From Network to Foam

Heterogeneous and hybrid relations in online sociality, presentation at New Network Theory, Amsterdam, June 29 2007.

User participation in a socio-technical ecosystem

Revisiting the case of interactive audiences and the user as producer. Paper presented at Media in Transition 5, MIT, Boston, MA,  April 27 2007.

Hybrid Foam

With Bernhard Rieder: Hybrid Foam. Social Structure before Network and Community,
Paper presented at the BSA Annual Conference 2007, London, April 13 2007.

Agency Matters!

The in-between of software, hardware and user communities.
Paper presented at CRESC conference 2006, Oxford (UK), September 8 2006.

Subversion als Systemstabilisator

with Hans Bernhard: Subversion als Systemstabilisator. Zur Ambivalenz sogenannter subversiver Strategien.

Paper presented at Subversionen Tagung, Hans Böckler Stiftung, July 16 2006, Edenkoben (Germany)
See the presentation.

The Tagcloud

Metainformation as Collective Production
Paper presented at Paris Utrecht Mini Symposium (PUMS), Paris, May 19th 2006.
PUMS 2006.

Beyond Engineering

with Bernhard Rieder: Beyond Engineering. Software Design as as Bridge over the Culture / Technology Dichotomy.

Paper, presented at SPT Conference: Technology and Designing. TU Delft (NL), July 22 2005
download paper: Beyond Engineering

Unzipping Mediated Spaces

Panel presentation of the new media program (Utrecht University, IMR) at the 2005 conference of the International Communication Association (ICA) in New York, 28.05.2005.

The presentation chaired by Christina Slade discussed the spatial perception of information and communication technology. It was seperated into four different aspects:

Marianne van den Boomen: One Click Spaces
MTS: Culture Spaces
Imar de Vries: Knowledge Spaces
Joost Raessens: Ludic Spaces

Unzipping Mediated Spaces vs 1.0

Spielen ohne Gebrauchsanweisung

Innovation und Partizipation als Output des Konsums softwarebasierter Produkte,

lecture at the annual conference of the German Association for Media Studies (Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft)
Braunschweig 30.9. - 2.10.2004
Eine Dokumentation der Veranstaltung mit allen Vorträgen als Videostream findet sich bei " Netzspannung.org - Lectures.

Made by Users II

How Users Improve Things, Provide Innovation and Change Our Idea of Culture; Paper presentation at the Software Art and Cultures Conference at the 2004 Read_Me Festival, 24.8.2004, University of Aarhus. Software Art and Cultures Conference at Read_Me Festival.
An earlier version of this paper was presented at the Bilbao Cyber Art Conference.