Upcoming Conference & Workshop:
Social Cities of Tomorrow
Amsterdam February 14-17 2012
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Martijn de Waal (1972) is a writer, researcher and strategist, working in the field of digital media and (urban) culture. He has worked with and for various clients and organizations such as The Netherlands Architecture Institute, Open Society Foundation, The Architectural League of New York, Lift@Home, Kitchen Budapest, The Mondriaan Foundation and Dutch Public Broadcasting. He is part of the New Media, Public Sphere and Urban Culture research group at the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Groningen, and connected to the department of mediastudies at the University of Amsterdam. In 2009 he was a visiting scholar at MIT's Center for Future Civic Media.
The social web and the public sphere
Trebor Scholz is an interesting thinker and cultural critic on all things web 2.0. He is currently teaching a class on The Social Web, which addresses issues such as social networks and the public sphere. Although it is mainly about life online, many of the issues are also very relevant for scholars of the mobile city. I found this slide show of one of his classes particular interesting.