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An introduction to the genealogy of subjectification

What has been, in occidental culture, consensually defined as ‘the subject’, or ‘the self’, and seen as a natural, self-evident and indivisible part of the identity of human beings could be approached and understood as a historically…

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What does the apparition of agile and user-centric development methodologies mean from an interdisciplinary point of view?

As I tried to show in my previous post, the apparition of agile development methodologies could be interpreted as a sign…

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Applying social scientific concepts to domain definition: a short overview

One of the main issues in the design of most commercial software products is what is commonly called ‘domain definition’. This activity could be roughly understood as the definition of the ‘objects’ and…

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What is Falsificationism?

Falsificationism could be understood as a solution to the problems entailed by the use of inductive reasoning for the construction of genuine scientific knowledge, which was introduced by Karl Popper in the middle of the twentieth century. Even though it has since been the subject…

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The Emergence of Meaning Through System Use: The central role of interaction and its implications in terms of design methodology

I have tried to show in previous posts how certain aspects of an interactive system such as how it works, what…

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LinkedIn, Facebook and Social Identity Theory

LinkedIn recently went public. Its success makes it, with Twitter and Facebook, one of the three most popular social networking platforms. 


A particular strand of Social Identity Theory, and particularly the work performed on this subject by…

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Intertextuality and User interfaces as Relational Systems of Representations

Since I had a bit of success with my article about adopting a poststructuralist perspective towards user experience (Indeed, 2 people commented! amazing: Thank you Kshitiz and mc), I thought it would…

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Interactionism as a Framework for Understanding User Interaction

Interactionism is a social scientific tradition that relies on the assumption that the “real” world is actively constructed by people: It therefore views the mind primarily as a tool for solving the “pragmatic concerns”…

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Identity: introduction to the ‘subject of language’ approach

By introducing the idea of a fragmented, constantly ‘failing’ subject, Lacan directly challenged the essentialist concept of a ‘stable identity’, or ‘constant ego’ as commonly accepted since Descartes’ Cogito. Indeed…

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Ethnography: a short description of the roles available to researchers in the field

During the course of fieldwork, the ethnographer can take on a number of different roles, which could be classified in regards to the degree of one’s involvement with the population he or…

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