"Welcome! We’ve set up this blog to share information and foster discussion for the “People and Practices” research initiative at UC Irvine. PAPR@UCI brings together a wide range of researchers from across campus, connecting Informatics, Anthropology, Arts, Humanities, Design, and Education, to name just some. We are connected by an abiding interest in information technology as a site for social and cultural production and the emergence of new forms of practice. This particular initiative is supported by, and conducted in collaboration with, colleagues from the People and Practices Research group at Intel Corporation, and also connected to research going on at Goldsmiths College and other academic centers.

In Fall 2008, we held a campus competition for research projects in this broad research area. Over the next few weeks, we will begin by posting brief summaries of the 17 projects that we were able to support."