Following Cow Paths

November 16, 2006 on 3:00 pm | | In Conference, Emergent Semantics, General, Social Software, Software, Web2.0 | Comments Off

I’m here at the 2nd Symposium on Media Informatics in Bonn “Cow Paths: Agency in Social Software”. The main thing it is about is social software, but well … it has something to do with multimedia and metadata: According to Marc Smith, a sociologist from Microsoft Research, people leave traces (in bits and bytes) -> people start recording their lives in different aspects: sounds, images, videos, text, etc. Furthermore they generate a lot of patterns and metadata from their behavior. In a sense this allows more and more social studies … and it allows to infere semantics from different dimensions of user generated metadata. (see also their project netscan)
This process is discussed in length within the workshop on the symposium, which we (Armin Ulbrich and myself) are giving tomorrow … so stay tuned (we will post the slides on the portal associated to the event and give the link here to).

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