In the coming months we will apply Artefact-Actor-Networks to several scientific conferences in order to enhance the attendees’ awareness of what is going on at the conference. These small-scale studies are being carried out under the umbrella of the STELLAR network of excellence.

For doing so we will ask attendees of scientific conferences (e.g. EC-TEL 2010 and ED-MEDIA 2010) to submit some of their online handles during the registration process. The organizers of the conferences will then send those online handles to our team so we can feed the AANalyzer application with the data. All data submitted will be exclusively used for the purpose of analyzing the structure and dynamics of a scientific community. Furthermore we will give all conference attendees access to the AANalyzer tool.

For now we are asking conference attendees for the following online handles:

• Twitter account
• Delicious account
• Slideshare account
• LinkedIn account
• Facebook account
• URL of their weblog

We’ll combine this information with data about location and affiliation of the conference attendees.

Furthermore we will try to monitor the TEL community. So if you feel like belonging to that community and are willing to participate in our studies feel free to contact me via the comments or by mail.

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