Research – Page 15 – Anne Helmond

A Protest’s Web: The Cross-Syndication Practices of G20 Toronto Summit Online Protest Platforms

A research project by Anne Helmond, Catalina Iorga, Alejandro Ortega. Text by Anne Helmond and Catalina Iorga. Project website on the DMI wiki. From 28 June – 9 July 2010 we organized a Digital Methods Training Certificate Program which is a two-week intensive training and skill acquisition program. This project is one of project outcomes… Read more A Protest’s Web: The Cross-Syndication Practices of G20 Toronto Summit Online Protest Platforms

Posted on September 10, 2010September 10, 2010 by Anne

Mapping Festival at Mediamatic

Mediamatic is organizing a three day mapping festival where Esther Weltevrede and I will present our research on the Dutch blogosphere at the Mapping Ignite evening. “Map Fest takes place at Mediamatic on July 6, 8 and 9. Map Fest brings together kindred spirits to explore, create, define and oppose maps.” Day 1 is Mapping… Read more Mapping Festival at Mediamatic

Posted on June 30, 2010August 2, 2011 by Anne

Google has become self-referential

I’m not a big fan of Google’s new result page which seems to favor freshness and a ubiquity of entry points over relevance. Or, in other words, it is increasingly referring to itself (Google News, Updates, YouTube) for results as may be seen in the following picture: Let’s look at the ranking of the results:… Read more Google has become self-referential

Posted on June 12, 2010June 12, 2010 by Anne

Mapping the Dutch Blogosphere #Bloghelden

On Tuesday we celebrated the book launch of Frank Meeuwsen’s Bloghelden, a history of the Dutch blogosphere from 1995 to 2005, at SETUP in Utrecht. I was asked to give a presentation on a project Esther Weltevrede and I are working on: Mapping the Dutch blogosphere over time. In his article â€˜Links, Lives, Logs: Presentation… Read more Mapping the Dutch Blogosphere #Bloghelden

Posted on May 28, 2010August 2, 2011 by Anne

On the Evolution of Methods: Banditry and the Volatility of Methods

I was honored to be invited by The Berkman Center for Internet & Society and the University of St. Gallen to participate in the expert-workshop “Research Methods in the Digitally Networked Information Age” in Brunnen, Switzerland from 10 to 12 May 2010. On Tuesday Christian Sandvig and I moderated the â€œEvolution of Methodsâ€ panel in… Read more On the Evolution of Methods: Banditry and the Volatility of Methods

Posted on May 17, 2010 by Anne

Dave Winer on the terminology of RSS

This post is the first in a short series exploring my hypothesis of RSS as the technological foundation of Web 2.0 for my PhD research. I have had the honor of talking with Dave Winer about my research and to pose him some questions. I would like to thank him for his time, thoughts and… Read more Dave Winer on the terminology of RSS

Posted on April 23, 2010 by Anne