Tristan Thielmann – Account-Able Networking: Harold Garfinkel’s Contribution Towards a Theory of Social Media

By Michelle Oosthuyzen, March 21, 2013

Tristan Thielmann writes about the American sociologist Harold Garfinkel and his ethnomethologic approach to make traces back into the history of cybernetic theory. Today at Unlike Us #3, Thielmann argues that the socio-techniques that Garfinkel described in the 1950s remain relevant for exploring contemporary social media. As an introduction into a praxeological perspective on social [...]