This channel appears in
processing/process , Relationships, Inter/Face, Featured Channels, Community and connection, Inter/faces, unfiltered digital academia, // Entanglements, We live in a society, 10/22/21 Are.na channel walkthroughs ft. Agnes Cameron, Makan Dimana, Leslie Liu, Maya Man, •*• I carry you •*•, Research:REDUX, Connection 🔗, interconnection, fodder🫀, and interlocking our fingers
9
An are.na block is a boundary object
Boundary objects are objects which are both plastic enough to adapt to local needs and constraints of the several parties employing them, yet robust enough to maintain a common identity across sites. They are weakly structured in common use, and become strongly structured in individual-site use. They may be abstract or concrete. They have different meanings in different social worlds but their structure is common enough to more than one world to make them recognizable, a means of translation. The creation and management of boundary objects is key in developing and maintaining coherence across intersecting social worlds.