[Sci-tech-public] Mark your calendars: 2 events with Richard Rogers April 1 and 2

[Debbie Meinbresse]

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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