Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | about this site Security Stuff (21 Jan 2004) Harvey Molotch, Professor Sociology at New York University, is interested in stuff. He believes the artefacts of a society, their purpose and design, say much about that society’s values and power structures. Take current security control systems at American airports. Why, Harvey wonders, has so little thought gone into the design of airport security paraphernalia? Why does the process have to be so inhuman and the staff so unhelpful? How does this lack of care affect the goal of security itself? Article URL: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/thinkingallowed_20040121.shtml Read 167 more articles from BBC Radio 4 sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: Media: New Thinking lays into the Incomprehension of Branding on the Web This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy