute resources using the imagined rules). The passing of crisis did not result in the relinquishing of this power: indeed, once acquired and although abstract, it became as much an object of desire, accumulation and retention as any physical resource.

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Section: The Devaluation Of Valuesmentioning

confidence: 98%

Values, Axial Currencies, and Computational Axiology: Digital Currencies Can Do More than Buy Stuff

Pitt

Clippinger²,

Sørensen

2018

IEEE Technol. Soc. Mag.

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“…A MAS is a system of autonomous entities, agents, situated into some environment and interacting with other agents to achieve both individual and collective goals. Autonomy implies reactivity (responding to environmental change), proactivity (taking the initiative), and sociality (interacting and collaborating with other agents) [20], [21]. In MASs, there are two key perspectives: of individual agents (the micro level), which can be conceived according to a strong or weak notion of agency (depending on whether or not agents exhibit intelligence through human-like, mental components); and of the agent society (the macro level), where issues like co-ordination (the ordering of interaction) and self-organization (having the system itself maintain its own order) emerge.…”

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On the Social Implications of Collective Adaptive Systems

Bucchiarone

D'Angelo

Pianini

et al. 2020

IEEE Technol. Soc. Mag.

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Many Collective Adaptive Systems (CASs) exist in nature: think of ant colonies, where large collectives of ants operate autonomously but interact with other ants and the environment to provide resilient global behaviours that sustain their colony. Following scientific studies that were aimed at understanding and predicting the evolution of these systems, and fueled by technological advances, research has started to investigate CAS engineering: the methods, tools, and techniques for building CASs. This naturally leads to a vision where collectives of humans and computational elements, situated both in the digital and physical worlds, collaborate to give rise to "intelligent" collective behaviour supporting novel kinds of applications and services. Humans can be involved in two ways: both as users and as components of the CAS, in the sense that human behaviours and limitations are often integral to the system description. This has significant social implications that need to be considered by CAS researchers: in this paper, we share a discussion that took place between some experts thinking about CAS engineering, focusing on the social implication of CASs and related open research challenges. We hope that this provides a useful context for future research projects, research grant proposals, and research directions.

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“…To achieve this effectively, it might also be necessary or beneficial to design the awareness-raising and mediation system such that it explicitly considers the awareness of users, and its role in promoting and being sensitive to it, in decision-making. Thus, we draw on and further develop work on computational self-awareness, particularly, public self-awareness [8] and social self-awareness [4].…”

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Public Privacy and Brick Houses Made of Glass

Marsh

Diaconescu

Evans

et al. 2018

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

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In this work in progress paper, we present a description of a new view of privacy in public, examining how it is possible to ascertain the privacy levels of individuals in context and in groups, and different ways of visualising these Public Privacy levels. We examine how awareness of one's Public Privacy may have an impact on behaviour and privacy protection in general, and propose future work to examine the concept in more detail.

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Socially-Sensitive Systems Design: Exploring Social Potential

Cited by 19 publications

References 32 publications

Values, Axial Currencies, and Computational Axiology: Digital Currencies Can Do More than Buy Stuff

Values, Axial Currencies, and Computational Axiology: Digital Currencies Can Do More than Buy Stuff

On the Social Implications of Collective Adaptive Systems

Public Privacy and Brick Houses Made of Glass

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