Kristof Michiels works as a researcher at SMIT. He has studied Art History & Archaeology (1998) at the Free University of Brussels. Before joining the SMIT-team in 2004, he worked in the ICT-industry as consultant (Atos Origin, 1998-2001) and as researcher in the Rubenianum in Antwerp (2002-2004). In general his research interest goes to topics related to ICT and e-culture. He is active in several SMIT and IBBT-projects and specialises in the study of the use and social consequences of online communities and weblogs. Furthermore he is passionated by the possibilities and effects of a more structured and more meaningful web (to both humans and computers).

Related projects

• A4MC3
• Pegasus
• VACF
• VIN - Virtual Individual Network
• Erfgoed 2.0
• Cocomedia

Publications

• MICHIELS, K. & VAN OOST, O. (2006), 'Network Culture for Art Museums: Egalitarianism or a New Struggle for Power?', ICCPR. Fourth International Conference on Cultural Policy Research, Vienna, 12-16 July 2006.
• MICHIELS, K. & VAN OOST, O. (2005) ‘ Musea en interactiviteit: een ideale combinatie?’, Marketeum, Brugge, 14 en 15 maart 2005.
• MICHIELS K.& VAN OOST O., 'Online Communities and Art Museums: a Perfect Match? Research on the Possibilities of Community Building for Belgian Art Museum Websites', III Congrés Internacional Comunicació; i Realitat. La utopia digital en els mitjans de comunicació; als fets. Un balanç - Digital Utopia in the Media: from Discourses to Facts. A Balance, Barcelona, 20 & 21 mei 2005.
• MICHIELS K., 'Research on weblogs versus the centralised online communities-paradigma and the consequences of the emergence of a new distributed model', paper presented at Marktdag Sociologie, NSV-VVS, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 2.6.2005.
• MICHIELS, K. & VAN OOST, O. ‘Zin en onzin van online communities voor kunstmusea. Onderzoek naar de mogelijkheden van community-building voor Belgische kunstmusea’, SISWO, Elfde Sociaal Wetenschappelijke Studiedagen, Amsterdam, 22-23 april 2004.
• VAN OOST, O. & MICHIELS, K.(2001). Het warenhuismuseum: hype of een nieuwe dynamiek? In: Cultureel jaarboek Antwerpen:75-90.

Recent weblog posts

• Nuancing the ITU-index (03 April 2009)
• Mind the Gap. The Sequel: conference report (10 March 2009)
• Studio Brussel interviews Olga Van Oost on free museum admission for youngsters (15 January 2009)
• IBBT-SMIT wins best presentation award at ICIN conference (27 November 2008)
• SMIT organises Living Lab interactive Day, Brussels Region announces iBrussels feasibility study (15 November 2007)
• IBBT-SMIT edits special issue of INFO on “The Redesign of Mobile Business” (27 August 2007)
• Meeting of Minds: the User is the Content (17 April 2007)
• VACF-workshop in Vooruit (06 April 2007)
• Use of folksonomies in the VACF-project (28 March 2007)
• From Information to Innovation Society (14 June 2006)