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Scratch's community is very different from other kinds of social media: it's strictly regulated by the MIT folks, so content is always friendly, welcoming, and

Scratch's community is very different from other kinds of social media: it's strictly regulated by the MIT folks, so content is always friendly, welcoming, and age-appropriate. As a result of this, people tend to be encouraged to work together: you would be surprised what 10-year-old kids have produced together. A large part of Scratch culture is "collaborations" and "companies" which can produce large pieces of software with really incredible co-operation--better than a lot of adults I deal with :-) I guess Scratch as a social network tries very hard to de-emphasize numbers: there isn't a "karma" and "likes" don't bring you much (interestingly, the number of "remixes", or derivative works of your project, is emphasized much more). I can point you to some of the LLK's published papers on this if you're interested. (Source: Scratch community member for >5 years.)

current_call 11y ago
I guess Scratch as a social network tries very hard to de-emphasize numbers: there isn't a "karma" and "likes" don't bring you much (interestingly, the number of "remixes", or derivative works of your project, is emphasized much more). That doesn't really sound like "social media". I can point you to some of the LLK's published papers on this if you're interested. I'd appreciate that.
- hardmath123 11y ago
  > That doesn't really sound like "social media". It's "social" in the sense that it's a large community where people share things they create, make friends and have discussions. What would you say "social media" needs beyond that? > I'd appreciate that. Here are a few: https://download.scratch.mit.edu/hill_monroy-hernandez_olson_ICWSM10.pdf https://download.scratch.mit.edu/hill_monroy-hernandez_olson... https://download.scratch.mit.edu/cscw2010poster2.pdf https://download.scratch.mit.edu/cscw2010poster2.pdf https://download.scratch.mit.edu/websci09-andresmh.pdf https://download.scratch.mit.edu/websci09-andresmh.pdf

current_call 11y ago

I guess Scratch as a social network tries very hard to de-emphasize numbers: there isn't a "karma" and "likes" don't bring you much (interestingly, the number of "remixes", or derivative works of your project, is emphasized much more). That doesn't really sound like "social media". I can point you to some of the LLK's published papers on this if you're interested. I'd appreciate that.

hardmath123 11y ago
> That doesn't really sound like "social media". It's "social" in the sense that it's a large community where people share things they create, make friends and have discussions. What would you say "social media" needs beyond that? > I'd appreciate that. Here are a few: https://download.scratch.mit.edu/hill_monroy-hernandez_olson_ICWSM10.pdf https://download.scratch.mit.edu/hill_monroy-hernandez_olson... https://download.scratch.mit.edu/cscw2010poster2.pdf https://download.scratch.mit.edu/cscw2010poster2.pdf https://download.scratch.mit.edu/websci09-andresmh.pdf https://download.scratch.mit.edu/websci09-andresmh.pdf