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 [...]
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 [...]
Drinking from the Firehose: Why Obama Should Stay the Hell Off Twitter
Colin Delany [@epolitics] gives an interesting perspective on the question whether leading politicians should use Twitter:
But I’d also argue that Twitter is fundamentally a bad match for a Chief Executive, for exactly the same reasons that so many other people are drawn to it. [...]
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 [...]
Klaus-Peter Schöppner: „Partei der Mitte“: Der Chancentod der CDU
An interesting analysis of the state of things for the CDU before the German election campaign 2009.
Henry Farrell: Political scientists in public debate
This is a nice conversation starter about the roles political scientists should play in the public discourse about politics.
Joshua-Michele Ross: The Rise Of The Social [...]
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 [...]
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
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 [...]