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- Conference PaperCo-designing recycling solutions on campus: A case study exploring openness, realism and empowerment of users in a Living Lab(C&T '21: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Communities & Technologies - Wicked Problems in the Age of Tech, 2021) Hasan, Md Tanvir; Wolff, Annika; Porras, Jari
- Journal ArticleFrom high tech to human tech: Empowerment, measurement, and social studies of computing(Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW): Vol. 3, No. 2, 1995) Agre, Philip E.“Empowerment” has become a pervasive term of art in business practice, particularly in the United States. The term traces its roots to the organizing models evolved by populist social movements, but within business discourse it refers to an emerging organizational philosophy that largely replaces conventional hierarchies with nominally autonomous teams. Proponents of empowerment frequently cite information technology as a crucial enabler of this shift without, however, spelling out fully the logic of the connection. A reconstruction of this logic provides evidence for the emergence of a novel vision of work-discipline, the empowerment and measurement regime. This regime is discussed in relation to market dynamics, Taylorism, and research on the social organization of information technology and its use.
- Conference PaperThinking Outside the (Tool) Box: Exploring Empowerment Through the Design and Use of Toolkits(Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Communities & Technologies - Transforming Communities, 2019) Jarusriboonchai, Pradthana; Meissner, Janis Lena; Hansen, Nicolai Brodersen; Schouten, Ben