This video talks about where ideas come from and how the
coffee house was a place where people could connect with others from different
backgrounds, share certain ideas, and spark others. He emphasizes the
architecture of the space as being an important component to effectively
facilitate these discussions, which we could comparatively look at as the
design of a website. Renoir suggested that this sort of intentional space to
discuss ideas is what makes good art and artists.
For Plato, discussion was more important than just reading what another person had written. He did not want people to see his writings as ends in themselves, but as a means to discussion upon them. His written dialogs brought people together to read them, but then people were meant to stop reading them and start talking with each other about them. One of my friends has described this similar phenomena as it relates to social media in our day as "getting online to get offline." For Plato, he would maybe have said it as “start reading to stop reading.” It is more important for the people to talk with each other than to just keep their nose in the book. This is the same for good social websites. They should help people to connect actively participate in discussion and not just be an anonymous consumer. Social media websites should be a means to facilitate interaction offline- perhaps through live events/meeting with groups who share similar interests that are found online, but also form themselves offline. Thus, social media does not take the place of direct interaction with others, but still has a place it can take.
For Plato, discussion was more important than just reading what another person had written. He did not want people to see his writings as ends in themselves, but as a means to discussion upon them. His written dialogs brought people together to read them, but then people were meant to stop reading them and start talking with each other about them. One of my friends has described this similar phenomena as it relates to social media in our day as "getting online to get offline." For Plato, he would maybe have said it as “start reading to stop reading.” It is more important for the people to talk with each other than to just keep their nose in the book. This is the same for good social websites. They should help people to connect actively participate in discussion and not just be an anonymous consumer. Social media websites should be a means to facilitate interaction offline- perhaps through live events/meeting with groups who share similar interests that are found online, but also form themselves offline. Thus, social media does not take the place of direct interaction with others, but still has a place it can take.
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