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New Network Theory- Parallel Sessions- ‘Network and Social Life’

Michelle Lentz | 01 July 2007, 8:03 am | tags: , , , , , ,

Yukari SekoThe first speaker on this theme is Canadian Yukari Seko. She has done research on self destructive behaviour in connection with keeping a blog/being part of a blogging community. Seko argues that self destructive individuals act out their feelings online through murmuring. She has chosen the verb murmuring/mumbling in order to define the fine line between the protected spaces of…

New Network Theory- Parallel Sessions- ‘Network Theory’

Michelle Lentz | 30 June 2007, 7:52 am | tags: , , , , ,

New Network TheoryThis session moderated by Geert Lovink, follows a specificic route; from basic infrastructural levels of networking towards more philosophical thoughts.

The first speaker is Tincuta Parv, she works with critical problems related to works dealing with techno-scientifical aspects.

Her work focusses on how we can cope with networks since they change all the time. It is a problem of dynamics.…

New Network Theory – Tiziana Terranova

Michelle Lentz | 28 June 2007, 3:44 pm | 3 comments | tags: , , ,

New Network TheoryTiziana Terranova is the author of Corpi nella Rete (Bodies in the Net) and Network Culture and is currently a visiting professor in Sociology of Communication at the University of Naples ‘L’Orientale’. Her talk concerns the following topic; Everything is everything: network science, neo-liberalism and security.

Terranova’s prime object of study in this lecture is the economy of the Internet…