forum · social
a place where people interact about information
Examples
- Reddit hosts millions of user-generated discussions across thousands of topic-specific subreddits since 2005. computing
- The Athenian Agora hosted daily debates on law, trade, and philosophy among citizens in the 5th century BCE. institutions
- Stack Overflow enables programmers to ask and answer technical questions, accumulating 20 million answers by 2023. engineering
Emergence
through: people interact about information in a place through mutual touch, forming a social exchange shaped by shared patterns of knowledge.
- social exchange of ideas
- persistent interaction in shared space
- emergent discourse community
Chain to foundations
as tree
- forumL7
- spaceL0
- interactionL2
- informationL6
- differenceL1
- patternL0 (shown above)
- marksL5
- differenceL1 (shown above)
- partL1
- changeL1 (shown above)
- patternL0 (shown above)
- surfaceL4
- boundaryL2
- spaceL0 (shown above)
- differenceL1 (shown above)
- changeL1 (shown above)
- touchL3
- spaceL0 (shown above)
- boundaryL2 (shown above)
- interactionL2 (shown above)
- changeL1 (shown above)
- partL1 (shown above)
- boundaryL2
- patternL0 (shown above)
- differenceL1
- peopleL6
- othersL2
- spaceL0 (shown above)
- timeL0 (shown above)
- patternL0 (shown above)
- differenceL1 (shown above)
- setsL3
- patternL0 (shown above)
- othersL2 (shown above)
- boundaryL2 (shown above)
- differenceL1 (shown above)
- persistL1
- distinctL3
- differenceL1 (shown above)
- othersL2 (shown above)
- entitiesL4
- interactingL4
- interactionL2 (shown above)
- touchL3 (shown above)
- groupsL5
- timeL0 (shown above)
- othersL2
- interactingL4 (shown above)
Neighborhood
Concepts that depend on this one above; what it is built from below.
Relations
| is-a | space.extent | is-a |