There's nothing worse than listening to yourself talk. Following up on March's special issue of First Monday on “Critical Perspectives on Web 2.0,” I was recently interviewed by Joy Austria and A.J. Hannah for the First Monday Podcast series. You…
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I am pleased to announce the (open) publication of a special issue of First Monday on "Critical Perspectives on Web 2.0." This special issue was born from a panel I organized at AoIR, and features amazing contributions from Trebor Scholz,…
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Speaking of my colleague Noëmi Manders-Huits, she is organizing an amazing looking conference on Ethics, Technology and Identity in Delft this June: Information technology plays an increasingly important role in society and in human lives. Identity Management Technologies (e.g. biometrics,…
Just a friendly reminder that the Reputation Economies in Cyberspace symposium hosted by the Yale Information Society Project is coming up (my original post on the symposium is here). It is being held on December 8, 2007 at Yale Law…
Blogging has been light due to other duties, but I wanted to point out a few notable items that deserve attention: Twitter appears to be planning to expand the search offerings, allowing users to search for particular terms within others'…
The Information Society Project at Yale Law School is proud to present Reputation Economies in Cyberspace. The symposium will be held on December 8, 2007 at Yale Law School in New Haven , CT. This event will bring together representatives…
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Following up on my Web 2.0 panel at 4S, I just returned from another quick trip to Canada -- this time Vancouver -- for the annual conference of the Association of Internet Researchers, where I organized a similar panel titled…
I 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:…
William McGeveran, a professor at University of Minnesota Law School, points to this troubling story about a Florida State professor who made each student read aloud his/her Facebook profie, which noted how "the girls [sic] whose hobby was “being slutty”…
There's been an interesting thread on the AoIR mailing list lately about the possibilities of social network migration and aggregation. One list member longed for aggregation: I wonder if we would see a sort of a social network aggregator developed…
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