diff --git a/readings/bicorder-2025-11-25T18-22-52Z.json b/readings/bicorder-2025-11-25T18-22-52Z.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e269305 --- /dev/null +++ b/readings/bicorder-2025-11-25T18-22-52Z.json @@ -0,0 +1,274 @@ +{ + "name": "Protocol Bicorder", + "schema": "bicorder.schema.json", + "version": "1.1.0", + "description": "A diagnostic tool for the study of protocols", + "author": "Nathan Schneider", + "date_modified": "2025-11-21", + "metadata": { + "protocol": "Coffee shop as office", + "analyst": "ntnsndr", + "standpoint": "A person using a coffee shop as an office", + "timestamp": "2025-11-25T18:07:21.486Z", + "shortform": true + }, + "diagnostic": [ + { + "set_name": "Design", + "set_description": "How the protocol is created and remembered", + "gradients": [ + { + "term_left": "explicit", + "term_left_description": "The design is stated explicitly somewhere that is accessible to participants", + "term_right": "implicit", + "term_right_description": "The design is not stated explicitly but is learned by participants in another way", + "value": null, + "notes": null, + "shortform": false + }, + { + "term_left": "precise", + "term_left_description": "The design is specified with a high level of precision that eliminates ambiguity in implementation", + "term_right": "interpretive", + "term_right_description": "The design is ambiguous, allowing participants a wide range of interpretation", + "value": 7, + "notes": "Some shops have specified rules for officing, but not this one.", + "shortform": true + }, + { + "term_left": "institutional", + "term_left_description": "Design occurs through processes that involve powerful institutions and widespread recognition as normative", + "term_right": "vernacular", + "term_right_description": "Design occurs through evolving, peer-to-peer community interactions in order to suit participant-defined goals", + "value": 7, + "notes": null, + "shortform": true + }, + { + "term_left": "documenting", + "term_left_description": "The primary purpose is to document or validate activity that is occurring", + "term_right": "enabling", + "term_right_description": "The primary purpose is to enable activity that might not happen otherwise", + "value": null, + "notes": null, + "shortform": false + }, + { + "term_left": "static", + "term_left_description": "Designed to be as fixed and unchanging as possible", + "term_right": "malleable", + "term_right_description": "Designed to be changed by participants according to evolving needs", + "value": 3, + "notes": null, + "shortform": true + }, + { + "term_left": "technical", + "term_left_description": "Primarily concerned with interactions among technologies", + "term_right": "social", + "term_right_description": "Primarily concerned with interactions among people or groups", + "value": null, + "notes": null, + "shortform": false + }, + { + "term_left": "universal", + "term_left_description": "Addressed to a global audience", + "term_right": "particular", + "term_right_description": "Addressed to a specific community", + "value": null, + "notes": null, + "shortform": false + }, + { + "term_left": "durable", + "term_left_description": "Designed to be persistently available", + "term_right": "ephemeral", + "term_right_description": "Designed to vanish when no longer needed", + "value": null, + "notes": null, + "shortform": false + } + ] + }, + { + "set_name": "Entanglement", + "set_description": "How the protocol relates with participant agents", + "gradients": [ + { + "term_left": "macro", + "term_left_description": "Operates at large scales involving many participants or broad scope", + "term_right": "micro", + "term_right_description": "Operates at small scales with few participants or narrow scope", + "value": null, + "notes": null, + "shortform": false + }, + { + "term_left": "sovereign", + "term_left_description": "A distinctive operating logic, not subject to any other entity", + "term_right": "subsidiary", + "term_right_description": "An operating logic under the control of a particular entity", + "value": 4, + "notes": null, + "shortform": true + }, + { + "term_left": "self-enforcing", + "term_left_description": "Rules are automatically enforced through its own mechanisms", + "term_right": "enforced", + "term_right_description": "Rules require external enforcement by authorities or institutions", + "value": 3, + "notes": null, + "shortform": true + }, + { + "term_left": "abstract", + "term_left_description": "Participants learn the protocol by studying it intellectually", + "term_right": "embodied", + "term_right_description": "Participants learn the protocol by physically practicing it", + "value": null, + "notes": null, + "shortform": false + }, + { + "term_left": "obligatory", + "term_left_description": "Participation is compulsory for a certain class of agents", + "term_right": "voluntary", + "term_right_description": "Participation in the protocol is optional and not coerced", + "value": 8, + "notes": null, + "shortform": true + }, + { + "term_left": "flocking", + "term_left_description": "Coordination occurs through centralized direction or direct mimicry", + "term_right": "swarming", + "term_right_description": "Coordination occurs through distributed interactions without central direction", + "value": 4, + "notes": null, + "shortform": true + }, + { + "term_left": "defensible", + "term_left_description": "Strong boundaries and protections against external influence", + "term_right": "exposed", + "term_right_description": "Weak boundaries and vulnerable to external influence", + "value": null, + "notes": null, + "shortform": false + }, + { + "term_left": "exclusive", + "term_left_description": "Excludes the use of other protocols that might be available to adopt", + "term_right": "non-exclusive", + "term_right_description": "Does not exclude the use of any other protocols", + "value": null, + "notes": null, + "shortform": false + } + ] + }, + { + "set_name": "Experience", + "set_description": "How the protocol is perceived in the context of its implementation", + "gradients": [ + { + "term_left": "sufficient", + "term_left_description": "Adequately meets the needs and goals of participants", + "term_right": "insufficient", + "term_right_description": "Does not, on its own, adequately meet the needs and goals of participants", + "value": null, + "notes": null, + "shortform": false + }, + { + "term_left": "crystallized", + "term_left_description": "Content and meaning are settled and widely agreed upon", + "term_right": "contested", + "term_right_description": "Content and meaning are disputed or under debate", + "value": null, + "notes": null, + "shortform": false + }, + { + "term_left": "trust-evading", + "term_left_description": "Minimizes the need for trust among participants", + "term_right": "trust-inducing", + "term_right_description": "Relies on or cultivates trust among participants", + "value": null, + "notes": null, + "shortform": false + }, + { + "term_left": "predictable", + "term_left_description": "Produces expected and consistent outcomes", + "term_right": "emergent", + "term_right_description": "Produces unexpected or novel outcomes", + "value": null, + "notes": null, + "shortform": true + }, + { + "term_left": "exclusion", + "term_left_description": "The protocol creates barriers or excludes certain participants", + "term_right": "inclusion", + "term_right_description": "The protocol reduces barriers and includes diverse participants", + "value": 3, + "notes": null, + "shortform": true + }, + { + "term_left": "Kafka", + "term_left_description": "Fosters experiences of absurd complexity, alienation, and powerlessness", + "term_right": "Whitehead", + "term_right_description": "Enables participants to carry out desired activities with less work or thought", + "value": null, + "notes": null, + "shortform": false + }, + { + "term_left": "dead", + "term_left_description": "Not actively utilized by relevant participants", + "term_right": "alive", + "term_right_description": "Actively utilized by relevant participants", + "value": null, + "notes": null, + "shortform": false + } + ] + } + ], + "analysis": [ + { + "term_left": "hardness", + "term_left_description": "The protocol tends toward properties characterized by hardness", + "term_right": "softness", + "term_right_description": "The protocol tends toward properties characterized by softness", + "instructions": "Take all the 'value' fields in the gradients above and determine a mean. Round it to the nearest integer. That is the 'value' here.", + "automated": true, + "value": 5, + "notes": null + }, + { + "term_left": "polarized", + "term_left_description": "The analyst tended toward more extreme high or low readings", + "term_right": "centrist", + "term_right_description": "The analyst tended toward readings at the middle of the gradients", + "instructions": "Take all the 'value' fields in the gradients above. Assess their degree of polarization. For instance, if all the values are either 1 or 9, the output would be 1, and if all of them are 5, the output would be 9.", + "automated": true, + "value": 5, + "notes": null + }, + { + "term_left": "not useful", + "term_left_description": "The bicorder was not useful or relevant for analyzing this protocol", + "term_right": "very useful", + "term_right_description": "The bicorder was very useful and relevant for analyzing this protocol", + "instructions": "Evaluate the usefulness of this bicorder as a tool for analyzing this protocol, considering whether the gradient terms seemed revealing or irrelevant.", + "automated": false, + "value": 6, + "notes": null + } + ] +} \ No newline at end of file