Constructing Teams: Adapting Practices and Routines for Collaboration Through BIM

The recent introduction of Building Information Modeling to design and construction has challenged teams to adjust work at all levels from project delivery strategies to day-to-day work practices. In this paper, we use ethnographic methods to study teamwork routines and practices as they adapt to new Building Information technologies. This paper leverages our understanding of […]

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Guardian and ProPublica Chat: How Do Unpaid Internships Impact Industry?

I joined several journalists for a conversation about the role of internships in the contemporary economy in an online forum organized by the Guardian US and Propublica. http://www.propublica.org/getinvolved/item/discussion-how-do-unpaid-internships-impact-industry

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Culture Digitally: What Angelina Jolie’s breasts teach us about big data and intellectual property

I published this essay on Culture Digitally.   Angelina Jolie’s powerful op-ed confession in Monday’s New York Times about her preventative double mastectomy has many people talking about her breasts and her choices. But we also need to talk about her data: Who owns it and who gets to use it? Currently there are very […]

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