Ike Picone

DR. IKE PICONE
Researcher
Ike Picone is since April 2006 researcher at the SMIT.  His research focuses on user activity in a digital and social media environment. He specializes in qualitative user research, especially semi-experimental digital ethnography, with links to Living Labs, Proxy Technology Assessment and methods like in-depth/diary/expert/laddering interviews and focus groups. and is framed within the IWT-SBO project FLEET (FLEmish E-publishing Trends). His study on the participatory news practices of regular news users resulted in a PhD in september 2010. With his paper ‘Conceptualising Online News use’ he won the Junior Researcher Award at the COST 298 Conference The Good, the Bad and the Unexpected in Moscow, May 2007. He contributed to the books ‘Innovating for and by user’ (2008) (.pdf), ‘Jonge Honden: Is er nog toekomst voor de journalsitiek?’ (2009) (info) en 'Maak mij wat wijs. Media kennen, begrijpen en zelf creeëren' (info).

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