I4
Interactivity / Information / Interfaces / Immersion

International Research Conference
J W Goethe University
Institute of Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology

Organized by:

Research Network for Media Anthropology / FAME Frankfurt
October 24–26, 2007

 
Even before the emergence of social software, web logs and wikis, it was clear that digital communication technologies are, in essence, complex social software programs with the power to change people’s perception, the way people experience their environment, their ability to abstract, their rules of trust, and much more besides. Whereas the 1980s and 1990s were marked by “quasi-social” connections between people that occurred en passant, by strategies of urban artistic “repurposing” (Digital Amsterdam), by a conspiracy of Internet-using consumers, and by a user-based cyber society, the situation has now changed fundamentally.