Making sense of our connected world
Seizing the Moment – Is Our Understanding of Open Access Too Shortsighted?
Two weeks ago, the entire editorial board of the journal Lingua quit and announced they would launch a new journal named Glossa. Lingua’s executive editor Johan Rooryck said the reason for the…
Impressions from the i-KNOW
This year the i-KNOW conference celebrated its 15th anniversary with a diverse program. It included an opening keynote by Luciano Floridi on “Big Data, Small Patterns, Subtle Consequences”, an industry…
Early Stage Researchers Colloquium 2015: a summary.
This year’s Colloquium, on September 24th at WZB, was the fourth edition of an international stage for Ph.D. candidates and post-docs from all disciplines on Internet and society. The event…
Open Access – But How?
The Open-Access movement has been part of the academic mainstream for long. It seems clear that most would welcome open access to science, but in a next step we need…
Collapsing Ivory Towers? A Hyperlink Analysis of the German Academic Blogosphere
Jonas und ich haben neulich eine kleine ad-hoc-Analyse deutschsprachiger Wissenschaftsblogs durchgeführt. Wir wollten wissen, wie und auf wen deutschsprachige Wissenschaftsblogs verlinken, um herauszufinden, ob diese neue, nicht-disziplinäre Cluster bilden (tun sie), ob auch Nicht-Wissenschaftler wissenschaftliche Blogs schreiben (tun sie), ob Wissenschaftler auch Nicht-Wissenschaftler wahrnehmen (tun sie) und welche Quellen für sie relevant sind (andere Blogs) bzw. nicht relevant sind (klassische Massenmedien). Die detaillierten Ergebnisse unserer Hyperlink-Analyse könnt ihr hierunter (auf Englisch) lesen.
Open Science in the Land of Ideas
We are very happy that our Open Science Project got the “Deutschland – Land der Ideen” award We made a short video to celebrate. Wir freuen uns, dass unser Projekt Opening Science* im Wettbewerb…
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.
