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Overview

Bonnie Nardi is affiliated with the University of California, Irvine in the United States. Their research spans several fields within the social sciences, with a focus on technology and its intersection with human behavior and society.

The main fields of study associated with Nardi include Social Sciences, supported by extensive work in subfields such as Sociology and Political Science, Human-Computer Interaction, Management of Technology and Innovation, Information Systems and Management, and Human Factors and Ergonomics.

Their work covers a variety of topics, notably Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development, Innovative Human-Technology Interaction, Social and Cultural Dynamics, Creativity in Education and Neuroscience, Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods, Green IT and Sustainability, and Personal Information Management and User Behavior.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Nardi include Beth Ferholt, Alfredo Jornet, Antti Rajala, Ivana Guarrasi, and Julian Williams.

Nardi often publishes in venues such as Mind Culture and Activity, ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, interactions, Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, and Ecology and Society.

Some recent papers by or including Nardi are:

  • Post-growth Human-Computer Interaction (2023), ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction
  • Moving forward with activity theory in a digital world (2021), Mind Culture and Activity
  • Citational justice and the politics of knowledge production (2022), interactions
  • Humanity's leading activity: survival, of the humanity of our species (2020), Mind Culture and Activity
  • "There Should Be More Than One Voice in A Healthy Society": Infrastructural Violence and Totalitarian Computing in China (2021), Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction

Bonnie Nardi also has publications in book form, notably through Princeton University Press. Among them are titles under the same name, Ethnography and Virtual Worlds, both published in 2024.

Best Publications

  • Context and consciousness: activity theory and human-computer interaction

    Bonnie A. Nardi

  • Acting with Technology: Activity Theory and Interaction Design

    Victor Kaptelinin;Bonnie A. Nardi

  • Information ecologies: using technology with heart

    Bonnie A. Nardi;Vicki L. O'Day

  • Why we blog

    Bonnie A. Nardi;Diane J. Schiano;Michelle Gumbrecht;Luke Swartz

  • Interaction and outeraction: instant messaging in action

    Bonnie A. Nardi;Steve Whittaker;Erin Bradner

  • Studying context: a comparison of activity theory, situated action models, and distributed cognition

    Bonnie A. Nardi

  • Ethnography and Virtual Worlds: A Handbook of Method

    Tom Boellstorff;Bonnie Nardi;Celia Pearce;T.L. Taylor

  • A Small Matter of Programming: Perspectives on End User Computing

    Bonnie A. Nardi

  • Blogging as social activity, or, would you let 900 million people read your diary?

    Bonnie A. Nardi;Diane J. Schiano;Michelle Gumbrecht

  • My Life as a Night Elf Priest: An Anthropological Account of World of Warcraft

    Bonnie A. Nardi

  • Activity theory and human-computer interaction

    Bonnie A. Nardi

  • Finding and reminding: file organization from the desktop

    Deborah Barreau;Bonnie A. Nardi

  • Strangers and friends: collaborative play in world of warcraft

    Bonnie Nardi;Justin Harris

  • Materiality and Organizing: Social Interaction in a Technological World

    Paul M. Leonardi;Bonnie A. Nardi;Jannis Kallinikos

  • Methods & tools: The activity checklist: a tool for representing the “space” of context

    Victor Kaptelinin;Bonnie A. Nardi;Catriona Macaulay

  • System and method for performing an action on a structure in computer-generated data

    James R. Miller;Thomas Bonura;Bonnie Nardi;David Wright

  • System and method for analyzing communications

    Ellen Isaacs;Bonnie A. Nardi;Stephen Whittaker

  • NetWORKers and their Activity in IntensionalNetworks

    Bonnie A. Nardi;Steve Whittaker;Heinrich Schwarz

  • It's not what you know it's who you know

    Bonnie A. Nardi;Steve Whittaker;Heinrich Schwarz

  • Activity Theory in HCI: Fundamentals and Reflections

    Victor Kaptelinin;Bonnie Nardi

  • Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

    Bonnie Nardi;Gerrit C. van der Veer;Michael J. Tauber

  • Information Ecologies: Using Technology with Heart - Chapter Two: Framing Conversations about Technology

    Bonnie Nardi;Vicki O'Day

Frequent Co-Authors

Steve Whittaker
Steve Whittaker University of California, Santa Cruz
Michael Cole
Michael Cole University of East London
Nick Yee
Nick Yee Palo Alto Research Center
Nicolas Ducheneaut
Nicolas Ducheneaut Quantic Foundry
Daniel Stokols
Daniel Stokols University of California, Irvine
Edward Cutrell
Edward Cutrell Microsoft (United States)
Chris Preist
Chris Preist University of Bristol
Piero Fraternali
Piero Fraternali Polytechnic University of Milan
Gloria Mark
Gloria Mark University of California, Irvine

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