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Month: November 2014

A Critical Interpretive Approach to Sociotechnical Systems

Posted on November 30, 2014 by Colin Rhinesmith

My colleague, Martin Wolske and I recently completed our paper for the 2014 Prato Community Informatics Research Network conference proceedings. A preprint of the paper is now available via the ShareOK open-access research repository at the University of Oklahoma.  In the paper, we introduce a Critical Interpretive Sociotechnical (CIS) framework, which describes our underlying approach…

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Consent of the Networked: China and the Global Struggle for Information Freedom

Posted on November 10, 2014 by Colin Rhinesmith

Rebecca MacKinnon, project lead for Ranking Digital Rights, co-founder of Global Voices and senior research fellow for New American Foundation, is speaking this Wednesday, November 12th at 7:30pm in the David L. Boren Auditorum, here at the University of Oklahoma.  I have the great honor of introducing Rebecca and moderating the Q & A during…

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I'm an associate professor and director of the Digital Equity Action Research (DEAR) Lab in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. My bio is here.
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Dr. Colin Rhinesmith (he/they) is Associate Professor and Director of the Digital Equity Action Research (DEAR) Lab in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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