Read Adding Instagram to a Social Reader by Chris Chris Chris (mrkapowski.com) I mentioned yesterday my frustrations with Instagram were at an all-time high, and I wanted to “soft quit” the app by adding my follows as a source in Monocle. I didn’t find any existing guide on how to do this (sor...
The existing literature regarding social media use provides extant evidence supporting the claim that usage patterns ultimately have the capability of impacting...
In this article, we discuss the roles users play in political conversations on Twitter. Our case study is based on data collected in three dates during the form...
This article discusses methodological approaches to app studies, focusing on their embeddedness and situatedness within multiple infrastructural settings. Our a...
`Smart cities', urban development projects that design computational systems
and sensory technology to monitor activity and regulate energy consumption and
resource distribution, are a frontier for the prospective deployment of ICTs
for sustainability. Often reduced to technological problems of optimization,
these projects have implications far beyond narrow environmental and
consumptive frames of sustainability. Studying them requires frameworks that
support us in examining technological and environmental sustainability
dimensions jointly with social justice perspectives. This paper uses Critical
Systems Heuristics (CSH) to examine the design of Sidewalk Toronto, an ongoing
smart city development. We explore how the professed values guiding the project
are contentiously enacted, and we argue that key stakeholders and beneficiaries
in the planning process significantly constrain the emancipatory and
transformative potential of the project by marginalizing the role of residents
in determining project purposes. This analysis contributes an example that
illustrates the relevance of critical systems thinking in ICT4S and offers CSH
as a conceptual frame that supports critical reflection on the tensions between
the visions and realities of `sustainable' ways of organizing human life.
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Today was day 1 of the Crafting {:} a Life unconference that our friend Peter is organising on Prince Edward Island. It was a fun and wonderful day.
It was a novel experience, doing an unconference party like this as a participant. Elmine and I have always been on the other side, the...
tl;dr This is a good move for users in the iOS ecosystem, and is primarily designed as an alternative for apps that currently use "Sign in with [Facebook/Twitter/Google]" to avoid leaking sensitive user info.
Yes, Apple is entering the OAuth ecosystem as a new identity provider. Turns out every iOS ...
Books
The Spirit of Science Fiction, by Roberto Bolaño, translated by Natasha Wimmer. A lyrical stream of a book, conjuring adolescence in all its cusping possibilities and emerging sexuality. Slight but evocative, often blurring the line between prose and poetry.
Air Vol. 1: Letters From Lost Coun...
I am running for the W3C Advisory Board (AB). If you work on or care about open web standards, I am asking you, and in particular your W3C Advisory Committee representative, to vote me for as their #1 vote (due to the way the current W3C STV mechanism is interpreted and implemented by the W3C Team)....
Via Iskander Smit an interesting editorial on practices in digital ethics landed in my inbox: Translating Principles into Practices of Digital Ethics: Five Risks of Being Unethical, by Luciano Floridi, director of the Digital Ethics lab of Oxford University’s Internet Institute.
It lists 5 groups ...
Chris Aldrich (boffosocko.com)
Aaron Parecki (aaronparecki.com)
Ben Werdmüller (werd.io)
Tantek Çelik (tantek.com)