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Workstations as Roommates: Project Athena and Student Life at MIT
- The Review of Higher Education
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 12, Number 1, Autumn 1988
- pp. 31-47
- 10.1353/rhe.1988.0002
- Article
- Additional Information
Interviews and observations within three MIT living groups equipped with powerful computer workstations suggest that the intervention enhances rather than degrades the living groups socially, that a few residents benefit substantially from the machines while most benefit only modestly, and that these individual benefits fail to offset potential organizational costs in any direct way. These findings should extend in general terms to other institutions, since they depend relatively little on the specific technology or curriculum involved.