Looks + Substance: An Introduction to User Experience (UX)

15 May 2015

Authors: Elizabeth Kaufer

What makes a great website great? You tell me. This is the core of UX: listening to what the user wants and needs in order to design the best ...
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Data, Knowledge, and Knowing Through Data

6 February 2014

Authors: Sarah Lefkowith

We live in a world ruled by data in all realms, not just the scientific or mathematical but the political and the personal. This comes with both benefits and ...
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“internet” vs. “Internet”: The Consequence of Capitalization

24 January 2014

Authors: Sarah Lefkowith

Read enough about digital developments and you’re bound to run into a subtle inconsistency: the capitalization of the word “internet.” Some scholars do, some scholars don’t. This may lead ...
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Exploring the Geography of WorldBank.org

11 June 2012

Authors: Molly Norris

“Once we become critical of the assumption that the Web is a neutral repository of information, the structure of the Web becomes much more interesting.” – M.H Jackson, 1997 Absences speak ...
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How Privacy Advocates Respond to Piracy Hawks: a rudimentary analysis on public salience

9 May 2012

Authors: Alexander Furnas

It makes sense that the salience of these two issues would be related. Anti-piracy laws and countermeasures tend to violate traditional privacy norms – indeed they are perhaps the ...
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Network Effects–We Missed the Inframarginals

2 May 2012

Authors: Yonatan Moskowitz

When discussing the internet, the economic concept that seems to have made the largest dispersion into popular discourse is the concept of ‘network effects’. “Facebook is unconquerable because of ...
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