A theory of social machines
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| Název: | A theory of social machines |
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| Autoři: | Walton, R, https://orcid.org/orcid:0000-0002-3592-9229 |
| Přispěvatelé: | De Roure, D, Coon, J, Corrigan, K, Van Kleek, M |
| Rok vydání: | 2025 |
| Sbírka: | Oxford University Research Archive (ORA) |
| Témata: | Heterogeneous distributed computing systems, World Wide Web, Digital humanities, Computer science, Social sciences--Mathematical models, Distributed cognition, Sociotechnical systems |
| Popis: | The modern web is built on services that foster the expression of our social nature to give rise to an ecosystem of overlapping communities. There is limited fundamental theory useful for building these communities, or for modelling and reasoning about the large-scale aggregate effect of our interactions in this ecosystem. Our aim in this thesis is to develop a theoretical model capturing the way that short and long-lived social situations arise and can combine across multiple scales to produce such ecosystems. The inquiry is focused by looking particularly at social machines—as phenomena, both naturally arising within these structures and deliberately deployed into them; and as an abstraction like a Turing machine, but for groups of people. We develop an ontology todescribe these ecosystems, and a generative model to represent them and their evolution; and then use these to support a theory of what phenomena together constitute a social machine able to exist in such ecosystems. The ontology includes overlapping structures of interacting strands of activities that include the forming of shared human experiences. It was developed to support communal attention and shared evolving state; and the emergence of single strands of activity among the interactions of many. We apply it to represent interactions exhibiting elements of shared intentionality, and the evolving structure of social machines that helped discover a new class of galaxy. The model based on this ontology is implemented so that scenarios can be represented as coloured stochastic Petri nets—and all the tools associated with this representation applied. We model some scenarios that (a) capture, well studied, observable activities shown to result in increased normative commitment to a community; (b) recreate Axelrod’s model of the dissemination of culture; and (c) exhibit dynamics of the HTP model, an extension to actor network theory that conceptualises the shifting of connected networks betweenstable phases of activity as they affect each other’s ... |
| Druh dokumentu: | thesis |
| Jazyk: | English |
| DOI: | 10.5287/ora-0oe8y2e27 |
| Dostupnost: | https://doi.org/10.5287/ora-0oe8y2e27 https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:ca917566-6cd3-4097-8b4d-2d34bf0e8909 |
| Rights: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| Přístupové číslo: | edsbas.BFAA1FA4 |
| Databáze: | BASE |
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