Tag: personal manifesto
A mobile researcher’s manifesto: be mobile, move around, get out of (your) boxes
As Mark Twain aptly puts it, “travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness […]. Broad, wholesome and charitable views of men cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little…
A mobile researcher’s manifesto: investigate things that matter
The Ig Nobel prizes are hilarious, I know, but eventually, the joke is on us, researchers. Seriously, is there no better use for our time, creative energies and financial resources than…
A mobile researcher’s manifesto: balance research with other aspects of life
One year ago, 1 AM in a hotel in Milan. I am alone and having a breakdown. I have been locked inside for 3 days since I got here and…
Addendum to “Do not hide who you are” – the privilege and risk of being visible
“…and if I could, I would open up a research institute that would see and set visibility and all those values as institutionalised assets. However, at the same time, the…
A mobile researcher’s manifesto: do not hide who you are
Today, I am starting to publicise bits of my personal manifesto as a mobile social researcher; the values at the core of my ethos are radical self-expression and visibility, integration…