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This is the group blog for the Social Media Collective at Microsoft Research New England. We are a team of social scientists and humanists who use qualitative methods like ethnography and content analysis to study a broad range of online technologies like social network sites, video games, blogs, online culture, mobile devices, news and activism, and more. Here you can learn more about who we are and what we do.
"The purpose of this blog is to provide practitioners in the social sector with a filter for the events that are pushing the field towards a more networked form of work and a perspective on how and why those events are unfolding."
"Social scientists, philosophers, cultural critics, and media and new media theorists now seem to cover all aspects of the IT revolution, creating a number of new disciplines such as cyber culture, Internet studies, new media theory, and digital culture. Yet the underlying engine that drives most of these subjects – software – has received little or no direct attention. Software is still invisible to most academics, artists, and cultural professionals interested in IT and its cultural and social effects. But if we continue to limit critical discussions to the notions of “cyber,” “digital,” “new media,” or “Internet,” we are in danger of always dealing only with effects rather than causes; the output that appears on a computer screen rather than the programs and social cultures that produce these outputs. This is why we are convinced that “software studies” is necessary and we welcome you to join us in our projects and activities."
"We are a collaboration of researchers performing a comparative study of scientific collaborations."
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