Comments on: MySpace, control and users http://www.spaceandculture.org/2006/05/29/myspace-control-and-users/ Welcome to Space and Culture - the international journal and weblog dedicated to social spaces of all kinds. Sun, 16 Oct 2011 20:07:05 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: anne http://www.spaceandculture.org/2006/05/29/myspace-control-and-users/comment-page-1/#comment-117 anne Wed, 31 May 2006 12:47:00 +0000 http://www.spaceandculture.org/?p=496#comment-117 thanks jean - that's actually from my dissertation ;) thanks jean – that’s actually from my dissertation ;)

]]> By: jean http://www.spaceandculture.org/2006/05/29/myspace-control-and-users/comment-page-1/#comment-116 jean Wed, 31 May 2006 07:16:00 +0000 http://www.spaceandculture.org/?p=496#comment-116 "If a goal of ethnomethodology is to get at how people make sense of things, how they structure relationships, how they order things, then it immediately has something in common with computing and communications. Both have only one variable: the individual. On the other hand, cultural and critical theories take collectives or assemblages, and the power relations between, as their subject matter."<br/><br/>Very elegant, and spot on. For me, figuring out 'what's going on' is never satisfying, but always, inevitably, leads to 'with what implications?' 'In whose interests?' and all that jazz. Or...I finally get what I'm doing now! ;) “If a goal of ethnomethodology is to get at how people make sense of things, how they structure relationships, how they order things, then it immediately has something in common with computing and communications. Both have only one variable: the individual. On the other hand, cultural and critical theories take collectives or assemblages, and the power relations between, as their subject matter.”

Very elegant, and spot on. For me, figuring out ‘what’s going on’ is never satisfying, but always, inevitably, leads to ‘with what implications?’ ‘In whose interests?’ and all that jazz. Or…I finally get what I’m doing now! ;)

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