- Justine Cassell. 2010. Regulative or constitutive behaviors: culture and identity in human interaction. Abstract: The term 'social signal' implies that one person emits a signal that another picks up, and that the signal regulates some sort of socially appropriate behavior. Taking examples from my recent research on culture and identity both in human-human and human-agent interaction, I will try to problematize the notion of a "social signal" by demonstrating the many cases where there is no signal independently or prior to the people who use it, and where the exchange of signals constitutes rule-making, as opposed to following it.
