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[Book] Digital Ethnography

Digital Ethnography: Principles and Practice By Sarah Pink, Heather Horst, John Postill, Larissa Hjorth, Tania Lewis and Jo Tacchi (RMIT University) SAGE Publications... Experientia
From Putting People First | October 30, 2015 at 04:11 PM

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[Book] Digital Ethnography

Digital Ethnography: Principles and Practice By Sarah Pink, Heather Horst, John Postill, Larissa Hjorth, Tania Lewis and Jo Tacchi (RMIT University) SAGE Publications... Experientia
From Putting People First | October 30, 2015 at 04:11 PM

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[Paper] Who Benefits From Civic Technology?

Who Benefits From Civic Technology? Demographic and public attitudes research into the users of civic technologies Rebecca Rumbul, Head of Research, mySociety October... Experientia
From Putting People First | October 30, 2015 at 03:39 AM

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[Paper] Who Benefits From Civic Technology?

Who Benefits From Civic Technology? Demographic and public attitudes research into the users of civic technologies Rebecca Rumbul, Head of Research, mySociety October... Experientia
From Putting People First | October 30, 2015 at 03:39 AM

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How design is shaping thinking at the heart of the UK Government

Andrea Siodmok, head of the UK Cabinet Office Policy Lab explores how design is helping government think differently about future policy. Design is emerging asHow... Experientia
From Putting People First | October 30, 2015 at 02:17 AM

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How design is shaping thinking at the heart of the UK Government

Andrea Siodmok, head of the UK Cabinet Office Policy Lab explores how design is helping government think differently about future policy. Design is emerging asHow... Experientia
From Putting People First | October 30, 2015 at 02:17 AM

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An ethnography of tax-avoidance experts

Sociologist Brooke Harrington realized that if she were ever going to understand global inequality she would have to become one of the people who helps create it... Experientia
From Putting People First | October 29, 2015 at 07:40 AM

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An ethnography of tax-avoidance experts

Sociologist Brooke Harrington realized that if she were ever going to understand global inequality she would have to become one of the people who helps create it... Experientia
From Putting People First | October 29, 2015 at 07:40 AM

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Madrid, the non-neoliberal smart city

Paul Mason, economics editor at Channel 4 News and occasional columnist at The Guardian, writes about an alternative smart city vision: the “non-neoliberal smart... Experientia
From Putting People First | October 26, 2015 at 06:30 AM

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Madrid, the non-neoliberal smart city

Paul Mason, economics editor at Channel 4 News and occasional columnist at The Guardian, writes about an alternative smart city vision: the “non-neoliberal smart... Experientia
From Putting People First | October 26, 2015 at 06:30 AM

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IKEA Play Report 2015

IKEA has undertaken a major research-driven project in 2014 across 12 countries (report here) to explore the subjects of children’s development and play, and young... Experientia
From Putting People First | October 23, 2015 at 11:05 AM

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White paper: Design for aging

Designing the Second Half of Life: Innovation for Aging A visual white paper by Karten Design September 2015 The next 30 years will be a defining era for the American... Experientia
From Putting People First | October 23, 2015 at 07:09 AM

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Imagining a future IKEA catalogue [design fiction]

On August 31st Julian Bleecker and Nicolas Nova from the Near Future Laboratory organised a full day design fiction workshop in Sweden focused on the consumer-oriented... Experientia
From Putting People First | October 23, 2015 at 06:33 AM

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[Book] Watching Closely by Christena Nippert-Eng

Watching Closely: A Guide to Ethnographic Observation by Christena Nippert-Eng Oxford University Press, October 2015 296 pages Ethnographers rely on three related... Experientia
From Putting People First | October 22, 2015 at 06:10 AM

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Interview with acclaimed social psychologist Sherry Turkle

Tim Adams has published a long interview with Sherry Turkle, MIT Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology, in the Observer (the Sunday editionInterview... Experientia
From Putting People First | October 22, 2015 at 05:34 AM

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Obama’s nudging efforts are so far only about prodding

The White House’s Social and Behavioral Science Team (SBST), a cross-agency effort to bring behavioral science research into the policy making process, has just... Experientia
From Putting People First | October 22, 2015 at 05:11 AM

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Seeking meaning in a Big Data world

The Alan Turing Institute, the UK’s new national centre for data science, will focus on “drawing value out of the data”, writes Emily Cadman in the Financial Times... Experientia
From Putting People First | October 21, 2015 at 10:25 AM

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Inside the mind of museum-goer

Why do some people spend all day in a gallery while others dash around in an hour? Laurent Carpentier wonders what is the difference between the 3.6% of respondents... Experientia
From Putting People First | October 19, 2015 at 10:49 AM

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Don Norman on why “mostly autonomous” cars are dangerous

Cars that are autonomous most of the time (but not all the time) are dangerous, argues Donald Norman: “Whether you are fan or foe of completely autonomous vehicles... Experientia
From Putting People First | October 19, 2015 at 10:30 AM

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[Book] Mindware: Tools for Smart Thinking

Mindware: Tools for Smart Thinking By Richard E. Nisbett Farrar, Straus & Giroux August 2015 Description Scientific and philosophical concepts can change the way... Experientia
From Putting People First | October 17, 2015 at 06:12 AM