The Augmented Social Network (ASN) was proposed in a June 2003 paper presented at the PlaNetwork Conference by Ken Jordan, Jan Hauser, and Steven Foster. The paper makes the case for a civil society vision of digital identity that treats Internet users as citizen rather than consumer. The ASN is described as an Internet-wide system that enables users to find others who have relevant interests or expertise, in a context that engenders trust, so th...
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The Augmented Social Network (ASN) was proposed in a June 2003 paper presented at the PlaNetwork Conference by Ken Jordan, Jan Hauser, and Steven Foster. The paper makes the case for a civil society vision of digital identity that treats Internet users as citizen rather than consumer. The ASN is described as an Internet-wide system that enables users to find others who have relevant interests or expertise, in a context that engenders trust, so that they can form a social network more effectively. At its core is a form of digital identity that supports appropriate introductions between people who share affinities through the recommendations of trusted third parties. It also supports the distribution of media using the same Internet-wide recommendation system.
The authors describe the ASN as having three objectives:
To achieve these objectives, the paper sketches a rough technical architecture that would "enhance the power of social networks by using interactive digital media to...
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