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November 8, 2010 – Seoul, Korea: 3rd International Conference on Digital Culture

November 6, 2010
Collective Action, Common Goods, Community, Conference, Cultural Representations, NodeXL, Research, Social Media, Social network, Social Network Analysis, Social Theories and concepts, Talks, Visualization

On November 8th, 2010 Social Media Research Foundation Director Marc Smith spoke in Seoul, Korea at the 3rd International Conference on Digital Culture on the topic of "Smart Society and Civic Culture". 2010-November-8-NIA - Smart Society and Civic Culture -…

Conversations on Innovation, Power and Responsibility with Jeff Ubois

February 9, 2010
Cultural Representations, Politics, Social Theories and concepts, Technology

My good friend and colleague Jeff Ubois recently edited and released a volume entitled Conversations on Innovation, Power and Responsibility for the Fondazione Giannino Bassetti. Some of my comments on the topic of innovation from a conversation with Jeff are included in the volume which collects a wide range of thoughts about the nature and consequence of technical change.

Table Of Contents

Foreword
Introduction
About the Question
Related Concepts
Choosing Subjects: Where Does Responsibility Matter Now?

Genetics And Healthcare
Thomas Murray, The Hastings Center
Ignacio Chapela: Drawing a Boundary Around the Lab
Arthur Caplan: Innovation as Politics
David Magnus & Mildred Cho: True Fictions

Nanotechnology
Christine Peterson: Nanotechnology and Enhancement
Lawrence Gasman: Nanomarkets

Robotics And Computing
Ronald Arkin: Embedding Values in Machines
Jeff Jonas: Applying the UN declaration of human rights
Marc Smith: Invention, mitigation, accounting and externalities
Mikko Ahonen: Open Innovation … and Radiation Safety

Design
Roberto Verganti: Varieties of Design Innovation
Michael Twidale: IRBs, Design, Empowerment,
Accountability, Sustainability

My comments from the volume are after the fold…

Event: Maker Faire 2009

May 30, 2009
Community, Conference, Cultural Representations, Sociology, Technology

I attended the Maker Faire down the hill in San Mateo at the County Fair Grounds. The event is the gathering of the many forms of craft, tinkering, building, mashup, hacking, and experimental communities. Here are some photos from today's…

Summer 2009 – Stanford Media X Workshop: New Metrics for New Media: Analytics for Social Media and Virtual Worlds

May 16, 2009
Cultural Representations, Data Mining, Measuring social media, Metrics, Social Media, Social Roles, Sociology, Talks, Technology, Visualization

I will lead a workshop with Martha Russell on social network analysis of social media as part of the Stanford Media X Summer Institute on New Metrics for New Media: Analytics for Social Media and Virtual Worlds this Summer. I am…

Social Networks in the News at NYT

March 30, 2009
Collective Action, Cultural Representations, Measuring social media, Metrics, Mobile Devices, Research, Social Media, Social network, Social Roles, Sociology, Technology, Twitter, Visualization

My colleague Scott Sargent at Telligent notes that there are two sections of the March 29th Sunday New York Times feature articles illustrated with network graphs. The Business section runs an article "Is Facebook Growing Up Too Fast?" (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/29/technology/internet/29face.html) and…