Standards for Critiques

Plato
Unified theme
Includes everyone
Understandable
Invites open discussion

Plato 
Unified--can tell soon what the
Inclusive
Shareable
Invites discussion

Aristotle
Potentiality for Action
Interaction and share-ability
Development

Aristotle 
Unified through action--can tell soon what you get to do
Persuasive by ethos, logos, and pathos
Developmental--in creating and sharing content


Hume
Masses, professionals, peers interests

Kant
Master Critics

Hegel
For Hegel, ideas are shared, refuted, and synthesized through all forms of posting, commenting, liking, sharing, etc. You could say that social media accelerates the process of history (Thesis-->Antithesis-->Synthesis) by making it easy for everyone to be involved in the collective conversation.  It could even be that daily the site moves through a different antithesis, thesis and synthesis for each user.
Another way to look at this is that the sites purpose in general for all the users collectively can change and adapt in this way.  This is where the makers come in. They need to be paying attention to the constant antithesis and thesis and synthesizing the two. 

Marx
A good social website will allow each individual to really connect with it, and see their values and themselves to be fully expressed and flourish in and through the site. 

Kierkegaard
Authentic interface
Facilitates acting on beliefs
Speaks to the level of the audience and brings them up

Nietzsche
Exemplary Design
Challenges assumptions
Relevant content
Constantly evolving

Dewey

• A good social website should be concerned with the positive changes it can evoke in its visitors
• It should suggest a course of action that will, if undertaken, improve the quality of its visitors' lives, and will do so indefinitely.
• It should seek to solve a problem that its visitors may have.
• Therefore, it should articulate standards for its products and services while inviting them to be put to the test, and should finish with a call to action, which can be either implicit or explicit.

Heidegger

• A good social website must promote appropriate responses by: caring, being willing to give up possibilities, encouraging hard choices in the moment, and picking the best possibilities sensed.