Posts tagged with “flickr”

Paper accepted!

By Erik Hekman on 30 March 2012

This abstract I wrote, together with Harry van Vliet, about the usage of Flickr the Commons was accepted for the Heritage Impact 2012 in Brighton. I'm quite excited because this will be the first in a serie of papers focussing on social media data harvesting and analyses. Read the abstract here:

Tagged with: flickr, social media, cultural heritage, conference,

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Intelligence & Integrity

By Kees Winkel on 5 May 2011

I’ve never really been into conspiracy theories, apart for entertainment reasons, but recently and for me more or less out of the blue the other day, Rogier Brussee mumbled something about Google being the CIA (or FBI for all that matters). Expressions like that make me cynical but also make me question why I am cynical about those ideas. Could it be true? Do you think it is like that? And if Google would be the digitized version of the all mighty watchdog of the US, than who would be the (moral) owners of Facebook, delicious, Foursquare, you name any social media originating from the US? If it really is the security forces of our modern western society, than let us ask what the role of social media in our society actually is.

Tagged with: alexander bard, android, cia, fbi, flickr, julian assange, the next web, facebook, iphone, wikileaks,

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