The NCSU Center for Information Society Studies invites you to the third in the Distinguished Lecture Series, and the first in the "Research Seminar Series," sponsored by the Kenan Institute for Engineering, Technology, & Science; the NC State College of Management, and the NC State Office of the Provost.
Bonnie NardiDesign Anthropologist with AT&T Labs West, author of Information Ecologies (MIT Press, 1999), and co-author of Information Ecologies: Using Technology with Heart (MIT Press, 1999).
"netWORK: Software for managing social
networks in the workplace."
Friday, March 3
12:30 - 1:30 PM
Winston 132, (building 23 on map)
North Carolina State University
Dr. Nardi will discuss her ethnographic research on personal social
networks in the
workplace, especially the invisible work of managing social networks
in
today's economy--or "netWORK." Because of constant rapid change
in the global economy, there are fewer stable institutional resources
for workers to draw on, and workers fall back on their own resources
for
labor recruitment, information gathering, and career development. The
software prototype she is developing with colleagues at AT&T,
ContactMap,
addresses the tasks of netWORK. She will describe ContactMap and explain
how
it is being designed to meet user needs discovered in her research.