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The Department of Political Science
The Department of Computer Science
The Department of
Communication
The Center for Public Policy and
Administration
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Day 1:
Richard Rogers, University of Amsterdam, Director,
govcom.org is a Web epistemologist, an area of study where the
main claim is that the Web is a knowledge culture distinct from
other media. Rogers concentrates on the research opportunities that
would have been improbable or impossible without the Internet. His
research involves studying and building info-tools. He studies and
makes use of the adjudicative or ‘recommender’ cultures of the Web
that help to determine the reputation of information as well as
organizations. The most well-known tool Rogers has developed with
his colleagues is the Issue Crawler, a server-side Web crawler,
co-link machine and graph visualizer.
Day 2:
Noshir Contractor, Northwestern University, the Jane S. &
William J. White Professor of Behavioral Sciences in the School of
Engineering, School of Communication and the Kellogg School of
Management at Northwestern University, USA. He is the Director of
the Science of Networks in Communities (SONIC) Research Group at
Northwestern University. He is investigating factors that lead to
the formation, maintenance, and dissolution of dynamically linked
social and knowledge networks in communities. Specifically, his
research team is developing and testing theories and methods of
network science to map, understand and enable more effective
networks in a wide variety of contexts including communities of
practice in business, science and engineering communities, disaster
response teams, public health networks, digital media and learning
networks, and in virtual worlds, such as Second Life.
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