Jocene – cck08

The following is an abstract for the ERCM Conference next year. I need to put this in my blog so I can link to it in my electronic application, and therefore retain the formatting – yeiks!
(Secret and password protected) Diary of a Web 2.0 Novice – A Subtextual Phenomenon.
 
Web 2.0 social media tools, such as [...]

22nd December, 2008.
Philosophers such as Whitehead have argued that life is a process. Nothing stands still – except sometimes in my mind when I recall, not the event, but a memory of it. Like some drag-queen  parody,  a distorted reality, that changes its disguise to suit my fancy. This is my subjective experience.
But sometimes [...]

We place a lot of importance on what others think. We win degrees, awards and self-esteem through the opinions (or whims, or prejudices) of our esteemed judges. But how do they know?
In an early blog,  David Jones http://davidtjones.wordpress.com/page/4/ referred to an article by Cronholm and Goldkuhl about strategies for information systems evaluation. They have conveniently created [...]

I would just like to mention that I bought a hat last week, from one of those trendy surf shops, that I would never normally go in to. The hat was handed to me in a colourful bag, branded with Billabong’s slogan:
“Be who you want to be.”
Was it that marketing innovation that somehow, subliminally caused me [...]