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NetSociology: A look back at the Digital Methods Summer School 2013
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Thursday, July 11, 2013. A look back at the Digital Methods Summer School 2013. Back home in Copenhagen, I am currently slowly but surely recovering from two intense weeks of summer school in Amsterdam. I took part in the annual Digital Methods Summer School. Fig 1: Excitement while waiting for the Eurovision visualization to spatialize. Worked and presented side by side with among many others the director of the DMI, Richard Rogers, who took out a full two weeks to participate in and facilitate the summ...
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NetSociology: December 2013
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Tuesday, December 10, 2013. New short piece in themed issue of XRDS on privacy. When giving a presentation at a conference, it is often very hard to determine whether anyone is really listening. Lots of tired faces in the room, not least when it's Saturday afternoon and the city of Paris is waiting outside the conference center, as was the case when I presented my paper. At the Web Science 2013 conference. For the uninitiated (as I was), this is the official ACM Magazine for students. In this piece, I ar...
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NetSociology: Mapping Controversies
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Wednesday, June 23, 2010. During the last 3 weeks, I've had the pleasure of participating in the first ever MACOSPOL. MApping COntroversies for Science and POLitics) course in Denmark. Very much in the spirit of Latour and STS, the course took place at the Technical University of Denmark. Where two brave researchers. Threw a dozen students head first into the mapping praxis. We hope to make it a little bit easier for the averagely informed citizen to find paths through the mess. So what have we done?
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NetSociology: New paper: "From networked publics to issue publics: Reconsidering the public/private distinction in web science"
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Monday, April 29, 2013. New paper: "From networked publics to issue publics: Reconsidering the public/private distinction in web science". I've just come back from the First Nordic STS Conference. In Trondheim - no doubt the first out of many - and tomorrow it's off again, to WebScience '13 in Paris. At 4 pm on Saturday afternoon. Download my paper from Academia.edu. The paper is to a large extent a follow-up on my paper from the NordiCHI '12 conference. This is the first expression of an argument that I...
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NetSociology: Two (used) comments on Gillespie's new chapter "The Relevance of Algorithms"
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Thursday, April 24, 2014. Two (used) comments on Gillespie's new chapter "The Relevance of Algorithms". I'm in Paris this semester, as a visiting doctoral student. At the Center for the Sociology of Innovation (CSI). At Ecole des Mines and at the médialab. Apart from finding myself in the middle of two very lively research communities, I've also been so lucky that a series of cross-institutional seminars on Digital Methods. Are taking place in Paris this spring. The main theme is what Gillespie calls ...
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NetSociology: January 2013
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Wednesday, January 16, 2013. New year, new job, new workplace. As of 1st January 2013, I am a PhD Research Fellow. In the Techno-Anthropology (TANT) unit. At Aalborg University, Copenhagen. This is a very exciting place to be, not least because the TANT unit contributes with teaching in the relatively new BSc and MSc programmes in Techno-Anthropology. The teaching includes a course in Mapping Controversies - the same course, which back in 2010. Have already built an overview. Posted by Andreas Birkbak.
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NetSociology: July 2013
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Thursday, July 11, 2013. A look back at the Digital Methods Summer School 2013. Back home in Copenhagen, I am currently slowly but surely recovering from two intense weeks of summer school in Amsterdam. I took part in the annual Digital Methods Summer School. Fig 1: Excitement while waiting for the Eurovision visualization to spatialize. Worked and presented side by side with among many others the director of the DMI, Richard Rogers, who took out a full two weeks to participate in and facilitate the summ...
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NetSociology: June 2011
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Saturday, June 18, 2011. In order to go full social media circle, here is a brief post on what has already been mentioned through other outlets: I'm guest-blogging on the STS at Oxford blog. About yesterday's Talk-Walk on the theme of ' Visualising - what is it to visualise? But what on earth is an STS Talk-Walk in the first place? I first encountered the concept here in Oxford where it has been initiated and described by Malte Ziewitz. Posted by Andreas Birkbak. Link to this post. Sunday, June 12, 2011.
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NetSociology: New short piece in themed issue of XRDS on privacy
http://www.netsociology.com/2013/12/new-short-piece-in-themed-issue-of-xrds.html
Tuesday, December 10, 2013. New short piece in themed issue of XRDS on privacy. When giving a presentation at a conference, it is often very hard to determine whether anyone is really listening. Lots of tired faces in the room, not least when it's Saturday afternoon and the city of Paris is waiting outside the conference center, as was the case when I presented my paper. At the Web Science 2013 conference. For the uninitiated (as I was), this is the official ACM Magazine for students. In this piece, I ar...
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NetSociology: May 2012
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Wednesday, May 16, 2012. Abstracts accepted at three upcoming conferences. My master's thesis work in progress on the sociology of online publics will be presented at no less than three conferences this year. First comes the DASTS 2012. Conference later this month, which is also a rehearsal for the huge 4S/EASST conference. In Copenhagen in October. The third conference that I am going to present at is the 26th Conference of the Nordic Sociological Association. Here follows the short version:. New public...