(TheWorld) Mobile Phones and Drugs

“Sort Drugs, Make Mates”: The use and meanings of mobiles in club culture, a talk by Karenza Moorepresented at the Digiplay seminar convened by Dr Nicola Green at University of Surrey This paper presents the preliminary findings of work on the place of the mobile phone within club culture in the No...

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(Research) Geomapping orkut is nice

Clay Shirky in many to many shows a nice orkut geomapping. Red is friend, blue is friends of friends If you want to give a try, This script geographically displays the links between you and your Orkut friends. ...

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[Research] Strategies used for directing and indicating

Gutwin, C. and Greenberg, S. (1999b). The Effects of Workspace Awareness Support on the Usability of Real-Time Distributed Groupware. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI) 6 (3), 243-281. Gutwin and Greenberg (1999b) compared people’s performance in two groups of pairs. The first g...

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[Weird] Fresh insults

I already mentionned that mobog proposes crazy comments. Insults are also nice, especially when there is some kind of flame war. -bill you are a ignorant mother fuckin waste of a human. so shut the fuck up u piece of shit. - I'm ignorant? Me? Let's look at your keen sense of grammar in that last re...

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[Research] Cell phones and social interactions

Via the feature Perhaps most people wouldn't want to use their phones to coordinate play with strangers. Nalini Kotamraju is a PhD candidate at UC Berkely, a sociologist specializing in the everyday uses of information technology. In her ethnographic studies with teenagers from the United Kingdom ...

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[Research] Counting gesture to analyse collaboration

In order to analyse collaboration, one should find specific patterns in participants' interaction. I am still looking for a paradigm for counting gestures. Via Multimodality and Gestures in the Teacher’s Communication (Giorgio Merola and Isabella Poggi): A deictic gesture indicates something in the...

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