Tag Archives: Henry Jenkins

Twitter: immediacy and collective intelligence

Lennard Torbijn | 10 October 2010, 11:51 pm | 2 comments | tags: , , , , , ,

When working on a Wikipedia entry just last week, I was confronted once again with the helplessness one might experience when the computer does not work properly or when the internet connection is down. Upon typing in the Wikipedia URL, nothing happened. I found myself staring at the blank page before me. What is one to do? I refreshed the…

Does Facebook Rule? Ideas For The Future.

Michal Kielbasa | 26 September 2010, 10:29 pm | tags: , , , ,

Facebook is everywhere. It connects 500 millions of people around the world. No doubts, it is an effect of purposeful endeavours of those who stay behind the success of the platform. It is becoming more and more interconnected into contemporary world…

Social data analysis – Information visualization and participatory culture

Jan Bajec | 27 April 2010, 9:23 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , , , , ,

Researchers in all areas of human knowledge are overwhelmed with data. Through the process of sensemaking, in which information is collected, organized, and analyzed, new knowledge is formed and further action is informed. We must make sense of data in order to produce real value from it. “The availability of information is irrelevant without a means to interpret it effectively”…

YouParticipate: the politics of YouTube’s flagging system

Minke Kampman | 04 September 2009, 7:39 pm | 4 comments | tags: , , , , ,

My thesis is about a seemingly small detail of YouTube’s interface, the ‘flag’ button. I got intrigued by this function because of the politics that are at play behind it, hence the title “YouPartipate: the politics of YouTube’s flagging system” [.pdf] . The function is not exclusive to YouTube, but it is one of the more self-reflexive platforms. In…