tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23853012007-06-17T01:03:08.023+02:00LisbethBlogger500125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2385301.post-85279056489328214562007-06-15T19:18:00.000+02:002007-06-17T01:03:08.052+02:00

Malene Larsen is a Danish Ph.D. student doing an interesting Ph.d. on "Understanding Social Networking - On Young People’s Use of Social Networking Sites and Online Identity Construction", looking at, for instance, the hugely popular Danish website Arto. Malene has been blogging (in English) since she started her project in January (thumbs up for that) and has just posted on the variety of

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I discovered yesterday that a new book called Second Lives by writer Tim Guest has just hit the off - and online bookstores. It looks like it includes several stories about the "RL" author's adventures in various virtual worlds, incl. interviews with other inhabitants. It's difficult to get a grip of what it is "really" about, but it looks like it's more an essayistic piece of writing and not

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- according to a survey made by the Danish media company PHD, and described in the Danish newspaper Børsen today. The survey (number of respondents unknown) showed that Danish youth (age 12-20) as of 2006 spends 108 minutes online a day and only 96 minutes in front of the tv. So the web "wins" marginally, but nevertheless an interesting finding. However, as the Head of Research at DR (the

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Interesting discussion going on at Terra Nova: Structuration, Synthetic Worlds-Style: LOTRO and Emotes, with good independent commentary by Esther at Glod'n Epix. Do you need pre-scripted social emotes to help social group behaviour? Are emotes (also as visual animations) necessary to create the experiece of presence in a world? What happens when you dont have emotes available as social handles?

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Today, I went to Hillerød to see the exhibition of the works selected for viewing out of the several hundred portraits submitted to the First Nordic Portrait Competition that ran last year. It was engaging to experience the variety of suggestions of what a moderne (self) portrait can look like. One of the works that also by virtue of its digital format really captivated me, was the little piece:

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Im going to the annual Reboot conference later this week, for the first time in my case. Earlier today I made a profile on the conference website and started marking the talks I'd like to go to, for other delegates to see on my profile and to appear as "attending the talk" on the page for the talk (nifty feature, btw). One of the talks I marked was the one about The web everywhere: $10 paperbacks

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My Australian colleagues have always been pretty much on the forefront of digital media and I know that at least at RMIT (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology), they have had practising in-house digital artists affiliated. Now the Australian Council for the Arts is offering a collaborative artist residency in Second Life! (as seen on the DIGRA mailinglist). I think it is the first strictly

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I've been meaning to write-up a brief summary of some of the interesting names, stats and comments I jotted down in my programme of the Nordic Game Conference 2007. It was held in Malmø on May 15-16th and I came there to give a talk there on death as part of the academic track (fyi, I've started to refer to myself as "travelling in death" - I do hope I'll be talking about something more lively

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I wanted to book an Eurobonus trip for a trip within Europe this fall. I tried online several times before but was told I needed to book on the phone. Today, online booking worked, but no trips were available unless I fly Business class, which I cant understand because it's a fairly popular city Im flying to and there are almost 4 months left to my departure. So I decided to try booking my trip

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By chance, I just spotted that the Danish Association of "People's Folk Schools" (the Danish phenomena of "folkehøjskoler") has launched a "user-generated content" marketing campaign, in which they ask folkehøjskole-students to to make a movie about a day in the life of a Folkehøjskole. The interesting part of the competition is that they ask people to post their contributions directly to YouTube

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A colleague alerted me to this YouTube video of Dynamite surfing, downtown Copenhagen. The video shows a guy surfing on the waves created by throwing dynamite into one of the shallow artificial lakes close to the center of Copenhagen, Sortedamssøen. The interesting thing is not the video itself (which is amusing, especially if you know the place), but the intense discussions of whether it is a

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It was a journalist that this weekend alerted me to the: Blooker Blog, where the shortlisted blooks for this year's runners-up for the Blooker price are currently listed. The winners should be announced on the site later today (US time, I presume?). What is the blooker price then? It is a price given to the best print book published, that started as a blog or web comics. Categories are: fiction,

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I got it in mail today, from one of the WoW-guild members, and Jill has already bloggged the map in good quality, so take a look over at her place: A map of online communities. It's a comic style drawing of various "hot" and not so hot online communities, in relational sizes and position.

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For a long time, I've wanted to write an article about games turned into movies (sic! not the other way around). I was somewhat discouraged when I submitted my ideas for a game conference and it was turned down with reviews that basically went "we've seen that before" (but that was a bad year for that conference in general ;)) - because to my knowledge I havent seen any academic articles on this

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Just realised that I failed to mention that about 2 weeks ago, the National Cultural Heritage institution published a small book on Digital Communication to Children: "Digital Kulturformidling - Børn og forskere har ordet". [If you follow the link you are sent to a page where you can download a digital version of the book]. I have an article in the publication, about the "web 2.0" movement and

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Interesting to observe that according to this small piece of news in the paper Jyllandsposten only three researchers with a Ph.D. took a job in Denmark in 2006, whereas 130 Danish researchers left the country....I think the numbers speak for themselves. - Btw, if you wonder if the Danish tax system is what keeps researchers from entering Denmark, immigrant researchers actually only have to pay

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Being the passionate blogger, I am, I have now started a Danish lanuguage blog at Kommunikationsforum, the place where a lot of people in the Danish Communication and Media business seem to hang out these days. I've been wanting to blog in Danish for a while now, without giving up this blog or giving up blogging in English here (stats show that most of the readers of this blog have IP's in North

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618,978,656 is the number of times, characters on the European and North American servers have died in Lineage II since the game launched three years ago. In celebration of its three year anniversary, Lineage II has sent out a very interesting little newsletter with a lot of stats, including this death number. The statistics also reveal that even if 17 mill. people have tried the game worldwide,

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[In Danish, because it's about a Danish stress test and Danish stats] Jvf. arbejdsmiljøinstituttet, føler 10-12% af danskerne sig permanent stressede. Danmarks stressforsker nr. 1, Bo Netterstrøm, har været med til at udvikle denne Stresstest, hvor man kan tjekke sit stressniveau. Testen virker givetvis som en fin indikator, men spørgsmålene er dog så åbenlyse, at det kan være fristende ikke at

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Im' a week late, but nevertheless: the World of Warcraft anthology (to which Im a proud contributor of a chapter on death in WoW) has been sent to MIT Press!. Jill and Hilde have been brilliant editors so far, including securing money for and organising a workshop for all the authors which took place in Bergen last year. Having met and discussed the papers of all the contributors have made it

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Det burde blive debatteret endnu mere end det allerede gør, men nu er der ihvertfald mulighed for at deltage i et symposium om forskningsfrihed på Københavns Universitet d. 2. maj. (via Professorvælde bloggen) Jeg personligt er ved at være rigtig træt af at være forsker i Danmark - bureaukratiseringen og centraliseringen af styringen af vores arbejdspladser gør, at det at være forsker i stigende

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Once all the hype has settled, what will blogs be used for? That is a question I get quite often from journalists and a questions I often ponder myself. The new service, that Kilroy travels in Denmark offers, might be indicative of one stable future use of blogs: travel blogs. Kilroy (a travel company mainly offering cheap travels for youth and students) now offers their users a free blog in

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I gave a talk at the Social Software course [course blog in DK] at ITU today. Martin and Kasper who are running the course have done a great job of compiling a list of academic articles related to social software, blogs, wikis etc. I also updated the Danish Research Blogs list (Danske forskerblogs). I'm looking into the state of the Danish Research Blogs Blogosphere as preparation for a talk Im

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Via my long-distance colleague in writing Jeremy Hunsinger's blog: the OneDayBlogSilence initiative in memory of the VT killings. Jeremy is also a ph.d. graduate of Virginia Tech. I like the idea of "blog silence", of hushing the murmur of the internet...

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I was mortified when I learnt about the Virginia Tech shootings yesterday. When death strikes suddenly and so unfairly especially within one's "home turf" (an university environment) it really makes an impact and my thoughts goes out to colleagues, students and relatives of the casualties at VT. I tuned on to CNN monday evening when I got home after a faily long day, and were surprised to learn

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