Working Together at Mat Time: Politics of Participation

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THE POLITICS OF PARTICIPATION: Mobilization and Turnout over Time

Recent studies have argued that mobilization is not only an important determinant of individual participation, but that it can explain the mystery of declining voter turnout in the United States over the past 40 years. We identify and evaluate three possible ways in which mobilization might have affected levels of turnout over time: (a) aggregate rates of mobilization may have declined, (b) the...

Configuration Tools: Working Together

Since the LISA conferences began, the character of a typical ‘‘large installation’’ has changed greatly. Most large sites tended to consist of a comparatively small number of handcrafted ‘‘servers’’ supporting a larger number of very similar ‘‘clients’’ (which would usually be configured with the aid of some automatic tool). A modern large site involves a more complex mesh of services, often wi...

Women’s Labour Market Participation and Use of Working Time

Working Together Inside an Emailbox

In this paper we look at a situation in which email is not simply a channel for collaboration and communication but a site of collaboration itself, involving email inboxes that are jointly accessed by more than one person. We conducted two studies of shared email usage. We learned about a diversity of shared email practices in 14 schools, museums, and support centers through semi-structured int...