The Microposts2015 programme at WWW2015 is published, please take a look at the main track paper and poster presentations and share it with those interested. For Social Sciences track, these papers were selected by our PC, after the conference they are published at CEUR – Online Proceedings for Scientific Workshops. See you soon …
Category: academia
Addressing The Digital Divide: The Internet and Social Inequality in an International Perspective
I first started working on issues and research related to digital inequalities in an internet perspective two years ago. The research holds both theoretical and empirical implications of the digital divide in the Balkans, South Eastern Europe. With the help of colleagues Massimo Ragnedda (Northumbria University, UK) and Glenn W. Muschert …
Connecting the Quantum Dots
(This post was originally written for Australian Science) Last week, after I spent a couple of days in Brest, Brittany at a ESF, EU workshop/seminar brainstorming with other internet and scientific researchers on interesting topics related to internet science and innovation, I got myself back to Paris. I visited a …
Making sense out of data: coding, creating, contributing
Ok, here’s what I’ve been doing in the previous couple of weeks (among other things). I cannot reveal it completely right now, just a little sneak-peak (see the snapshot). Beside e-resources and data I’ve been collecting, processing, and analysing, I’ve created a huge analogue map made out of more than 60 …
Interview / Marcus Foth
As an internet researcher and social media consultant, I ask some of the guests to tell me and my readers more about themselves, their current projects, and their views on topics including internet technology, the use of the Web in science and education, and certain aspects of the digital technologies …
Small talk in the Digital Age: Making Sense of Phatic Posts
The World Wide Web 2012 conference has started, and I have presented earlier his morning after the keynote talk: Greg Ver Steeg – Information Theoretic Tools for Social Media. I talked about small talk, phatic communication and its functions, and online communication dynamics. How tweets and mundane Facebook updates about weather, food, what you’re doing, …
WWW2012 and Phatic Posts: Even the Small Talk Can Be Big
Brief information for those coming to WWW2012 – you can check the programme. On Monday I will be presenting at ”Making Sense of Microposts”#MSM2012 workshop. For others – please take a look at the article I wrote for the Scientific American on better understanding the phatic element of communication as …