About Cybernormer
Cybernormer is a research group within the field of Sociology of Law that aims to explore the norm creating processes (social and legal) that appear in the wake of the changing information technology.
First and formost it is about exploring the gap and the distance that today is at risk of emerging between the traditional society’s rules and the social norms that are generated within the framework of young net cultures.
The group consists of researchers at the Department of Sociology of Law at Lund University along with a number of collabrative partners. Stiftelsen för kunskaps- och kompetensutveckling and Ericsson AB are among others involved in the collaboration.
The aim with the page Cybernormer.se is to create a venue for knowledge and discussions around how Internet creates new norms in society. Social norms that spontanily grow within different net cultures, but also norms in the shape of legislation aiming to regulate and control activities on the internet.
The blog covers our research within this field. We want to create debate and discussion around the questions that surround the project and the research results that are generated within in it. Occasionally we will invite interesting guests to write on the blog to increase the analytical width.
For more, see this post.
Cybernorms.net- The Research Bay closed, for this time 12 May 2012At 0900 o’clock Saturday morning local time we closed the survey that we have had promoted on The Pirate Bay, called The Research Bay. After 72 hours we’ve got almost 100 000 answers – covering people of all ages from all over the world! This gives the research community a great pool of data and […]
- The Research Bay, reloaded 9 May 2012Welcome to Cybernorms.net, the blog of the Cybernorms Research Group. We are a group of researchers mainly based at the Department of Sociology of Law at Lund University, Sweden, affiliated with the Lund University Internet Institute. During three days in April last year the Cybernorms Research Group conducted a big survey study called The Research […]
- Releasing data on online anonymity 3 May 2012The week has been a good week in the media for the LUii affiliated Cybernorms research project. With Måns Svensson, head of the research group, in the lead, we released data from our latest follow up survey on file sharing and online anonymity. We found that when compared to figures from late 2009, 40% more […]
- Conference on norms: session on law, language and the mind 25 April 2012The international conference on norms in Lund, Sweden, is now in its second of two days. The official name is The Normative Anatomy of Society – Relations Between Norms and Law in the 21st Century. Its is arranged by the Department for Sociology of Law at Lund University. Picture from the morning plenary. From the […]
- Conference on norms in April 6 February 2012There is a conference coming up 24-25 April at Lund University in Sweden. If you are academically into norms from any perspective, you should probably check it out. The name of the conference is The Normative Anatomy of Society. Relations Between Norms and Law in the 21st Century and it deals with “to promote an […]
- The Research Bay closed, for this time 12 May 2012
