Posted on August 5, 2008 by Stephan
I watched MIchael Wesch’s presentation on You Tube yesterday. It is a brilliant and very powerful presentation of new media research. I fully agree with Luis Suarez, that after watching this presentation you will watch youtube contributions with very different eyes.
Michael and his group of students used participant observation, a method mostly used by anthropologists [...]
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Posted on July 30, 2008 by Stephan
Our colleague Christina Lakatos just shared an interesting initiative of DfID Research and the InterPress Service (IPS) to better communicate development research findings.
The main page of Changing Lives explains:
Research findings may be widely published in scientific journals, peer-reviewed and academically admired — but are they filtering through to the public, and bringing about tangible improvements [...]
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Posted on March 17, 2008 by Stephan
The video Information R/Evolution and the post From The Information Age To The Connected Age are describing two trends of the social web.
The social web can enable users to more easily find the exact information they were searching. But if the scarce resource of the connected age is attention, then we are likely to see [...]
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