Workshop on Web Epistemics

Workshop
Date: 
15 February 2012 - 17 February 2012
Begin time: 
12:30
End time: 
15:00
Room: 
ZiF, Center for Interdisciplinary Research, Bielefeld

 

 

Program

Wednesday, Feb. 15: Day 1 - (Production of Knowledge)

12:30 - 13:15- lunch -
13:15 - 13:30Welcome Address
13:30 - 14.15Daniela Pscheida, Halle-Wittenberg:
A new paradigm of knowledge? How the Web transforms our comprehension of knowledge and terms of knowledge exchange
14:15 - 15:00Mark Klein, MIT Cambridge:
The MIT deliberatorium: Enabling large-scale eliberation about complex problems
15:00 - 15:30- coffee break -
15:30 - 16:15Mariangeles Serrano, Barcelona:
Language structure, bursty words, and topicality in large web datasets
16:15 - 17:00János Kertész, Budapest:
Edit wars in Wikipedia: How cooperative value is formed
17:00 - 17:45Thomas Schildhauer, Berlin:
Personal data ecosystem - How is the handling of personal user data on the internet going to change?
18:00Afternoon talk by David Gugerli, Zürich:
Information overload, knowledge and noise since the 1960s
19:00- dinner at ZiF -

 

Thursday, Feb. 16: Day 2 - (Circulation/Diffusion of Knowledge)

09:00 - 09:45Geoffrey Bowker, Pittsburgh:
Time and the Web
09:45 - 10:30Vittorio Loreto, Rome:
New platforms for web-gaming and social computation
10:30 - 11:30World-Café
11:30 – 12:30Summarizing Discussion and Reporting (Plenary)
12:30 - 13:30- lunch -
13:30 - 14:15José Ramasco, Palma de Mallorca:
Social features of online networks: The strength of weak ties in online social media
14:15 - 15:00Krishna Gummadi, Saarbrücken:
Difffusion of innovations in the Twitter social network
15:00 - 15:30- coffee break -
15:30 - 16:15Alexandros-Andreas Kyrtsis, Athens:
Web-rhetoric: Intentionality and textuality on the web-pages of insurance and reinsurance companies
16:15 - 17:00Dave Nicholas & David Clark, Newbury:
Information seeking behavior and usage in the digital world
17:00 - 17:45Arne Rogg-Pietz, Kiel:
Internet & Democracy - 10 years later
17:45 - 18:00Clemens Heinrichs
18:00 - 18:30Discussion
20:00Dinner downtown

 

Friday, Feb. 17: Day 3 - (Exploitation)

09:00 - 09:45Peter Gerjets, Tübingen:
Searching and evaluating information on the web - a psychological perspective
09:45 - 10:30Theo Röhle, Paderborn:
Search and seizure. Google as interface to Web content and user data
10:30 - 11:00- coffee break -
11:00 - 11:45Christoph Rensing, Darmstadt:
Knowledge acquisition based on web resources: challenges, potentials, tools and technologies
11:45 - 12:30Romualdo Pastor-Satorras, Barcelona:
Human activity and social networks
12:30 - 13:30- lunch -
13:30Conclusion & Discussion