[Air-L] the growth of some groups and not others

[William Dutton]

I think Murray Turoff is referring to the system that he pioneered,  
called the Emergency Management Information Systems And Reference  
Index (EMISARI). See: Hiltz and Turoff, (1978), The Network Nation:  
Human Communication via Computer (Reading, Mass: Addison-Wesley),  
also see: http://www.livinginternet.com/r/ri_emisari.htm  Murray  
Turoff and Roxanne Hiltz had a vision that was decades ahead of the  
times.

Bill

On 31 Dec 2008, at 09:39, Frank Thomas wrote:

> Murray Turoff wrote:
>> The standard design philosophy currently being used in many social  
>> network
>> systems is to encourage the user to sign into the site and duplicate
>> functions like exchanging messages in different formats.  For many  
>> users
>> this is too much a waste of time in that most important things are  
>> carried
>> out by the user in their current message environment.  The  
>> addition of
>> groups that social networks finally recognized (they existed in  
>> some systems
>> in the 70's)
> Would you please give more details on this ? Which one,  and how  
> did they differ from today's ?
>
> - ft
>
>