Data-driven social experience is an entirely new manner of social interaction, one that obscures our emotional connections to people. Data makes social relationships visible, knowable, and countable in unprecedented ways. But it does not — and cannot — convey the emotional experience of social interaction. I’ve already discussed how digital technologies transform text and time. [...]
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Categories: anthropology · ethnography · facebook · qualitative research · quantitative research · social media · social networks · sociology
In an earlier post, I examined how text is transformed when it is created and shared in digital form. In this post, I argue that time itself is transformed when it is represented in digital format. To illustrate, consider my experiment with my Filofax.
Yes, I said Filofax. I still have one. I haven’t filled it [...]
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Categories: design · discourse analysis · product design · qualitative research · technology design · time · user experience
I have been thinking a great deal lately about the transformative effects of digital phenomena (See an earlier post I wrote about music on cell phones).
Digital text differs greatly from analogue text. For example, see my text below.
I wanted to complete this post entirely in analogue format but I found entirely too labourious. So add [...]
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The music industry is in a pickle. CD sales are falling, big-name artists are signing with touring companies. Independent artists are having a go on their own. The solution, the industry thinks, is to sell its music through mobile phones.
They are dead wrong. Here’s why.
Mobile phone users don’t use music in the same way that [...]
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Categories: goffman · mobile · music · product design · technology design · user experience