Paul Dourish

My research draws from anthropology, STS (Science and Technology Studies), and other humanistic social sciences to examine the contexts in which digital practices emerge and evolve. For instance, when people working in city government encounter a problem, how do they come to frame it as one to which data tools might be a solution? How do they map organizational needs onto data technologies, and vice versa, and what do they do if they don't quite fit? Or, what futures do people imagine when they conceive of new digital tools?