I’m very much looking forward to the upcoming „Media Logics Revisited“-Conference in Bonn, not the least since I will have the opportunity to present some ideas I have been working on and thinking about for quite a while now. Starting with my work on blogging practices, and followed by myContinue Reading
Axel Bruns brought a very nice present to the „Digital Methods“ conference: A book! :-) So I’m happy to announce: Schmidt, Jan-Hinrik (2014): Twitter and the Rise of Personal Publics. In: Weller, Katrin / Bruns, Axel / Burgess, Jean / Mahrt, Merja / Puschmann, Cornelius (Hrsg.): Twitter and Society. NewContinue Reading
What a great way to start the week: I found a copy of the „Companion to New Media Dynamics“ on my desk, to which I contributed a chapter on „networked identity“. Given the limited space (~10 pages), I present only some basic concepts and ideas. My main point: „Identity“, onlineContinue Reading
It has been a while since I blogged about a conference *after* I’ve attended (recently I seem to just announce where I’m going to travel to), but the „Düsseldorf Workshop on Interdisciplinary Approaches to Twitter Analysis“ – better known by its catchy hashtag #diata11 – seems to be a goodContinue Reading
Since early 2010, I’m a member of the „Young Scholars Network on Privacy and Web 2.0„, coordinated by Sabine Trepte & Leonard Reinecke and funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). Our group of about 20 people with different academic and cultural backgrounds has met twice for face-to-face-workshops in Hamburg,Continue Reading
This week I had the pleasure to spend some days at Umeå University in Sweden, being invited to participate in Stephanie Hendrick’s ph.d. seminar. I also had the chance to present the Hans-Bredow-Institute and some of our research to about 40 colleagues and students at the HUMlab, an interesting andContinue Reading
Together with Axel Bruns, I will guest-edit an issue of the Online-Journal „New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia“ dealing with „produsage“ – a term coined by Axel, but a phenomenon visible all over the Internet. Below is the call for papers, we are looking forward to your submissions. Exploring ProdusageContinue Reading
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 presentedContinue Reading
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 collectionContinue Reading
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] meetingContinue Reading
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),Continue Reading
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 haveContinue Reading
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 BlogContinue Reading
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 forContinue Reading
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 committeeContinue Reading