Please mark your calendars for two upcoming talks by Richard Rogers
of the University of Amsterdam co-sponsored by STS and CMS:
Methods for the Study of the Natively Digital
Tuesday, April 1 2008
12:00-2:00 pm, MIT, E51-191
Brown bag lunch talk. Please feel free to bring your lunch; coffee
and dessert will be provided.
Beyond the Politics of Making Things Visible: Crawling, Scraping and
Mapping Issues with the Web
Wednesday, April 2 2008
MIT, Room E51-275
3:30-5:30 pm
Abstract
Crawl Myanmar E-commerce sites, and discover links with Western
firms. Scrape news pictures in the U.S.A. and Europe, and find
different pictures associated with Abu Ghraib. Locate Iranian
political, social and religious networks, and discover censored Web
sites via transparent proxies. The Web provides research
opportunities that would have been improbable or impossible in the
past. Web issue mapping may make things visible, but with which
consequences? The talk provides an overview of Govcom.org work,
including methods, techniques, analytical tools and info-political
implications.
Bio
Dr. Richard Rogers is Head of New Media, University of Amsterdam, and
Director of the Govcom.org Foundation, Amsterdam, the group
responsible for Issue Crawler and other software that puts on display
the politics of information on the Web. He is also director of the
Digital Methods Initiative, Amsterdam, and the Open Search
Foundation, Amsterdam. Previously Rogers worked at Harvard University
(JFK School) and the Science Center Berlin (WZB). He is author of
Technological Landscapes (Royal College of Art, London, 1999), editor
of Preferred Placement: Knowledge Politics on the Web (Jan van Eyck
Academy Editions, Maastricht, 2000); and author of Information
Politics on the Web (MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2004), awarded the
2005 best information science book of the year by the American
Society for Information Science and Technology. He is currently
preparing a new book, Beyond News.
Debbie Meinbresse
STS Program, MIT
617-452-2390
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