My role as the Researcher in Residence at the British Library involves keeping my ear to the ground on digital research-related outcomes and events. And here’s a home-grown piece of analysis, direct from the people behind the Growing Knowledge exhibition:
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[BLGK] First interim results, plus upcoming digital research and education events
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[British Library, Oxford Internet Institute & Web Science Trust] Ethics and the Web
Thursday December 02, 2010 @ 11:44 AM (UTC)I’m tweeting the bits of two days of workshops about the ethics of the Web and the Internet that I find contentious and interesting, and will transpose my thoughts in another post after. First is the British Library’s and Web Science Trust’s Ethics and the Web. The second is the Oxford Internet Institute and Royal Academy of Engineering’s Internet and Ethics seminar.
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[British Library] Workshop on Ethics and the World Wide Web
Tuesday November 16, 2010 @ 02:54 PM (UTC)Numbers are limited! Please register your interest with webscience-admin + at + ecs.soton.ac.uk
2nd December, 2010, 9.30-17.30
British Library, Euston Road, London
Co-sponsored by:
The Web Science Trust
The British Library in conjunction with the exhibition Growing Knowledge: The Evolution of Research -
[Science Online 2010] Who are you? The little details to remember when gathering information about the people behind the screens
Thursday September 16, 2010 @ 10:00 AM (UTC)I was delighted to be asked to give a keynote at Science Online at the British Library on Saturday 4 September 2010. Despite nursing a lurgy, I managed to talk with the attendees about about the implications of online social science research questions, and about the British Library’s forthcoming Growing Knowledge exhibition (for which I’m Researcher-in-Residence – for some coverage of that, see JISC’s Digital Content Quarterly (interactive .pdf version) and Times Higher).
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[Publications] Learning, Media & Technology special issue: Learning and Virtual Worlds (Ed.)
Thursday September 16, 2010 @ 08:59 AM (UTC)Jeremy Hunsinger and I have published our guest edited special issue of Learning, Media and Technology on learning and researching in virtual worlds. It’s now available (behind paywall, I’m afraid) here.
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[Academic] Missing out on meat-space: Ubiquitous computing and the human experience of 'being online'
Friday July 16, 2010 @ 12:58 PM (UTC)I gave the after-dinner talk at the recent Horizon Doctoral Training Centre’s Summer School at the University of Nottingham to a roomful of extraordinarily inspirational PhD students who are doing their research in the field of Ubiquitous Computing and the Digital Economy. In it, I focus on what it is that computing cannot (currently?) capture about the human experience when online (accurate readings of friendship, social capital, trust, reputation and identity), but how applications like Twitter are helping populate the empty spaces that binary digits are unable to represent.
This is a first stab at the synthesis of these topics based on my research and reading in this area with the aim of turning it into a chapter/chapters in a book, and I was pleased to receive feedback and comments from the audience. For example, is it possible to quantify social capital in some way and then use that as the basis of a game to influence attitudes and behaviours? When I re-posed this question on Twitter, Matt Locke at Channel 4 Education (a publishing hero that has an award-winning stable of games for change) was adamant that, “games may create social capital, but it’s not a game in itself… It’s dangerous to think of social capital as an asset that can be measured or created… social capital is a story, not data.” I’d love your take on it too.
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[Academic] Growing Knowledge at the British Library
Thursday July 08, 2010 @ 08:24 AM (UTC)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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[INSNA] Predicting adoption behaviour in an online community: interactions between network and psychological attributes
Wednesday February 10, 2010 @ 09:06 AM (UTC)I’ll be giving a paper at the International Network for Social Network Analysts’ annual Sunbelt conference in Trento, Italy this April. Here’re the details:
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