I created this 10-minute introduction to Virtual Worlds (think Second Life, but also online games like World of Warcraft and social networks with ‘rooms’ like Cyworld) for the panel on “Legal Developments in Virtual Reality”…
My new book project has the provisional title The New Web: Knowledge Sharing as a Part of Everyday Life. The book is my attempt to explain what makes Web 2.0 sites successful, but more importantly…
Steve Sawyer and I organizing the second IFIP 9.1 workshop on IT and the Future of Work. With all the research focus on technologies and business models, we believe that significant changes to the nature…
What’s really new about the new generation of web sites and services? Whether we call it Web 2.0, mass collaboration, online community, or social networking, I believe what’s really new is how large-scale knowledge sharing,…
In business schools, my academic specialization is called Information Systems. Information systems researchers study the design and use of information technology in all kinds of organized human activity: businesses, government, schools, hospitals, even social movements….
Working Group 9.1 is the division within IFIP (the International Federation for Information Processing) responsible for research on computers and work. After a few years of inactivity, a team of new officers is working to…
I’m pleased to present the paper lineup for the Social Theory in Information systems Research (STIR) track at the AMCIS (AMericas Conference on Information Systems) 2007 conference. For the past five years, my fellow track…
During FastTrack advising last week, some of the new students asked “can you recommend particular teachers?” Not knowing the different first-year writing, math, and econ profs, I told them to check out RateMyProfessors.com — the…
A draft version of a new position paper, “Web 2.0: A social informatics perspective“, is now available online. Any actual intelligence on its pages is the product of my co-authors Howard Rosenbaum and Pnina Shachaf,…