Schema blending and stable structure in online social systems

: Autonomous online social systems can emerge from the interaction between the stable social practices of soliciting and eavesdropping when they are performed online. These practices are distributed manifestations of the stable mental operation of conceptual blending. The technology mediating the communication in the practices must be polymorphic, noisy and open.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2006
• Where: IJWBC
• Authors: Nick V. Flor, Seana Coulson, Paul P. Maglio
• Keywords: IJWBC 2006, Online Social Systems, Stable Mental Operation, Stable Social Practices