Constructing a Politics of Knowledge in the Age of the  Internet The politics of knowledge in the age of the internet is concerned with many overlapping elements.  From the reimagining of research in relation to the new infrastructures to the development of new technologies and their social, cultural, ontological, and epistemological implications, here the politics […]

Call for Papers Internet Research 11.0 – Sustainability, Participation, Action The 11th Annual International and Interdisciplinary Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) October 21-23, 2010 University of Gothenburg/Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden The challenge of this conference is to find multiple avenues for participation and action towards a sustainable future. In a […]

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The Center for Digital Discourse and Culture(CDDC) is announcing an expanded call for proposal for our Research E-ditions, Hosting Services, and our new Digital Originals publishing series. CDDC in the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University is accepting new manuscripts for digital modes of publication in its […]

Cory Doctorow points out that today is Down the Rabbit Hole day, so here is something i drafted recently that normally i would never post. —- Culture in virtual worlds? Critiquing the complexities and our assumptions Jeremy Hunsinger Granted this model of culture makes things more complex and clouded than many current ideological strands of […]

Since Tuesday I have been in Milwaukee visiting SOIS and CIPR as part of my Information Ethics fellowship. I attended a discussion about a possible future conference on translating intercultural information ethics across the situated understandings that term implies across a plurality of contexts. That seems like a great project, I’m happy to help out […]

Announcing the release of the International Journal of Internet Research Ethics Call for Papers for the Premier Issue of IJIRE Description and Scope: The IJIRE is the first peer-reviewed online journal, dedicated specifically to cross-disciplinary, cross-cultural research on Internet Research Ethics. All disciplinary perspectives, from those in the arts and humanities, to the social, behavioral, […]

Article: Google print outshines the European Digital Library: In talking about the long road to creating the European Digital Library, this stood out to me: In 2010, the European Digital Library should have 6 million e-books available, a much lower figure than that given by Google for the same year: 15 million. Both numbers are […]

the bankruptcy trustee of lingua franca is demanding tha authors give back the money they were paid for the work they performed or else… to me, this seems silly, now i can see that there are 'secured interests' but they have to fight over the money that's left, not the money that's gone. people get […]