[Air-L] seasonal apps

MC Cambre mcambre at ualberta.ca
Wed Mar 29 19:18:07 PDT 2017


Touché for neuroplasticity!

On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 10:01 PM, Ravindra Mohabeer <mohabeerlists at gmail.com
> wrote:

> That notion of censorship brings up another curious possibility.
>
> Is it possible that the lack of temporal change (a-seasonality?) is
> indicative of the 'echo chamber' effect where we are not externally
> prompted by 'natural' cycles of change in the way that we used to be so we
> are less apt to expect or embrace change as a regular occurrence that we
> must confront regularly?
>
> Again, not a matter of cause and effect so much as a dispositional shift
> through ordinary behavioural fixedness rather than start-stop-restart
> rhythms.
>
> ---------------------------
> Ravindra N. Mohabeer
>
>
> On Mar 29, 2017, at 5:50 PM, MC Cambre <mcambre at ualberta.ca> wrote:
>
> Following the thread with great interest, and compelled to add the aspect
> of platform curation, i.e. censorship of apps that permits (or decides)
> when they may be in or out of season, is it a flavor of the month thing?
> Not sure. But it does complicate the notion of consumer behavior.
>
> Case in point, the app that was rejected 12 times by Apple, only to be
> allowed, and then rejected again:
> https://theintercept.com/2017/03/28/after-12-rejections-
> apple-accepts-app-that-tracks-u-s-drone-strikes/
>
> Kindly,
> cc
>
>
> > On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 8:41 PM, Diana Ascher <dianaascher at ucla.edu>
> wrote:
> >
> > I would think you could peg app genre to the industry SIC or NAICS codes
> > used in the consumer behavior literature, and pick out some similarities
> > and differences there.
> >
> >
> > Diana L. Ascher, MBA
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> >> On Mar 29, 2017, at 3:27 PM, Barry Wellman <wellman at chass.utoronto.ca>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> This is probably too obvious, but I betcha travel apps are used more in
> > North America in the summer: Google Maps, hotel.com, iExit,
> trip-advisor.
> > Because there is more leisure travel by people who don't know their way
> >>
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