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I'm confused about the they pronoun, isn't it plural? This pronoun thing doesn't exist in my native language.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they for more information. It's been around since the 1300's but it's only gone into the mainstream as someone to refer to direct people fairly recently.
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A website is a social construct because it can only function by the agreement of everyone involved (i.e., we all agree on how to parse HTML). The individual site may be constructed individually ( maybe ) but it can only work if the society of people-who-use-the-internet all agree to follow a series of conventions about how websites work; you can't start using \ instead of \ and expect everything to work as normal, be…
Sure but that's as useful as saying shit is social construct because we as humans decided to name it that. Technically true , practically it's vapid useless speech that doesn't bring anything useful to the discussion aside from person using the term feeling smart
The tech is cool, but some of the language is so cringy. For example, the statement "websites are social constructs" makes zero sense. You could say that websites are material objects of a symbolic network of computer languages, like physical paper money is a material, fetishized object of the social construct of money. Websites themselves are not constructed socially. Maybe the author means how websites are perceive…
I don't agree with this at all. What makes one set of frequency changes over a wire a website and another a voice call? A big pile of socially constructed concepts, from written language to Unicode to TCP and HTML. The electrical impulses are physically real; the website is a construct and makes sense only in the context of society.
But no, a website is not a social construct because you don't have to have a society to have a website. I can have two machines connected and host an html file on one of them and stare at it on the other one all by myself and it will still be a website on a web! No contractual agreement is necessary!
But anyway, it's amazing that you posted on my comment! I am a huge fan!