Judith Donath on Signaling, Design, and the Social Machine

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🗓️ 31 October 2016

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Judith Donath, author of The Social Machine, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the ideas in her book--an examination of signaling, online identity, and online community. Donath argues that design elements in technology play a key role in our interactions with one another. The conversation closes with a discussion of data collection by corporations and the government.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty.
0:09.3	I'm your host, Russ Roberts of Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
0:13.8	Our website is econtalk.org, where you can subscribe, comment on this podcast, and find
0:18.9	links and other information related to today's conversation.
0:21.7	You'll also find our archives where you can listen to every episode we've ever done going
0:26.1	back to 2006.
0:28.3	Our email address is mailadycontalk.org.
0:30.8	We'd love to hear from you.
0:34.5	Today is September 13th, 2016, and my guest is Judith Donath.
0:39.5	She is on the Fellows Advisory Board at Harbor University's Berkman Center for the Internet
0:44.3	and Society, and she founded the social, all-social media group at MIT.
0:50.2	Her latest book is the social machine designs for living online.
0:53.8	Judith, welcome to Econ Talk.
0:55.4	Thank you.
0:56.4	Great to be here.
0:58.2	When I recently interviewed Adam D'Angelo of Cora on Econ Talk, he mentioned that he had
1:03.4	spent a year at the social media group, and then it focused him on the importance of signaling.
1:08.8	How do you see the role of signaling in online identity, and is it any different than her
1:14.4	face-to-face encounters?
1:15.9	Yes, so I'm going to give a little background about what we mean by signaling here.
1:21.8	Please.
1:22.8	It's a little different than for the everyday use of this word.
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