Researching Digital Sociality

Seen and not heard? Text messaging and digital sociality

translations Vu et pas entendu? La télémessagerie et la socialitédigitale Les téléphones cellulaires ont suscité, notammentchez les jeunes, diverses conceptions dystopiennes.On soutient entres autres que ces appareils con-tribuent au non-respect des règles orthographiqueset grammaticales, réduisent leur capacité de seconcentrer sur leurs devoirs scolaires, encouragent<lb...

Network Analysis in sociality

Researching Statement

As a network researcher, my goal is to develop theoretical frameworks for the control and optimization of large-scale engineering networks and explore the practical implications of such fundamental understanding. Motivated by concrete real-life applications, I pursue the underlying theoretical findings that can contribute to the fundamentals of networks and shed light on other practical applica...

Researching Under Uncertainty 1 Design Rationale : Researching Under Uncertainty

Rationale research in software development is a challenging area because while there is no shortage of advocates for its value, there is also no shortage of reasons for why rationale is unlikely to be captured in practice. Despite more than thirty years of research there still remains much uncertainty—how useful are the potential benefits and how insurmountable are the barriers? Will the value ...

The sociality of bioremediation

H eavy metals, such as cadmium, copper, mercury, and arsenic, are ubiquitous components of the Earth’s crust. Most of these metals are toxic to varying degrees, and life has accordingly evolved ways to deal with them: either by developing mechanisms to detoxify them, or using them for biological functions. As humans began unearthing metals to be turned into consumer products, large amounts of h...