Current Developments in Web 2.0

The Hans-Bredow-Institute is presenting this series of lectures at the University of Hamburg, Hörsaal C, ESA 1, starting on Monday, 20.10.08, 6.00-8.00 pm, entry is free and you don’t need to register.

• Monday, 20 October 2008
  “Anyone can edit“: Users become Producers.
  Dr. Axel Bruns (Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane)
• Thursday, 13 November 2008
  Being personally public in Web 2.0. Development, Form, Consequences
  Dr. Jan-Hinrik Schmidt (Hans-Bredow-Institute of Media Research, Hamburg)
• Thursday, 20 November 2008
  Re-publicize this! Web 2.0 or Quietly Privatising Basic Digital Services
  Sebastian Deterding, M.A. (University of Utrecht)
• Thursday, 27 November 2008
  Digital Self-Depiction: Managing Identity and Controlling personal Information
  Dipl.-Pol. Ralf Bendrath (Technical University of Delft)

“Web 2.0” is what we call current, innovative applications and usage in the Internet, and with it we imply a radical break with earlier phases of what we do online. People are currently discussing the effects on commerce, politics, journalism and on civil society from various perspectives – the Hans-Bredow-Institute’s lecture series on “Current Developments in Web 2.0” approaches them via social and communication studies .

Four lectures pose a range of questions to show how both we are currently looking at qualitatively new phenomena, and where earlier phases of the Internet’s development possibly continue to predominate.

Venue: Hörsaal C in the University Main Building, Edmund-Siemers-Allee
1, 20146 Hamburg