Computational Culture

Internationale Konferenz vom 22. - 24.3.2006 der Fachhochschule Köln und Electronic Arts:
Die internationale Fachtagung „Clash of Realities. Computerspiele und soziale Wirklichkeit“ will den Focus auf Computerspiele neu einstellen und die Aufmerksamkeit auch und insbesondere auf die Potentiale der Spiele richten.

In der öffentlichen Diskussion werden Computerspiele zumeist kritisch betrachtet. Auswirkung, Gewalt und die „fehlende“ ethische Qualität vieler Spiele dominieren die Diskussion. Ursache hierfür ist die Unkenntnis der breiten Öffentlichkeit hinsichtlich der Computerspiele. Zudem gestaltet sich die Vermittlung wissenschaftlicher Forschungsergebnisse in der Öffentlichkeit schwierig. Wissenschaftlich angemessene Aussagen können gewöhnlich nicht in einem Satz zusammengefasst werden.
Die internationale Fachtagung „Clash of Realities. Computerspiele und soziale Wirklichkeit“ möchte dem entgegen wirken und behandelt vielfältige Themenaspekte, bspw. Wirkung und Transfer von Computerspielen, informelle Bildungsprozesse, die Faszination und Motivation jugendlicher Spieler, Online-Spiele, Geschlechterstereotypen und schulbezogene Einflüsse.

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Tagungsprogramm

Done! You can download the CeBIT06-talk including some facts and figures about the audience here.
Click to listen to the talk (in German).
Also a must: Johnny Haeusler’s talk and the podium discussion there (Link to Spreeblick).

I will talk about Computational Culture and Social Computing in about 4 hours. The talk will include interactive elements. The results will be posted here around 6 pm.

Browsing high quality netaudio derived from AI-Algorithms. This video was made at the largest IT-fair in Germany, the CeBIT.

Jon “maddog” Hall is the Executive Director of Linux International, a non-profit organization of computer vendors who wish to support and promote the Linux operating system. The nickname “maddog” was given to him by his students at Hartford State Technical College, where he was the Department Head of Computer Science. He now prefers to be called by this name.
Today I met “maddog” here at CEBIT, he was scouting opensource stuff for workshops and the LINUX world conference. German COMPUTATIONAL CULTURE is now on his radar!
More about him.

In the afternoon of CeBIT-Sunday, March 12, Future Talk addresses “Blogs, Computational Culture, Web 2.0″ and Dr. Stephan Baumann presents “Computational Culture and Social Software” (March 12, 15:00 - 15:20). The work of DFKI in C4 (Competence Center Computational Culture) will be shown at our own DFKI booth in Hall 9, B45. The discussion format “Steamtalks: 60 Minutes of Future” was chosen by the panel members Reinhard Karger, Lars Cords (fischerAppelt Kommunikation, Press Speaker for “Du bist Deutschland”), Johnny Haeusler (Creative DFKI in Future Talk at CeBIT 2006 Director, Spreeblick Verlag), and Stefan Keuchel (Press Speaker, Google Deutschland) for the topic “Du bist Blogging” (March 12, 15:40 - 16:40).

I was part of this year’s Workshop on Mobile Music Technology. The event was limited to 25 participants in order to guarantee high quality and a real working atmosphere. Instead of defining the state of the art in this field by means of “music on mobile devices”, the community has a much broader and deeper sense of the term. The range of applications shown included: ad-hoc networks in urban space such as the tactical sound garden, social and locative media related to music, sensor-controlled mobile music, group jams on mobile phones, etc. We were introducing our project BluetunA for people match based on musical taste. It is a joint successor project combining former TunA project (MIT medialab Europe) and the MPEER project (DFKI Kaiserslautern).
The program is available here, an update with .pdfs and images will be available soon.