Sergeant Jalonen must have spent his childhood in a concrete sandbox After I graduated from college, I completed mandatory military service in the Finnish Army. The year-long experience yielded intense experiences, lifelong friendships and lots of stories. One of them comes to mind: Jalonen and I were the first two soldiers from our company to [...] Read more – ‘Social object and the object-centered environment’.
My previous post about “social objects”, described how your profile, what you publish and what share online determines the impression you make and provides topics or hooks for others to get in touch with you. The term social object is a convenient shorthand for describing such hooks, which represent many of the reasons people socialize [...] Read more – ‘Social objects and the observer’s paradox’.
First, a bit of history Before talking about social objects as accessories for online impression management, I wanted to surface a bit of history about the term, “Social Object”. There’s been a lot of talk lately about object-centered sociality, which can be thought of as “the reason people connect and socialize with each other”, to [...] Read more – ‘The use of social objects as artefacts for identity management’.
