by Sam Ladner on April 27, 2010 · 4 comments
in Blog, bourdieu, design, facebook, goffman, home, interaction design, market research, social capital, social media, social networks, sociology, technology design, user experience
I was recently invited to speak at Ottawa’s Social Media Breakfast. The organizers, Simon Chen, Rob Lane and Ryan Anderson, asked me specifically to bring a sociologist’s understanding to social media. Below is my presentation. For the full version, with the notes, visit the full slideshare version.
My essential argument for the presentation was that we [...]
Tagged as:
bourdieu,
facebook,
goffman,
linkedin,
social capital,
social media,
social networks
Categories: Blog · bourdieu · design · facebook · goffman · home · interaction design · market research · social capital · social media · social networks · sociology · technology design · user experience
We are facing a collective conundrum: how do we continue to consume enough to keep our economic engine rumbling, while at the same time, not consume too much to destroy that very economic engine? This is a contradiction explored by Marx and Polanyi, and now by sociologist George Ritzer, author of The McDonaldization of Society.
Ritzer [...]
Tagged as:
capitalism,
consumerism,
consumption,
economics,
linkedin,
luxury goods,
marx,
mcdonaldization
Categories: bourdieu · class · luxury goods · sociology
by Sam Ladner on September 29, 2009 · 20 comments
in Popular, Research Methods, bourdieu, class, culture, home, luxury goods, methods, social capital, social media, social networks
