Andrew Schrock
Biographic Data
| ID | 277353 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew Schrock |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew |
| FAMILY NAME | Schrock |
| SIGNATURE | SCHROCK A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southern California |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 66 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Urban furniture in digital placemaking: Adapting a storytelling payphone across Los Angeles
A growing number of urban practitioners and scholars are interested in using digital storytelling to strengthen neighborhood connections to shared culture and build a coherent sense of place. This article contributes to this discussion by investigating how ‘urban furniture’ can sustain social capacity for digital placemaking. While traditional ‘urban furniture’ in public space is purely physical, digital-physical hybrids are emerging, from benche…
Making Our World: The Hacker and Maker Movements in Context
In 2012 the City of Los Angeles began an alliance with a burgeoning civic hack scene.In this context the term 'civic hacking' remains the umbrella moniker for a series of informal meet-ups and weekend-long events organized around software demos, conversations, and power-point presentations that all pose technology as a balm for civic and administrative problems.More broadly in the United States, civic hacking has prospered in several cities since…
Making our world: The hacker and maker movements in context
Jeremy Hunsinger/Andrew R. Schrock: Introduction - Andrew R. Schrock: Section I: Histories Introduction - T. Philip Nichols/Debora Lui: Learning by Doing: The Tenuous Alliance of the and Education Reform - Molly R. Sauter: Kevin Mitnick, The New York Times, and the Media's Conception of the Hacker - Yasuhito Abe: Making Civic Media in the Post-Fukushima Japanese Media Ecology - Rhea Vichot: Project Chanology and the Formation of Anonymous as an A…
Expertise and the constitution of publics
Expertise presents an enduring political problem. It is, on one hand, essential to a functioning society. On the other hand, it is inextricably entwined with hierarchies and power disparities. A society based solely on the rule of experts would surely be no democracy, yet neither would a society with no experts. It is sensible to promote the spread of expertise through technological literacies and skills. However, the public will never all simply…
Data ideologies of an interested public: A study of grassroots open government data intermediaries
Government officials claim open data can improve internal and external communication and collaboration. These promises hinge on "data intermediaries": extra-institutional actors that obtain, use, and translate data for the public. However, we know little about why these individuals might regard open data as a site of civic participation. In response, we draw on Ilana Gershon to conceptualize culturally situated and socially constructed perspectiv…
The politics of information and data: Interdisciplinary perspectives on digital power
Civic hacking as data activism and advocacy: A history from publicity to open government data
The civic hacker tends to be described as anachronistic, an ineffective “white hat” compared to more overtly activist cousins. By contrast, I argue that civic hackers’ politics emerged from a distinct historical milieu and include potentially powerful modes of political participation. The progressive roots of civic data hacking can be found in early 20th-century notions of “publicity” and the right to information movement. Successive waves of act…
The democratization of hacking and making
We have framed the theme of this issue as “The Democratization of Hacking and Making” to draw attention to the relationships between action, knowledge, and power. Particularly, hacking and making are about how practices of creation and transformation generate knowledge and influence institutions. These acts concentrate and distribute power through publics and counterpublics. Yet, the very mutability of hacker and maker relations makes them a chal…
Exploring the Relationship Between Mobile Facebook and Social Capital: What Is the 'Mobile Difference' for Parents of Young Children
Mobile media have generally been found to reinforce close ties. Many have predicted this will bring about an onerous social insularity or 'network privatism.' However, mobile media now enable frequent communication and multimedia activities with larger, more diffuse social networks. Might we be at a tipping point where certain groups benefit from weak tie connections on mobile social media? To answer this question, this study considers how mobile…
Reconnecting Here and There: The Reactivation of Dormant Ties in the United States and Japan
This article examines the reactivation of dormant ties in Japan and the United States. Using the institutional approach to culture developed by Yamagishi et al., it is hypothesized that respondents living in Japan will be less likely to reconnect with dormant ties when prompted than respondents living in the United States. It is further hypothesized that interaction with kin and work ties will help to explain lower levels of reconnection in Japan…
HTML5 and openness in mobile platforms
HTML5 is an open standard that enables new functionality in the mobile web ecosystem. Speculation by companies around its potential presents an opportunity to view how notions of ‘openness’ are employed to create and support mobile platforms. Particularly, Internet-based companies such as Google seek a foothold in mobile industries which have traditionally been dominated by carriers and device manufacturers. I compare two paradigms of openness an…
Youtube, Twitter and the Occupy Movement: Connecting content and circulation practices
Videos stored on YouTube served as a valuable set of communicative resources for publics interested in the Occupy movement. This article explores this loosely bound media ecology, focusing on how and what types of video content are shared and circulated across both YouTube and Twitter. Developing a novel data-collection methodology, a population of videos posted to YouTube with Occupy-related metadata or circulated on Twitter alongside Occupy-rel…
Examining social media usage: Technology clusters and social network site membership
The popularization of “social media” has raised questions of how and why young people use these various technologies in their daily lives. This exploratory study proposes a classification system based on Rogers’ concept of technology clusters, which posits that likelihood of adoption is based around similar perceived characteristics of a technology or medium. Results from a survey administered to 401 undergraduates at a large southern university …
Civic hacking as data activism and advocacy: A history from publicity to open government data
The civic hacker tends to be described as anachronistic, an ineffective “white hat” compared to more overtly activist cousins. By contrast, I argue that civic hackers’ politics emerged from a distinct historical milieu and include potentially powerful modes of political participation. The progressive roots of civic data hacking can be found in early 20th-century notions of “publicity” and the right to information movement. Successive waves of act…
Data ideologies of an interested public: A study of grassroots open government data intermediaries
Government officials claim open data can improve internal and external communication and collaboration. These promises hinge on "data intermediaries": extra-institutional actors that obtain, use, and translate data for the public. However, we know little about why these individuals might regard open data as a site of civic participation. In response, we draw on Ilana Gershon to conceptualize culturally situated and socially constructed perspectiv…
The democratization of hacking and making
We have framed the theme of this issue as “The Democratization of Hacking and Making” to draw attention to the relationships between action, knowledge, and power. Particularly, hacking and making are about how practices of creation and transformation generate knowledge and influence institutions. These acts concentrate and distribute power through publics and counterpublics. Yet, the very mutability of hacker and maker relations makes them a chal…
HTML5 and openness in mobile platforms
HTML5 is an open standard that enables new functionality in the mobile web ecosystem. Speculation by companies around its potential presents an opportunity to view how notions of ‘openness’ are employed to create and support mobile platforms. Particularly, Internet-based companies such as Google seek a foothold in mobile industries which have traditionally been dominated by carriers and device manufacturers. I compare two paradigms of openness an…
Exploring the Relationship Between Mobile Facebook and Social Capital: What Is the 'Mobile Difference' for Parents of Young Children
Mobile media have generally been found to reinforce close ties. Many have predicted this will bring about an onerous social insularity or 'network privatism.' However, mobile media now enable frequent communication and multimedia activities with larger, more diffuse social networks. Might we be at a tipping point where certain groups benefit from weak tie connections on mobile social media? To answer this question, this study considers how mobile…
Reconnecting Here and There: The Reactivation of Dormant Ties in the United States and Japan
This article examines the reactivation of dormant ties in Japan and the United States. Using the institutional approach to culture developed by Yamagishi et al., it is hypothesized that respondents living in Japan will be less likely to reconnect with dormant ties when prompted than respondents living in the United States. It is further hypothesized that interaction with kin and work ties will help to explain lower levels of reconnection in Japan…
The politics of information and data: Interdisciplinary perspectives on digital power
Examining social media usage: Technology clusters and social network site membership
The popularization of “social media” has raised questions of how and why young people use these various technologies in their daily lives. This exploratory study proposes a classification system based on Rogers’ concept of technology clusters, which posits that likelihood of adoption is based around similar perceived characteristics of a technology or medium. Results from a survey administered to 401 undergraduates at a large southern university …
Youtube, Twitter and the Occupy Movement: Connecting content and circulation practices
Videos stored on YouTube served as a valuable set of communicative resources for publics interested in the Occupy movement. This article explores this loosely bound media ecology, focusing on how and what types of video content are shared and circulated across both YouTube and Twitter. Developing a novel data-collection methodology, a population of videos posted to YouTube with Occupy-related metadata or circulated on Twitter alongside Occupy-rel…
HTML5 and openness in mobile platforms
HTML5 is an open standard that enables new functionality in the mobile web ecosystem. Speculation by companies around its potential presents an opportunity to view how notions of ‘openness’ are employed to create and support mobile platforms. Particularly, Internet-based companies such as Google seek a foothold in mobile industries which have traditionally been dominated by carriers and device manufacturers. I compare two paradigms of openness an…
Reconnecting Here and There: The Reactivation of Dormant Ties in the United States and Japan
This article examines the reactivation of dormant ties in Japan and the United States. Using the institutional approach to culture developed by Yamagishi et al., it is hypothesized that respondents living in Japan will be less likely to reconnect with dormant ties when prompted than respondents living in the United States. It is further hypothesized that interaction with kin and work ties will help to explain lower levels of reconnection in Japan…
The politics of information and data: Interdisciplinary perspectives on digital power
Civic hacking as data activism and advocacy: A history from publicity to open government data
The civic hacker tends to be described as anachronistic, an ineffective “white hat” compared to more overtly activist cousins. By contrast, I argue that civic hackers’ politics emerged from a distinct historical milieu and include potentially powerful modes of political participation. The progressive roots of civic data hacking can be found in early 20th-century notions of “publicity” and the right to information movement. Successive waves of act…
The democratization of hacking and making
We have framed the theme of this issue as “The Democratization of Hacking and Making” to draw attention to the relationships between action, knowledge, and power. Particularly, hacking and making are about how practices of creation and transformation generate knowledge and influence institutions. These acts concentrate and distribute power through publics and counterpublics. Yet, the very mutability of hacker and maker relations makes them a chal…
Exploring the Relationship Between Mobile Facebook and Social Capital: What Is the 'Mobile Difference' for Parents of Young Children
Mobile media have generally been found to reinforce close ties. Many have predicted this will bring about an onerous social insularity or 'network privatism.' However, mobile media now enable frequent communication and multimedia activities with larger, more diffuse social networks. Might we be at a tipping point where certain groups benefit from weak tie connections on mobile social media? To answer this question, this study considers how mobile…
Expertise and the constitution of publics
Expertise presents an enduring political problem. It is, on one hand, essential to a functioning society. On the other hand, it is inextricably entwined with hierarchies and power disparities. A society based solely on the rule of experts would surely be no democracy, yet neither would a society with no experts. It is sensible to promote the spread of expertise through technological literacies and skills. However, the public will never all simply…
Data ideologies of an interested public: A study of grassroots open government data intermediaries
Government officials claim open data can improve internal and external communication and collaboration. These promises hinge on "data intermediaries": extra-institutional actors that obtain, use, and translate data for the public. However, we know little about why these individuals might regard open data as a site of civic participation. In response, we draw on Ilana Gershon to conceptualize culturally situated and socially constructed perspectiv…
Making Our World: The Hacker and Maker Movements in Context
In 2012 the City of Los Angeles began an alliance with a burgeoning civic hack scene.In this context the term 'civic hacking' remains the umbrella moniker for a series of informal meet-ups and weekend-long events organized around software demos, conversations, and power-point presentations that all pose technology as a balm for civic and administrative problems.More broadly in the United States, civic hacking has prospered in several cities since…
Making our world: The hacker and maker movements in context
Jeremy Hunsinger/Andrew R. Schrock: Introduction - Andrew R. Schrock: Section I: Histories Introduction - T. Philip Nichols/Debora Lui: Learning by Doing: The Tenuous Alliance of the and Education Reform - Molly R. Sauter: Kevin Mitnick, The New York Times, and the Media's Conception of the Hacker - Yasuhito Abe: Making Civic Media in the Post-Fukushima Japanese Media Ecology - Rhea Vichot: Project Chanology and the Formation of Anonymous as an A…
Urban furniture in digital placemaking: Adapting a storytelling payphone across Los Angeles
A growing number of urban practitioners and scholars are interested in using digital storytelling to strengthen neighborhood connections to shared culture and build a coherent sense of place. This article contributes to this discussion by investigating how ‘urban furniture’ can sustain social capacity for digital placemaking. While traditional ‘urban furniture’ in public space is purely physical, digital-physical hybrids are emerging, from benche…
Sociology (10 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Politics (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Media studies (5 works) · Public relations (5 works) · Social Media and Politics (5 works) · Internet privacy (4 works) · Law (4 works)