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Now, back from the Sunbelt XXX, I think it’s time for a short wrap up. This year’s Sunbelt was located in Riva del Garda on the shores of Lago di Garda. Any misgivings by participants on the remote location disappeared quite rapidly when facing the magnificent vista of Lago di Garda. Conference locations like this [...]

Recently the debate about the nature and effiacy of digital activism has become increasingly heated. Compare for example the dialogue between Patrick Meier and Evgeny Morozov. The first optimism of the early days has given way to a more balanced view on the motivation and effects of digital activism. In this ongoing debate a new [...]

On her blog Adler-Auge Alexandra Ripken gives a short wrap-up to my talk on the recent CDU social media campaigns in Hessen 2009, for the German general election 2009 and the campaign in Nordrhein-Westfalen 2010, which I gave at a recent alumi meeting of the Fundraising Akademie. It’s nice to hear that the talk went [...]

A few days ago Malte Krohn [@malte_politicus] from the blog Homo Politicus interviewed me on the state of the CDU online campaign in Nordrhein-Westfalen which I advise on their use of online tools. This is the result:

If you are interested in the campaign, I also wrote about it here, here and here.

This sunday I participated in the workshop Microblogging: What and How Can We Learn Form It? at CHI 2010 in Atlanta, Georgia. During the workshop I presented my position paper Twitter in Politics: Lessons Learned during the German Superwahljahr 2009 in an ignite talk.
The workshop was organized by Julia H. Grace [@jewelia], Dejin Zhao [@djzaho] [...]

Next Sunday I will participate in one of the workshops leading up to this year’s CHI 2010 in Atlanta, Georgia. The workshop is called Microblogging: What and How Can We Learn From It. It is organized by Julia H. Grace [@jewelia], Dejin Zhao [@djzhao] and danah boyd [@zephoria]. The position papers for the workshop are [...]

Die CDU Onlinekampagne für die Landtagswahl 2010 in Nordrhein-Westfalen: Ein Zwischenstand
Eine Präsentation gehalten während des Politcamp 2010 in Berlin am 21. März 2010.
Während des Politcamp 2010 in Berlin präsentierte ich am 21. März den aktuellen Zwischenstand der CDU Onlinekampagne zur Landtagswahl in Nordrhein-Westfalen am 9. Mai 2010. Dies ist eine ausformulierte und leicht erweiterte Version [...]

Am Rande des Politcamp 2010 gaben Oliver Zeisberger [@oliverbarracuda] und ich Vera Kämper [@vera_k] von Der Westen ein Interview zum aktuellen Stand der Onlinekampagnen in Nordrhein-Westfalen.
Oliver Zeisberger betreut mit seiner Agentur den Onlinewahlkampf der NRW SPD während ich das Onlineunterstützerteam der CDU Nordrhein-Westfalen NRW für Rüttgers berate.
Unsere Präsenz beim Politcamp 2010 scheint übrigens auch vom [...]

Again to the archives, again a paper on Twitter: Twittering Activists: the Uses of Twitter for Political Activism. This is actually the first paper that I presented at a scientific conference, organised by the SFB Changing Protest and Media Cultures SFB/FK 615 Media Upheavals at the University of Siegen in late 2008. For a short [...]

This trip to the archives digs up the paper Digital channels, the change in community structures and its consequences for social participation. I presented this paper in Belfast at the ISEA 2009.
For a short glance at the argument have a look at the presentation. The full paper can be found here.

Digital channels, the change in [...]