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To give a concrete example from my own field of specialization, consider Facebook's [[https://developers.facebook.com/docs/opengraph/ Social Graph]]. In a view in which humans and artifacts are //a priori// disjointed, it can either be considered as a network of the connections between humans, or as the network of connections between Facebook profiles (being artifacts). In the view that I prefer, in which the distinction is not made, the Social Graph is the network of the connections between people, that are mediated by Facebook. Whether the purpose of this social graph is to help people make friends, or to extract value from existing social relationships (Rushkoff, 2010), Facebook is a medium. As such, it introduces biases in the interactions that take place through it. It would be foolish not to study what such biases actually entail.
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