Else-If-Then

Category: social networks

  • Rough draft of an abstract

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    This is due tomorrow and this will be replaced by the final version when that’s done. In the meantime, suggestions are welcome.  And yes, my dear tweeple, and Facebook friends, and other connections, probably I will pester you for interviews or some such… You will be immortalized in academia –if you aren’t already! 😉 This…

  • Bath Toy for Worm

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    Bath Toy for Worm Originally uploaded by cuuixsilver Interrupting my conference coverage to try catching up some of the other stuff I’ve been doing. This piece of art by Florentijn Hofman is out in front of Worm (about which I’ve written quite a lot already). I love the duck, but also I was interested to…

  • Live from IFIP WG 9.5

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    Can’t write too much at the moment because I will be speaking myself in 27 minutes. 🙂 Some quite interesting talks here, but I am surprised (pleasantly) how broadly representative the panelists are. The conference is small–only one track of three speakers per panel for a total of 8 speakers including me! –Not counting discussants…

  • Talk at University of Twente

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    Now it’s official; I will give a talk at University of Twente on June 25th. Here’s the blurb: A preliminary report on how scholars perceive their social network/audience on Facebook, and what effect the risk of and real border-crossing or transgressive behavior has for them personally and professionally with their colleagues. –So in other words…

  • Long Distance

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    I can remember back in 1999 or so I was first making friends online, and at the time people around me expressed surprise that I would really count any of these online acquaintances as friends. And of course not all them were or became friends, but some did. Now, almost 10 years later I am…

  • Open source women back each other up program

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    The Open source women back each other up program is not really a techy program, but rather: 1. a program I completely and utterly support because in the US at least it is really needed. 2. an interesting example of how the meaning of a techy concept, open source, is being contested. Or rather, how…

  • Where the hell are my slides?

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    Where the hell are my slides?Originally uploaded by cuuixsilver Here I am, about to lead off my panel with a presentation entitled “let’s Pretend,” which covers the first stage of my research on Facebook. I argue that the risk of transgression that is built into Facebook, and in particular into certain applications and into the…

  • Embodied experience and the post-conference buzz

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    I’m not sure if it’s true for everyone, but I notice that starting by the end of my first day at a conference and lasting for weeks after, I often have so much more energy for writing than usual, even though I’ve keeping long hours and maybe having drinks as well. So what accounts for…

  • Why do we all love Facebook?

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    I’ve really been wondering about this; all of these friends and I are supposed to have seriously critical attitudes toward Web 2.0 and all that, but were acting just as goofy about Facebook as our own undergrads. This really got me thinking about what is so powerfully attractive that in spite of knowing about the…

  • Facebook Mania

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    I’ve had an account on Facebook for awhile and thought it was rather boring, but suddenly some of my friends are joining–all people who study new media things. The funny thing is that now that were all on there, we are acting just as silly as the obsessive college students about which all the news-stories…