Another building block for me from Wikipedia:
The definition of the situation is a fundamental concept in symbolic interactionism advanced by the American sociologist W. I. Thomas. It is a kind of collective agreement between people on the characteristics of a situation, and from there, how to appropriately react and fit into it.
Establishing a definition of the situation requires that the participants agree on both the frame of the interaction (its social context and expectations), and on their identities (the person they will treat each other as being for a given situation).
I’m thinking about this in a multi-dimensional mixed realm dataspace. How do two entities composed almost entirely of different sets of reference points and frames of reference establish meaningful communication links. Rosetta Stones of intercultural meaning and translation of signs and signifiers, codes of various social groups, sub-cultures and temporary meaning associations as they modulate across global history. Blah blah blah blah… codecs, downloadable meaning packs, patchers and translators. Cracking software as an act of liberating meaning to a community of witness.
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[...] This connects with the term, “definition of the situation“, which is part of something called “symbolic interactionism” in sociology. DOTS is essentially, making clear statements about a given moment, about what is happening and what all involved parties ought to expect. It is a kind of collective agreement between people on the characteristics of a situation, and from there, how to appropriately react and fit into it. [...]