David Randall
Biographic Data
| ID | 3764331 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Randall |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Randall |
| SIGNATURE | RANDALL D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Siegen |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8613-3477 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 51 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 50 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Designing for social impact: Understanding the social dynamics of interactive projections for public well-being
Our research, part of a larger study on exercise and well-being, focuses on the use of interactive artefacts in public spaces. Our findings suggest that many people have concerns about exercising in public due to inhibitions, insecurities, and social anxiety, which can affect behaviour in this context. Both well-being and physical mobility—the desired outcome—can be improved by new opportunities for activity, especially after the COVID-19 pandemi…
The Pervasive Use of Computational Artefacts Shaping Managers’ Cooperative Practices
The paper explores the nuanced use of computational artefacts in shaping the cooperative work practices of academic library managers. Grounded in a focused ethnographic study involving 21 middle managers from two academic libraries in Sweden and Australia, the research employed participant observation, formal and informal interviews, and document review. The empirical material was thematically analyzed within a conceptual framework using recogniz…
Machine Learning and the Work of the User
All Is Ok with the Universities
David Randall lambasts Michael S. Roth for using The Student: A Short History to communicate a liberal university president’s “complacent and tranquilizing reassurance that nothing has gone wrong” while American universities have become production lines for the making of “DEI henchmen.”
Missives from Two College Presidents
NAS research director David Randall looks at memoirs by two former presidents of elite universities, only to find self-congratulatory and unintended exposes of how these “confidence men,” as Randall calls them, manipulated the racial make-up of their student bodies, funded academically questionable departments and faculty when pressured by activists, presided over the expansion of DEI bureaucracies, and generally declined to restore academic stan…
Is Western Civilization Real
David Randall dissects Josephine Crawley Quinn’s How the World Made the West: A 4,000 Year History, the latest scholarly effort to offshore the West’s achievements to the rest of the world
Should Liberals Side With Conservatives against Woke
Randall also leads us through a reading of Eric Kaufmann’s The Third Awokening, perhaps the most important treatment of the rise of woke ideology. Where Richard Hanania finds wokeism gestating in American civil rights law, and Chris Rufo sees its beginnings in a generation of scholars steeped in Critical Theory, Kaufmann sees wokeism’s rise in the emotional attachment of American liberals to the struggle for black equality, “an egalitarian care/e…
Fostering Research Data Management in Collaborative Research Contexts: Lessons learnt from an ‘Embedded’ Evaluation of ‘Data Story’
RetrofittAR: Supporting Hardware-Centered Expertise Sharing in Manufacturing Settings through Augmented Reality
Since almost the onset of computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW), the community has been concerned with how expertise sharing can be supported in different settings. Here, the complex handling of machines based on experience and knowledge is increasingly becoming a challenge. In our study, we investigated expertise sharing in a medium-sized manufacturing company in an effort to support the fostering of hardware-based expertise sharing by usin…
Trans Antihumanism
Adam Kirsch explains what “transhumanism” is
What We Should Teach the Children
Timothy Goeglein makes a strong moral and cultural case for teaching the “Great American Story.”
The Personal is the Political: Internet Filtering and Counter Appropriation in the Islamic Republic of Iran
Issues of trust, privacy and security at the intersection of state intervention and the use of the internet both by ‘publics’ and by individuals for—from the State’s point of view- dispreferred purposes have been of great recent interest to researchers. This has been accompanied by a slowly developing concern for the way in which these issues pan out for people in non-Western cultures. Based on a study of Iranians living in urban centers, we exam…
Made to Work: Mobilising Contemporary Worklives
Understanding Nomadic Practices of Social Activist Networks Through the Lens of Infrastructuring: The Case of the European Social Forum
Within CSCW and HCI, an increasing body of literature has been demonstrating the essential relevance of infrastructures and infrastructuring to the work of people engaging in technologically mediated nomadicity. Tech Nomads – or T-Nomads, as they are sometimes called – not only rely on technological, human , and environmental infrastructural components – such as Wi-Fi, technical support, space, and basic resources such as light and power outlets …
Conservatism: Which Way Forward
A review of "Conservatism: A Rediscovery," by Yoram Hazony, Regnery Gateway, 2022, pp. xxix + 445, $29.99 hardcover
Citizenship in Crisis
Two prominent conservative critics offer incisive evaluations of what ails the American republic. But both also exhibit an embarrassed unwillingness to conceive of the American nation as something worth defending for its own sake, or even defining
The Dictionary of Feminist Theory
The most comprehensive guide to the terminology and history of feminist theory available. This established and much admired dictionary provides succinct definitions of more than 600 terms, topics, movements and approaches as well as influential feminist thinkers, activists and critics within feminist theory. Entries cover a wide range of cross-cultural issues relating to family, work, sexuality, gender, race, imperialism and representation. There…
Ethnography, CSCW and Ethnomethodology
This paper documents some details and some examples of the influence of ethnomethodological work in the fieldwork tradition associated with European CSCW; in particular what has been termed ‘ethnomethodologically informed ethnography’. In so doing, we do not wish to downplay other perspectival and methodological contributions but to simply suggest that much of the ethnomethodological work that was done in the UK during the early development of CS…
How to Become Educated
How live streaming church services promotes social participation in rural areas
column Share on How live streaming church services promotes social participation in rural areas Authors: David Struzek University of Siegen University of SiegenView Profile , Martin Dickel University of Siegen University of SiegenView Profile , Dave Randall University of Siegen University of SiegenView Profile , Claudia Müller University of Siegen and Careum Health Research University of Siegen and Careum Health ResearchView Profile Authors Info …
Three Gaps in Opening Science
Can Universities Survive America’s Leveling
Conversation
Politicized Science
Research into Design-Research Practices
The aim of this chapter is to outline a research agenda. Here, this agenda has been termed “meta-research into practice-based computing”; the chapter uses the authors’ own work to exemplify elements of it. Such an agenda requires coherent framing and needs to be conducted in sufficient breadth and depth and so is still evolving. The chapter first presents some of the driving forces behind “post-normal” interdisciplinary science carried out in res…
Presidential Physiognomies: Altered Images, Altered Perceptions
Digitized facial images of Presidents Clinton, Reagan, and Kennedy were manipulated to test whether subtle feature alterations were powerful enough to shift social perceptions of them. It was expected that exaggeration of facial maturity cues would lead to shifts in perceptions of power (dominance, strength, and cunning) and warmth (honesty, attractiveness, and compassion). Each familiar face was made more neotenous by enlarging eyes and lips, an…
The anti‐social model of disability
Social theories are usually developed to enable a clearer understanding of a situation or problem. The 'Social Model' in various forms is currently the dominant model for researching disability, addressing disability from within a socio‐political framework that draws substantially on a 'social constructionist' perspective. This article critiques some of the core sociological assumptions of the Social Model, questioning what 'work' this kind of th…
Epistolary Rhetoric, the Newspaper, and the Public Sphere
Habermas's The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere begins with an analysis of how the public sphere was constituted in ancient Greece: In the fully developed Greek city-state the sphere of the polis, which was common (koine) to the free citizens, was strictly separated from the sphere of the oikos; in the sphere of the oikos, each individual is in his own realm (idia). The public life, bios politikos, went on in the market place (agora…
Joseph Mead, Novellante: News, Sociability, and Credibility in Early Stuart England
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Providence, Fortune, and the Experience of Combat: English Printed Battlefield Reports, circa 1570-1637
Printed English-language battlefield news reports between 1570 and 1637 conveyed to English newsreaders a genre-distinctive discourse of war, whose emphasis on the precise means of battlefield providence conveyed a degreeof experimental providentialism considerably beyond the norms of England's consensually providential culture. This article examines closely the relationship of the news genre to its usage of providence and fortune, and shows how …
Adam Smith’s Mixed Prudence and the Economy of the Public Sphere
Jürgen Habermas argues that Adam Smith believed that men used a calculative form of reason in the economic realm. Yet it was not calculative reason, but a variety of forms of prudence that animated Smith’s economic system. The individual exercise of prudence motivated mankind to labor, the collective exercise of prudence, expressed as supply and demand, disciplined mankind to labor where the disposition was lacking, and the combination of the ind…
New industrial landscapes: The role of the landscape architect
From ethnographic record to system design: Some experiences from the field
The Politics of Trade in Latin American Development
Presidential Physiognomies: Altered Images, Altered Perceptions
Digitized facial images of Presidents Clinton, Reagan, and Kennedy were manipulated to test whether subtle feature alterations were powerful enough to shift social perceptions of them. It was expected that exaggeration of facial maturity cues would lead to shifts in perceptions of power (dominance, strength, and cunning) and warmth (honesty, attractiveness, and compassion). Each familiar face was made more neotenous by enlarging eyes and lips, an…
Ambiguities, Awareness and Economy: A Study of Emergency Service Work
The anti‐social model of disability
Social theories are usually developed to enable a clearer understanding of a situation or problem. The 'Social Model' in various forms is currently the dominant model for researching disability, addressing disability from within a socio‐political framework that draws substantially on a 'social constructionist' perspective. This article critiques some of the core sociological assumptions of the Social Model, questioning what 'work' this kind of th…
Providence, Fortune, and the Experience of Combat: English Printed Battlefield Reports, circa 1570-1637
Printed English-language battlefield news reports between 1570 and 1637 conveyed to English newsreaders a genre-distinctive discourse of war, whose emphasis on the precise means of battlefield providence conveyed a degreeof experimental providentialism considerably beyond the norms of England's consensually providential culture. This article examines closely the relationship of the news genre to its usage of providence and fortune, and shows how …
When Plans do not Work Out: How Plans are Used in Software Development Projects
Joseph Mead, Novellante: News, Sociability, and Credibility in Early Stuart England
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How Can I Help You? Call Centres, Classification Work and Coordination
Epistolary Rhetoric, the Newspaper, and the Public Sphere
Habermas's The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere begins with an analysis of how the public sphere was constituted in ancient Greece: In the fully developed Greek city-state the sphere of the polis, which was common (koine) to the free citizens, was strictly separated from the sphere of the oikos; in the sphere of the oikos, each individual is in his own realm (idia). The public life, bios politikos, went on in the market place (agora…
Humean Aesthetics and the Rhetorical Public Sphere
In The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere, the following quotation from Kant, cited in part here, underpinned Habermas's conception of the public sphere as derived from the discourse of reason: [T]he judgments of every understanding must be in agreement (consentientia uni tertio, consentiunt inter se). Thus, whether assent is conviction or mere persuasion, its touchstone externally is the possibility of communicating assent and of fin…
Information and Expertise Sharing in Inter-Organizational Crisis Management
Adam Smith’s Mixed Prudence and the Economy of the Public Sphere
Jürgen Habermas argues that Adam Smith believed that men used a calculative form of reason in the economic realm. Yet it was not calculative reason, but a variety of forms of prudence that animated Smith’s economic system. The individual exercise of prudence motivated mankind to labor, the collective exercise of prudence, expressed as supply and demand, disciplined mankind to labor where the disposition was lacking, and the combination of the ind…
The Universal Journalist - Fifth Edition
What Is Common in Accounts of Common Ground
Preface to the Special Issue on ‘Reconsidering “Awareness” in CSCW’
The Apocalyptic Imagination: Climate Nonfiction and the Dream of Marxist Utopia
The Last Castle: Better Beach Books Update
Universal Journalist
Introduction to ECSCW 2017
Books, Articles, and Items of Academic Interest
Go Sell It on the Campus: Beach Books Update
Research into Design-Research Practices
The aim of this chapter is to outline a research agenda. Here, this agenda has been termed “meta-research into practice-based computing”; the chapter uses the authors’ own work to exemplify elements of it. Such an agenda requires coherent framing and needs to be conducted in sufficient breadth and depth and so is still evolving. The chapter first presents some of the driving forces behind “post-normal” interdisciplinary science carried out in res…
Socio-Informatics: A Practice-Based Perspective on the Design and Use of IT Artifacts
The book is an exploration of the theoretical, conceptual and methodological foundations of human-centred design. Specifically, it critically examines the notion of 'practice' and argues for an understanding of the concept which emanates from engagement with design problems rather than simply from social scientific theory. The contributors to the book in their various ways all subscribe to a systematic account of how practice- oriented studies ca…
Sociology (36 works) · Political science (31 works) · Law (25 works) · Computer Science (21 works) · Higher education (16 works) · Philosophy of education (16 works) · Engineering (14 works) · Psychology (13 works) · Social science (12 works) · Knowledge management (11 works)