Traditional surveys struggle to capture socially unacceptable attitudes such as racial
animus. This paper uses Google searches including racially charged language as a proxy
for a local area’s racial animus. I use the Google-search proxy, available for roughly
200 media markets in the United States, to reassess the impact of racial attitudes on
voting for a black candidate in the United States. I compare an area’s racially charged
search volume to its votes for Barack Obama, the 2008 black Democratic presidential
candidate, controlling for its votes for John Kerry, the 2004 white Democratic presidential candidate. Other studies using a similar empirical specification and standard
state-level survey measures of racial attitudes yield little evidence that racial animus
had a major impact in recent U.S. elections. Using the Google-search proxy, I find
significant and robust effects in the 2008 presidential election. The estimates imply
that racial animus in the United States cost Obama three to five percentage points in
the national popular vote in the 2008 election.

The great disadvantage of testing and data is that you get precise, decisive answers you can and will act on, but you almost never know what question you really asked.

"An argument is an extended chain of interrelated claims. In an essay, this argument expresses the essayist’s individual point of view on a complex phenomenon. A 'point of view' is an interpretation; to be worthwhile, this interpretation should be insightful, original, creative, speculative, interesting, relevant, skeptical, and evidence-based."

Drop the scientism, HCI! It’s not going to meet our needs and it’s lousy science anyway (all dogmatism is). Good science and good critique should complement and reinforce each other. But as long as we categorically dismiss non-scientific strategies, we’re only fake-interdisciplinary and we’re going to botch our work.

it is important to consider the ways in which digitalization affects how biographical or narrative research can be conducted.

This two-part article is a step-by-step guide for those wishing to create new taxonomies for their business unit, or client. It will outline the many different elements that make up a quality taxonomy and the pitfalls you should be aware of when starting a new project.

The main aim of this task is to explore how hardware or software tools for reading e-books can provide support to users engaged with a variety of reading related activities, such as fact finding or learning.

The case represents a problem-event that has animated some kind of judgment. Any enigma could do-a symptom, a crime, a causal variable, a situation, a stranger, or any irritating obstacle to clarity. What matters is the idiom of the judgment.

My immediate intention in presenting these is to suggest a list of functions (recursive functions) that could be the basis for a manageable but also useful tool-building enterprise in humanities computing.

The complexity of many organisational/social problem situations defeats attempts at defining a problem: in many such situations the problem is 'what is the problem?'. SSM provides a framework for tackling such situations.

Over the course of his research and teaching, he has developed theoretically driven methodologies that allow broad conclusions to be drawn from ethnographic research and case studies.

20 years dedicated to facilitating individual creativity, understanding the team design process, and developing advanced tools and methods that promote superior design and manufacturing.

This International conference is aimed to bring together a community of academics, researchers and practitioners that are involved in every aspect of Design Science.

Design research involves the analysis of the use and performance of designed artifacts to understand, explain and very frequently to improve on the behavior of aspects of Information Systems.

"...the notion of quantifying a community’s potential bias is nothing short of remarkable."

This seminar is intended to inform graduate students from different disciplines about the fundamental issues, methods, and practices pertinent to research in new media.

Quantitative methods for data collection and analysis. Research design. Conceptualization, operationalization, measurement.

A comprehensive web-based textbook that addresses all of the topics in a typical introductory undergraduate or graduate course in social research methods.

Provides an overview of the key elements of social research methods.

Selected topics in quantitative/statistical methods of research in the social sciences and particularly in sociology.

We begin with a focus on defining research problems, theory testing, causal inference, and basic statistics. Then, we will explore a range of research designs and methodological techniques that are available for empirical research.

Interface design methods (e.g., user-centered design, prototyping, and design principles and rules), and interface evaluation (e.g., software logging, user observation, benchmarks and experiments).

Against Method calls into question the position that science enjoys in modern society (politics, education, etc...

I keep this book close to me at work and usually stick it in my laptop case when I leave for home...

This huge tome is a must have for anyone who wants to deeply understand hypertext and its precursors...

Owning quite a few Vernacular Building type books, I would say that this rates up there with the best of them...

In Remediation, Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin analyze new technologies and their implications for American society...

'On the Shoulders of Giants' (which shall hereafter be referred to as OTSOG) is the quintessential study of the nature of academicism...