, human populations, technology, and economic and social conditions; face-to-face social interaction and networking; the ability to exclude outside users; and user cooperation in monitoring and rule enforcement. In addition, these authors contend that when
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Water Use and User Attitudes
Common-Pool Resources and Longitudinal Change in a Brazilian Community
John Marr Ditty and Maria Eugênia Totti
In Nature and Culture
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2019
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 168–189 (22 total)
Park Spaces and the User Experience
Reconsidering the Body in Park Analysis Tools
Eric A. Stone and Jennifer D. Roberts
characteristics, namely, those that consider the user (e.g., the active, or even inactive, human), as a separate concern from the focus of these tools. We have sought to engage with these park analysis tools and examine how they can be more effective in analyzing
In Nature and Culture
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- 01 Jun 2020
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 123–133 (11 total)
[End] Users as Designers
The Internet in Everyday Life in Irish Households
Deirdre Hynes
This paper presents a study of Irish households, the internet and everyday life. Social studies of technology draw heavily from anthropology, not only in ethnographic methodologies but also in the ways in which such data can be understood and interpreted within the contexts of everyday life. To achieve this, the concept of the domestication of (media) technologies has been developed to describe and analyse the processes of technology's acceptance, rejection and use. Domestication is employed as a structural and analytical framework to achieve an empirical understanding of the domestic user. Based on a critical analysis from an anthropological perspective, the paper will revise the original domestication of the concept of technology. The notion of technological black boxes and I-methodology strategies are critiqued. This paper calls for users to be conceptualised as active agents in the overall design process and not as just end users who become active once the artefact has become commodified.
In Anthropology in Action
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2009
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 18–29 (11 total)
Barbie versus Modulor Ideal Bodies, Buildings, and Typical Users
Frederika Eilers
Engaging a cross-disciplinary approach, this comparative analysis shows how two disparate icons, Barbie and Modulor, are similar. The former is an often criticized symbol of girl culture, beauty, and consumerism. The latter is a drawing of a man that summarizes the dimensional system of Le Corbusier, one of the world's most influential architects, and that subsequently became a symbol of modern architecture. Divided into three parts—idealized bodies, their spaces, and how typical users are excluded—this nuanced interpretation explores the intersections of architecture, feminism, embodiment, and ableism. I show how these two bodies—Barbie and Modulor—inspire homes that emphasize the vertical: the buildings exclude typical users. For instance, Barbie's friend Becky, who is in a wheelchair, does not fit into Barbie's skinny world and Modulor's needs are dissimilar to those of mothers and children. Putting these artifacts into conversation reinvigorates the subjects and provides a contextual framework in which to consider Barbie's house as architecture.
In Girlhood Studies
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2012
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 76–97 (22 total)
Methodology for Setting a Mexican User Satisfaction Index for Social Programs
Odette Lobato-Calleros, Humberto Rivera, Hugo Serrato, María Elena Gómez, and Ignacio Méndez Ramírez
This article reports on the methodology for setting the Mexican User Satisfaction Index for Social Programs (MUSI-SP) as tested in seven national social programs. The evaluation is based on Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). How satisfaction takes the central place of the SEM, which postulates its causes and effects, contributes to the increased validity and reliability of satisfaction indicators that allow benchmarking between social programs. The MUSI model is an adaptation of the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) model. The MUSI methodology includes qualitative and quantitative techniques. The estimation model is by the Partial Least Squares (PLS). In each of the seven social programs, no statistical evidence was found to reject the main relationships postulated by the ACSI’s model: that Perceived Quality impacts Satisfaction, and Satisfaction impacts Trust. The improvement opportunity areas were also identified for each program. These results give valid and reliable feedback to public policies.
In The International Journal of Social Quality
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2015
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 84–111 (28 total)
Contested Spaces
Bicycle Lanes in Urban Europe, 1900-1995
Ruth Oldenziel and Adri Albert de la Bruhèze
Today most cities emphasize the construction of separate bicycle lanes as a sure path toward sustainable urban mobility. Historical evidence shows a singular focus on building bicycle lanes without embedding them into a broader bicycle culture and politics is far too narrow. Bicycle lanes were never neutral, but contested from the start. Based on comparative research of cycling history covering nine European cities in four countries, the article shows the crucial role representations of bicycles play in policymakers' and experts' planning for the future. In debating the regulation of urban traffic flows, urban-planning professionals projected separate lanes to control rather than to facilitate working- class, mass-scale bicycling. Significantly, cycling organizations opposed the lanes, while experts like traffic engineers and urban planners framed automobility as the inevitable modern future. Only by the 1970s did bicycle lanes enter the debate as safe and sustainable solutions when grass-roots cyclists' activists campaigned for them. The up and downs of bicycle lanes show the importance of encouraging everyday utility cycling by involving diverse social groups.
Italian Views on Sustainable Energy: Trends in the Representations of Energy, Energy System, and User, 2009–2011
Mauro Sarrica, Sonia Brondi, and Paolo Cottone
This article examines the contents of the representations of sustainable energy in Italy from 2009 to 2011. In particular it explores the representations of energy, energy systems, and users. The article's starting point was the assumption that critical points may change the relationship between communities and the represented issues, and that new representations may be dialogically elaborated following relevant societal events. Political debates and newspaper articles dealing with sustainable energy were subjected to content analyses. Results show that the representations bear witness to the prevalence of economic and strategic approaches and a view of citizens whereby, even when involved in decentralized systems, they are required to stay passive. Alternative contents seem not to challenge the hegemonic view of energy. A clear trend toward sustainability is lacking, suggesting the absence of a continuing motivation to look at energy taking into account the civic growth of the population.
In Nature and Culture
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2014
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 122–145 (24 total)
Mobilizing Malian-Diasporic Identities
How Southern News Websites Facilitate Non-sedentarist Discourses on African Migration
Syntia Hasenöhrl
profile information, users emphasize and construct certain narratives about themselves or other social agents. Thereby, they perform identities that reproduce or challenge hegemonic discourses that have been constructed by Northern political and media
Exploring the Role of Meaningful Experiences in Users' Appreciation of “Good Movies”
Mary Beth Oliver and Tilo Hartmann
This article extends current theorizing in media psychology on audience responses to cinema by examining individuals' perceptions of meaningfulness. Specifically, it presents the results of a study designed to expand upon research on psychological and subjective well-being to experiences and memories of films that are perceived as particularly meaningful by viewers. Characteristics and themes of such films are examined and identified, as well as the specific emotional responses that accompany perceptions of meaningful cinema.
Whose Business is Road Safety?
From a Fragmented to an Integrated Approach in France and Europe (1972–1998)
Alice Milor
Road deaths have decreased sharply in Europe since the 1970s, with the number of accidents halved even as European traffic has tripled. The late 1960s were marked by peaks in road fatalities, with nearly fifty thousand road users dying in the