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
Since I had a bit of success with my article about adopting a poststructuralist perspective towards user experience (Indeed, 2 people commented! amazing: Thank you Kshitiz and mc), I thought it would be nice to go a bit deeper in the subject, by briefly evoking some of the main notions behind poststructuralist theory and by [...]
§321 · April 26, 2010 · Theory · (No comments) · Tags: Barthes, culture, discourse, interactive systems, interface design, knowledge, language, meaning, poststructuralim, research, Saussure, social theory, structuralism, Theory, ui, ui design, user-centric
Here are the slides from a talk I did in London at dev8d, where I tried to focus on the practical aspects of things. I hope some developers around here find it interesting! Dev8D Presentation Pascal Belouin View more presentations from Pascal Belouin.
§293 · April 15, 2010 · Practice · (No comments) · Tags: agile, culture, dev8d, developer, discourse analysis, ethnography, foucault, grounded theory, identity, interactive systems, interface design, knowledge, social theory, software development methodologies, ui, user-centric, web development
By introducing the idea of a fragmented, constantly ‘failing’ subject, Lacan directly challenged the essentialist concept of a ‘stable identity’, or ‘constant ego’ as commonly accepted since Descartes’ Cogito. Indeed, according to Lacan, biological sexual differences between individuals could be viewed as the ‘paradigmatic difference’ at the origin of the formation of the subject ‘from [...]
§145 · March 17, 2010 · Theory · (No comments) · Tags: culture, discourse, identity, lacan, language, stuart hall, suture
What has been, in occidental culture, consensually defined as ‘the subject’, or ‘the self’, and seen as a natural, self-evident and indivisible part of the identity of human beings could be approached and understood as a historically constituted phenomenon, whose apparition and development could be investigated through an exploration of the various techniques and practices [...]
During the course of fieldwork, the ethnographer can take on a number of different roles, which could be classified in regards to the degree of one’s involvement with the population he or she is studying. For instance, according to Junker (1960) and Gold’s (1958) model, the roles available to the researcher range from the ‘complete [...]
§125 · March 16, 2010 · Practice · 2 comments · Tags: culture, data, ethnography, identity, meaning, method, research, social theory
Abstract It could be argued that discourse surrounding software development methodologies has evolved in recent years from a focus on technology and pure computer science subjects to issues of values, meaning and communication. This shift in the way software development is perceived in the professional world could be further explored through a Foucauldian analysis of [...]
§90 · March 10, 2010 · Theory · (No comments) · Tags: agile, conversation analysis, culture, data, developer, discourse, discourse analysis, foucault, history, identity, interactive systems, knowledge, language, meaning, method, power, research, research proposal, social theory, software development methodologies, Theory, wittgenstein
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