Ingrid Erickson
Biographic Data
| ID | 269889 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ingrid Erickson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ingrid |
| FAMILY NAME | Erickson |
| SIGNATURE | ERICKSON I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Syracuse University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9841-8680 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Optimizing Temporal Capital: How Big Tech Imagines Time as Auditable
The belief that technology can be profitably employed to control and manage time has a long history. In this article we show how electronic calendaring systems have become emblematic of the contemporary vision of mastering time, codifying a distinctive quantitative orientation to time. Drawing on interviews with calendar designers at four prominent software development companies, we explore the quest among knowledge workers in Silicon Valley to e…
How nonprofits use Facebook to craft infrastructure
We present findings from interviews with 23 individuals affiliated with non-profit organizations (NPOs) to understand how they deploy information and communication technologies (ICTs) in their civic engagement efforts. Existing research about NPO ICT use is often critical, but we did not find evidence that NPOs fail to use tools effectively. Rather, we detail how NPOs assemble various ICTs to create infrastructures that align with their values. O…
Digital nomads, coworking, and other expressions of mobile work on Twitter
We analyze a set of Twitter hashtags to ascertain how contemporary parlance in social media can illuminate the rich cultural intersections between modern forms of work, use of technology, and physical mobility. We use network word co-occurrence analysis and topic modeling to reveal several thematic areas of discourse present in Twitter, each with its own affiliated terms and distinctive emphases. The first theme centers on worker identity and is …
Flexible Turtles and Elastic Octopi: Exploring Agile Practice in Knowledge Work
This paper takes as its starting place the rich context of many knowledge workers today—highly distributed, increasing project focused, typically atypical days, infrastructural—and attempts to push past extant descriptions of their practices as ‘flexible’. Using empirical data informed by a practice theory lens, we expand the understanding of flexibility with regard to work by augmenting how worker disposition, as well as the ability to engage wi…
Bending Time to a New End
Modern work is intensely oriented to a dominant temporal logic in which time is regarded as chunkable, single-purpose, linear, and ownable. This logic is embedded in digital devices and applications by engineers and designers who celebrate efficiency and productivity. Amid this reality of “circumscribed time,” however, we find an increasing number of individuals who are rejecting temporal norms. Some choose to opt out by becoming temporal rebels,…
On the production of the spirit of feminism
column Share on On the production of the spirit of feminism Authors: Ingrid Erickson Rutgers University Rutgers UniversityView Profile , Libby Hemphill Illinois Institute of Technology Illinois Institute of TechnologyView Profile , Amanda Menking University of Washington University of WashingtonView Profile , Stephanie Steinhardt Cornell University Cornell UniversityView Profile Authors Info & Claims InteractionsVolume 23Issue 5September + Octobe…
Revealing mutually constitutive ties between the information and learning sciences
People interact with technology, information, and each other much differently than they did a decade ago and, in some ways, even a year ago. Indeed, these claims are no longer new, nor undocumented
Digital literacy and informal learning environments: An introduction
New technologies and developments in media are transforming the way that individuals, groups and societies communicate, learn, work and govern. This new socio-technical reality requires participants to possess not only skills and abilities related to the use of technological tools, but also knowledge regarding the norms and practices of appropriate usage. To be ‘digitally literate’ in this way encompasses issues of cognitive authority, safety and…
Meta-making: Crafting the Conversation of Values and Design
research-article Share on Meta-making: crafting the conversation of values and design Authors: Ingrid Erickson Cornell University Cornell UniversityView Profile , Lisa Nathan University of British Columbia University of British ColumbiaView Profile , Nassim Jafarinaimi Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of TechnologyView Profile , Cory Knobel University of California, Irvine University of California, IrvineView Profile , Matthew Ra…
Documentary With Ephemeral Media: Curation Practices in Online Social Spaces
New hardware such as mobile handheld devices and digital cameras; new online social venues such as social networking, microblogging, and online photo sharing sites; and new infrastructures such as the global positioning system are beginning to establish new practices—what the author refers to as “sociolocative”—that combine data about a physical location, such as a geotag, with a virtual social act. This research investigates the phenomenon of do…
Geography and Community: New Forms of Interaction Among People and Places
Today location-based data, such as GPS coordinates, are increasingly being incorporated into Internet sites such as Flickr, Jaiku, and Placeopedia. In turn, new practices are emerging that evoke innovative ways of relating among people and between individuals and places. This article investigates this geographic turn in networked interaction-particularly, emergent sensemaking regarding the role of location in distributed communities. The author u…
The Translucence of Twitter
Erickson and Kellogg's construction of social translucence suggests that collaboration tools can be designed more effectively by balancing elements of visibility and awareness among members of the user community to instill a norm of accountability. This paper questions whether the microblogging tool, Twitter, fits these criteria. Building on interview and artifactual data, I find that although Twitter use affords ample visibility of individuals' …
Geography and Community: New Forms of Interaction Among People and Places
Today location-based data, such as GPS coordinates, are increasingly being incorporated into Internet sites such as Flickr, Jaiku, and Placeopedia. In turn, new practices are emerging that evoke innovative ways of relating among people and between individuals and places. This article investigates this geographic turn in networked interaction-particularly, emergent sensemaking regarding the role of location in distributed communities. The author u…
Optimizing Temporal Capital: How Big Tech Imagines Time as Auditable
The belief that technology can be profitably employed to control and manage time has a long history. In this article we show how electronic calendaring systems have become emblematic of the contemporary vision of mastering time, codifying a distinctive quantitative orientation to time. Drawing on interviews with calendar designers at four prominent software development companies, we explore the quest among knowledge workers in Silicon Valley to e…
The Translucence of Twitter
Erickson and Kellogg's construction of social translucence suggests that collaboration tools can be designed more effectively by balancing elements of visibility and awareness among members of the user community to instill a norm of accountability. This paper questions whether the microblogging tool, Twitter, fits these criteria. Building on interview and artifactual data, I find that although Twitter use affords ample visibility of individuals' …
The Translucence of Twitter
Erickson and Kellogg's construction of social translucence suggests that collaboration tools can be designed more effectively by balancing elements of visibility and awareness among members of the user community to instill a norm of accountability. This paper questions whether the microblogging tool, Twitter, fits these criteria. Building on interview and artifactual data, I find that although Twitter use affords ample visibility of individuals' …
Documentary With Ephemeral Media: Curation Practices in Online Social Spaces
New hardware such as mobile handheld devices and digital cameras; new online social venues such as social networking, microblogging, and online photo sharing sites; and new infrastructures such as the global positioning system are beginning to establish new practices—what the author refers to as “sociolocative”—that combine data about a physical location, such as a geotag, with a virtual social act. This research investigates the phenomenon of do…
Geography and Community: New Forms of Interaction Among People and Places
Today location-based data, such as GPS coordinates, are increasingly being incorporated into Internet sites such as Flickr, Jaiku, and Placeopedia. In turn, new practices are emerging that evoke innovative ways of relating among people and between individuals and places. This article investigates this geographic turn in networked interaction-particularly, emergent sensemaking regarding the role of location in distributed communities. The author u…
Meta-making: Crafting the Conversation of Values and Design
research-article Share on Meta-making: crafting the conversation of values and design Authors: Ingrid Erickson Cornell University Cornell UniversityView Profile , Lisa Nathan University of British Columbia University of British ColumbiaView Profile , Nassim Jafarinaimi Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of TechnologyView Profile , Cory Knobel University of California, Irvine University of California, IrvineView Profile , Matthew Ra…
Digital literacy and informal learning environments: An introduction
New technologies and developments in media are transforming the way that individuals, groups and societies communicate, learn, work and govern. This new socio-technical reality requires participants to possess not only skills and abilities related to the use of technological tools, but also knowledge regarding the norms and practices of appropriate usage. To be ‘digitally literate’ in this way encompasses issues of cognitive authority, safety and…
Bending Time to a New End
Modern work is intensely oriented to a dominant temporal logic in which time is regarded as chunkable, single-purpose, linear, and ownable. This logic is embedded in digital devices and applications by engineers and designers who celebrate efficiency and productivity. Amid this reality of “circumscribed time,” however, we find an increasing number of individuals who are rejecting temporal norms. Some choose to opt out by becoming temporal rebels,…
On the production of the spirit of feminism
column Share on On the production of the spirit of feminism Authors: Ingrid Erickson Rutgers University Rutgers UniversityView Profile , Libby Hemphill Illinois Institute of Technology Illinois Institute of TechnologyView Profile , Amanda Menking University of Washington University of WashingtonView Profile , Stephanie Steinhardt Cornell University Cornell UniversityView Profile Authors Info & Claims InteractionsVolume 23Issue 5September + Octobe…
Revealing mutually constitutive ties between the information and learning sciences
People interact with technology, information, and each other much differently than they did a decade ago and, in some ways, even a year ago. Indeed, these claims are no longer new, nor undocumented
Flexible Turtles and Elastic Octopi: Exploring Agile Practice in Knowledge Work
This paper takes as its starting place the rich context of many knowledge workers today—highly distributed, increasing project focused, typically atypical days, infrastructural—and attempts to push past extant descriptions of their practices as ‘flexible’. Using empirical data informed by a practice theory lens, we expand the understanding of flexibility with regard to work by augmenting how worker disposition, as well as the ability to engage wi…
Digital nomads, coworking, and other expressions of mobile work on Twitter
We analyze a set of Twitter hashtags to ascertain how contemporary parlance in social media can illuminate the rich cultural intersections between modern forms of work, use of technology, and physical mobility. We use network word co-occurrence analysis and topic modeling to reveal several thematic areas of discourse present in Twitter, each with its own affiliated terms and distinctive emphases. The first theme centers on worker identity and is …
How nonprofits use Facebook to craft infrastructure
We present findings from interviews with 23 individuals affiliated with non-profit organizations (NPOs) to understand how they deploy information and communication technologies (ICTs) in their civic engagement efforts. Existing research about NPO ICT use is often critical, but we did not find evidence that NPOs fail to use tools effectively. Rather, we detail how NPOs assemble various ICTs to create infrastructures that align with their values. O…
Optimizing Temporal Capital: How Big Tech Imagines Time as Auditable
The belief that technology can be profitably employed to control and manage time has a long history. In this article we show how electronic calendaring systems have become emblematic of the contemporary vision of mastering time, codifying a distinctive quantitative orientation to time. Drawing on interviews with calendar designers at four prominent software development companies, we explore the quest among knowledge workers in Silicon Valley to e…
Computer Science (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Political science (5 works) · World Wide Web (5 works) · Engineering (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Knowledge management (4 works) · Social media (4 works) · Data science (3 works) · Digital Economy and Work Transformation (3 works)