Articles Social Informatics Basics What is Social Informatics and Why Does it Matter? Institute for Social Informatics Links to Articles from the Syllabus Warren, Samuel D., and Louis D. Brandeis (1890). "The Right to Privacy." Harvard Law Review, 4(5). Available: http://www.lawrence.edu/fac/boardmaw/Privacy_brand_warr2.html E-Mail Overload: Welcome Back to School Themes: The Coarsening of Culture Blume, Harvey (1997, October 9). "God, Man, and the Interface." The Atlantic Unbound. Available: http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/digicult/dc9710.htm An E-Mail Exchange with Steven Johnson Excerpts from Interface Culture Uses and Gratifications Articles - References for the Life on the Screen Paper Uses and Gratifications of the Web among Students by Samuel Ebersole The Uses and Gratifications of the Web by Christopher Hunter, has a description of the different needs that media can fill Uses and Gratifications Theory and E-Consumer Behaviors: A Structural Equation Modeling Study by Xueming Luo, published online in the Journal of Interactive Advertising, Volume 2, Number 2, Spring 2002 Video Game Uses & Gratifications - in PDF format General Online Resources The NYTimes technology section The NYTimes Circuit section - new articles every Thursday Atlantic Monthly article on privacy Bush, Vannevar (1945, July). "As We May Think." The Atlantic Monthly. Available: http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/flashbks/computer/bushf.htm Lacefield, Phil, Jr. (2000, December 21), "Surveillance in the Office." Equip magazine. Available: http://equip.zdnet.com/gear/sporttech/feature/1924e Mohnkern, Ken (1997). "Beyond the Interface Metaphor." Available: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/kem/www/vid/vid9704.html