Mirko Tobias Schäfer / Assistant Professor
University of Utrecht Department for Media and Culture Studies
The 2007 BSA Conference evolves around the topic "Social Connections: Identities, Relationships, Technologies" (BSA). In collaboration with Bernhard Rieder, I'll present a paper on Hybrid Foam. Using Sloterdijk's metaphor of foam, we try to reflect social formations below the threshold of network and community. In Massively Multi-user Information Management Systems (MIMMS) such as Flickr and delicious we recognize social connections that are not sufficiently described with the metaphors of community, network or even the crowd (see abstract).
BSA Annual Conference 2007, Thursday, 12th - Saturday, 14th April 2007, University of East London.
Date April 2007 Category News