Why is that when we describe decentralized actions we automatically assume an altruistic and apolitical relationship between the participants? Why…
A few thoughts on culture industry
Social Control Communication theorists and advertiser experts (Lazarsfield & Merton, 1969; Schramm, 1954) explain mass communication effect based on consumers’…
Digitization and Globalization of Informality
I am still amazed that people would think about informal job, or informal life, as something inherent to poor people,…
Locke on property lockdown
Locke discusses and defend the origins of the private property as a universal natural law. His corollary is that…
Capital, land, expropriation
Marx relates the expropriation of the agricultural population from land to the beginning of the capitalism process. In this…
A Collaborative Mobile Cultural Mapping Workshop & Exhibition at ISEA 2015
Today I attend to A Collaborative Mobile Cultural Mapping Workshop & Exhibition at ISEA 2015 The workshop started with the participants…
Published: Mobile Media as New Forms of Spatialization
A short version of the third chapter of my thesis was published at the Interdisciplinary Science Reviews. Here are the abstract and…
Today I start my PhD in Interactive Arts and Technology at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada.New challenge: PhD
Masters Thesis defended
After 3 year of hard work I finally defended my Maters thesis on August 20, 2014. I am very grateful…
Workflow Mutation: From Tedious to Fun
The process of modelling workflows for any purposes might be seen as a laborious and tedious experience. Even fun projects,…
Wrkflux Beta 2
Following our work on visual interactive workflow, our current phase of the project focused on the creation and customization of…
Following our work on visual interactive workflow, our current phase of the project focused on the creation and customization of workflows. While in the previous version we used a pre-defined workflow structure, the new version, which we called Wrkflux, allows users to create and design their own workflows. By adding this functionality, we are looking for other forms that workflows can be used, such as management processes, editorial processes, personal organization, mind mapping, and even for board game prototypes.
Published: Visual workflow interfaces for editorial processes
After more than one year that I present this paper at DH 2012, it finally got accepted and publish in…