English publications
book
Nentwich, M., König, R. (2012): Cyberscience 2.0. Research in the Age of Digital Social Networks. Frankfurt/New York: Campus.Articles
Nentwich, M., König, R. (2012): Academia and social network sites, in: Ockenfeld, M., Peters, I. and Weller, K. (Eds.): Social Media und Web Science. Das Web als Lebensraum. 2. DGI-Konferenz, 64. Jahrestagung der DGI, Düsseldorf, 22. bis 23.03 2012, Proceedings, Frankfurt (a.M.): Deutsche Gesellschaft für Informationswissenschaft und Informationspraxis e.V. , 293-303.Download
König, R. (2011): Wikipedia. Participatory knowledge production or elite knowledge representation? Conference paper for Participatory Knowledge Production 2.0: Critical Views and Experiences, international workshop, March 23, 2011, Virtual Knowledge Studio, Maastricht.
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English titles of German publications
For original German titles please see the German version.
Diploma thesis
König, R. (2009): A movement for truth? Social construction of reality in Wikipedia using the example of alternative interpretations of the September 11 attacks. Diploma thesis, Department of sociology, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld
Book chapters and articles
König, R., Nentwich, M. (2012): On the way to cyberscience 2.0. Digital social networks and the future of academia. Soziale Technik 1, 11-14.König, R., Nentwich, M. (2010): Interactive Science. Opportunities and risks of Internet platforms for scholarly communication, Soziale Technik 3, 11-12.
Nentwich, M., König, R. (2010): Peer review 2.0: Challenges and opportunities of academic quality control in the age of cybersciene, in: Gasteiner M. and Haber, P. (Eds.): Digital working techniques for humanities and cultural studies, Vienna/Cologne/Weimar: Böhlau UTB, 143-163.
Research Reports
Nentwich M., König, R. (2011): Academia and Social Network Sites. Report V for the project Interactive Science, Vienna: Institute of Technology Assessment.
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König, R., Nentwich, M. (2010): Google, Google Scholar and Google Books in academia. Report III for the project Interactive Science, Vienna: Institute of Technology Assessment.
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König, R., Nentwich, M. (2009): Science in Wikipedia and other
Wikimedia projects. Report II for the project Interactive Science,
Vienna: Institute of Technology Assessment.
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(including English abstract)
König, R., Nentwich, M. (2008): Academia in Second Life.
Report I for the project Interactive Science, Vienna: Institute of
Technology Assessment.
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Presentations and conference papers
Invited
König, R. (June 30, 2011): Logics of Web 2.0: Potentials for and conflicts with academia, Science 2.0 – How social media changes academia, Interactive Science lecture series, Justus Liebig University, Gießen.König, R. (Nentwich, M.) (June 28, 2011): Social Network Sites – a trend for academia?, In the net of social media: New ways of publishing and communicating on the Internet, Digital Humanities at DHIP #3, international congress at Deutsches Historisches Institut Paris (DHIP) in collaboration with the Centre pour l'édition électronique ouverte, Paris.
Abstract
König, R. (September 25, 2010): Academia and Wikipedia – a forced marriage, Wikipedia: A critical point of view, Leipzig.
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König, R. (September 10, 2009): On the way to democratic science? Thoughts on the term “democracy” in the context of digital scholarly communication, convention of the research alliance Interactive Science: communication formats and their dynamics in digital scholarly communication, Rauischholzhausen.
Refereed
König, R., Nentwich, M. (March 23, 2012): Academia and social network sites, Social Media and Web Science – The Web as a Living Space, 2nd conference by the German Association of Information Science, Düsseldorf.
[see related English publication above]
König, R. (November 25, 2011):
Scholarly communication between innovation and stagnation, The Internet
and the
change of media sectors. Autumn conference of the section “science and
technology studies” of the German Sociological Association, University
of
Stuttgart.
König, R. (March 23, 2011): Wikipedia. Participatory knowledge production or elite knowledge representation?, Participatory Knowledge Production 2.0: Critical Views and Experiences, international workshop, Virtual Knowledge Studio, Maastricht.
[in English, see above]
Other
König, R. (April 25, 2012): The
searching individual. Subjective perspectives between global structures
and
personalization, Black Box Search Engine, Google & co. in the
socio-political context, symposium by the Interdisciplinary Internet
Research
Group at the University of Vienna, MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
[Co-organizer of
the event.]
König, R., Nentwich, M., Puschmann, C. (December 12, 2010): Public science, democratic science? Opportunities and risks of public research and teaching on the Internet, public lecture series of the Interdisciplinary Internet Research Group at the University of Vienna, MuseumsQuartier, Vienna. [Chief organizer of the event.]
König, R. (April 01, 2009): Conspiracy theories on the web, public lecture series of the Interdisciplinary Internet Research Group at the University of Vienna, MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
Newsletter and blog contributions
König, R., 2010, Social Network Sites - a trend for academia?
ITA-Newsletter, December 2010, Vienna: Institute of Technology Assessment.König, R. (2010): "Googling" for science? ITA-Newsletter, March 2010, Vienna: Institute of Technology Assessment.
König, R. (2009): "Ask questions, demand answers!" – The boom of deviant world interpretations on the Internet using the example of 9/11. ITA-Newsletter, September 2009, Vienna: Institute of Technology Assessment.
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König, R. (2008): A second life for science? ITA-Newsletter, December 2008, Vienna: Institute of Technology Assessment.
Media Coverage
Interview with DRadio Wissen [German national radio station] (January 14, 2011): Wikipedia and academia.
Interview with ORF Futurezone [online magazine of Austrian´s
national broadcaster ORF] (July 27, 2010): Google´s relevance for
academia.
Article in Der Standard, No. 21 [national Austrian newspaper] (January 21, 2009): Research in the parallel universe. Technology assessment researchers examine the potentials of "Second Life" for academia.
