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We examine what people are doing socially when they are communicating. In particular, we are interested in determining the individual and collective outcomes of the shift to mobile communications. To describe these outcomes we have developed a model of communications we refer to as PolySocial Reality (PoSR). PoSR relates to the aggregate of all the experienced locations and communications of all individual people in multiple networks at the same or different times. PoSR substantially describes the multiple, sometimes overlapping, network transaction spaces that people traverse synchronously and asynchronously with others to maintain and use social relationships via various apps, mobile services, sensors, platforms, technologies and conversation spaces. PoSR describes the complexity people face in negotiating their connected world, managing on average not only more relationships, but more relationships on a pervasive and ubiquitous basis; not one at a time, but in an interspersed and interleaved manner, dealing with people who may or may not have knowledge of the other relationships being shuffled at the same time, and who are themselves managing a similar portfolio of relationships which may or may not intersect between correspondents. PoSR attempts to provide a conceptual tool for unifying all of this interaction into a single space so that the characteristics of different combinations of interaction can be represented. | We examine what people are doing socially when they are communicating. In particular, we are interested in determining the individual and collective outcomes of the shift to mobile communications. To describe these outcomes we have developed a model of communications we refer to as PolySocial Reality (PoSR). PoSR relates to the aggregate of all the experienced locations and communications of all individual people in multiple networks at the same or different times. PoSR substantially describes the multiple, sometimes overlapping, network transaction spaces that people traverse synchronously and asynchronously with others to maintain and use social relationships via various apps, mobile services, sensors, platforms, technologies and conversation spaces. PoSR describes the complexity people face in negotiating their connected world, managing on average not only more relationships, but more relationships on a pervasive and ubiquitous basis; not one at a time, but in an interspersed and interleaved manner, dealing with people who may or may not have knowledge of the other relationships being shuffled at the same time, and who are themselves managing a similar portfolio of relationships which may or may not intersect between correspondents. PoSR attempts to provide a conceptual tool for unifying all of this interaction into a single space so that the characteristics of different combinations of interaction can be represented. | ||
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What is PolySocial Reality (PoSR)?
We examine what people are doing socially when they are communicating. In particular, we are interested in determining the individual and collective outcomes of the shift to mobile communications. To describe these outcomes we have developed a model of communications we refer to as PolySocial Reality (PoSR). PoSR relates to the aggregate of all the experienced locations and communications of all individual people in multiple networks at the same or different times. PoSR substantially describes the multiple, sometimes overlapping, network transaction spaces that people traverse synchronously and asynchronously with others to maintain and use social relationships via various apps, mobile services, sensors, platforms, technologies and conversation spaces. PoSR describes the complexity people face in negotiating their connected world, managing on average not only more relationships, but more relationships on a pervasive and ubiquitous basis; not one at a time, but in an interspersed and interleaved manner, dealing with people who may or may not have knowledge of the other relationships being shuffled at the same time, and who are themselves managing a similar portfolio of relationships which may or may not intersect between correspondents. PoSR attempts to provide a conceptual tool for unifying all of this interaction into a single space so that the characteristics of different combinations of interaction can be represented.
