„Privacy & Social Networks“-Konferenzen haben offenbar zurzeit Konjunktur: foryoureyesonly von EMSOC und SPION (zwei interdisziplinäre Forschungsprojekte, die von der Flemish Agency for Innovation (IWT) finanziert werden), ist nennenswert, weil sie ebenso nach dem Empowerment fragt, wie nach einer Kritik von Social Media. Aus dem Ankündigungstext: „Online Social Networks are sites in which the boundaries between […]
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Social Media meets Development!
Die Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) richtet gemeinsam mit dem BMZ am 14. und 15. November 2012 die Tagung „Social Media meets Development“ aus. Das klingt vielversprechend, denn die sogenannten „sozialen“ Medien, also Medien, die erst durch ihren Gebrauch entstehen, haben für die deutsche Medienentwicklungszusammenarbeit bisher kaum eine Priorität dargestellt. Dieses Potential scheint jetzt […]
Bionic Eye
Bionic Eye by the Boston Retinal Implant Project. What is interesting here is that „vision“ is actually camera-created (they say „the camera sees the world“ and this might not be a metaphor in this case).
Social Media and Contemporary Activism
There are definetly more books about the culture of the new protest movements and the politics of dissent than I am able to read. Tweets and the Streets by Paolo Gerbaudo is another one worth considering: „From the Arab Spring to the ‚indignados‘ protests in Spain and the Occupy movement, Paolo Gerbaudo examines the relationship between […]
Social Media in Development Communication
The Centre for Communication and Glocal Change „Ørecomm“ has published the anthology Social Media in Development Communication (pdf, 3 MB), edited by Ricky Storm Braskov. you can download the E-Book PDF on their site. Ørecomm is an inter-university consortium between Malmö University (MAH) in Sweden and Roskilde University (RUC) in Denmark. The volume „brings together […]
Center for Artistic Activism
I just discovered the research blog of the Center for Artistic Activism and I find it is a considerably good resource. They also curate actipedia, „an open-access, user-generated database of creative activism“.
Mass Peer Activism
Ein Prozess, der sich in der institutionalisierten Wissenschaft bisher kaum und nur sehr langsam entwickelt, scheint langsam an Fahrt aufzunehmen, Peer-to-peer production ist schliesslich auch in Konzept, dass dem Konzept der meisten wissenschaftlichem Publikationen leider noch immer grundsätzlich widerspricht. Das Journal of Peer Production wird das ändern: Peer definieren die Herausgeber dabei im Editorial der […]
Oculus Rift
Oculus Rift is a virtual reality headset concept for video games. It hit 1,5 million dollars at kickstarter in the first week! Nevertheless: Back it up! I think gaming is currently the motor of making Augmented Vision a consumer experience. Research and development on the merge of virtual and reality besides gaming remains largely conceptual […]
Access Innovation Prize 2012
Access just announced the call for their Access Innovation Prize. The organisation, who calls itself a „movement“ (hmm…), is premised on the belief „that political participation and the realization of human rights in the 21st century is increasingly dependent on access to the internet and other forms of technology“. Access aims to connect „digital activists […]
CfP: Berlin Colloquium for Internet and Society
The Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG) invites early stage researchers to a colloquium in Berlin. Within transdisciplinary discussion forums, post-docs and Ph.D. candidates are offered the opportunity to discuss and further develop their research in the field of Internet and society with other experts. The focus of the Berlin Colloquium for Internet […]