Jahna Otterbacher and I have a paper at CSCW this year. I’ll be giving the presentation Wednesday, Feb. 15 at 9am in Grand K. Hope to see you there; abstract after the jump.
Read more →Today’s John Seely Brown Symposium had an active Twitter hashtag of #danahjsb. I imported the hashtag network* into NodeXL and had it draw up a graph for me (click the image for a giant BMP version): Image size depends on the user’s number of followers. Edge color depends on the kind of edge –...
Read more →Each year the School of Information hosts a John Seeley Brown Symposium on Technology and Society, and danah boyd is this year’s keynote speaker. John Seeley Brown, Ed Vielmetti, Cliff Lampe, and I will be on a panel following her talk: “Youth-Generated Culture: Growing Up in an Era of Social Media” JSB Symposium info...
Read more →Discussions of method don’t often sound all that sexy, but I love them anyway. My first two sessions of the ICLS 2008 conference have been about method (maybe process is a better term). First, Yrjo Engestrom talked about formative interventions, an activity theory-style approach to research, and then Ilya Zitter described her process for...
Read more →The title of this post suggests a treatise more than a lowly blog post, but, I’m a busy proposal writer, so I’ll have to settle for the post. A friend sent me a link to a Gartner newsletter yesterday, and the title was “It’s official. Collaboration is a top business priority.” That’s good news...
Read more →Sean Munson and I will be hosting a roundtable discussion at the iConference at UCLA in February. The preconference wiki is up and ready for your contributions. Here’s the description of the roundtable: ——————— Professional students, whether undergraduates or masters’ students, represent a significant portion of the iSchool community. How do iSchools effectively educate...
Read more →I’m having trouble convincing myself that staying involved in big science projects is a tenable arrangement for me. Big science drives a lot of SI’s money, and I’m starting to feel a bit like a puppet. Sure, I think big science is interesting and valuable. Who doesn’t want an anthrax vaccine or concrete that...
Read more →I’m off to Troy, NY tonight to wave the sociotechnical banner at an NSF workshop. I’ll be giving a short (~10 minutes) talk on Thursday afternoon, and I’m working on my talk notes. Some of you already know I like to give a different kind of talk – minimalist slides, helpful pictures and videos,...
Read more →I made some notes during the Connections 2007 conference about things I should post to my blog, and I’m just getting around to doing so. The conference was very useful – especially in forcing me to prepare a coherent presentation – and I recommend it to other iSchool doctoral students. Some things I noticed:...
Read more →presentation sponsored by Dean’s Office, CREW, CIC, and UM@SI (12-1pm Ehrlicher, 3 April 2006) thinking about cultural and social capital rather than simply economic What do people bring with them when they engage IT, and how does that shape their interaction?
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