http://smit.vub.ac.be The latest news of SMIT publications ... Copyright by SMIT http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification en-UK hansdecanck@vub.ac.be info@thegapismine.be http://smit.vub.ac.be/img/logo.gif http://smit.vub.ac.be SMIT image Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:00 +0200 Wed, 16 May 2012 22:53:02 +0200 The 4th International Workshop on Business Models for Mobile Platforms (BMMP12) will take place on 11 October 2012 in conjunction with the ICIN 2012 conference in Berlin. The massive migration of data applications towards mobile platforms is leading to great opportunities but also strong challenges for mobile network operators, smartphone providers, mobile web companies, telecom vendors and application developers. Business models are characterised by strong uncertainty and comp ... page.aspx?id=event&id2=45 Event evelien.rooms@vub.ac.be (Evelien Rooms) Thu, 11 Oct 2012 09:00:00 +0200 This interactive conference is the premier European event of this Spring on Open Innovation for Future Internet in Smart Cities and Communities. It offers you as public organisation, SME, corporation, academic, and creative citizen a unique chance to get involved in shaping Europe's user-driven open innovation ecosystems. How can SMEs use networks of Open Innovation Ecosystems to innovate across borders in Europe? What is the roadmap for Smart Cities and Communities towards the Future Int ... page.aspx?id=event&id2=46 Event evelien.rooms@vub.ac.be (Evelien Rooms) Tue, 22 May 2012 09:00:00 +0200 The research cluster 'Digital Arts and Cultures’ would like to invite you to the Cultuurdebat 4.0. This year the concept is slightly changed. Visual artist Angelo Vermeulen and poetress Sylvie Marie will discuss the way digital social media (like weblogs, Facebook, Twitter) determine/change the relationship between the culture producer and the audience. The debate will be moderated by radio producer and musician Jan Haut ... page.aspx?id=event&id2=48 Event evelien.rooms@vub.ac.be (Evelien Rooms) Tue, 15 May 2012 18:30:00 +0200 The Brussels Platform voor Journalistiek invited, among others, two documentary filmmakers Loutfi Belghmidi and Mohammed Ihkan for a discussion about the representation in the media, grassroots journalism and documentaries where they make use of the personal story to shed light on broader social issues.  Other speakers: Fauzaya Talhaoui, sp.a senator and researcher Anne Brumagne, chief-editor of Brussel Deze Week Hatim El Sghiar, researcher Jan Zien ... page.aspx?id=event&id2=47 Event evelien.rooms@vub.ac.be (Evelien Rooms) Thu, 03 May 2012 19:00:00 +0200 Prof. Dr. Robin Mansell will present the results of her new book ‘Imagining the Internet: Communication, Innovation, and Governance’, which surveys our collective and cumulative understanding of the evolution of digital communication systems and the Internet. Whilst the information societies of the 21st century will develop ever more sophisticated technologies, the Internet is now a familiar and pervasive part of the world in which we live, work and communicate. Prof. Dr. Robin Ma ... page.aspx?id=event&id2=43 Event evelien.rooms@vub.ac.be (Evelien Rooms) Wed, 28 Mar 2012 18:00:00 +0200 EuroCPR is organised annually with the ambition to contribute constructively and critically to European Information Society Policy developments. The conference addresses the use of ICT throughout society and economy as well as the evolution of the ICT and media sectors. EuroCPR uniquely brings together academia, policy makers and industry representatives in order to facilitate systematic interaction and critical analysis of both the highest academic excellence and the maximum policy and indust ... page.aspx?id=event&id2=22 Event evelien.rooms@vub.ac.be (Evelien Rooms) Sun, 25 Mar 2012 16:00:00 +0200   The launch of the book  “De VRT in de 21ste eeuw: overbodige luxe of maatschappelijke meerwaarde” (edited by Prof. Dr. Karen Donders and Prof. Dr. Hilde Van den Bulck), will take place on the 22nd of March, 2012 in Brussels.    Programme 14u30  Welcome             Dr. David Stevens (Voorzitter Sectorraad Media) 14u40  Introduction     & ... page.aspx?id=event&id2=44 Event evelien.rooms@vub.ac.be (Evelien Rooms) Thu, 22 Mar 2012 14:30:00 +0200 In Transition? The role of the curator and the arts in a digital culture. As part of the SMIT Lecture Series IBBT-SMIT, on Wednesday 29 February 2012 research group Digital Arts and Cultures organizes In Transition? The role of the curator and the arts in a digital culture. Invited speakers Beryl Graham, Michelle Kasprzak and Christophe De Jaeger situate, consider and debate this topic from an academic and curatorial perspective. In what way could the digital sphere influence the role of t ... page.aspx?id=event&id2=41 Event evelien.rooms@vub.ac.be (Evelien Rooms) Wed, 29 Feb 2012 18:30:00 +0200 Dr. Richard Collins will trace the genesis of European media initiatives and reflect on the relationship between the media, sentiments of identity and political behaviour in a European context. He will draw on his work on European public service broadcasters' pan-European activities and on European Union policies and practices. Dr. Richard Collins Dr. Richard Collins formerly worked at a number of UK universities   including the University of Westminster, Goldsmiths' Coll ... page.aspx?id=event&id2=42 Event evelien.rooms@vub.ac.be (Evelien Rooms) Wed, 29 Feb 2012 18:00:00 +0200 The Centre for Studies on Media Information and Telecommunication (IBBT-SMIT), the Institute for European Studies (IES) and the Media ICT and Cultural Policy Research Group would like to invite you to a workshop on "Policy and regulation for public broadcasters in the 21st century". The workshop takes place on 24 February 2012 and starts at 13.00h.  The workshop is followed by the launch of two books: (1) Public service media and policy in Europe (author: Karen Donders; publish ... page.aspx?id=event&id2=39 Event evelien.rooms@vub.ac.be (Evelien Rooms) Fri, 24 Feb 2012 13:00:00 +0200 iStep, organized by IBBT, is a 4-day entrepreneurial training program at Masters level with: Specific topics important when starting up a company. Special attention for applications within the ICT environment. International experts will guide you through the process of how to get started with the business if you have an idea. During this several-day training program at Masters level specific topics are studied which are of importance when starting up a company: choosing ... page.aspx?id=event&id2=38 Event evelien.rooms@vub.ac.be (Evelien Rooms) Mon, 13 Feb 2012 09:00:00 +0200 Within the context of the International Francqui Professorship, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, ULB and UGent, present the closing seminar “‘till the public sphere do us part”… Critical reflections on representation, identity constructions and communication flows in Belgium on Friday, 3rd of February 2012. The following speakers will contribute to this closing seminar: Prof. Dr. Manu COUVREUR Université Libre de Bruxelles Prof. Dr. Dave SINARDET Vrije Universit ... page.aspx?id=event&id2=40 Event evelien.rooms@vub.ac.be (Evelien Rooms) Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:30:00 +0200 In order for the European Integration Project to develop further and beyond its economic rationale, European citizens need a well-functioning European Public Sphere (EPS) where they can discuss Europe and participate in European debates and policymaking. After years of debate on how the EU could and should better communicate Europe to its citizens (e.g. Plan D for Democracy, Dialogue and Debate – 2005; White Paper on a European Communication Policy - 2006), the EPS is still essentially ... page.aspx?id=event&id2=31 Event evelien.rooms@vub.ac.be (Evelien Rooms) Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:00:00 +0200 On the 19th of December EMSOC organizes a debate about the use of social media and the right to privacy. Social media being used as a platform to report driving violations. Is it permitted or against privacy laws? This current debate provokes a lot of reactions. You are warmly invited to 'Het echte debat' to hear all about the pros and cons or just to share your opinion about this matter.  Following experts will participate in the debate: Jo Caudron, Dear Media Paul De Her ... page.aspx?id=event&id2=37 Event evelien.rooms@vub.ac.be (Evelien Rooms) Mon, 19 Dec 2011 18:00:00 +0200 Invited lecture in the context of the class Technologie de l'Information by SMIT researcher Rob Heyman. The amount of personal data gathered by social media and Internet giants is worrying, but once we dive deeper into the rabbit hole, we see that this data is not only used as a commodity, but also as the input to shape our (online) perception of the world. "I actually think most people don't want Google to answer their questions. They want Google to tell them what they shou ... page.aspx?id=event&id2=36 Event evelien.rooms@vub.ac.be (Evelien Rooms) Thu, 01 Dec 2011 12:00:00 +0200 IBBT-SMIT LECTURE SERIES 2011-2012 and its research group Digital Arts, in cooperation with Kultuurkaffee, warmly invite you to the opening lecture of Het Grote Ongeduld!Xtra, a platform for graduate students in multimedia and experimental short film. Conceived as an artist talk, film maker and visual artist Nicolas Provost ("Moving Stories", "Gravity, "The Invader",...) will discuss his work and its underlying concepts and ideas in the broader framework of cinema ... page.aspx?id=event&id2=35 Event evelien.rooms@vub.ac.be (Evelien Rooms) Wed, 23 Nov 2011 19:00:00 +0200 On Thursday November 17th, 2011 the results of the PULSE research about the opportunities and risks of new media strategies for strengthening public support for sustainable development, will be announced and discussed. That day it will also be possible to exchange information and follow hands-on workshops. More information about the workshop (in dutch) Register Now! page.aspx?id=event&id2=32 Event evelien.rooms@vub.ac.be (Evelien Rooms) Thu, 17 Nov 2011 09:30:00 +0200 The 21st century is digital. The Flemish arts and cultural heritage sector realize it and want to take the digital train. But do we digitize in a good way and for the long term? Shall we be able to retrieve our digitized collections and reuse them? In a classroom for instance or to organize an online exhibition? And can we link our digital collections to other collections to enrich them? Are there legal issues to consider? And how do we achieve it technically? In the research project Archipel ... page.aspx?id=event&id2=30 Event evelien.rooms@vub.ac.be (Evelien Rooms) Wed, 16 Nov 2011 09:00:00 +0200 The Interdisciplinary institute for Broadband Technology (IBBT, Belgium) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT, USA) invite you to the fourth edition of their Joint Workshop on Cognitive Radio Standardization & Markets This edition of CRSM is supported by COST TERRA (www.cost-terra.org) and collocated with the fourth meeting of the TERRA action. The workshop, the most important non-technical event on Cognitive Radio in Europe, confronts the latest global insights regarding st ... page.aspx?id=event&id2=34 Event evelien.rooms@vub.ac.be (Evelien Rooms) Tue, 15 Nov 2011 11:00:00 +0200 This year’s edition of the research seminar ‘Virtual Media’ seizes Marshall McLuhan’s (1911-1980) 100th anniversary to explore the work and thought of the Canadian media theorist. In a series of sessions, spread over this academic year, we will deal with selected writings from two posthumously published books, Laws of Media: The New Science (1988; co-authored with Eric McLuhan) and The Global Village: Transformations in World Life and Media in the 21st Century (1989; co-a ... page.aspx?id=event&id2=33 Event evelien.rooms@vub.ac.be (Evelien Rooms) Wed, 09 Nov 2011 10:00:00 +0200 Value network analysis of the audiovisual media industry in Flanders page.aspx?id=project&id2=135 Project vbleyen@vub.ac.be (Valerie-Anne Bleyen) Mon, 05 Mar 2012 13:04:15 +0200 Contract research with regard to technologies for mobile (virtual) network operators enabling spectrum efficiency gains page.aspx?id=project&id2=134 Project matthias.barrie@vub.ac.be (Matthias Barrie) Mon, 05 Mar 2012 13:01:50 +0200 page.aspx?id=project&id2=77 Project ( ) Fri, 15 Apr 2011 16:19:58 +0200 page.aspx?id=project&id2=72 Project Ilse.Marien@vub.ac.be (Ilse Mariën) Tue, 08 Feb 2011 23:29:29 +0200 page.aspx?id=project&id2=74 Project lizzy.bleumers@vub.ac.be (Lizzy Bleumers) Tue, 15 Mar 2011 10:07:38 +0200 This project explores business models for mobile applications in the context of urban areas and the roles the city can take up in developing and distributing mobile services. page.aspx?id=project&id2=136 Project nils.walravens@vub.ac.be (Nils Walravens) Mon, 05 Mar 2012 13:22:26 +0200 This projects researches the opportunities for a smart charging platform for plug-in (hybrid) vehicles. page.aspx?id=project&id2=83 Project wouter.degadt@vub.ac.be (Wouter Degadt) Mon, 21 Nov 2011 17:10:33 +0200 page.aspx?id=project&id2=73 Project Ilse.Marien@vub.ac.be (Ilse Mariën) Tue, 08 Feb 2011 23:34:13 +0200 The goal of this SBO project, funded by IWT, is to critically assess to what extent and how people are empowered or dis-empowered by their everyday use of social media. page.aspx?id=project&id2=69 Project bram.lievens@vub.ac.be (Bram Lievens) Thu, 28 Oct 2010 11:17:41 +0200 The overarching goal of the EPIC Project is to develop an openly accessible platform that provides every city in Europe with the opportunity to create and share innovative city web service-based information and and applications. page.aspx?id=project&id2=78 Project shenja.vandergraaf@ibbt.be (Shenja van der Graaf) Wed, 20 Jul 2011 15:17:58 +0200 page.aspx?id=project&id2=60 Project olivier.braet@vub.ac.be (Olivier Braet) Mon, 04 Oct 2010 12:13:15 +0200 page.aspx?id=project&id2=61 Project evelien.rooms@vub.ac.be (Evelien Rooms) Mon, 04 Oct 2010 14:41:40 +0200 page.aspx?id=project&id2=19 Project lizzy.bleumers@vub.ac.be (Lizzy Bleumers) Wed, 08 Sep 2010 15:57:35 +0200 Novel consumer-oriented services through smart metering for energy efficiency page.aspx?id=project&id2=82 Project wouter.degadt@vub.ac.be (Wouter Degadt) Mon, 21 Nov 2011 17:05:28 +0200 page.aspx?id=project&id2=39 Project Olga.Van.Oost@vub.ac.be (Olga Van Oost) Thu, 16 Sep 2010 16:16:19 +0200 Color Imaging & Multidimensional Image processsing in medical applications page.aspx?id=project&id2=57 Project pieter.duysburgh@vub.ac.be (Pieter Duysburgh) Mon, 27 Sep 2010 15:19:32 +0200 page.aspx?id=project&id2=58 Project olivier.braet@vub.ac.be (Olivier Braet) Mon, 04 Oct 2010 12:03:40 +0200 page.aspx?id=project&id2=68 Project sarah.talboom@vub.ac.be (Sarah Talboom) Tue, 12 Oct 2010 10:37:32 +0200 Een onderzoek voor de Sectorraad Media van de SARC en het Departement Cultuur, Jeugd, Sport en Media van de Vlaamse Gemeenschap page.aspx?id=project&id2=67 Project an.moons@vub.ac.be (An Moons) Tue, 05 Oct 2010 19:30:08 +0200 page.aspx?id=project&id2=21 Project ( ) Mon, 13 Sep 2010 10:04:06 +0200 Are you lost without your smartphone? You have a panic attack when you realize you have left your smartphone at home? You are not alone, and in fact you could be suffering from smartphone stress. This Sunday the ‘ikbenofflinedag’ takes place in the Netherlands. The purpose is to stay offline the whole day. A challenge to all smartphone users! We feel the constant need to be connected with the world all the time and with that constant connection to technology comes the pressure ... page.aspx?id=blogpost&id2=81 Blogpost evelien.rooms@vub.ac.be (Evelien Rooms) Fri, 11 May 2012 16:29:00 +0200 The Centre of Informatics of the Brussels’ Region (CIRB-CIBG, www.cirb.be) and IBBT are searching for test users for their Brussels Relocation Service, a very innovative application designed to facilitate the relocation process of inhabitants from the EU to the Brussels Region. What's your mission? You will try out the first test version of the web component of our service. It will allow you to do a house search and meanwhile interact with the neighbourhood by displaying ... page.aspx?id=blogpost&id2=80 Blogpost evelien.rooms@vub.ac.be (Evelien Rooms) Thu, 10 May 2012 16:14:59 +0200   The International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics is committed to analyzing the politics of communication(s) and cultural processes. It addresses cultural politics in their local, international and global dimensions, recognizing equally the importance of issues defined by their specific cultural geography and those that traverse cultures and nations. In its most recent issue, high-quality scientific articles on the ways in which different European countries are tacklin ... page.aspx?id=blogpost&id2=79 Blogpost evelien.rooms@vub.ac.be (Evelien Rooms) Tue, 08 May 2012 16:24:00 +0200 Young American people watch very little tv anymore. TV viewership has decreased substantially and advertisers are getting nervous. Several channels have lost 10% of their audience. New media and digital television are the main culprits. Will the same thing happen to our Flemish television stations? Wendy Van den Broeck (IBBT-SMIT, Vrije Universiteit Brussel) does research on the Flemish viewing habits. Read more (in Dutch) page.aspx?id=blogpost&id2=78 Blogpost evelien.rooms@vub.ac.be (Evelien Rooms) Tue, 08 May 2012 16:16:35 +0200 Social media intends to use personal information for advertising purposes. For example, when liking a product on Facebook, it is possible that your name and/or nickname will be used to advertise this product. It may look as if you recommend this product to a friend without being clear whether it is an advertisement or just a status update. This kind of advertising is possible by confusing opt-in methods. Read the full interview (in Dutch) with researcher Rob Heyman (IBBT-SMIT, Vrije Un ... page.aspx?id=blogpost&id2=77 Blogpost evelien.rooms@vub.ac.be (Evelien Rooms) Tue, 08 May 2012 15:48:00 +0200 After the introduction of the 'newsfeed' in 2006, Facebook introduces the ‘timeline’, which again causes some privacy issues for users. Likewise, as happened in 2006, the initial protest will slowly reduce. Researcher Ralf Wolf (IBBT-SMIT, Vrije Universiteit Brussel) warns of a latent trend: "The new technology provides a natural character and the underlying privacy issues will be forgotten. The user is now responsible to solve the inherent flaws of these internet applic ... page.aspx?id=blogpost&id2=76 Blogpost evelien.rooms@vub.ac.be (Evelien Rooms) Tue, 08 May 2012 15:07:00 +0200 Are you interested in participatory design for users with impairments? Please join our workshop at the Participatory Design Conference in Roskilde, Denmark in August! This workshop aims to exchange experiences with participatory design techniques that were designed for, or adapted to people with impairments. Since many of these techniques are highly focused on specific target groups, a further aim is to extract general principles and to generate guidelines for involving users with impairments ... page.aspx?id=blogpost&id2=75 Blogpost evelien.rooms@vub.ac.be (Evelien Rooms) Mon, 07 May 2012 16:20:41 +0200 Is the public broadcasting company, VRT, still relevant in today's society? Prof. Dr. Karen Donders (IBBT-SMIT, Vrije Universiteit Brussels) was invited by the television station TV Limburg to explain more about the VRT and the book "De VRT in de 21ste eeuw: overbodige luxe of maatschappelijke meerwaarde?" (edited by Prof. Dr. Karen Donders and Prof. Dr. Hilde Van den Bulck). Full interview with Karen Donders (10/04/2012 - sTudio TVL - TV Limburg): page.aspx?id=blogpost&id2=74 Blogpost evelien.rooms@vub.ac.be (Evelien Rooms) Mon, 23 Apr 2012 15:14:00 +0200 What about our privacy? Will they be able to find everything about our bank account, mobile phone, customer's card, ... on the Internet? Do we need to be paranoid? Prof. Dr. Jo Pierson (IBBT-SMIT, Vrije Universiteit Brussel) explains more about this privacy issue. page.aspx?id=blogpost&id2=73 Blogpost evelien.rooms@vub.ac.be (Evelien Rooms) Wed, 18 Apr 2012 15:55:16 +0200 Early March, researcher Jonas De Meulenaere (IBBT-SMIT, Vrije Universiteit Brussel) presented a paper on the selection of video content in the digital era on the "What is Television?" conference in Portland (OR), USA. This paper focuses on how viewers decide what to watch in a context of almost infinite availability of video content and investigates to what extent viewers apply an active search process towards video content. Relevant factors in this process are the role of gatekeepe ... page.aspx?id=blogpost&id2=72 Blogpost evelien.rooms@vub.ac.be (Evelien Rooms) Thu, 05 Apr 2012 14:42:04 +0200 Just after the bus accident that killed 22 childeren and 6 adults, the chief- editor of the Flemish newspaper ‘Het Nieuwsblad’, Liesbeth Van Impe, decided to publish all the pictures of the victims on the front page of the newspaper. Suddenly Liesbeth Van Impe was in the eye of a media storm. This decision shows the crisis of journalistic ethics. Moral boundaries are fading and the difference between empathy, curiosity, speculation, voyeurism and information will slowly disappear. ... page.aspx?id=blogpost&id2=71 Blogpost evelien.rooms@vub.ac.be (Evelien Rooms) Mon, 26 Mar 2012 17:57:00 +0200 The 4th International Workshop on Business Models for Mobile Platforms (BMMP12) will take place on 11 October 2012 in conjunction with the ICIN 2012 conference in Berlin. The massive migration of data applications towards mobile platforms is leading to great opportunities but also strong challenges for mobile network operators, smartphone providers, mobile web companies, telecom vendors and application developers. Business models are characterised by strong uncertainty and complexity, because ... page.aspx?id=blogpost&id2=70 Blogpost evelien.rooms@vub.ac.be (Evelien Rooms) Thu, 15 Mar 2012 14:50:24 +0200 Is Big Brother watching us? What can we do about it? These questions were asked by Peeters & Pichal on the 9th of March to IBBT-SMIT researcher and EMSOC promotor Jo Pierson. Online privacy has been a hot topic at the moment. Google updated the privacy policy, which enables it to collect a lot of information about a person at once. People are also worried about the new facebook feature ‘Timeline’ which put the lives of all users on display. What’s going on, should w ... page.aspx?id=blogpost&id2=68 Blogpost evelien.rooms@vub.ac.be (Evelien Rooms) Wed, 14 Mar 2012 14:24:00 +0200 More and more cities offer a rental bike service, but most of the time you can only rent regular bicycles. Blue-bike wants to look at the possibilities to integrate more e-bikes into the rental system. They want to set up a system where the users can rent and charge an e-bike without the help of an employee. Read more (in Dutch) page.aspx?id=blogpost&id2=67 Blogpost evelien.rooms@vub.ac.be (Evelien Rooms) Fri, 02 Mar 2012 14:48:00 +0200 From 7 to 31 March 2012, professor Hans T. Blokland will be visiting the Media Studies department of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, as the first Corelio Chairholder "Media and Society". One of the events during professor Blokland’s stay in Brussels is a PhD Seminar on the topic of Media, Pluralism and Democracy.  In this PhD Seminar the central concepts and topics in the work of Hans Blokland, in their relation to the broad field of media, communication and culture, can ... page.aspx?id=blogpost&id2=66 Blogpost evelien.rooms@vub.ac.be (Evelien Rooms) Thu, 23 Feb 2012 10:05:04 +0200 The department of Communication Sciences of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel organizes, in corporation with Corelio, the first Corelio chair "Media en Maatschappij". The theme of this first edition will be "Media, democratie en pluralisme". This event takes place on the 8th of March 2012 at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB Campus Etterbeek, Gebouw D, promotiezaal D.2.01, Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussel). Entrance is free of charge, but registration is required (somuller ... page.aspx?id=blogpost&id2=65 Blogpost evelien.rooms@vub.ac.be (Evelien Rooms) Tue, 21 Feb 2012 14:48:50 +0200 On Friday the 3rd of February IBBT-SMIT, Vrije Universiteit Brussel organized (in colaboration with UGent and ULB) the closing seminar of the International Francqui Professor Chair. Following imported topics were discussed during the seminar: Historical symbolic representations of Belgium Federalism and public sphere in Belgium Representing the nation: Belgian cinema and the politics of identity Media, communication & news consumption in & amongst t ... page.aspx?id=blogpost&id2=64 Blogpost evelien.rooms@vub.ac.be (Evelien Rooms) Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:45:00 +0200 Citadel on the Move is co-funded by the European Commission Information Communication Technologies Policy Support Programme (ICT-PSP) for Smart Cities.  The project makes use of Open Data and Social Media to unleash the innovation potential of citizens to build the type of smart ‘city’ services they want and need. The goal of Citadel on the Move is to demonstrate that it is possible to combine Open Access Data and Mobile Application tools to create ‘smart,’ innova ... page.aspx?id=blogpost&id2=63 Blogpost evelien.rooms@vub.ac.be (Evelien Rooms) Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:59:36 +0200 Not only one big brother keeps an eye on us. We are being watched by lots of Big Brothers and we don't mind. Has privacy becomes something that people just want to nag about?  "Many people are worried about the idea that they are being watched by Big Brother, one institution like the government or industry that effects our private life. In this situation it is clear who is the bad guy. But in our modern society nobody knows who is watching who anymore and what they are doing wit ... page.aspx?id=blogpost&id2=62 Blogpost evelien.rooms@vub.ac.be (Evelien Rooms) Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:22:10 +0200 "Are we all blind to the dangers of digital communication?". This question was asked by journalist Robin Ramaekers in Terzake. Prof. Dr Jo Pierson (IBBT-SMIT, Vrije Universiteit Brussel) explains how every digital word could eventually be used against you. The list with political victims keeps on growing: Ingrid Lieten, Caroline Gennez, Yves Leterme, Frank Vandenbroucke and recently, Philippe Muyters. Watch the full episode of Terzake (Friday January 20th, 2012). page.aspx?id=blogpost&id2=61 Blogpost evelien.rooms@vub.ac.be (Evelien Rooms) Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:28:00 +0200 Gabriels, K., Bauwens, J., & Verstrynge, K. (2011). Second Life, Second Morality? Paper presented as a poster at ‘Etmaal van de Communicatiewetenschap’, Enschede (Universiteit Twente), the Netherlands, January 24-25, 2011. page.aspx?id=publication&id2=1131 Publication katleen.gabriels@vub.ac.be (Katleen Gabriëls) Tue, 08 May 2012 15:05:37 +0200 Gabriels, K. (2012). Living virtual lives: From moral practices to a theory of ethics in social virtual worlds. In I. T. Trivundža, N. Carpentier, H. Nieminen, P. Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt, R. Kilborn, E. Sundin, & T. Olsson (Eds.) (2012). Critical Perspectives on the European Mediasphere. The intellectual work of the 2011 European media and communication doctoral summer school. Ljubljana, Slovenia: Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana Press, p. 279. page.aspx?id=publication&id2=1130 Publication katleen.gabriels@vub.ac.be (Katleen Gabriëls) Tue, 08 May 2012 14:56:49 +0200 Gabriels, K. (2012). Media in tijden van medeleven: Esthetica of ethica? http://www.apache.be/2012/03/19/media-in-tijden-van-medeleven-esthetica-of-ethica/ (19.03.2012). page.aspx?id=publication&id2=1129 Publication katleen.gabriels@vub.ac.be (Katleen Gabriëls) Tue, 08 May 2012 14:53:56 +0200 Bleumers,L., Van den Broeck, W., Lievens, B., Pierson, J. (accepted for EuroITV 2012). Seeing the bigger picture: A user perspective on 360° TV. page.aspx?id=publication&id2=1128 Publication lizzy.bleumers@vub.ac.be (Lizzy Bleumers) Thu, 12 Apr 2012 12:12:01 +0200 Ongenae, F., Duysburgh, P., Vestraete, M., Sulmon, N., Bleumers, L., Jacobs, A., Ackaert, A., De Zutter, S., Verstichel, S., & De Turck, F. (accepted for submission at UCDPHA'12). User-driven design of a context-aware application: an ambient-intelligent nurse call system. page.aspx?id=publication&id2=1127 Publication lizzy.bleumers@vub.ac.be (Lizzy Bleumers) Thu, 12 Apr 2012 12:08:12 +0200 Ongenae, F., Duysburgh, P., Vestraete, M., Sulmon, N., Jacobs, A., Ackaert, A., De Zutter, S., Verstichel, S., & De Turck, F. (accepted for submission at UCDPHA'12). User-driven design of a context-aware application: an ambient-intelligent nurse call system. page.aspx?id=publication&id2=1126 Publication lizzy.bleumers@vub.ac.be (Lizzy Bleumers) Thu, 12 Apr 2012 12:05:10 +0200 Ongenae, F., Bleumers, L., Sulmon, N., Verstraete, M., Van Gils, M., Jacobs, A., De Zutter, S., Verhoeve, P., Ackaert, A., & De Turck, F. (2011). Participatory design of a continuous care ontology: Towards a user-driven ontology engineering methodology. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development held in Paris, France, 26-29 October 2011 (pp. 81-90). Sétubal: SciTEPress Digital Library. page.aspx?id=publication&id2=1125 Publication lizzy.bleumers@vub.ac.be (Lizzy Bleumers) Thu, 12 Apr 2012 11:57:18 +0200 Bleumers, L., Sulmon, S., Ongenae, F., Verstraete, M., Jacobs, A., Van Gils, M., Ackaert, A., & De Zutter, S. (2011). In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (PervasiveHealth) and Workshops held in Dublin, Ireland, 23-26 May 2011 (pp.559 - 562). 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