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Web network location software - scenarios of use
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social life of issues workshops
design & media research fellowship, Jan van Eyck
preferred placement book
netlocator software
link language
the rogue and rogued video
symposium
information society initiative
lay decision support system
issue barometer
web issue index
election issue tracker


Readings and Maps


Books and Articles - Full List

R. Rogers, "Das Ende des Virtuellen: Digitale Methoden," Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft. 2, 5, 2011, 61-77. [pdf]

R. Rogers, "Internet Research: The Question of Method," Journal of Information Technology and Politics, 7, 2/3, 2010, 241-260. [pdf]

R. Rogers and A. Ben-David, "Coming to Terms: A conflict analysis of the usage, in official and unofficial sources, of 'security fence,' 'apartheid wall,' and other terms for the structure between Israel and the Palestinian Territories," Media, Conflict & War, 2, 3, 2010. [pre-print]

R. Rogers, "Post-demografisch onderzoek: voorbij het doelgroepdenken." De Gids, 3, 2010, 344-355. [pdf]

R. Rogers, "Mapping Public Web Space with the Issuecrawler," in: Claire Brossard and Bernard Reber (eds.), Digital Cognitive Technologies: Epistemology and Knowledge Society. London: Wiley, 2010, 115-126. [pre-print pdf]

R. Rogers, F. Jansen, M. Stevenson and E. Weltevrede, "Social Research with the Web," Global Informaton Society Watch 2009, Association for Progressive Communications and Hivos, 2009. [pre-print pdf]

R. Rogers, The End of the Virtual: Digital Methods, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2009. (38p) [pre-print pdf]

M. Stevenson and R. Rogers, "Digital Methods: First Steps," EASST Review, 28, 2, 2009, 4-6. [html]

R. Rogers, "Post-demographic Machines," in: Annet Dekker and Annette Wolfsberger (eds.), Walled Garden. Amsterdam: Virtueel Platform, 2009, 29-39. [pre-print pdf] [published version]

R. Rogers and A. Dekker, "Mapping ECulture, eCultuur, E-cultuur, or e-culture," in: Annet Dekker and Annette Wolfsberger (eds.), Mapping E-Culture. Amsterdam: Virtueel Platform, 2009, 10-15. [pdf]

R. Rogers, "The Googlization Question, and the Inculpable Engine," in K. Becker and F. Stalder (eds.), Deep Search: The Politics of Search Engines beyond Google, Edison, NJ: Transaction, 2009, 173-184. [pdf]

R. Rogers, "The Internet Treats Censorship as a Malfunction and Routes around it? A New Media Approach to the Study of State Internet Censorship," in J. Parikka and T. Sampson (eds.), The Spam Book: On Viruses, Porn, and Other Anomalies from the Dark Side of Digital Culture, Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 2009, 229-247. [pdf]


R. Rogers, "Consumer technology after surveillance theory," in J. Kooijman, P. Pisters and W. Strauven (eds.), Mind the Screen: Media Concepts according to Thomas Elsaesser, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2008, 288-296. [pdf]

N. Marres and R. Rogers, "Subsuming the Ground: How Local Realities of the Ferghana Valley, Narmada Dams and BTC Pipeline are put to use on the Web," Economy & Society, 37, 2, 2008, 251-281 [pdf]

R. Rogers and A. Ben-David, "The Palestinian-Israeli peace process and trans-national issue networks: the complicated place of the Israeli NGO," New Media & Society, 10, 1, 2008, 41-72 [pdf] [summary]

R. Rogers, The Politics of Web Space (unpublished ms., 2008)

R. Rogers, "Faire la cartographie de l'espace public sur le Web à l'aide de Issuecrawler," Humanités Numérique, Vol. 1. Nouvelles technologies cognitives et épistémologie, Eds., C. Brossaud and B. Reber, Paris: Hermes, 2007, 117-127. [pdf]

Govcom.org, "Issue Celebrities," What Happens to the Issue when a Celebrity Endorses it?, 2007 (view story and movie)

N. Marres, "The Issue Deserves more Credit: Pragmatist Contributions to the Study of Public Involvement in Controversy," Social Studies of Science, 37, 5, 2007, 759-780. [pdf]

R. Rogers et al., Issue Mapping & Essay: "Public Media Projects and their Publics" (Ford Foundation with American University), 2007 [html]

N. Marres, "Net-Work is Format Work: Issue Networks as Sites of Global Civil Society Politics," in: Dean, J., Andersen, J. and Lovink, G., Reformatting Politics: Information Technology and Global Civil Society. New York: Routledge, 2006, pp. 3-18. [pdf]

R. Rogers and S. Niederer, "Consumer Technology After Surveillance Theory," 2006. [pdf]

Govcom.org, "The Places of Issues. Issue Crawler backend movie," Making Things Public: Atmospheres of Democracy, Exhibition, ZKM Center for Arts and Media, Karlsruhe, 2005. (view movie)

R. Rogers, "Old and New Media: Competition and Political Space," Theory &
Event
, 8, 2, 2005. (pdf) (html) (newspapers publishing astroturf)

R. Rogers, "Poignancy in the U.S. Political Blogsphere," Aslib Proceedings, 57, 4, 2005, 356-368. (pdf)

N. Marres and R. Rogers, "Recipe for Tracing the Fate of Issues and their Publics on the Web," in B. Latour and P. Weibel, eds., Making Things Public: Atmospheres of Democracy, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2005, 922-935. (pdf)

R. Rogers, "New Media Effects: Do Formats Organize Networks?," Complexity, 10, 5, 2005, 22-34. (pdf) (abstract)


R. Rogers, Information Politics on the Web, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2004. (chapter one - pdf)


N. Marres and R. Rogers,
"Subsuming the Ground: How Local Realities of the Ferghana Valley, the Narmada Dams and the BTC Pipeline are put to use on the Web," Social Science Research Council, New York, unpublished ms., 2004. (pdf)


R. Rogers,
"When Public Debate Meets Government," EASST Review, 23, 1, March 2004.


R. Rogers,
"Why Map? The Techno-epistemological outlook," Media Design Research, Piet Zwart Institute, Willem de Kooning Academy Hogeschool Rotterdam, March 2004.


N. Marres,
Tracing the Trajectory of Issues and their Democratic Deficits on the Web: The Case of the Development Gateway and its Doubles, Information, Technology and People, 17, 2, 2004, 124-149. (pdf)


R. Rogers et al., "The News about Networks," Proceedings from the workshop, de Balie, Amsterdam, December 2003.


N. Marres,
Net-work is Format Work: The Issue-Network as a Site of Politics and the Challenge of Making Info-Technology Part of Civil Society (Memo), Social Science Research Council, New York 2003. (pdf)


R. Rogers et al.,
"The Problem of the Information Format (for Networks)," Proceedings from the workshop, Association of Progressive Communications (APC), Cartagena, Colombia, October 2003.


R. Rogers, "The Viagra Files: The Web as Anticipatory Medium," Prometheus, 21, 2, 2003, 195-212. (pdf)


N. Marres,
"May the true victim of defacement stand up! On reading the network configurations of scandal on the Web," in B. Latour and P. Weibel, eds., Iconoclash, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2002, 486-489. (pdf)



N. Marres, "Why take the detour? A small exercise in tracing displacements of protest, and issues, accross the Web," Multitudes, 9, 2002. (html)


R. Rogers,
"Towards a Live Social Science on the Web," EASST Review, 21, 3/4, 2002, 8-11.


R. Rogers
, "Operating Issue Networks on the Web," Science as Culture, 11, 2, 2002, 191-214. (pdf)


R. Rogers and N. Marres
, "French scandals on the Web, and on the streets: A small experiment in stretching the limits of reported reality," Asian Journal of Social Science, 30, 2, 2002, 339-353. (pdf)


R. Rogers and A. Zelman
, "Surfing for Knowledge in the Information Society," in G. Elmer, ed., Critical Perspectives on the Internet, Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002, 63-86. (pdf)


R. Rogers
, ed., Preferred Placement - Knowledge Politics on the Web, Jan van Eyck Editions, Maastricht, 2000.


R. Rogers
, "Wissenschaftler-Internet-Selbstdarstellung," ("The Embarassment of the Web. Scientists' Personal Homepages"), Heureka, Vienna, May 2000, 18-19.


Govcom.org
, "The Netlocator," Design & Media Research Fellowship, Jan van Eyck Akademie, Maastricht, 1999-2000 (web network location software that returns co-linked sites and reveals networks of organizations around societal issues).


Govcom.org, "GM Food Debate Map," Design & Media Research Fellowship, Jan van Eyck Akademie, Maastricht, 1999-2000, inserted in Preferred Placement. Revised 2005 (jpg) (pdf)


R. Rogers, "Internet & Society in Armenia & Azerbaijan? Web games and a chronicle of an infowar," FirstMonday, 5, 9, 2000, published simultaneously in the EASST Review, 19, 3, 2000, 3-7.


N. Marres and R. Rogers, "Depluralising the Web, Repluralising Public Debate. The GM Food Debate on the Web," in R. Rogers, ed., Preferred Placement, Jan van Eyck Editions, Maastricht, 2000, 113-135.


R. Rogers and I. Morris, "In the Bubble: Operating the Internet with Socio-Epistemological Logics," in R. Rogers, ed., Preferred Placement, Jan van Eyck Editions, Maastricht, 2000, 145-157.


R. Rogers and N. Marres, "Landscaping Climate Change: A mapping technique for understanding science & technology debates on the World Wide Web," Public Understanding of Science, 9, 2, 2000, 141-163. (pdf)


N. Marres and R. Rogers, "To Trace or to Rub? Screening the Web Navigation Debate," Mediamatic, 9/10, 4/1, 1999, 117-120.


R. Rogers, Technological Landscapes, Royal College of Art, London, 1999.


R. Rogers, "Whither Public Participation in Technology?," EASST Review, 17, 4, December 1998, 40-43.


R. Rogers, "Playing with Search Engines and making lowly information into knowledge," Mediamatic, 9, 2/3, 1998, 122-130.


R. Rogers, "An STS Meets the Academy of Museum Studies at the Science & Technology Center," EASST Review, 16, 4, December 1997, 13-16.


R. Rogers, "The Future of Science and Technology Studies on the Web," EASST Review, 15, 2, June 1996, 25-27.


Issue Network Maps (and other Issue Mappings)

The Demise of the Directory - Web Librarian Work Removed in Google (May 2008) [pdf]

A Website is Gone - The Drama of 911truth.org in Search Engine Space (September 2007) [html]

Celebrities Have Favorite Issues - Quantity of Celebrity Endorsement per Issue (February 2007) [pdf]

Celebrities Have Favorite Charities
- Quantity of Celebrity Endorsement per Charity (February 2007) [pdf]

Leaky Content: An Approach to Show Blocked Content on Unblocked Sites in Pakistan
- The Baloch Case (November 2006) [method pdf]

Leaky Content: An Approach to Show Blocked Content on Unblocked Sites in Pakistan - The Baloch Case (November 2006) [story pdf]

Leaky Content: An Approach to Show Blocked Content on Unblocked Sites in Pakistan - The Baloch Case (November 2006) [story pdf]

Two Providers, Two Internets. The Case of the United Arab Emirates (November 2006) [pdf]

The Internet Treats Censorship as a Malfunction and Routes around it? A Semi-manual Approach to Internet Censorship Circumnavigation (June 2005) [updated pdf]

A Censor's Network: Iranian Social, Political and Religious Sites: A Hyperlink Analysis Method for Censored Website Discovery (June 2006) [updated pdf]

Coming to Terms: Conflict Analysis of the usage, in official and unofficial sources, of 'security fence,' 'apartheid wall,' and other terms for the structure between Israel and the Palestinian Territories. (2004-2005) [six-piece pdf set]

Press Freedom Network, U.S. (January 2006) [svg]

Media Reform Network, U.S. (January 2006) [svg]

Media Justice Network, U.S. (January 2006) [svg]

Palestinian NGO Network (December 2005) [svg]

Cindy Sheehan Anti-war Network on the Web (September 2005) [svg]

Image Clash: Apartheid Wall and Security Fence (July 2005) [pdf]

What the Hack Extended Event Network Map (July 2005) [wiki]

Communication Rights Network Clippings (May 2005) [pdf]

Digital Divide Cartogram (May 2005) [pdf]

Divide Divide Cartogram (inverted) (May 2005) [pdf]

Internet Governance Debates (in the form of statement juxtapositions): Ruling Bodies (May 2005) [pdf]

Internet Governance Debates (in the form of statement juxtapositions): Name Space (May 2005) [pdf]

Is e-governance a women's issue? (May 2005) [pdf]

Issue Couplings for WSIS: Inserting gender, development and rights into ICT (May 2005) [pdf]

Hyperlink Economy (1, 2) (May 2005) [pdf updated]

Communication Rights - WSIS Tunis: Web network of organizers (November 2004) [svg]

Israeli "Security Fence": Which news sources use which terms for the "fence"? (June 2004) [gif] [pdf] [paper]

Baku-Tblisi-Ceyhan (BTC) Pipeline: News analysis (June 2004) [gif] [pdf] [paper ref - pdf]

The State of U.S. Democracy: Relationships between advocates' budgets and activities in the Media Concentration oppositional space (June 2004) [gif] [pdf]

Political Blogsphere - U.S. (June 2004) [blog list (gif)] [blogsphere network map (gif)] [lexical analysis (gif)] [semantic analysis (gif)]

Dutch Political Parties configuring around issues in European Parliamentary Elections (June 2004) [by party (gif)] [by political orientation (gif)] [by party standing (gif)]

FCC Public Hearings: Diversity, Localism and Public Interest (June 2004) [blogsphere analysis (gif)] [news analysis (gif)]

FCC and Public Interest Blogtalk (June 2004) [gif]

Privacy Issue Actors on the Web (May 2004) [svg] [get svg plug-in]

Climate Change: U.S. groups in International Context (January 2004) [pdf]

Moveon.org and "Bush Lies" (November 2003) [gif] [story]

Premediation: The News and the Usage of 'inevitability' (November 2003) [gif] [story]

Democracy as Third-world Issue (November 2003) [gif] [story]

Media Reform around the World (November 2003) [gif] [story]

Media Reform Actors on the Web, Madison event (November 2003) [cluster gif] [circle gif] [story]

Minority Media Ownership Actors on the Web (November 2003) [gif] [story]

ICTs and Civil Society: A comparison of the news and Web spaces organized by "ICT" versus "IT" (November 2003) [gif] [findings summary] [story]

The Spectrum: Doing quite well without news (November 2003) [gif] [story] [pdf]

North Korea: Which stories are not told (in the U.S.)? (November 2003) [gif] [pdf] [story] [publication]

North-South Issue Geography: New World Map (October 2003) [pdf]

The Downing of the Al-Jazeera Website and the networks that organized around APC's press statement (October 2003) [pdf]

APC's issues, 1991-2003 (October 2003) [gif] [story]

APC network actors and issues (October 2003) [gif] [story (as above)]

WSIS Geneva PrepComs - Textual Analysis (October 2003) [gif] [story]

WSIS Geneva Establishment Actor Network on the Web (October 2003) [jpg] [story]

E-governance, Democracy and Women. Does "e-governance" aid in organizing women's networks? (October 2003) [jpg] [story]

Singapore Issues - G8 Summit Cancun. Analysis of the 130 opening day speeches (October 2003) [jpg] [story] [pdf]

Sustainable Development in Colombia - Actors (October 2003) [jpg] [story]

Burma News: Who's telling which stories? (September 2003) [pdf]

Summer Source
: Software Camp for NGOs - "Who connects NGOs and Open Source?," Tactical Technology Collective, Island of Vis, Croatia, August/September, 2003. See also source of map.


Child Labour (May 2001 and August 2003). Cartographer's log files, 2001/2003.

Tobacco Control Networks on the Web: Regional network fragmentation owing to competition betwen global network-builders? (December 2002) [pdf]

Tuberculosis Networks on the Web (showing the relative penetration of the DOTS+ Treatment Program for MDR-TB across the extended Stop TB network) (December 2002) [pdf]

HIV-AIDS in Russia (with the connections to Ukraine and the Baltics) (December 2002) [pdf]

Sklyarov versus Adobe on the Web: Reading the Configurations of Scandal (June 2002) [pdf] [paper]

Ruckus Techtools Action Camp: Who's here? Who should be here? (June 2002). Map explanation and photo. [final map and data set pdf].

Gender Violence and NGO Authenticity (May 2002) [story and maps] [final map pdf]

Internet Governance Map (and the current and future place of the Global Internet Policy Initiative [GIPI]) (May 2002) [story and maps]

Development Gateway - Did the Gateway become a Gateway? (May 2002) [story and maps] [pdf paper]

Enron - How to resist issue decline? (May 2002) [story and maps]

Corporate Social Responsibility (May 2002) [story and maps]

Anti-Corruption (November 2001)

Energy Policy - Cheney/Bush (November 2001)

Issues in the Ferghana Valley (Uzbekistan) according to the Web (November 2001) [gif1] [gif2] [pdf]

Climate Change Issue Network [pdf] and discourse sketch, (June/November 2001).

Karabagh Conflict: Azeri View (November 2001)

Media Freedom under Threat (November 2001) [pdf]

Georgia Independent Media Issue (November 2001) [pdf]

HIV-AIDS in Russia (April 2001)


Map Sets in Presentation Form -

News Talk and Blog Talk
(windows PC recommended, or mozilla on the mac) - Eight Conversations about Politics in Media, News about Networks 2 workshop, de Balie Center for Culture and Politics, Amsterdam, June 2004. See also blog analysis thoughts [html].

All-American Issues: Seven Stories from the Homeland (windows PC recommended, or mozilla on the mac), News about Networks workshop, de Balie Center for Culture and Politics, Amsterdam, November 2003. See also written report, "Can we do without news?" [html] [pdf].

Issue Network Interventions: The Problem of the Information Format (windows PC recommended, or mozilla on the mac), workshop with the Association for Progressive Communications (APC), Cartagena, Colombia, October 2003. See also written report, "Do formats organize networks" [html] [pdf] and issue network information formats matrix [html].

The Network Effects of Civil Society (Politics) (May 2002)


Experimental -

Issue Network Evolution [swf] (Autumn, 2004)










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