Making sense of our connected world
Impressions from the 1st International Conference on Internet Science (#icis2013)
The internet is not only being increasingly used by a broader mass of people but it is also increasingly being studied. There is a growing number of research institutions dedicated to studying the internet. The field of internet science is getting denser.
Of serial activists and sock puppets: The relevance of language, topics and politics on Twitter
by Cornelius Puschmann Does the Internet cause revolutions? Frequently that is being suggested, whether in the discourse surrounding the Arab Spring, Stuttgart 21, or the Occupy movement. The Internet, conventional…
Attention, please! – A commentary to the Onlife Manifesto and Onlife Initiative of the EU
by Theresa Züger On Febuary 8th the European Commission invited to discuss the latest outcome of the so-called “Onlife Initiative”. This interdisciplinary working group of scientists, consisting among others of…
Reference Management
This blog post is a modified and shortened sneak-preview version of an article about Reference Management, co-written with Martin Fenner and Sönke Bartling. The article will be published in a…
Open Science – How I would like to fathom participation premises and how you can help with it
Scientopia – die schöne neue Welt der offenen Wissenschaft Willkommen in Scientopia, das Schlaraffenland aller Wissenschaffenden. Hier ist Wissen für jeden jederzeit verfügbar. Ohne Barrieren, ohne Beschränkung. Und diejenigen, die…
How can we make Open Journalism work?
by Stefan Stumpp and Benedikt Fecher In times of the newspaper crisis it is perhaps worthwhile to reconsider the production process of information, to understand news publishing in transition and…
How COVID-19 impacts digital technologies
The current lockdown is boosting online activity – everything is increasingly shifting to the digital sphere. In this dossier we ask if, how and why the Corona pandemic will affect key subjects of digital technologies. What does this mean for the regulation of content on digital platforms? How is Covid-19 activating the digital society? How does it transform our online culture? How safe are tracing apps? What lessons can be learned regarding cyber security? Busy times for our researchers!
How metaphors shape the digital society
Cloud, Big Data, Piracy, Virus are common terms in the debates about digital technologies. At the same time they are methaphors that originate from other fields than technology. What normative or political baggage do they therefore carry? How does this vocabulary shape the emerging digital society? In the series of articles on the How metaphors shape the digital society different authors analyse the assumptions and meanings of metaphors in the digital era.
