Bonnie Nardi
Biographic Data
| ID | 3593750 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bonnie Nardi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bonnie |
| FAMILY NAME | Nardi |
| SIGNATURE | NARDI B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Irvine |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 103 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 69 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 103 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Learning, development, and Theory in motion: Revisiting cultural-historical perspectives in uncertain times
This issue of Mind, Culture, and Activity assembles a set of articles that, in various ways, return us to the core questions the journal strives to engage with: questions of learning, development, ...
Post-Growth HCI: Some Reflections and a Call to Action
Q is for qualitative and how (not) to draw too small a boundary around qualitative research in HCI
Ethnography and Virtual Worlds: A Handbook of Method, Updated Edition
A practical guide to the ethnographic study of online cultures, and beyond Ethnography and Virtual Worlds is the only book of its kind—a concise, comprehensive, and practical guide for students, teachers, designers, and scholars interested in using ethnographic methods to study online virtual worlds, including both game and nongame environments. Written by leading ethnographers of virtual worlds, and focusing on the key method of participant obse…
MCA editorial - vol 31 issue 3-4
Regenerating CHAT through learners' voices and collectivism
Symposium on transactional perspectives and current research in mind, culture, and activity
Creative spaces in and beyond education
This issue includes a collection of five research articles and a book review that contribute to understanding creativity and equity in contemporary spaces in and beyond education. The issue opens with a paper by Areej Mawasi, William Penuel, and Arturo Cortez, exploring aspects of intergenerational co-design in the context of higher education. The paper, titled “They were learning from us as we were learning from them: perceived experiences in co…
Berdamai dengan Keterbatasan Epistemologis: Dilema Metodologis pada Riset Etnografi di Ranah Virtual
Following the proliferation of digital media usage, the world has seen an increasing amount of digitally-mediated lives in everyday contexts. While anthropological scholarship has started to address this ever-growing subject, anthropologists are mainly preoccupied with human engagements in virtual worlds that have their own tangible and embodied sense of spatiality (e.g., online role-playing and gaming communities). In so doing, anthropologists h…
No to war
A breadth of approaches to mind, culture and activity
Citational justice and the politics of knowledge production
research-article Share on Citational justice and the politics of knowledge production Authors: The Citational Justice Collective View Profile , Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed University of Toronto University of TorontoView Profile , Sareeta Amrute University of Washington and Data & Society University of Washington and Data & SocietyView Profile , Jeffrey Bardzell Pennsylvania State University Pennsylvania State UniversityView Profile , Shaowen Bardzell Pe…
Returning ecological wealth to nonhuman species through design: The Case for Ecosystemas
Tomlinson, B., B. Nardi, D. Stokols, A. Raturi, and A. W. Torrance. 2022. Returning ecological wealth to nonhuman species through design: the case for ecosystemas. Ecology and Society 27(2):34. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-13324-270234
Special Issue: “Advancing Funds of Identity Theory”
This special issue on Funds of Identity, guest edited by Moises Esteban-Guitart, is comprised of six research papers and Esteban-Guitart’s response, with collective support from Julian Williams and
Scholarship and research in crisis contexts
Moving forward with activity theory in a digital world
This paper illuminates the role of activity theory in addressing theoretical and practical challenges raised by the growing role of digital technology in human activity. We explore and review the role of activity theory in the study of crucial digital technologies such as social media, smartphones, blockchain, artificial intelligence, and algorithmic decision-making, considering the unique ways that activity theory accommodates such technologies …
Our commitment at this time of continuing struggle against oppression and structural inequalities
To “the fierce urgency of now”(Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., ‘I Have a Dream’ speech at the March on Washington on August 28, 1963)As we continue to confront crises, turmoil, and struggles for justi
Humanity’s leading activity: Survival, of the humanity of our species
In the midst of ongoing and unprecedented global crises, including the COVID-19 pandemic crisis, we open the present issue with an editorial call to scholars worldwide about learning in and from th
Long-term and current concerns in CHAT scholarship, and a dedication to Gordon Wells
In support of social movements that fight for freedom and liberation, and against racial and ecological injustices, we take the opportunity to reaffirm our commitment to scholarship that cares abou
Closing a challenging year, strengthening relevant scholarship in cultural studies of mind and activity
We end a year marked by a global pandemic that has taken the lives of more than a million people globally, and has exacerbated and made more visible social and economic inequities that disproportio
Genetic analyses in sociocultural research across disciplines and practices
Acknowledging changes and the challenges ahead
We live in challenging times. Ongoing problems of social and ecological injustice – exacerbated by the climate crisis, unabashed neoliberalist greed, and the rise of racism and nationalisms across
Scholarly work and/as passion
With regret, we open this issue of Mind, Culture, and Activity acknowledging the loss of Fernando Gonzalez Rey, a deeply human scholar whose work has been central to past and recent developments in
Prolepsis and boundary crossings in the development of Mind, Culture, and Activity
As the editorial team of Mind, Culture, and Activity (MCA), we write with a sense of urgency in regenerating our commitment to our collective history while strengthening our efforts to welcome new
The future of human labor: A Look at Manufacturing and War
We consider changes in labor through two cases that purport to embody the future: the manufacture of Tesla cars and military deployment of drones
Modes of Explanation in Anthropological Population Theory: Biological Determinism vs. Self-Regulation in Studies of Population Growth in Third World Countries
Anthropological theories of population growth in underdeveloped countries are considered and it is argued that most studies have concentrated exclusively on either deterministic or self-regulatory factors in population growth without regard to their probable interaction. A research strategy is proposed in which self-regulatory factors, especially the decision-making activities of individual parents, provide a primary focus of study but with caref…
Goals in Reproductive Decision Making
This paper presents a model of fertility decision making in which goals, plans, and expectations organize the cultural knowledge used in deciding on the number and timing of children for Western Samoan village women. Coals, plans, and expectations coalesce into scenarios that depict the imagined consequences of a course of actions under consideration by the decision maker. These scenarios are loosely connected to one another in a life sketch that…
The Height of Her Powers: Margaret Mead's Samoa
From Form to Content
Automation and algorithms, as ideas and techniques, have a long history. The official history of automation traces its origins back to the close of the nineteenth century and the emergence of such mechanical systems as James Watt's steam engine, the lathe, and the Jacquard loom. However, a broader view of the notion, understood as any attempt to replace or reduce human labor through the introduction of artifacts, would begin the history much earl…
Ethnography and Virtual Worlds: A Handbook of Method
Regimes of Information and the Paradox of Embeddedness: An Introduction
This introduction outlines the problematic that has served as the basis for this special issue. Interaction weaves the fabric of social life in the form of events that are usually embedded in a series of particulars, variously referred to as contexts or situations. At the same time, actors, and the contexts in which they are embedded, are constituted by social rules, role systems, and normative frameworks that transcend situated encounters. Furth…
On Evidence and the Public Interest
Development: The Dialectics of Transgression and Social Transformation
This issue comprises five articles and two book reviews. One theme in the articles is social change and transformation in or through activity, which seems to be grounded in conceptions of dialectic
Relevant Anthropology Viewed from Technology Studies
Reply to Harbison's Comments on Nardi's “Modes of Explanation in Anthropological Population Theory
Modes of Explanation in Anthropological Population Theory: Biological Determinism vs. Self-Regulation in Studies of Population Growth in Third World Countries
Anthropological theories of population growth in underdeveloped countries are considered and it is argued that most studies have concentrated exclusively on either deterministic or self-regulatory factors in population growth without regard to their probable interaction. A research strategy is proposed in which self-regulatory factors, especially the decision-making activities of individual parents, provide a primary focus of study but with caref…
Reply to Harbison's Comments on Nardi's “Modes of Explanation in Anthropological Population Theory
Goals in Reproductive Decision Making
This paper presents a model of fertility decision making in which goals, plans, and expectations organize the cultural knowledge used in deciding on the number and timing of children for Western Samoan village women. Coals, plans, and expectations coalesce into scenarios that depict the imagined consequences of a course of actions under consideration by the decision maker. These scenarios are loosely connected to one another in a life sketch that…
Infant feeding and women's work in Western Samoa: A hypothesis, some evidence and suggestions for future research
This paper argues that a key reason for the decline in the age of weaning in 3rd world countries may be an increasing workload for women associated with increasing involvement in the cash economy. This hypothesis is considered in light of data collected in an anthropological field study of a rural village in Western Samoa. Methods used were a village census, a household survey with fertility histories and questions on household economy, a questio…
The Height of Her Powers: Margaret Mead's Samoa
Video-as-data: Technical and social aspects of a collaborative multimedia application
FM Interviews: Bonnie Nardi
Spreadsheet anthropologist Apple researcher Bonnie Nardi observes digital villagers at work
Cyberspace, Anthropological Theory, and the Training of Anthropologists
The embeddedness of advanced information technology in daily experience and human routines is often overlooked in objectified or romanticized characterizations of cyberspace and on-line interaction. To understand the human context of advanced information technology, studying the full scope of related activities is necessary. Anthropologists must be adequately trained in technical areas to affect system design. They need a strong theoretical frame…
Context and Consciousness: Activity Theory and Human-Computer Interaction
Relevant Anthropology Viewed from Technology Studies
Information Ecologies: Using Technology with Heart
A call for informed, responsible engagement with information technology at the local level.The common rhetoric about technology falls into two extreme categories: uncritical acceptance or blanket rejection. Claiming a middle ground, Bonnie Nardi and Vicki O'Day call for responsible, informed engagement with technology in local settings, which they call information ecologies. An information ecology is a system of people, practices, technologies, a…
Methods & tools: The activity checklist
article Free Access Share on Methods & tools: The activity checklist: a tool for representing the "space" of context Authors: Victor Kaptelinin Umeå Univ., Sweden Umeå Univ., SwedenView Profile , Bonnie A. Nardi AT&T Labs-Research, Menlo Park, CA AT&T Labs-Research, Menlo Park, CAView Profile , Catriona Macaulay Napier Univ., Edinburgh, UK Napier Univ., Edinburgh, UKView Profile Authors Info & Claims InteractionsVolume 6Issue 4July-Aug. 1999 pp 2…
Information Ecologies: Using Technology with Heart - Chapter Two: Framing Conversations about Technology
Chapter Two: Framing Conversations about Technology, from the book, Information Ecologies. This book calls for call for responsible, informed engagement with technology in local settings, or information ecologies
Information Ecologies: Using Technology with Heart - Chapter One: Rotwang the Inventor
Chapter One: Rotwang the Inventor, from the book, Information Ecologies. This book calls for call for responsible, informed engagement with technology in local settings, or information ecologies
Information Ecologies: Using Technology with Heart - Preface
The common rhetoric about technology falls into two extreme categories: uncritical acceptance or blanket rejection. These two positions leave us with poor choices for action. They encourage us to accept as inevitable whatever technological changes come along. Claiming a middle ground, these chapters from the book Information Ecologies (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1999) call for responsible, informed engagement with technology in local settings, …
Information Ecologies: Using Technology with Heart - Chapter Four: Information Ecologies
Chapter Four: Information Ecologies, from the book, Information Ecologies. This book calls for call for responsible, informed engagement with technology in local settings, or information ecologies
A Web on the Wind: The Structure of Invisible Work
Interaction and outeraction: Instant Messaging in Action
We discuss findings from an ethnographic study of instant messaging (IM) in the workplace and its implications for media theory. We describe how instant messaging supports a variety of informal communication tasks. We document the affordances of IM that support flexible, expressive communication. We describe some unexpected uses of IM that highlight aspects of communication which are not part of current media theorizing. They pertain to communica…
Let's Stop Pushing the Envelope and Start Addressing It: A Reference Task Agenda for HCI
We identify a problem with the process of research in the human-computer interaction (HCI) community-an overemphasis on "radical invention" at the price of achieving a common research focus. Without such a focus, it is difficult to build on previous work, to compare different interaction techniques objectively, and to make progress in developing theory. These problems at the research level have implications for practice, too; as researchers we of…
It's not what you know it's who you know
We discuss our ethnographic research on personal social networks in the workplace, arguing that traditional institutional resources are being replaced by resources that workers mine from their own networks. Social networks are key sources of labor and information in a rapidly transforming economy characterized by less institutional stability and fewer reliable corporate resources. The personal social network is fast becoming the only sensible alt…
NetWorkers and their Activity in Intensional Networks
Coda and Response to Christine Halverson
Why we blog
Bloggers are driven to document their lives, provide commentary and opinions, express deeply felt emotions, articulate ideas through writing, and form and maintain community forums.
AnthroSource: Designing a portal for anthropologists
This paper investigates the information needs of anthropologists to inform the design of a portal, AnthroSource. AnthroSource will digitize the publications of the American Anthropological Association and provide services for anthropologists and others who use anthropological materials
Creating a Shared Vision for AnthroSource
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