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Veen, W. 2009. Blending Minds2Meet. GLOBALU.
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Spaces of Interaction: An Online Conversation on Improving Traditional Conferences (SPACES)
February 2009
  George Siemens
GLOBALU

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Wim Veen, Delft University of Technology, USA

Abstract

Nowadays’ youngsters have grown up with technology as a commodity for playing, communication, information and for learning. Many of them act within virtual environments and have developed virtual identities as an extension of Self (Second Life, WOW, Facebook, Plaxo, Plazes, Twitter, Dopplr etc.) Wim Veen argues that their online behavior and their virtual presence in cyber space has fostered the development of competencies that former generations could only do within a restricted realm of physical presence. For this generation, called Homo Zappiens, scarcity of reaching out, communications and resources has vanished to a large extent; Homo Zappiens lives in human and technical networks that provide new opportunities to act share and co-create knowledge and expertise. How do these uses of technologies influence conferences? As virtual presence is no lesser part of life than physical presence, conferences will have to integrate these two worlds. Wim will present the way he thinks future conferences are going to look like.

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