Privacy on Facebook

Interesting to watch this dynamic display of the privacy features on Facebook. Open Privacy for all? Did YOU decide that?

Project Habitele selected by ANR

The "Habitele" project has been selected by the French National Research Agency ANR (call "sociétés innovantes") and will be funded starting January 2012. Great news! More details to follow!

Survey "our mobile planet"

A new survey (our mobile planet) by Ipsos, Google and MMA (mobile marketing association) on mobile uses. Data are available but what for if you do not have a theoretical framework to understand the process at stake? But let's use what we can in that survey!

How the personalization effort made by Google and by Facebook may place them as the gatekeepers of our preferences and of our social worlds, without giving us any grip on it. Watch this TED conference. How an habitele theory can help keep in mind the importance of the social worlds diversity which we are connected to and the importance of staying in control of our shifting and commuting power (open to other bubbles and not enclosed in our small bubble)

A paper in french that sums up habitele theoretical framework

Dominique Boullier, "Habitèle virtuelle", Revue Urbanisme, n°376, janv-fév 2011

A survey about smartphones uses in the US by Ipsos and Yahoo

This survey (N=2500) gives very interesting results about the on-going momentum of smartphones uses and proposes 7 modes of usage: connect, search, entertain, manage, inform, shop, navigate (rather traditional and not very helpful, but...!). One relevant expression for habitele (already found in our field study " I just felt naked in a weird sort of way".

To all partners of the ANR project Habitele
Contrary to what was expected, the decision for the ANR call "sociétés innovantes" is due only by the end of October!! We must wait (and pray? ) ....