Today, the British Library announces its Growing Knowledge exhibition, a nine-month project from October 2010 that I’m involved with as its Researcher in Residence. It’s an exciting role for me; I have the opportunity to help develop the content of what visitors will see when they visit the library’s showcase of the research tools of the future, and I am involved in on-the-ground analysis of what researchers in the field currently use and seek from digital technologies across the academic spectrum.
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[Academic] MSc thesis now online: Online games, offline selves
Thursday May 27, 2010 @ 10:47 AM (UTC)You can now download my MSc thesis (awarded in 2004), Online games, offline selves: A Possible Selves approach to offline self-concept negotiation through play in Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games. It’s available for use under a Creative Commons 3.0 cc by-nc-sa license.
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[Academic] Oxford Internet Institute Ethics Seminar: Position Paper
Thursday April 22, 2010 @ 04:34 PM (UTC)I’ve been invited to take part in the Oxford Internet Institute’s Internet Ethics seminar on 30 April for a day of debate that, “seeks to remedy these deficiencies in the Internet Ethics conversation, and seeks to sort out, so far as is possible, confusions in ethics, morality, regulation, and social organisation that have held back meaningful discussion and progress in this area.”
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[IJIRE] EXTENSION! CfP: International Journal of Internet Research Ethics (30 April)
Wednesday April 21, 2010 @ 03:48 PM (UTC)There have been loads of submissions rolling in for the special ‘Online Communities’ issue of the International Journal of Internet Research Ethics that I’m guest editing, but I’ve had a few requests for extensions. And so, I’m extending the deadline to 30 April 2010 – next Friday. So if you’ve been sitting on something and just missed delivering it on Sunday, you have another week and a half to send it in.
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[Digifest] Is the Web the ultimate propaganda machine?
Friday March 26, 2010 @ 05:14 PM (UTC)The ‘spinternet’, or the use of social media by governments and special interest groups to recruit and galvanise populations to tow the party line, is a term coined by Georgetown University researcher and journalist Evegny Morozov. It’s a concise shorthand for the topic of last Wednesday night’s discussion at DigiFest, the series of digital technology events I curated this month at London’s Science Museum.
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[Event] Digifest: This is Your Brain on Technology
Monday March 22, 2010 @ 03:51 PM (UTC)Tonight is the first night of DigiFest, the series of events that I’m curating for the Science Museum that looks at the real-world effects of digital media. We’re kicking off with a bang; This is your brain on technology has been sold out for two weeks already, and the waiting list is as long as your arm.
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[Event] Why Study the Web? (Royal Society)
Friday March 05, 2010 @ 08:34 AM (UTC)This Monday evening, I’ll be chairing a panel of esteemed web academics at the Royal Society, including Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Northwestern’s Prof Noshir Contractor, Southampton’s Prof Nigel Shadboldt and Dame Wendy Hall and – my external examiner - Oxford’s Prof Bill Dutton. We’ll be discussing Web Science, the multi-disciplinary arena of study that looks at the web holistically – from a social, economic, political, psychological point of view – rather than approaching it within a purely technical framework.
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[Presentations] Deck: Studying social influence on the World Wide Web (Brunel Unviersity)
Thursday March 04, 2010 @ 11:11 AM (UTC)Here’s my presentation from yesterday’s seminar at Brunel arranged by my former supervisor, Dr. Julie Barnett:
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[Presentations] Studying social influence on the World Wide Web (Brunel Unviersity)
Monday March 01, 2010 @ 09:39 AM (UTC)I’m giving a seminar at Brunel University in West London in the Department of Information Systems and Computing on Wednesday 3 March looking at how the results described in my thesis address some of the issues we presented in the Virtual Revolution series.
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[Virtual Revolution] Testing the Dunbar Number thesis on a sample of me
Friday February 19, 2010 @ 09:25 AM (UTC)When we were filming for Programme 4 of Virtual Revolution, director Molly Milton and I went through the approximately 5,000 followers I have on Twitter to test (admittedly, only with a sample of me) Professor Robin Dunbar‘s oft-cited Dunbar Number theory. Dunbar proposed that the ’ideal’ number of people in a human community is just under 150. This, he has argued, is the maximum number of people with whom individuals can maintain functional and stable social relationships. The theory is based upon his work with primates, extrapolating the specific number from the size of the animals’ neocortices to ours. More information on this theory is here.
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