UPDATE: We're now in the process of expanding this study to include other relationship apps besides Couple, including: Avocado, Between, Duet, LoveByte, etc. If you use one or more of these apps, we'd love to connect! Since our earlier call for participants, I’ve been scouring the Boston area looking for people to interview who use the relationship-app, …
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In exciting news, Stacy Blasiola, R. Stuart Geiger and I are announcing a call for papers for a Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media Special Issue. Please pass on to your networks, or even better, send us an abstract. Call for Papers Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media Special Issue Old Against New, or a …
Couple (previously Pair) is an innovative app designed to help couples stay in touch. It's one among an increasing number of microsocial platforms that cater to small groups rather than large networks. In the case of Couple, it's a social network of just two. While there is a ton of research on scalable social networking sites like …
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(or, "I don't know how to skim a game.") Here's my question: What is the ideal list of 16 games that, if you played them, would give you a picture of all that is possible in gaming? Oh, yeah, and they have to be fast, quick-to-learn, and mostly free (hence the "casual" in the title). …
Practically everyone uses social media, and most workers use them at work. In fact, as a Microsoft study revealed this week, 84 percent of information workers use non-work social networks, and 60 percent of them use them from work at least once a day. At the same time, the survey found that more than 30 …
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