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ubitasking. Taylorism. The horror…

Thursday, June 23rd, 2011

иконографияПравославни икони[caption id="attachment_747" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Visualization of over 16,000 Mechanical Turk workers in the United States. Click on the image for the original (much bigger)."][/caption]I'm always trying to think of silly new buzzwords ("ubitasking"), and I'm also always trying to avoid the hackneyed ones ("crowdsourcing"). Mechanical Turk (ach! 41% of ...

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Participatory Mobile Urban Experience Planning

Thursday, June 9th, 2011

... or, Streethacking with Ubiquitous Media, if you prefer. This is the thing toward which I'm now turning most of my academic affections and attention. Reading Henri Lefebvre, Matt Hern, Paul Dourish, and many others has led me to this increasingly (and appropriately) crowded (for instance, here, here, here, here, ...

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update

Sunday, March 6th, 2011

мека мебелThis blog is going to get more frequent updating in short order - more time on my hands in the coming months. Expect some dissertation-related posts as I crystallize my proposal. It's coming together. It's mobiles. Cities. Ubi-comp. And, I think, postphenomenology.

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and now on to something else

Wednesday, May 12th, 2010

I just formally completed my comprehensive exams. The oral defense was held today, I passed, and now I'm officially ABD (all but dissertation). This is the other side I said I'd see you on. I think the defining harrowing thing about comprehensive/qualifying exams is that they come to us (1) without ...

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Les Comps

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009

Ta-da. I've finally submitted the field definitions for my Comprehensive exams. Here they are. Comments welcome; it helps. I'm writing the Philosophy of Technology exam in October, and the Theorizing Participatory Media exams in December February 2010, during the Olympics. 1. A History of the Philosophy of Science and Technology Western philosophical ...

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MUSE3 BCNET presentation

Monday, April 28th, 2008

I had the opportunity last week to present my ongoing research into user-centered technology design (which is what is evolving out of my ethnographic research in the lives of mobile handset users) as part of a panel all about Mobile Muse (where I'm the Program Manager, for those who aren't ...

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The PhD – the comprehensive exams

Tuesday, December 18th, 2007

So I'm diving straight into my comprehensives now. I'm building lists and checking them twice (and more). While building these reading lists is in many ways a very personal journey, I've decided to blog about the process so that I might get feedback from unexpected locales, harnessing the "wisdom of ...

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