One of my colleagues and classmates sent an interesting article about microblogging to the listserv for our Computer Mediated Communication Class: Oral Culture 2.0
The author describes some theories that were developed based on research of TV watching, and proposes that they can be compared to microblogging, and he ends by asking the following questions:
Because both [...]
Archive for October, 2008
23 Oct
Twitter promotes illiteracy: Everybody Panic!!
20 Oct
My HSC rant
In the US academia world, if you wish to publish anything in which any human being was used in any way for research, you must obtain approval to work with human subjects from the Internal Review Board. And, if you wish to publish any kind of research in which human beings were not used, you [...]
8 Oct
Hello. My name is Jenny . . .
. . . and I’m a Twitter addict.
I use Twhirl, a desktop application that that sends the latest tweets right to me, so I don’t have to go to a web page to read them. I keep it open whenever I’m in front of a laptop. And I’m in front of a laptop a heck [...]
2 Oct
PDC08
I am currently attending the 2008 Participatory Design Conference.
When I got the email a few months ago through my school listserv, I thought it looked interesting. And, since the worlds of HCI, and Participatory Design (PD) intersect nicely, and since usability is part of HCI, and since it was going to take place right here [...]
