One could call Simon Phipps a real eclectic geek, having in mind his background and activism globally: from campaigning for digital liberties, open data, open source software and political transparency, through his columns at InfoWorld to presidenting at the Open Source Initiative. Simon studied electronic engineering at the University of …
Category: internet
Addressing The Digital Divide: The Internet and Social Inequality in an International Perspective
I first started working on issues and research related to digital inequalities in an internet perspective two years ago. The research holds both theoretical and empirical implications of the digital divide in the Balkans, South Eastern Europe. With the help of colleagues Massimo Ragnedda (Northumbria University, UK) and Glenn W. Muschert …
Digitial Frontiers: Going Mobile
[an update 13.02.2013.] you can download the article directly from SSRN database. Who controls our free speech online? What are the limits of free expression on social media? Index on Censorship launched Digitial Frontiers, the latest issue of its award-winning magazine, and the only publication dedicated to freedom of expression with an expert …
Making sense out of data: coding, creating, contributing
Ok, here’s what I’ve been doing in the previous couple of weeks (among other things). I cannot reveal it completely right now, just a little sneak-peak (see the snapshot). Beside e-resources and data I’ve been collecting, processing, and analysing, I’ve created a huge analogue map made out of more than 60 …
Interview / Marcus Foth
As an internet researcher and social media consultant, I ask some of the guests to tell me and my readers more about themselves, their current projects, and their views on topics including internet technology, the use of the Web in science and education, and certain aspects of the digital technologies …
Interview / Kingsley Idehen
Being a Semantic Web, Open Linked Data, Open Source enthusiast, and at some point the contributor to the AP for the FOAF and other metadata standards, recently I had an opportunity to talk with Kingsley Idehen on his current projects, views on the use of the Web technologies, Open Linked Data, WebID, serendipity, and …
Highlights from The World Wide Web 2012 conference
Please check the summary of posts, articles, and media release after the World Wide Web 2012 conference (#WWW2012). Scientific American published the article “Phatic Posts: Even the Small Talk Can Be Big” – where I’m discussing the paper I presented at #WWW2012 on ‘phatic’ communications online: on brief and apparently trivial …