Today I have received an email telling me “natldialogue (natldialogue) is now following your updates on Twitter”. Obviously, I check the link http://twitter.com/natldialogue; its bio description states “How should we protect personal privacy and expand the use of information technology to improve health care?” and its link that points me to A National Dialogue On… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Internet
Internet Research 9.0: Rethinking Community, Rethinking Space. Key speaker: Mimi Ito
Notes from the conference: Internet Research 9.0: Rethinking Community, Rethinking Space. Copenhagen October 15 – 18, 2008. Mimi Ito: Hanging Out, Messing Around and Geeking Out: Youth Participation in Networked Publics. Mimi Ito is a cultural anthropologist studying new media use, particularly among young people in Japan and the US. Her research right now focuses… Read more »
For sale: Health revolution by John Grohol
I strongly recommend reading John Grohol’s post from e-patient blog entitled For Sale: Revolution Health. In short health is more than a bussines even in the network society era. Why is Steve Case’s online health venture already looking to sell itself, just a year and a half after it launched? Yet another tale of hubris… Read more »
The digital eHealth divide or The e-patient paradox?
Yesterday PEW INTERNET & AMERICAN LIFE PROJECT launched a new report entitled The Engaged E-patient Population written by Susannah Fox. It has to be said that PEW INTERNET, specially Sussanah Fox, is leading probably the best monitoring of Health and the Internet in United State. She has been launching surveys and analizing date since 2000… Read more »
Society, Health and the Internet references
This post will be for sure my longest post ever. I would like to share my thesis’s references. You could also find them at my personal references manager. Enjoy them! REFERENCIAS · Alonso, J.L. et al. (2003). “Estudio del Web”. En: Cibermetría: nuevas técnicas de estudio aplicables al Web. Gijón: Ediciones TREA, págs. 27-80. ·… Read more »
Working on empirical evidence of Health 2.0
Lately I have quit blogging (not smoking, what a shame!) because I have focused exclusively on my thesis. On 1st September I must finish the first drat to present it to my thesis advisor. I’m working hard (factorial analysis, cluster analysis and Logit model) with data bases from E-Health and Society: An Empirical Study of… Read more »
Drojnet International Seminar presentation
As I mentioned before, I have been invited to participate in the International Seminar “Aplicación de las nuevas tecnologías a la prevención y asistencia en adicciones (”New technologies applications to prevention and assistance of addictions” (26th and 27th, June). Here goes my presentation: | View | Upload your own
Medical consultation 2.0
As a result of Health and Web 2.0 in the Information Age Conference: from empirical data to Web 2.0 trends, three videos and two power point presentations are available. Furthermore, the conference’s speaker and I had a interesting conversation with Salvador Tordera, a journalist from Open University of Catalonia. A few days ago, Salvador has… Read more »
Participative Web and User-Created Content. WEB 2.0, WIKIS AND SOCIAL NETWORKING
Little by little Web 2.0 movement is being approached by theory and empirical data. As an example of empirical data approachs, OECD has launched Participative Web and User-Created Content. Web 2.0, wikis and social networking The concept of the “participative web” is based on an Internet increasingly influenced by intelligent web services that empower users… Read more »
Shaping Policies for Creativity, Confidence and Convergence in the Digital World. OECD Ministerial Meeting
On 17-18 June 2008 in Seoul holds OECD Ministerial Meeting: The Future of the Internet Economy The Internet is a key infrastructure for global economic growth and social development. Three major trends – Convergence, Creativity and Confidence – are influencing the policy environment for the Internet Economy. Each of these trends reflects significant shifts in… Read more »