2026-04-05 UTC
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[social] Jyri Engstron’s creation of “social object” as an easier to access term than socially mediated objects that Karin Knorr Cetina initially used. Having that term make getting the focus and use far easier to get right. As the term’s use grew it made it a mess to use it thanks to people who didn’t understand the term and continually misused it. I’ve worked with a few groups who missed the mess part of the cycle for the ter