talks:
six degrees of reputation: the use and abuse of online recommendation systems
working paper, with Trevor Pinch
presented at SASE 2005, budapest july 2nd 2005
presented at economic sociology and technology, ithaca, september 24th, 2005
presented at NYU Inormation Law Institute, new york city, november 4th, 2005
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watch-out the penguins are coming: promises and perils in open source engineering
presented at the Bovay Lecture series on engineering ethics, Cornell University, November 9, 2005
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crushingboundaries&theirconsequences
with Kirsten boehner carl disalvo gordon euchler and nathan freier
presented at the NSF workshop on values in design, santa clara, ca, august 2005
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a designer's guide to technology and schizophrenia
presented at penn state university's science, medicine, technology & culture seminar, april 2005
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and make sure to check out the project homepage
project APPRAISE: understanding the hybrid network structure and reputation economies of online scholarly networks
presented at the Digital Cultural Institutions Project Workshop
center for science technology and society, santa clara university, ca, october 25, 2004
Funding for this work was available in part through the
SSRC's Culture, Creativity and Information Technology program
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some fragmentary thoughts on the 'information revolution' vis-à-vis walter benjamin's critical concepts of progress
presented at the Society for Literature & Science annual meeting
durham, nc, october 14, 2004
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a license to kill (innovation)?
presented at The Yale Law School / Information Society Project
yale, new haven CT, September, 2004
and at harvard's berkman center for internet and society
cambridge, ma, january 2005
Based on work done with Michal Tsur
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opening the sources of accountability
presented at 4S-EASST Annual Meeting
paris, france, august 26, 2004
as part of the FLOSS panel, a full day event I co-organized together with Yuwei Lin and Ruben Wendel de Joode
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on the uncertainty principle and social constructivism: the case of free and open source software
presented at Heart Shaped Black Box S&TS Conference
rensselaer polytechnic institute, troy ny, february 14th, 2004
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appraise: a peer-2-peer recomendation and information sharing environment
presented at cornell's information science seminar series, cornell university, february 24th, 2004
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on sex beer and rock'n'roll? towards a critique of the political economy of free and open source software
a talk at cornell's science studies reading group (SSRG), cornell university, march 29th, 2004
in this talk I presented my research project on free and open source software which aims to understand free software and open source in a
cultural context using insights from social constructivism and actor
network theory, as part of an attempt to develop a new theory of innovation in IT.
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scholarly networks in scholarly publishing
guest lecture at cs 431 - architecture of web information systems / carl lagoze, april 16th 2004
discussing the role of social networks in the publishing process as these change from analog to digital.
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