Berkman Fellow Judith Donath Gives a Talk on "Designing Society"

Today Berkman Fellow and Director of the MIT Social Media Group Judith Donath gave a talk on "Designing Society", as part of the Berkman Center's weekly Tuesday Luncheon Series.

From Judith: Designers of online environments shape the social potential of these paces far more profoundly than do the architects of our familiar physical spaces: they determine whether participants are anonymous or named, whether history persists, whether reputations are prominently displayed or privately discussed.

In this talk I will present several design projects from the Sociable Media Group. Some are visualizations of online interactions, which reveal important but hard to perceive social patterns. Others are experimental mediated social spaces, where the goal is to balance legibility with innovative computational capabilities.

The focus will be to show how design affects identity, reputation and trust - the foundations of society.

If you missed the live chat, catch the podcast audio & video at MediaBerkman later this week.