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Blast from the past No. 4: Digital channels, the change in community structures and its consequences for social participation

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 [...]

Review: The End of the Virtual: Digital Methods by Richard Rogers (2009)

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 [...]

Blast from the Past No. 2: Twittering Dissent

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 [...]

Blast from the Past No. 1: Modeling Small-Group Interaction on Pervasive Digital Channels

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 [...]

Bits and pieces from last week 2009/10

Adam Rogers: Legendary Comics Writer Alan Moore on Superheroes, The League, and Making Magic
In all the Watchmen-Hype that is thrown our way, this is a welcome piece of reflective commentary on comics, superheroes, and some extraordinary gentlemen. Wired interviews the author of Watchmen, Alan Moore.
Bruce Sterling: What Bruce Sterling Actually Said About Web 2.0 at [...]