Next week I will be going to a conference in Urbino called “Modernity 2.0″ - the topic is socio-cybernetics and many papers seem to be related to Luhmann, Gordon Pask and similar; I will be presenting the paper “The Obama campaign on Facebook: playful conversation, trust, and civic engagement in social networks”, wanting to explain some aspects of the culture of play visible in social networks, and how this can possibly influence electors.
There will be at least another three papers on various aspects of Barack Obama election campaign, so it is going to be an interesting and challenging event.
The conference is organized by Fabio Giglietto and Michael Pateau, and two of the keynote speakers are Danah Boyd and Giuseppe Longo.
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