Archive for the '4S' Category
4S: Privacy and Surveillance in Web 2.0
Thursday, October 11th, 2007I am currently attending the annual meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science in Montreal. Earlier today I had the pleasure of participating on a panel I co-organized with Anders Albrechtslund titled, “Ways Knowing Everything About Each Other: Critical Perspectives on Web 2.0 and Social Networking.”
Here are the first few paragraphs of my […]
Discipline & Punish: The Game
Monday, November 6th, 2006I sat in on a fascinating panel on surveillance in MMOGs (massively multiplayer online games) at the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) annual meeting in Vancouver last week:
DISCIPLINE AND PUNISH: THE GAME
ABSTRACT: This panel brings together scholars from different perspectives in game studies to reflect on issues of surveillance and how technologies of […]
Recovering…in Vancouver
Friday, November 3rd, 2006Blogging has been light again lately as I’ve been recovering from my extended European tour (which included a terrible cold mid-way through, unhelped by Europe’s restrictions on cold medication available over-the-counter). Here’s a quick summary:
I presented at the Social Software and Web 2.0: Critical Perspectives and Challenges for Research and Business seminar and workshop at […]




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