Observing the evolution of technology usage

Search results for "social network" (27)

• Managing Separation Anxiety through communication

  ...

• The democratisation of intimacy

  Workplace, school, battlefield, foreign country, were until recently all settings in which people were removed for short or long periods of time from their closest ties, family or friends.   Clocking in, meant leaving behind the family and ...

• When voice is preferred to text (rarely)

  Although text seems to be preferred in most interactions essentially because of its asynchronous nature, there are  topics and discussions that can only be done orally and synchronously. When there is a complex issue, a certain level of disagree...

• The Author

  Stefana Broadbent ...

• The Project

  Usagewatch was created in 2005 by Francesco Cara to track the evolution of user practices with new digital media. Stefana Broadbent has since taken it on and is transforming it into a more narrative and analytic tool. The idea is to combine t...

• Keeping close to the core

   A good proportion of adults in Europe, are using at least 4 channels of communication a day, fix and mobile phone, SMS, and email.  With all these channels, devices, services, a user contacts on average the same 5 to 10 people 80...

• The role of cultural representations in the diffusion of innovation

  In the 1980's a wave of research in cognitive science examined the role of preconceptions, in the form of naive theories and mental models, in shaping our understanding of the world (Gentner & Stevens, 1983, McClosky 1983, ). Research on naïve p...

• Are we networking our homes

  For the past few months, I've been collecting evidence about adoption of home networking, and in particular installed base and attitudes. The evidence I found indicates that home networking is progressing extremely slowly, and doesn't seem to be the ...

• How many people publish, read or contribute to blogs? 2.0

  Yesterday, while I was updating a previous post on blog usages as new results had been published by the Pew Internet and American Life Project, I recalled an International Herald Tribune article I came across at the end of last year: ...

• Internet use and sociability - USA

  December 2004The Stanford Center for the Quantitative Study of Society published the report Ten years after the birth of the Internet, how do Americans use the Interne...

123

• Tags
• voice couples Refugee Regulations communication instittions naive models Social Networking intimacy cognition Contact private mothers calls africa leisure home texting safety train accidents control digital history social network workplace accident phone call language school communication teachers work Intimacy SMS text, separation sms teenagers