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Legacy - September 2006, South Carolina Institute Of Archaeology And Anthropology--University Of South Carolina

SCIAA Newsletter - Legacy & PastWatch

Contents:

Callawassie Island Submerged Archaeological Prospecting Survey: Ground-Truthing Results.....p. 1
Director’s Note.....p. 2
S.C. Archaeology Month 2006.....p. 3
Remote Sensing at Etowah.....p. 6
State Teams Up With History Detectives.....p. 10
Forensic Archaeology Recoveries.....p. 12
Three Recent Santa Elena Projects.....p. 14
Southeastern Paleoamerican Survey.....p. 16
Update of Robertson Farm Excavations.....p. 20

Social Software, Groups, And Governance, Michael J. Madison

Articles

Formal groups play an important role in the law. Informal groups largely lie outside it. Should the law be more attentive to informal groups? The paper argues that this and related questions are appearing more frequently as a number of computer technologies, which I collect under the heading social software, increase the salience of groups. In turn, that salience raises important questions about both the significance and the benefits of informal groups. The paper suggests that there may be important social benefits associated with informal groups, and that the law should move towards a framework for encouraging and recognizing them. …