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In his inaugural lecture “The End of the Virtual: Digital Methods” Richard Rogers who holds the Chair of New Media & Digital Culture at the University of Amsterdam proposes a shift in internet research:
“The issue no longer is how much of society and culture is online, but rather how to diagnose cultural change and societal [...]

The third trip to the archives leads to the paper The Interplay of Theory and Observation: A Proposition for Structured Research on Human Behavior on the Web which I cowrote with Pascal Jürgens and Benjamin Heitmann in early 2009.
The paper makes for a nice change of pace since it’s neither concerned with Twitter nor with [...]

For a second trip to the back catalogue have a look at Twittering Dissent: Social Web Data Streams as Basis for Agent Based Models of Opinion Dynamics. A paper that Pascal Jürgens presented in Vienna, Austria in early 2009.
For the gist of the paper have a look at the presentation:

Twittering Dissent

In this paper we build [...]

The quiet days at the end of any semester are great for side projects. So for this semester I decided to go through my back catalogue of presentations and publications and make some of them available on this site. Today I’ll start with a poster from 2008 which Pascal Jürgens and I presented at the [...]

This feels a bit like old news. But who says information has a sell-by-date?

In November Christoph Bieber, Martin Eifert, Thomas Groß and Jörn Lamla published the book “Soziale Netze in der digitalen Welt” to which I contributed a chapter on the political uses of Twitter. And the first reviews are in:
Jochen Zenthöfer for politik-digital.de: Wer [...]

It’s been a while since I’m back from the Personal Democracy Forum Europe. For a post-mortem of the conference I suggest these posts by other participants.
Micah L. Sifry: Hackers and Hacks: A Post-Mortem on PdF Europe in Barcelona
Markus Beckedahl: Erster Tag PdF-Europe
[Update]
Anna Ebbesen: PDF Europe – Day one round up
Astrid Haug: PdF Europe – Day [...]

The German TV-program Elektrischer Reporter just published an episode about online activism. At the end of the program, after comments by among others Richard Rogers and Patrick Meier, you will find a sound bite by yours truly on political activism on the net:
Digitaler Aktivismus: aus dem Netz auf die Straße

“Daemon” by Leinad Zeraus, a pseudonym by the author Daniel Suarez, is a great piece of speculative fiction. It reads like a worst case scenario of a networked society gone spectacularly wrong.
The death of Über-Game-Designer Matthew Sobol sets a surprising chain of events in motion. Before his death Sobol designed a computer program that automatically [...]

It’s been quite a while since I returned from the conference “Social Web – Towards Networked Protest Politics?” in Siegen. So it seems high time for a little roundup.
The topic of the conference was the influence which different forms and uses of Social Media have on the practice of political activists. The papers covered an [...]

Quite some time ago I visited a screening of Kenneth Branagh’s movie version of The Magic Flute. The visuals of the movie were great and the music as always great fun. Unfortunately there was trouble with the projection and so the aspect ratio was slightly screwed. But those are the delights of independent movie houses. [...]