On this week’s show we explore how the bits of work we might be missing most in lockdown are those that are the bits between the actual work. We also ask the question “Is IT a Social Science?”

Here are the two Twitter threads that inspired this week’s show:

Nice piece by @samwollaston on the commute. It offers a third space between home and work – albeit one which is expensive and often unpleasant. Do we need to find new third spaces? https://t.co/cN4jUu7kZK

In the early days of the pandemic, the term "contact tracing" vaulted into the public consciousness: that's the shoe-leather- and labor-intensive process whereby skilled heath experts establish a personal rapport with infected people to establish who they had contact with.

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And Randy Connolly’s article about Social Science is here: https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2020/8/246368-why-computing-belongs-within-the-social-sciences/fulltext