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). [...]
Reductionism could be viewed as an essential theoretical component of modern natural sciences such as biology or genetics. Although reductionist approaches work very well as long as “natural” phenomena are studied, things become more difficult when human beings are involved as the object of study. Let us try and see how this notion of reductionism [...]
Interactionism is a social scientific tradition that relies on the assumption that the “real” world is actively constructed by people: It therefore views the mind primarily as a tool for solving the “pragmatic concerns” of everyday life. Thus, the basis of all social life can be found in all the small interactions we conduct every [...]
I think that it would be interesting to explore the theoretical ramification of an interpretation of the notion of user experience from a ‘radically’ poststructuralist point of view, that would put the emphasis not only on the subjective experience of users of interactive systems, but also on the subjective experience of the people who actually [...]