I’m on my way back from the conference “Think before you post!” that was held in the European Parliament in Strasbourg on Feb 9th as part of the “Safer Internet Day 2010“. As part of the conference, the evaluation of the “Safer Social Networking Principles for the EU” was presented and discussed with SNS providers. [...]

What a surprise: A couple of months ago I discussed some aspects of my blogging practice framework with Manolo Vergara from Mexico, who was working at his masters’ thesis in Communication at that time.  As part of that work, he collaborated with designer Mariana González Guzmán-Poirê (check out her collection of Mexican kitsch.. :-)) to [...]

After several events in Vienna and Cork (Ireland) and the BlogTalk Downunder, this year’s BlogTalk Conference (the 6th overall) will be held in Korea. I won’t be able to attend this time, which is a pity since I liked the atmosphere and the discussions between the various networks [german] meeting at the previous BlogTalks very [...]

Today, I had the opportunity and pleasure to listen not once, but actually twice to Dan Gillmor, one of the leading scholars on contemporary changes in journalism. Before giving a speech at the 5-year-anniversary of TIDE (a local broadcasting station that combines community radio/TV features with journalism education for citizens), Dan visited the Hans-Bredow-Institute for [...]

Christian Pentzold, who is currently a Visiting Researcher at the Oxford Internet Institute, and his colleague Malte Ziewitz are preparing an interdisciplinary Workshop on “Modes of Governance in Digitally Networked Environments” (26th march; .pdf of the call). Here’s the outline:
Over the past decades, a variety of new technologies have reconfigured the ways
in which we initiate [...]

This is a premiere – I can add my first portuguese paper to the list of publications… :) Last year, Raquel Recuero, whom I know from the AOIR conferences and who is one of the leading Social Media Scholars in Brazil, told me about an edited volume dealing with Blog Research. We agreed to include [...]

Exactly one year ago I was in Israel, attending the “Boundaries of Free Speech” conference and enyoing the warm weather in Jaffa. In the meantime, the organizers have gathered essays from the participants and enhanced them with additional information to produce a website which can be a starting point for further discussions. Below you find [...]

The reviewing process for the BlogTalk 2008 conference in Cork, Ireland (which I’m co-organizing with John Breslin, Thomas N. Burg and Tom Raftery) is finally done and a preliminary programme has been put up on the website. A special “Thank You” goes to all the people from the programme committee who helped us in reviewing [...]

The “General Online Research” (GOR) Conference is only 2 months away, and a preliminary version of the programme has been published a couple of days ago. You can access it via the conference tool (follow the link on this site). There is also an early-booking-discount if you register for the conference until Jan. 15h.
I’m very [...]

We’ve extended the proposal submission deadline for the BlogTalk 2008 conference (Cork, Ireland) by one week. You now have until 23rd November, 2007 to submit your 2-4 page paper proposal.

Just a quick pointer: The Goethe Institut has published a short essay of mine on the changing publics of the Web 2.0 – and they also translated it into english.

It’s almost a week now since the AOIR conference “Let’s play” ended. I’m not really good at live conference blogging, especially after I’ve witnessed Axel Bruns’ speed – it seemed he had his accounts of all the sessions published even before they began -, but I should at least summarize some of my impressions and [...]

(SPOILER ALERT if you read this before saturday 8.30 pacific time.. :)).
On saturday morning, I’ll be participating in a round table discussion on Social Networking Sites. Nancy Baym, our chair, asked us discussants to answer three questions in advance; here they are with my answers as well:
(1) Identify your angle on studying social network sites.
I [...]

After my 8-days-roundtrip of the Pacific Northwest, I’ve come back to Vancouver on Tuesday where the “Internet Research 8.0: Let’s play” conference kicked off last night. Actually, there was kind of a pre-pre-kickoff meeting on tuesday night at a bar close to one of the conference hotels, suggested by Simone Heidbrink and Nadja Miczek [...]