SocialSoftware. Game Theory -Is there an ideal strategy for winning the war on t. Before the events of September 11th, my plan was to do October's essay on game theory. After September 11th, I decided to do something mathematical as it relates to the events. My first thought was to focus on rare scares and rare scare mongering that is going on in reaction to the terrorist attacks. Habermas and/against the Internet.
One of the advertised highlights of last year's International Communication Association conference, which I attended, was the keynote lecture by communication studies warhorse Jürgen Habermas.
For most of us in the audience, this was an only moderately enjoyable experience, however - unfortunately, the acoustics of the plenary hall combined with Habermas's accent and pronounced lisp meant that much of the lecture was very difficult to understand, even in spite (?) Of the Powerpoint slides (photos of some of which I included in my blog post at the time). I think it's fair to say that what we were able to make out didn't exactly fill my colleagues and me with the obvious awe expressed by some of the more ardent Habermasians in the audience. The keynote speech has now been published in the 16.4 (November 2006) issue of the ICA's journal Communication Theory, and I've now had a chance to examine it in some more detail ( a transcript of his lecture text can also be found here).