Category: Research tidbits

Bits and pieces that led to more cogent thoughts

The golden age of newsprint collides with the gilt age of internet news

Published on Author Elizabeth F. Churchill

In this article, I discuss the current condition of the newspaper industry and discuss how imperative it is for the news industry to engage more deeply with digital, Internet-based information and interaction design. This is an early draft of a column I wrote for ACM’s interactions magazine. It appeared here and the final version is available from here. It appeared in Volume 16 Issue 4, July + August 2009 of the magazine. Continue reading The golden age of newsprint collides with the gilt age of internet news →

Keep your hair on: Designed and emergent interactions for graphical virtual worlds

Published on Author Elizabeth F. Churchill

[This is a draft I wrote for my column, P’s&Q’s in ACMs interactions magazine. For it, I interviewed Bob Moore who was at the time with now defunct Multiverse. It came out in Volume 15 Issue 3, May + June 2008. The final version can be found here.] ______________________________________________________ Chatting with virtual world researchers Jeffrey… Continue reading Keep your hair on: Designed and emergent interactions for graphical virtual worlds →

The Diversity of Cyberethnography: Approaches to the Study of Sociality in Virtual Lifescapes

Published on Author Elizabeth F. Churchill

Submission for EPIC 2005: Methods Paper (10 page limit) Title: The Diversity of Cyberethnography: Approaches to the Study of Sociality in Virtual Lifescapes Authors: E.F. Churchill, B. Jordan and R. Moore Abstract: If cyberspace is “the total interconnectedness of human beings through computers and telecommunication without regard to physical geography” (Gibson, 1984), then cybersociality lies… Continue reading The Diversity of Cyberethnography: Approaches to the Study of Sociality in Virtual Lifescapes →