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Category Archives for Social Impact

Wicked Problems

Due to complex inter-dependencies, attempting to solve one facet of a wicked problem can expose or create other problems.

McGannon Center & new book

As fellows we’ve been working on a book on telecommunications policy and user research.

Texting for Access?

How a new system to gain access to public restrooms in Stockholm fails to take a wide range of users into account.

Presentation(s)

Al Gore’s new e-book is an interesting example of tech meets environment.

Measuring Impacts

An OECD report on measuring the social and economic impacts of ICTs.

Turkle’s ‘Alone Together’

“If there is an addiction here, it is not to a technology. It is to the habits of mind that technology allows us to practice…”

Digital Dead End

A review of a new book by Virginia Eubanks (MIT Press, 2011).