I’ve been incubating the Cult of Me as my next empirical project for the last 18 months. It started out as a single book proposal, and – with the help of readers, friends and (existing and future) collaborators – has now evolved into a three-book series based on the research I have already done, and the fieldwork I intend to undertake.
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[BBC Radio 4] Infinite Monkey Cage: Six Degrees of Separation
Monday June 06, 2011 @ 01:54 PM (UTC)In one of the most terrifying experiences of my professional career, I danced my PhD (not literally, metaphorically, people) for Stephen Fry, Brian Cox, Robin Ince and Simon Singh last Monday night at the recording of Infinite Monkey Cage. I was invited to be one of the panel on the science-comedy radio show, and had the great pleasure of explaining why the subject of my research is a) interesting, b) rational and c) almost like real science (hear that, Prof Cox?).
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[BLGK] First interim results, plus upcoming digital research and education events
Monday February 07, 2011 @ 12:27 PM (UTC)My role as the Researcher in Residence at the British Library involves keeping my ear to the ground on digital research-related outcomes and events. And here’s a home-grown piece of analysis, direct from the people behind the Growing Knowledge exhibition:
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[British Library, Oxford Internet Institute & Web Science Trust] Ethics and the Web
Thursday December 02, 2010 @ 11:44 AM (UTC)I’m tweeting the bits of two days of workshops about the ethics of the Web and the Internet that I find contentious and interesting, and will transpose my thoughts in another post after. First is the British Library’s and Web Science Trust’s Ethics and the Web. The second is the Oxford Internet Institute and Royal Academy of Engineering’s Internet and Ethics seminar.
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[British Library] Workshop on Ethics and the World Wide Web
Tuesday November 16, 2010 @ 02:54 PM (UTC)Numbers are limited! Please register your interest with webscience-admin + at + ecs.soton.ac.uk
2nd December, 2010, 9.30-17.30
British Library, Euston Road, London
Co-sponsored by:
The Web Science Trust
The British Library in conjunction with the exhibition Growing Knowledge: The Evolution of Research -
[Academic] Growing Knowledge at the British Library
Thursday July 08, 2010 @ 08:24 AM (UTC)Today, the British Library announces its Growing Knowledge exhibition, a nine-month project from October 2010 that I’m involved with as its Researcher in Residence. It’s an exciting role for me; I have the opportunity to help develop the content of what visitors will see when they visit the library’s showcase of the research tools of the future, and I am involved in on-the-ground analysis of what researchers in the field currently use and seek from digital technologies across the academic spectrum.
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[Event] Why Study the Web? (Royal Society)
Friday March 05, 2010 @ 08:34 AM (UTC)This Monday evening, I’ll be chairing a panel of esteemed web academics at the Royal Society, including Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Northwestern’s Prof Noshir Contractor, Southampton’s Prof Nigel Shadboldt and Dame Wendy Hall and – my external examiner - Oxford’s Prof Bill Dutton. We’ll be discussing Web Science, the multi-disciplinary arena of study that looks at the web holistically – from a social, economic, political, psychological point of view – rather than approaching it within a purely technical framework.
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[Presentations] Deck: Studying social influence on the World Wide Web (Brunel Unviersity)
Thursday March 04, 2010 @ 11:11 AM (UTC)Here’s my presentation from yesterday’s seminar at Brunel arranged by my former supervisor, Dr. Julie Barnett:
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[Presentations] Studying social influence on the World Wide Web (Brunel Unviersity)
Monday March 01, 2010 @ 09:39 AM (UTC)I’m giving a seminar at Brunel University in West London in the Department of Information Systems and Computing on Wednesday 3 March looking at how the results described in my thesis address some of the issues we presented in the Virtual Revolution series.
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[INSNA] Predicting adoption behaviour in an online community: interactions between network and psychological attributes
Wednesday February 10, 2010 @ 09:06 AM (UTC)I’ll be giving a paper at the International Network for Social Network Analysts’ annual Sunbelt conference in Trento, Italy this April. Here’re the details:
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