MySpace users often from immigrant, Latino and Hispanic families, the teens not part of the "dominant high school popularity paradigm...ostracised...as geeks, freaks, or queers." Facebook users "are in honors classes, looking forward to the prom"...
"An American Self-Portrait. This new series looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something."
Technological information segments, dissolves and transposes social life to digital marks. Once a description of reality, it is increasingly becoming reality itself.
ASN would strengthen the collaborative nature of the Internet... to act as a public commons that engages citizens in civil society... an infrastructure for trusted relationships across the [web]...enabling innovation in democratic governance, alternative
about emerging technologies usage/research/ foresight (video games, tangible interactions, ubicomp, hci/cscw, user experience analysis, innovation and various weird things). future tech/practices and their implications
Alacrity, noun. From the Latin alacritas meaning promptitude. Similar in meaning to its synonyms Velocity and Celerity, all three mean quickness in action or movement. Alacrity stresses promptness in response to a suggestion or command, cheerful and eager
"what makes this board game work?", to "how can we give our players more control of our online games?", to "how do we make decisions in our company?", and of course "how did we collectively make such a mess of decision making in America?".