Social Software and the Politics of Groups. Social Software and the Politics of Groups First published March 9, 2003 on the "Networks, Economics, and Culture" mailing list. Subscribe to the mailing list. Social software, software that supports group communications, includes everything from the simple CC: line in email to vast 3D game worlds like EverQuest, and it can be as undirected as a chat room, or as task-oriented as a wiki (a collaborative workspace). Because there are so many patterns of group interaction, social software is a much larger category than things like groupware or online communities -- though it includes those things, not all group communication is business-focused or communal.
One of the few commonalities in this big category is that social software is unique to the internet in a way that software for broadcast or personal communications are not. Prior to the Web, we had hundreds of years of experience with broadcast media, from printing presses to radio and TV. Old Systems, Old Assumptions Barriers. Social Software Alliance - Social Software Alliance. INTERFERENCIA. Almazen. Barrios del mundo.