First Monday November 2015

Readers:

First Monday has just published the November 2015 (volume 20, number 11) =
issue at http://firstmonday.org/issue/current.

The following papers are included in this month's special issue, Non-use =
of technology: Perspectives and approaches:

First Monday
Volume 20, Number 11 - 2 November 2015

Why study technology non-use?
by Eric P.S. Baumer, Morgan G. Ames, Jenna Burrell, Jed R. Brubaker, and =
Paul Dourish

Lines of power: Availability to networks as a social phenomenon
by David A. Banks

Pulling the plug visually: Images of resistance to ICTs and connectivity
by Ricardo Gomez, Kirsten Foot, Meg Young, Rose Paquet-Kinsley, and =
Stacey Morrison

The gender-technology divide or perceptions of non-use?
by Neha Kumar

Technologies of avoidance: The swear jar and the cell phone
by Ethan R. Plaut

The user as network
by Karen E.C. Levy

Smartphone resistance as media ambivalence
by Rivka Ribak and Michele Rosenthal

Exploring ethnographic techniques for ICT non-use research: An Amish =
case study=20
by Lindsay Ems

Entangled with technology: Engagement with Facebook among the young old
by Nancy A. Van House

Replicants, imposters and the real deal: Issues of non-use and =
technology resistance in vintage and software instruments
by Claes Thor=E9n and Andreas Kitzmann

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With the contents of the November 2015 issue, First Monday has =
published, since May 1996, 1,517 papers in 234 issues, written by 2,089 =
different authors.

Thanks for your continuing interest in our work,

Edward J Valauskas
Chief Editor and Founder, First Monday=