Dana Spiegel
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A group, according to the American Heritage Dictionary, is an assemblage of persons or objects gathered or located together. In a social context, this usually implies a shared psychological goal or physical state, and in the real world, often both. The set of students in the Sociable Media Group at the MIT Media Laboratory is such a group, sharing the academic goal of studying social interaction in a computer mediated world, as well as inhabiting the same physical location in the SMG common area.
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