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Design-led research
Design-led research seeks to understand the world through direct intervention by the researcher, rather than detached observation.
Branded Meeting Places Final Report
Final Report Branded Meeting Places Ubiquitous technologies and the design of places for meaningful human encounter http://ace.caad.ed.ac.uk/Branded/ [inactive] Richard Coyne, James Stewart, Mark Wright, Henrik Ekeus, Penny Travlou, Robin Williams The University of Edinburgh 12 March 2009 In this project we examine the changing character of semi-formal meetings between people and the technologies that support … Continue reading
Branded Meeting Places
Branded Meeting Places Ubiquitous technologies and the design of places for meaningful human encounter Designing for the 21st Century Initiative Also see final report. Meetings are now less constrained to offices, shops and fixed points of service, and can take place in a range of environments, including branded places: coffee houses, transportation hubs, customised meeting … Continue reading
Wired-Up Words
An A–Z of Awkward Ideas for a Wired World (DRAFT in process, Admin) Introduction: Networks and Word Play The public platform of the Word Wide Web (sic) is populated with neologisms, portmanteau terms, the alleged language of the street, and bad puns — not to mention spelling mistakes. Writers for the web now have license to … Continue reading
Publication List
Books 1. Coyne, Richard. 2018. Network Nature: The Place of Nature in the Digital Age. London: Bloomsbury Academic. 2. *Coyne, Richard. 2016. Mood and Mobility: Navigating the Emotional Spaces of Digital Social Networks, Cambridge MA: MIT Press. 3. *Coyne, Richard. 2011. Derrida for Architects. London: Routledge. 4. *Coyne, Richard. 2010. The Tuning of Place: Sociable … Continue reading
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Results appear in reverse date order. You can also use the search box above or the Google menu. 3D printing 4D printing Accelerationism Activism Affective and emotion Africa Agon Alberti Ambience Anger Animals Anime Apocalypse Art Artificial Intelligence Attention Audience engagement Augmented reality Aura Ayn Rand Bad Actors Bauhaus Belief Big Bang Theory Big data … Continue reading
Obfuscation and its remedies
He “took every step that he could to try to obfuscate, to try to get people to lie, tried to reward those people who refused to cooperate with a legitimate investigation, tried to punish and denigrate the people who were cooperative” (The Hill). That’s how the former Watergate special prosecutor (Richard Ben-Veniste) summarised the Mueller … Continue reading
Executive secrets
Who doesn’t want some unstructured time, especially at work! The gaps in the US President’s daily schedule surfaced again this week. 60% of his time is labelled “Executive Time.” Like many others, I’m content to attribute his work patterns to sloth, contrarianism, disorganisation, and tv addiction. (See Axios article.) The main defence from his PR … Continue reading
Organic cyberwars
The respectable sounding Internet Research Agency (IRA) is a media organisation that was started by the Russian government in 2013, initially to exert influence over Ukrainian and Russian citizens. Some time before the 2016 US election the Russian IRA directed these operations to influence online political discussions in the US, with further influence in other … Continue reading
The death of a public life
You can be excused for thinking that social media presents imperfect insights into human nature. US political comedian Bill Maher excoriated the public personas social media users present online — their polite, politically correct, family-friendly, “prissy” avatars, whose great “super power” is that they remember birthdays! “If you want to know who someone really is … Continue reading
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