Context
I thought it was very interesting to read about the Chicago School in the context of movements within the fields of anthropology and sociology. After reading about the Chigaco School in Where the Action Is (Dourish 2001 p.62) all my…
Year 2005
RSS Tools
I talked about how RSS would be the best way to keep up with class blogs. In case anyone is interested in using RSS, I have found a page that lists some good RSS readers for any platform – RSS…
Class Blogs
I have decided to add links to the blogs of my classmates so that it is easy to browse between our blogs. It occurred to me that the best way to make use of the blogs is if people in…
Sociologists in Design
In an effort to have a week-long conversation – rather than a 36 hour conversation each week – I am going to put some less considered thoughts out here for everyone to consider. As I was reading chapter 3 of…
Online Learning Tool
One of the downsides to the popularity of online degree programs has finally been addressed. Wired News reports that the Department of Education has released a searchable online database listing every accredited postsecondary educational institution and what accreditation they have. I have looked at the site and it is pretty slick. now all we have to do is get people – prospective students and employers – to use the database so that the fraudulent degrees are detected or avoided.
Biography
This is slightly related to the reflection that I talked about in Back on Track but it also comes out of thinking from my Social Computing Class. Our readings have talked about the trajectory that is reflected in systems of…
Leaving Our Universe(s)
Strauss talks about “the difficulty [for people] of standing outside their own symbolic universes, of totally transcending them.” (Strauss 1993 p. 155) I have to agree that this is a monumental task, but I wonder if it is really necessary…
Kernals of Truth
In “It takes a whole village – or does it?” I see some strong truths expressed that the family is the basic unit of society, but there is also a kernel of truth in the saying “it takes a village.”…
Implications of an Assumption
I tried to connect a thought to an assumption and failed before, but now I have a question that arose whole considering one of Strauss’ assumptions (#15) “[A] joint action cannot be resolved into a common or same type of…
Intuition
I was having a conversation about interface design with Matt Schmidt who quoted Steve Jobs saying that if the interface is not intuitive it is not right. That took me back to my interface design class as a computer science…