R Harper
Biographic Data
| ID | 22803 |
|---|---|
| NAME | R Harper |
| GIVEN NAMES | R |
| FAMILY NAME | Harper |
| SIGNATURE | HARPER R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Xerox (France) |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8838-2012 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1927 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Machine Learning and the Work of the User
The Skype paradox: Homelessness and selective intimacy in the use of communications technology
Digital technologies are likely to be appropriated by the homeless just as they are by other segments of society. However, these appropriations will reflect the particularities of their circumstances. What are these appropriations? Are they beneficial or effective? Can Skype, as a case in point, assuage the social disconnection that must be, for many, the experience of being homeless? This paper analyses some evidence about these questions and, i…
The ‘interrogative gaze’: Making video calling and messaging ‘accountable’
This paper identifies salient properties of how talk about video communication is organised interactionally, and how this interaction invokes an implied order of behaviour that is treated as ‘typical’ and ‘accountably representative’ of video communication. This invoked order will be called an interrogative gaze . This is an implied orientation to action, one that is used as a jointly managed interpretative schema that allows video communication …
Interpersonal video communication as a site of human sociality: A special issue of Pragmatics
The development of applications for low cost, web-based video communication, such as Skype, Google Hangouts and Apple Facetime, combined with the (apparently) ever increasing communication needs of geographically dispersed networks of families, friends and lovers, has led to the steady growth of this form of contact. Indeed, being in touch through video, through Skype say, is virtually routine for much of the world. Surveys of Skype use by that c…
Commentary: The intentions of washing machines
Hancock makes a range of claims but the most important is this: if a machine ‘learns,’ then, eventually, it will become ‘self-aware.’ It is self-awareness, he argues, that will distinguish machines
From I-Awareness to We-Awareness in CSCW: A Review Essay
Tying in comment sections: The production of meaning and sense on Facebook
This study investigates the organization of interaction through comments on the social networking site Facebook. Facebook offers a range of affordances that allow communication between users. These include written language in various settings (messaging, commenting, posting), as well as a range of non-verbal resources, such as uploading photos, sharing links, the "like"-button. Our analysis focuses on the post+commenting section, which users trea…
The texture of our business
A key theme in mobile communications research is the idea that people are suffering from communications overload. This essay remarks on what that term might mean and how it ought to be addressed when viewed from the perspective of mobile phone research. It will argue that its use in everyday life is rich and complex, and that this use ought to be a research topic in its own right. Some of the difficulties that will need to be addressed when this …
From small stories to networked narrative: The evolution of personal narratives in Facebook status updates
This article addresses the emergence of networked narration found in Facebook updates. Drawing on anthropological approaches to co-tellership (Ochs & Capps, 2001), we trace how storyworlds are co-constructed by multiple narrators via the communicative affordances which have developed in the Facebook status update: namely, the practices of commenting, liking, linking, tagging, photo-sharing, and marking geographical location. Our longitudinal anal…
Students as scholars: Evaluating student-led learning and teaching during fieldwork
Student-led teaching and learning is an innovative form of active learning that empowers students with direct ownership of the learning experience. Reporting on a final-year undergraduate field trip to Barcelona, Spain, peer-to-peer teaching is used to facilitate the acquisition of knowledge and uncover the processes that help create a sense of place. Students experience the issues that academics face when leading activities in the field. This pa…
What Matters? Ethnographies of Value in a Not So Secular Age
This collection responds to and expands upon recent scholarship on religion, secularity, and spirituality. Courtney Bender and Ann Taves offer the volume as a revisitation and revision of a now-familiar secular(ized) story: According to this story, a secular age is a reflexive age; religious believers must be aware of themselves as believers—and aware that they need not choose belief. Concomitantly, a secular age forces one to reckon with the his…
Media Space 20 + Years of Mediated Life
Intelligent Artefacts at Home in the 21st Century
The Inside Text
The Inside Text: Social, Cultural and Design Perspectives on SMS (Computer Supported Cooperative Work)
SMS or Text is one of the most popular forms of messaging. Yet, despite its immense popularity, SMS has remained unexamined by science. Not only that, but the commercial organisations, who have been forced to offer SMS by a demanding public, have had very little idea why it has been successful. Indeed, they have, until very recently, planned to replace SMS with other messaging services such as MMS. This book is the first to bring together scienti…
Gift of the Gab
The Gift of the Gab: A Design Oriented Sociology of Young People's Use of Mobiles
The Organisation in Ethnography –A Discussion of Ethnographic Fieldwork Programs in CSCW
Research note. An evaluation of motivational interviewing as a method of intervention with clients in a probation setting
There have been increasing calls on the probation service to demonstrate effectiveness with the recent Evidence Based Practice guide (Home Office, 1998) explicitly citing evaluative research as a means of achieving this. This article describes the quantitative part of a research project undertaken within Middlesex Probation Service to evaluate the introduction of motivational interviewing as a technique to aid probation officers in their assessme…
An Analysis of Drug Trafficking
Journal Article An Analysis of Drug Trafficking Get access Rosalyn Harper, Rosalyn Harper Respectively, Information and Research Officer, Middlesex Probation Service; Information Officer, Middlesex Probation Service. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Rachel Murphy Rachel Murphy Respectively, Information and Research Officer, Middlesex Probation Service; Information Officer, Middlesex Probation Service. Searc…
The relevance of ?work-practice? for design
Why people do and don't wear active badges: A case study
The relevance of ‘work-practice’ for design
Radicalism, beliefs and hidden agendas
Keeping people apart: A research note
From small stories to networked narrative: The evolution of personal narratives in Facebook status updates
This article addresses the emergence of networked narration found in Facebook updates. Drawing on anthropological approaches to co-tellership (Ochs & Capps, 2001), we trace how storyworlds are co-constructed by multiple narrators via the communicative affordances which have developed in the Facebook status update: namely, the practices of commenting, liking, linking, tagging, photo-sharing, and marking geographical location. Our longitudinal anal…
Students as scholars: Evaluating student-led learning and teaching during fieldwork
Student-led teaching and learning is an innovative form of active learning that empowers students with direct ownership of the learning experience. Reporting on a final-year undergraduate field trip to Barcelona, Spain, peer-to-peer teaching is used to facilitate the acquisition of knowledge and uncover the processes that help create a sense of place. Students experience the issues that academics face when leading activities in the field. This pa…
Odour Qualities: A Glossary of Usage
The meaning of 72 odour qualities is reported in a Glossary. The information was derived from three main studies. Replies to two questionnaires provide information on frequency of understanding, and the meaning of the qualities understood, expressed in the respondents' own words. The odour stimuli used in the experimental investigations are specified and the rationale for their selection is outlined. In Expt. I, 53 odour stimuli were characterize…
Tying in comment sections: The production of meaning and sense on Facebook
This study investigates the organization of interaction through comments on the social networking site Facebook. Facebook offers a range of affordances that allow communication between users. These include written language in various settings (messaging, commenting, posting), as well as a range of non-verbal resources, such as uploading photos, sharing links, the "like"-button. Our analysis focuses on the post+commenting section, which users trea…
Research note. An evaluation of motivational interviewing as a method of intervention with clients in a probation setting
There have been increasing calls on the probation service to demonstrate effectiveness with the recent Evidence Based Practice guide (Home Office, 1998) explicitly citing evaluative research as a means of achieving this. This article describes the quantitative part of a research project undertaken within Middlesex Probation Service to evaluate the introduction of motivational interviewing as a technique to aid probation officers in their assessme…
The Astronomical Tables of William Rede
To Campanologists
Odour Qualities: A Glossary of Usage
The meaning of 72 odour qualities is reported in a Glossary. The information was derived from three main studies. Replies to two questionnaires provide information on frequency of understanding, and the meaning of the qualities understood, expressed in the respondents' own words. The odour stimuli used in the experimental investigations are specified and the rationale for their selection is outlined. In Expt. I, 53 odour stimuli were characterize…
The Scientific Achievement of the Middle Ages . Richard C. Dales
The Astronomical Tables of William Rede
The Computer Game
Journal Article THE COMPUTER GAME: Detectives, Suspects, and Technology Get access R. R. HARPER R. R. HARPER *Sociology Department, Lancaster UniversityLancaster LA1 4YL All correspondence should be addressed to the author Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 31, Issue 3, 1991, Pages 292–307, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.bjc.a048118 Published: 01 September 19…
Validating the SF-36 health survey questionnaire: New outcome measure for primary care.
OBJECTIVES: To test the acceptability, validity, and reliability of the short form 36 health survey questionnaire (SF-36) and to compare it with the Nottingham health profile. DESIGN: Postal survey using a questionnaire booklet together with a letter from the general practitioner. Non-respondents received two reminders at two week intervals. The SF-36 questionnaire was retested on a subsample of respondents two weeks after the first mailing. SETT…
Keeping people apart: A research note
Radicalism, beliefs and hidden agendas
The relevance of ?work-practice? for design
Why people do and don't wear active badges: A case study
The relevance of ‘work-practice’ for design
The Organisation in Ethnography –A Discussion of Ethnographic Fieldwork Programs in CSCW
Research note. An evaluation of motivational interviewing as a method of intervention with clients in a probation setting
There have been increasing calls on the probation service to demonstrate effectiveness with the recent Evidence Based Practice guide (Home Office, 1998) explicitly citing evaluative research as a means of achieving this. This article describes the quantitative part of a research project undertaken within Middlesex Probation Service to evaluate the introduction of motivational interviewing as a technique to aid probation officers in their assessme…
An Analysis of Drug Trafficking
Journal Article An Analysis of Drug Trafficking Get access Rosalyn Harper, Rosalyn Harper Respectively, Information and Research Officer, Middlesex Probation Service; Information Officer, Middlesex Probation Service. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Rachel Murphy Rachel Murphy Respectively, Information and Research Officer, Middlesex Probation Service; Information Officer, Middlesex Probation Service. Searc…
The Gift of the Gab: A Design Oriented Sociology of Young People's Use of Mobiles
The Inside Text
The Inside Text: Social, Cultural and Design Perspectives on SMS (Computer Supported Cooperative Work)
SMS or Text is one of the most popular forms of messaging. Yet, despite its immense popularity, SMS has remained unexamined by science. Not only that, but the commercial organisations, who have been forced to offer SMS by a demanding public, have had very little idea why it has been successful. Indeed, they have, until very recently, planned to replace SMS with other messaging services such as MMS. This book is the first to bring together scienti…
Gift of the Gab
Intelligent Artefacts at Home in the 21st Century
Media Space 20 + Years of Mediated Life
What Matters? Ethnographies of Value in a Not So Secular Age
This collection responds to and expands upon recent scholarship on religion, secularity, and spirituality. Courtney Bender and Ann Taves offer the volume as a revisitation and revision of a now-familiar secular(ized) story: According to this story, a secular age is a reflexive age; religious believers must be aware of themselves as believers—and aware that they need not choose belief. Concomitantly, a secular age forces one to reckon with the his…
The texture of our business
A key theme in mobile communications research is the idea that people are suffering from communications overload. This essay remarks on what that term might mean and how it ought to be addressed when viewed from the perspective of mobile phone research. It will argue that its use in everyday life is rich and complex, and that this use ought to be a research topic in its own right. Some of the difficulties that will need to be addressed when this …
From small stories to networked narrative: The evolution of personal narratives in Facebook status updates
This article addresses the emergence of networked narration found in Facebook updates. Drawing on anthropological approaches to co-tellership (Ochs & Capps, 2001), we trace how storyworlds are co-constructed by multiple narrators via the communicative affordances which have developed in the Facebook status update: namely, the practices of commenting, liking, linking, tagging, photo-sharing, and marking geographical location. Our longitudinal anal…
Students as scholars: Evaluating student-led learning and teaching during fieldwork
Student-led teaching and learning is an innovative form of active learning that empowers students with direct ownership of the learning experience. Reporting on a final-year undergraduate field trip to Barcelona, Spain, peer-to-peer teaching is used to facilitate the acquisition of knowledge and uncover the processes that help create a sense of place. Students experience the issues that academics face when leading activities in the field. This pa…
Tying in comment sections: The production of meaning and sense on Facebook
This study investigates the organization of interaction through comments on the social networking site Facebook. Facebook offers a range of affordances that allow communication between users. These include written language in various settings (messaging, commenting, posting), as well as a range of non-verbal resources, such as uploading photos, sharing links, the "like"-button. Our analysis focuses on the post+commenting section, which users trea…
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