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I was speaking on the first Social Innovation Camp in 2gether08 festival on 3 July. The session “Ideas into Action: What Comes Next” was organized by NESTA. You can download my speaking notes and slides.

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.

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 recently organized with a group of friends an event on unpublished manuscript “Prince of Networks: Bruno Latour and Metaphysics” by Graham Harman. In the symposium Professor Bruno Latour engaged with the author of the manuscript and other participants in an illuminating discussion about the relationship between empirical investigation and philosophical analysis. Here are some miscellaneous picks from the discussion. The full audio recording of the event is also available (we are currently exploring possibilities to have it transcribed). Read more »

My research group is organizing a major workshop on the consequences of accelerating informatization of organizational life on 25 April 2008. The workshop is titled “The Habitat of Information: Social and Organizational Consequences of Information Growth” and its takes place as the 8th Social Study of ICT workshop (SSIT8) at LSE. Read more »