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Powerful Structure: Inspecting Infrastructures of Information Organization in Wikimedia Foundation Projects
This dissertation investigates the social and technological factors of collaboratively organizing information in commons-based peer production systems. To do so, it analyzes the diverse strategies that members of Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) project communities use to organize information. Key findings from this dissertation ...
Communicating Meaning in Context-Aware System Design
Computers play an increasingly personal role in our daily lives. Rather than interacting with computers primarily at work or for specialized tasks, computers are now present in virtually all our daily activities. The increased prevalence of technology in our lives has encouraged a rethinking of how technology is designed and ...
What Makes a Great Software Engineer
Good software engineers are essential to the creation of good software. However, today, we lack a holistic, contextual, and real-world understanding of software engineering expertise. In this dissertation, we address this gap by investigating the thesis: “Experts involved in the creation of software view software engineering ...
It's Not Rocket Library Science: Design Epistemology and American Librarianship
Contemporary American librarianship is typically considered a social science. Yet libraries and librarians have a strong history of making tools and services that enable access to and use of information resources. Conceptualizing librarianship from a scientific perspective discounts its design roots, leaving the field to ...
Transparent Lives and the Surveillance State: Policing, New Visibility, and Information Policy
In this dissertation, I utilize conceptual and legal analyses to explore the tensions between personal information privacy and public access to information implicated by government surveillance and citizen-initiated inverse surveillance efforts designed to cast the gaze back at the government, and ask what implications these ...
Teaching and Engaging with Debugging Puzzles
This dissertation describes Gidget, an online educational debugging game that is designed to engage and teach novices introductory programming concepts. Players solve puzzles throughout the game to help a robotic character complete its missions. These puzzles are actually debugging tasks, where players must inspect, modify, ...
Tuned Souls: The Role of Music in the Lives of Homeless Young People
Although music is considered to be an important part of adolescence and young adulthood, little is known about music and homeless youth. Accordingly, this dissertation research investigated the role of music in the lives of homeless young people, aged 15-25. The study was conducted in Seattle, Washington and Vancouver, British ...
Designing Self-Monitoring Technology to Promote Data Capture and Reflection
Self-monitoring is a powerful means for self-reflection, which is important in health behavior change. More recently, researchers and companies began to offer numerous self-monitoring technologies for health. However, people—even experienced self-trackers such as Quantified-Selfers—have difficulty with continued tracking and ...
The Role of Trait Affect in the Information Security Behavior of Home Users
University of Washington Abstract The Role of Trait Affect in the Information Security Behavior of Home Users Marc J. Dupuis Chairs of the Supervisory Committee: Research Associate Professor Barbara Endicott-Popovsky Associate Professor Hazel Taylor The Information School Computers provide people with the means to perform a ...
THE POWER OF ASSOCIATIONS. SOCIAL MEDIA AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS: FACEBOOK IN THE INTERACTIONS OF SOCIAL MOVEMENT ORGANIZATIONS
(2014-02-24)
There are many indications that social mobilization and political participation have been transformed by Information Communication Technologies (ICT), and, more recently, by Social Media. In spite of many studies which have attempted to grapple with their interrelationship, we still know little about the degree and complexity ...