research

On the subject of email research, there’s more than enough to make your head spin. What follows is my personal working bibliography which varies from the very general to the very specific and isn’t edited yet. If you’re looking for visualization-specific work, a great place to start is the Sociable Media Lab at MIT. I’ve also found a lot of inspiration through Julian Bleecker’s Slow Mail and Slow Messenger projects at the Near Future Laboratory.

If I am feeling particularly ambitious or helpful, I will also link the books and journal articles also. I should stress again that this is a work in progress, doesn’t even remotely cover all of the email research that exists, and some things don’t even have anything to do with email. Also, because I believe in making computers work for me, I ran a script that autolinked all the URLs, if something is broken let me know.

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