I attended 5–6 June the Triangular Post-Graduate Conference 2008 organized jointly by University College Dublin, Lancaster University and Cambridge University. If you are doing a Ph.D. in information systems and looking for constructive critique on your project try to sneak in next year. Why? Read more »
This is a conference paper for the 24th EGOS Colloquium at Vrije University Amsterdam 10–12 July 2008. The paper discusses some preliminary findings from the first interviews and observation sessions for my Ph.D. thesis. Read more »
The 4th Social Study if ICT Open Research Forum (SSIT-ORF) took place 23-24 April 2008 at LSE. The idea of the event is to provide an informal forum for Ph.D. students to discuss their work with senior academics. Here is one, totally miscellaneous, idea that crystallized in the discussion about the relationship between local and global. Read more »
I have submitted an abstract for Triangular Post-Graduate Conference 2008 to be organized 5–6 June 2008 by the Centre for Innovation, Technology & Organization at UCD School of Business in Dublin. Let’s see if they accept me as I am horribly late.
Here is a photographic summary of the 8th Social Study of ICT (SSIT) workshop “The Habitat of Information: Social and Organizational Consequences of Information Growth” on 25 April at LSE. The event was organized by my Ph.D. supervisor Prof. Jannis Kallinikos and fellow Ph.D. student José-Carlos Mariatégui from The Information Growth and Internet Research (TIGAIR) group with the support of the Information Systems and Innovation Group.
As a member of academic community I am currently bound by LSE Research Ethics Policy. Living up to good scientific practice is not just fitting into the requirements listed in documents or ticking boxes on checklists. Guidelines can, however, provide a common ground and vocabulary for discussing the ethical standards of doing research. Especially if you are one my informants feel free to question me about the topic. Read more »
The first Social Innovation Camp took place on 4–6 April 2008 at the Young Foundation offices in London. Thanks to Paul Miller and Anna Maybank I was able to do participant observation throughout the event (I also ended up being interviewed by David Wilcox). In return I promised to write a summary of my findings. This post contains a summary of materials relating to the event available in the internet. Read more »
I will be presenting something about my Ph.D. research on 23–24 April at the Open Research Forum organized along with the 8th Social Study of ICT (SSIT8) workshop at LSE. Read more »
I have finally been able to put together a summary of the research plan for my Ph.D. thesis. This entry will provide from now on the download link for the latest version of the document as well as for the earlier versions. Read more »
I will be engaging in a debate on social networks on 26 February 2008 at LSE with Ofer Engel, Wifak Houij-Gueddana and Patrick Kärrberg. My plan is to reflect upon the idea of social network as an extremely powerful metaphor for seeing the world and how this aspect has been elevated on a new level by internet-based tools. Read more »
