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Communities distributed in time cannot interact directly. I propose that they can form and interact through histories recorded with digital information. The field of interaction history is defined and examples of tools built to help a communal process (social navigation) are shown. Ways in which these tools can aid the formation of certain kinds of communities are described.
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Wexelblat, A. (1998). Communities through Time: Using History for Social Navigation. In: Ishida, T. (eds) Community Computing and Support Systems. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1519. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-49247-X_19
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