Lecture-VKS

T.L. Taylor to visit VKS in Autumn

by Anne Beaulieu 25 May 2010
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Dr T.L. Taylor will visit the Virtual Ethnography Collaboratory from  8-19 November 2010.  Dr. Taylor is associate professor in the Center for Computer Games Research at the IT University of Copenhagen. She has been working in the field of internet and multi-user studies for over fifteen years and has published on topics such as play [...]

Tagged as: game studies, virtual ethnography, virtual worlds

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Working with Large Historical Databases

by Jeannette Haagsma 12 November 2008
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Lecture by Kees Mandemakers 12 November 2008 Abstract When in 1991 the Historical Sample started, about ten to twenty large public historical databases existed. With public we mean that they are open for more researchers than the main researcher or research team that constructed the database. Nowadays the number of this kind of databases counts [...]

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Ethics 2.0: Balancing privacy, publicity and prudence

by Jeannette Haagsma 11 June 2008
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Lecture by Maria Bakardjieva 11 June 2008 Abstract of the lecture Biographical Note Maria Bakardjieva is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Communication and Culture, University of Calgary, Canada. She holds a doctorate in Sociology from the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and a doctorate in Communication from Simon Fraser University, Canada. She is the author [...]

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The Arts, Humanities and E-Science: Common themes and mutual opportunities for new research

by Jeannette Haagsma 7 December 2006
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Lecture by Stuart Dunn 7 December 2006 Abstract The Arts, Humanities and E-Science: Common themes and mutual opportunities for new research The UK is served by an established and internationally recognized e-science programme (www.rcuk.ac.uk/escience). As researchers in the physical, medical and life sciences move towards more computational ways of working across national and international   grids, [...]

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Embodying Information 1900/2000: Information Processing and Genetic Knowledge at the Turn of Two Centuries

by Jeannette Haagsma 12 June 2006
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Lecture by Philip Thurtle 12 June 2006 Abstract Embodying Information 1900/2000: Information Processing and Genetic Knowledge at the Turn of Two Centuries The last few decades of the twentieth century and the first few years of the twenty-first have witnessed the proliferation of biomedical technologies. Stem cell research, human cloning, reproductive technologies, and new partnerships [...]

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Researching blogs and blogging research: synergies of colliding worlds

by Jeannette Haagsma 21 June 2005
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Lecture by Lilia Efimova 21 June 2005 Lecture presentation slides (ppt) Added information can be found here. Bibliographical note Born in Russia, I studied economics and human resource development and worked designing, facilitating and managing learning programs in educational and non-profit sectors. Since 2001 I work as researcher at Novay, studying social media, changing workplace, knowledge and learning. In [...]

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