This diagram attempts to visualize where I currently see my thesis research in relationship to social media, tangible interfaces, and social relationships in the physical world. I believe that new tangible interfaces working symbiotically with digital infrastructures will be the means to liberating the limited methods of interaction we currently experience through the internet.
1. “A Brief History of the Carte de Visite from The American Museum of Photography™,” http://www.photographymuseum.com/histsw.htm.
2. “About Google Wave,” http://wave.google.com/help/wave/about.html.
3. Montagu Stephen Williams and Sir Francis Cowley Burnand, Carte de visite (French, 189).
4. William Culp Darrah, Cartes de visite in nin[e]teenth century photography (W.C. Darrah, 1981).
5. S. M. Rojas-Drummond, C. D. Albarran, and K. S. [...]