A nice write-up of the true story of the legendary “green button” story about the first documented “design ethnography” at PARC (which claims that the green start button on today’s copying machines were invented following that study):
Lucy Suchman […]
The Guardian summarizes a contemporary genre of “cyber-sceptic” literature, such as Sherry Turkle’s “Alone Together”, “The Shallows” by Nicholas Carr, “The Net Delusion” by Evgeny Morozov, and others – and also presents some critique of that […]
Many studies, in academia and industry, in computer science and sociology (this one too), examine creation of new ties in social networks, but very few examine tie breaks and persistence.Mor Naaman on a paper written with two colleagues (PDF (archived copy)) about a […]