Tweet At the international conference ”Digital religion” at the University of Colorado at Boulder about 100 researchers gathered to develop and discuss what is happening when religion goes online. I participated with a paper presentation on “Churches in Virtual Reality … Continue reading
Tweet Last week the “Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society”, also known as the Google Institute (since Google funded it), was officially announced as part of an Inauguration Symposium in Berlin. The procedure of “invitations” – the conference … Continue reading
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Tweet Today the third and final part of the YouTube project, YouTube as a performative arena (YAPA) kicked off! And on such a high note. First Karin Ljuslinder discussed how we position ourselves in our understanding of the other, before … Continue reading
Tweet Last week I spent a wonderful time in Berlin. I went there to pick up the SuMa Award my PhD “Mediated Knowledge” (download) received from the “SuMa-eV – Verein fuer freien Wissenszugang”, which makes me very happy!! The society annually awards … Continue reading
Tweet It’s Spring-Winter time and I’m back in Umeå catching up with HUMlab and the BildMuseet, celebrating the Easter Witches. About to finish Gibson and Sterling’s classic Steam Punk novel ‘The Difference Engine’ which imagines a Victorian age of steam … Continue reading
Tweet The Transmediale is an international festival for contemporary art and digital culture. This year the Transmediale festival was about “the intense fragility and inherent instability of human interaction with global systems.” There were a lot of provocative projects to … Continue reading
