I recently came across Bitcoin and, being more and more interested in Economics, found the idea very exciting. Bitcoin could be described as a cryptography-based peer-to-peer currency, created in 2009 by Satoshi Nakamoto. People have an electronic wallet, which can contain a number of public addresses (one of mine is 1NgRqMgGu4BFVwBn8yEMPZgLdK5PXpBeRa, if you feel generous). [...]
The central perspective that underlies most of the articles featured on this blog could be summarised by the notion of ‘software as discourse’. I would like to give an overview of what this concept means to me from a theoretical point of view, on which assumptions it relies, and what it entails from a methodological [...]
§438 · May 23, 2011 · Theory · (No comments) · Tags: agile, discourse, discourse analysis, ethnography, grounded theory, interactive systems, language, method, social theory, sociology, software development methodologies, Theory, ui principles
Conversation Analysis could be defined as a discourse analysis method which relies on the assumption that only talk-in-interaction constitutes a valid object of analysis: relevant meaning is only created in the framework of an actual conversation between two or more participants. Thus, Conversation Analysis is often described as a positivist approach: conversation analysts argue that [...]
§357 · May 19, 2011 · Theory · 2 comments · Tags: conversation analysis, data, discourse, discourse analysis, interactive systems, language, method, social theory, Theory
I recently had the opportunity to write a first draft for a web application allowing office workers to order hot and cold drinks online. It’s far from perfect, but gives an idea of how this problem can be approached! Introduction The aim of this document is to provide a first draft design for an online [...]
§391 · May 12, 2011 · Practice · 3 comments · Tags: domain, interactive systems, interface design, method, Practice, ui, ui design, user experience, user-centric, ux, web applications
I take the liberty of going off-subject a little bit by publishing this essay I wrote recently. Hope some will find it of interest! Abstract Neuroscientific discourses about addiction have greatly contributed to our understanding of the biological phenomena that accompany repeated, compulsive drug use. We now have a deep understanding of the mode of [...]
LinkedIn recently went public. Its success makes it, with Twitter and Facebook, one of the three most popular social networking platforms. A particular strand of Social Identity Theory, and particularly the work performed on this subject by thinkers such as Marcel Mauss and Max Weber seem to provide an interesting way to analyse the emergence [...]
§346 · May 11, 2011 · Theory · 3 comments · Tags: bourdieu, culture, facebook, identity, linkedIn, mauss, meaning, social sofware, social theory, Weber
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