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Tools, platforms, and systems specifically designed to shape, facilitate, or control human social interaction at scale. Unlike general technologies that have social side effects, Social Technologies are engineered with the explicit purpose of organizing relationships, forming communities, or modifying collective behavior. This includes everything from the town hall meeting format and parliamentary procedure to Facebook's newsfeed algorithm and Tinder's matching protocol. Social Technologies are the invisible architecture of how we connect, cooperate, and conflict.
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