Social Media Spin

Note: This is a guest blog writ­ten by Alis­tair Cock­burn 2009.07.25. How wide­band social media is chang­ing the world’s cog­ni­tive struc­ture Peo­ple work­ing together is like a large brain per­form­ing a com­pu­ta­tion, but in which each neu­ron has legs and tends to wan­der off at ran­dom moments. Hutchins coined the phrase dis­trib­uted cog­ni­tion for when peo­ple work together …