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The book is an exploration of the theoretical, conceptual and methodological foundations of human-centred design. Specifically, it critically examines the notion of 'practice' and argues for an understanding of the concept which emanates from engagement with design problems rather than simply from social scientific theory. The contributors to the book in their various ways all subscribe to a systematic account of how practice- oriented studies can inform design. Using the perspective of 'grounded design', it pursues a long term view of the design process, arguing for user engagement from the very earliest stages of design policy, including methods for understanding user practices to inform initial design policies up to and including processes of appropriation as technologies are embedded in contexts of use. Grounded design is a perspective which also deals with the vexed problem of appropriate generalization in design studies and the kinds of cross-comparison that can usefully be done. The book contains a number of case studies which exemplify these themes, some of which are rooted in the use of technology in organizational contexts, others of which deal with design in contexts such as care of the elderly, firefighting and multicultural education.
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• Preface
• Introduction : peak connection
• Part one :the way to Wellville
• Hostile landscapes
• Fitness as a metaphor
• New hierarchies of need
• Part two : The blended self
• The social soul
• Worker beings
• Networks and networkers
• Conclusion : the fully connected future
• Appendix : Hexagon thinking - six practical practices around social health
• Postscript : a view from the bridge
• Bibliography
• Acknowledgements-- Index.

Twenty-five years after the arrival of the Internet, we are drowning in data and deadlines. Humans and machines are in fully connected overdrive - and starting to become entwined as never before. Truly, it is an Age of Overload. We can never have imagined that absorbing so much information while trying to maintain a healthy balance in our personal and professional lives could feel so complex, dissatisfying and unproductive. Something is missing. That something, Julia Hobsbawm argues in this ground-breaking book, is Social Health, a new blueprint for modern connectedness. She begins with the premise that much of what we think about healthy ways to live have not been updated any more than have most post-war modern institutions, which are themselves also struggling in the twenty-first century. In 1946, the World Health Organization defined `health' as `a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.' What we understood by 'social' in the middle of the last century now desperately needs an update. In Fully Connected Julia Hobsbawm takes us on a journey - often a personal one, 'from Telex to Twitter' - to illustrate how the answer to the Age of Overload can come from devising management-based systems which are both highly practical and yet intuitive, and which draw inspiration from the huge advances the world has made in tackling other kinds of health, specifically nutrition, exercise, and mental well-being. Drawing on the latest thinking in health and behavioural economics, social psychology, neuroscience, management and social network analysis, this book provides a cornucopia of case studies and ideas, to educate and inspire a new generation of managers, policymakers and anyone wanting to navigate through the rough seas of overload.
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• La civilisation numérique
• La prise de pouvoir digitale
• Tous connectés
• Les machines parlent aux machines
• L'impossible déconnexion
• Un tunnel télécommunicant
• Un cataclysme national
• La panne mondiale
• Les aventuriers de la déconnexion
• La place de l'homme
• La dissolution des travailleurs
• Le technostress des champs
• Le monde selon ISO
• Le bonheur n'est plus dans le pré
• Drones des champs et drones des villes
• Les objets parlent aux objets
• L'homme au travail, ce bogue entre deux machines
• Le trader, ce bogue entre deux data centers
• L'idéologie gestionnaire
• Le politique, ce bogue entre deux experts
• La désinstitutionnalisation des institutions
• Le ROI républicain
• Le ROI est nu
• L'argent organisé
• No ticket, no work!
• L'entreprise innervée
• La pandémie du stress au travail
• Une pathologie sociale chronique
• Le thermomètre et les symptômes
• Alourdissement des tâches
• Manque de temps
• Cadences infernales
• Les TIC entraînent des temps de réponse toujours plus courts
• Les TIC génèrent trop d'information
• Les TIC engendrent un nombre croissant de tâches à traiter en dehors des horaires et du lieu de travail
• Les équipements fournis par l'entreprise
• Une absence de régulation électronique
• La généralisation de la laisse électronique
• Le droit à la déconnexion est à inventer
• Les facteurs de stress les plus cités
• Les geeks et les luddites
• Les digital natives sont-ils des mutants?
• Des liaisons dangereuses contrôlées?
• 24 pièges dans la jungle
• L'angoisse du temps mort
• Toujours plus vite
• Le travail à la maison (et inversement)
• Toujours tout de suite
• Quoi évalue qui?
• Les jeunes sont-ils multitâches?
• Éloge de l'esprit vagabond
• Le grand embouteillage électronique
• La peur de la disparition numérique
• L'homme réactif
• La roue et l'écureuil
• L'info bésité
• Tous manutentionnaires!
• Des bibliothèques en tablettes
• La victime et le bourreau
• Le règne des entremetteurs
• Le bruit ou le signal?
• Quand est-ce qu'on arrive?
• La pensée magique 2.0
• La dictature des chiffres
• Le déluge et le parapluie
• Le rétablissement du servage
• Le travail en miettes
• La dissolution des relations humaines
• Le Cloud ou le smog.

"Le numérique bouleverse nos sociétés de façon extrêmement rapide. Sommes-nous enfin en train de vivre la mutation attendue vers un monde meilleur, une civilisation de la culture et des loisirs où les robots assureront les travaux pénibles ? Rien n'est moins sûr. L'homme semble hypnotisé par les nouvelles technologies, à portée de main via les écrans, les smartphones, les objets connectés de plus en plus sophistiqués... qui sont censés lui faciliter la vie, professionnelle ou privée. Pourtant, entre les promesses et les réalités, entre les mirages que véhicule la Silicon Valley et les pratiques sociales qui se mettent effectivement en place, les écarts se creusent. Un monde meilleur? nous invite à vivre une aventure de science-fiction dans les méandres de ce nouvel environnement culturel qui constitue notre réalité quotidienne. Sans, bien évidemment, rejeter en bloc ces nouvelles technologies, il est temps en revanche d'observer attentivement les pièges que tend la société technico-financière digitalisée à chaque citoyen comme à chaque organisation. L'homo numericus doit ouvrir les yeux sur la portée de ses inventions. C'est tout l'objet de ce livre, qui observe dans sa globalité l'écosystème de travail numérisé et met au jour les liaisons dangereuses qui existent entre les TIC et la pandémie du stress au travail. Infobésité, manque de temps chronique, dictature des chiffres, dissolution des relations humaines... : jamais l'influence directe de cette "laisse électronique" n'était aussi clairement apparue. Patrons, salariés, parents, enfants, pédagogues, dirigeants politiques... nous sommes tous concernés. Et c'est en déchiffrant notre environnement que nous acquerrons les moyens d'agir, d'infléchir et d'orienter nos choix, en refusant de laisser les algorithmes décider pour nous."--P. [4] of cover.

• Einführung
• Unsere Gesellschaft
• Zeitbomben
• Der institutionelle Burn-Out
• Burger und Staat
• Vertrauen
• Die dritte Arena
• Die Arena der Zivilgesellschaft
• Zivilgesellschaft und Bürgergesellschaft
• Funktionen der Zivilgesellschaft
• Die Legitimitat der Zivilgesellschaft
• Attribute der Zivilgesellschaft
• Subsidiaritat
• Partizipation
• Soziales Kapital
• Der zivilgesellschaftliche Mehrwert
• Der empathische Burger
• Bürgerschaftliches Engagement
• Die Rolle von Stiftungen
• Anerkennung
• Netzwerke
• Eine neue Demokratie
• Was ist anders?
• Transparenz
• Zivilgesellschaft als Bildungsaufgabe
• Verantwortung als Gelingensbedingung der Freiheit
• Anhang
• Zivilgesellschaft : Elemente einer Definition
• Zehn Regeln fur eine gute Zivilgesellschaft
• Literatur.

• List of tables and boxes List of abbreviations About the contributors Introduction: new imaginings
• Part 1: Communities, Exiles and Resistance
• Chapter 1: The inevitable exile: a missing link in online community discourse Abstract: Place is the thing Panoptical temptation Reincarnation as networked norm Forgiveness not permission Culture jammer or parasite? I've got you under my skin Permaban and punish Legibility and responsibility Every tool is a weapon if you hold it right94
• Chapter 2: Call it hyper activism: politicising the online Arab public sphere and the quest for authenticity and relevance Abstract: From blogging to YouTube: politicising the internet From call-in programs to online comments: participatory culture
• Chapter 3: WhataEURO (TM)s in a name? Digital resources and resistance at the global periphery Abstract: Resistance and the nation state SouthAfrica.com NewZealand.com Tuvalu and .tv .md: who represents Moldova? What's in a domain (name)? Cautions and conflicts: .tp and Timorese independence
• Chapter 4: I have seen the future, and it rings Abstract: Mobile phones and social change Day-to-day use of mobile phones Conclusion
• Part 2: Structures for Sharing
• Chapter 5: Strangers in the swarm Abstract: The history of file sharing Bit Torrent Identities in the swarm The future
• Chapter 6: Status (update) anxiety: social networking, Facebook and community Abstract: It's all about me Watching the self (being watched)
• Chapter 7: Becoming Mireila: a virtual ethnography through the eyes of an avatar Abstract: Entry Stripping Mireila Feeders Self
• Chapter 8: Taste is the enemy of creativity: disability, YouTube and a new language Abstract: Disability is a social construction Lessons from Picasso Digital disability
• Part 3: Professions, Production, Consumptions
• Chapter 9: The sound of a librarian: the politics and potential of podcasting in difficult times Abstract: iPod studies Why should librarians use podcasts? Questions of quality
• Chapter 10: The invisible (wo)man Abstract: Introducing Nazlin Endings
• Chapter 11: The impact of the video-equipped DSLR Abstract: The video DSLR The future
• Chapter 12: Why media literacy is transformative of the Irish education system: a statement in advocacy Abstract: New literacies Managing disadvantage Multiliteracy for an Information Age
• Chapter 13: YouTube Academy Abstract: Doing `everything' with YouTube Broadcasting academics
• Part 4: Fandom, Consumption and Community
• Chapter 14: Live fast, die young, become immortal Abstract: Prescience Mediated grief Living digital death
• Chapter 15: All we hear is Lady-o Gaga: Popular Culture 2.0 Abstract: Music Gender and fashion Fandom
• Chapter 16: Copyright and couture: the Comme il Faut experience Abstract: Intellectual property: copyrighting couture Online retailers and the long tail of e-commerce Fashion and failure Comme il Faut couture
• Chapter 17: When community becomes a commodity Abstract: Digital identity Online communities Google Facebook Online dating Online games Cultivating digital identity and harvesting digital community Conclusion: white men rule? References Index.
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Digital Dialogue and Community 2.0: After avatars, trolls and puppets explores the communities that use digital platforms, portals, and applications from daily life to build relationships beyond geographical locality and family links. The book provides detailed analyses of how technology realigns the boundaries between connection, consciousness and community. This book reveals that alongside every engaged, nurturing and supportive group are those who are excluded, marginalised, ridiculed, or forgotten. It explores the argument that community is not an inevitable result of communication. Following an introduction from the Editor, the book is then divided into four sections exploring communities and resistance, structures of sharing, professional communication and fandom and consumption. Digital Dialogues and Community 2.0 combines ethnographic methods and professional expertise to open new spaces for thinking about language, identity, and social connections.
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• 1. Democratic Political Culture
• 2. What is Civil Society?
• 3. Congruence Models
• 4. Mediation Models
• 5. Critical Models
• 6. The Convergence Model
• 7. Reasons for Optimism
• 8. Global Civil Society without Global Government?
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In this contribution to contemporary political philosophy, Jensen aims to develop a model of civil society for deliberative democracy. In the course of developing the model, he also provides a thorough account of the meaning and use of "civil society" in contemporary scholarship as well as a critical review of rival models, including those found in the work of scholars such as John Rawls, Jurgen Habermas, Michael Walzer, Benjamin Barber, and Nancy Rosenblum. Jensen's own ideal treats civil society as both the context in which citizens live out their comprehensive views of the good life as well as the context in which citizens learn to be good deliberative democrats. According to his idealization, groups of citizens in civil society are actively engaged in a grand conversation about the nature of the good life. Their commitment to this conversation grounds dispositions of epistemic humility, tolerance, curiosity, and moderation. Moreover, their regard for the grand conversation explains their interest in deliberative democracy and their regard for democratic virtues, principles, and practices. Jensen is not a naive utopian, however; he argues that this ideal must be realized in stages, that it faces a variety of barriers, and that it cannot be realized without luck.
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