Am 16. November beginnt am Bonn-Aachen International Center for Information Technology, Bonn, Germany das 2nd International Symposium in Media Informatics. Themenschwerpunkt ist Social Software.
Auszug aus dem Programm und Schwerpunktfragen:
The use of new digital media tools such as blogs, wikis, tagging and other communicative or multimedia assets create new challenges for interdisciplinary research in media informatics.
- What are the effects when media get agency in digital networks?
- How can we trace and understand collective processes on the internet?
- What is the role of visualisation?
- What is the role of social software on change processes in organisations?
- Are there new models of labour, new processes and new forms of organisations possible?
- Will users be empowered or will lack of data protection and privacy set free new genies?
- What is the impact of tools supporting social structures on the emancipation and appropriation?
- Which are the impacts on design and media?
- Will they help facilitating new forms of democracy, digital rights, and overcome the digital divide?
- Or will the hunt for digital reputation lead to cow paths where only cows walk by?