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Please mark your calendars for two upcoming talks by <b>Richard Rogers of
the University of Amsterdam</b> co-sponsored by STS and CMS:<br><br>
<font size=4 color="#0000FF"><b>Methods for the Study of the Natively
Digital<br>
</font><font size=4>Tuesday, April 1 2008<br>
12:00-2:00 pm, MIT, E51-191<br>
</b></font>Brown bag lunch talk. Please feel free to bring your
lunch; coffee and dessert will be provided.<br><br>
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<font size=4 color="#0000FF"><b>Beyond the Politics of Making Things
Visible: Crawling, Scraping and Mapping Issues with the Web<br>
</font><font size=4>Wednesday, April 2 2008<br>
MIT, Room E51-275 <br>
3:30-5:30 pm<br><br>
</b></font><u>Abstract<br>
</u>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.<br>
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<u>Bio<br>
</u>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 <i>Technological
Landscapes</i> (Royal College of Art, London, 1999), editor of
<i>Preferred Placement: Knowledge Politics on the Web</i> (Jan van Eyck
Academy Editions, Maastricht, 2000); and author of <i>Information
Politics on the Web</i> (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.<br><br>
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Debbie Meinbresse<br>
STS Program, MIT<br>
617-452-2390<br>
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