Dr. Gernot Tscherteu: Meme Tracking - Tools To Track How Ideas, Concepts And News Spread Over The Net

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Date(s): 
Fri 31 9:00 PM
teaser: 
The web is undergoing a fundamental shift. More and more webusers become active producers of webcontent. (Currently Technorati searches more than 27 million weblogs online) As web media producers need to know more about meme and information dissemination, new tools and concepts have been developed: These Tools help to find out: where are the information hubs, what are upcoming topics, who is reading my weblog and what do people think about it. The presentation introduces relevant web-tools and services for meme tracking and is demonstrating how they may produce new forms of media competence and proactive content production.
Host: 
Mag. Dr. Gernot Tscherteu
Detailed text: 

The web is undergoing a fundamental shift. More and more webusers become active producers of webcontent. (Currently Technorati searches more than 27 million weblogs online) As web media producers need to know more about meme and information dissemination, new tools and concepts have been developed: These Tools help to find out: where are the information hubs, what are upcoming topics, who is reading my weblog and what do people think about it. The presentation introduces relevant web-tools and services for meme tracking and is demonstrating how they may produce new forms of media competence and proactive content production.

Biography: 

Mag. Dr. Gernot Tscherteu
Mediadesigner and Mediaresearcher
realitylab.at, Vienna (A)

Social scientist educated at University of Vienna. Dissertation "media.cultures.realities" about the impact of digital media on the production and communication of knowledge. Media and interaction designer since 1991. Design and research projects for Austrian Academy of Science, University of Applied Arts, EDVG, Sysis AG, ZKM Karlsruhe, Streetvision London. Co-founder of "planhaus", office for architecture and design, together with Claudia Pöllabauer-Tscherteu (1999). Head of "realitylab" with special interest in weblogs and other forms of social software, knowledge-management, and LED-displays in public space. Find publications and projects at www.realitylab.at (some english papers available).

Lectures held on 31st March