Monthly Archives: September 2010

Virtueel Platform at PICNIC 2010: HOT and NOT

Xander Stolwijk | 30 September 2010, 7:10 pm | tags: , ,

I can call myself HOT officially since last Thursday the 23th. Attending PICNIC 2010 with 99 fellow HOT-students is a hot experience indeed. Packed in a decorated marquee, listening to  Sebastian Chan who is currently the Head of Digital, Social and Emerging Technologies at the Powerhouse Museum. His teams include the museum’s web unit, audiovisual and photography, rights…


The panopticon is just a prison, guys: On a new approach to understanding new media

Lennard Torbijn | 30 September 2010, 3:37 pm | tags: ,

Numerous academic books and articles that have claimed to address the workings of new media tend to merely present an online phenomenon’s lineage or draw an analogy between older (media) theory and newer media (theory). Let us, for instance, consider the central role Foucault’s analysis of power relations and the panopticon has played and still plays in new media’s…


Wikipedia for Experts

Bram van der Kruk | 30 September 2010, 3:20 pm

I am in the process of creating an English Wikipedia page for the school I work at, Het Amsterdams Lyceum.

The state I initially found this Wikipedia page in is illustrative of the reasons many teachers believe forms of collaborative knowledge are a threat to accuracy and authority. It included references to famous ex-students (written by those students themselves)…


Africa Unsigned: the Professionalizing of User Input

Erik van Bemmelen | 30 September 2010, 2:49 pm | tags: , , , , , , , , ,

In the past years the Internet has been flooded with user generated content. The theory on new media has subsequently been flooded with research into this phenomenon, that is commonly centered around the web 2.0 concept. This theorizing of the beautiful possibilities and promises of freedom on the Internet has become almost tiresome. What I want to do here, is…


Social Media Is Not Social

Joris Pekel | 30 September 2010, 1:30 pm | tags: , , ,
Last week I saw this TEDx presentation by David Armano. In this inspring 16 minutes he talks about how social media itself, is not social. Armano says that it is the people itself that are social. It is time for us to look beyond the technology of social media and to focus on the social needs that human

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Introducing: A Wiki Debut

Laurent Hubeek | 30 September 2010, 12:33 pm | tags: ,

In order to gain some more insight in the inner workings of Wikipedia, I’ve created a new entry about the book Learned Pigs & Fireproof Women by Ricky Jay. A highly recommended history book about some of the worlds most amazing circus and sideshow entertainers and… Well, just read the entry.


Excerpts of audiovisual astronomy

Alberto Angelini | 29 September 2010, 10:12 pm | tags: , , , , , ,

In the first systematic study about movie stardom and its heavy influence on early mass culture, Edgar Morin (1957) argues that during the golden studio-age Hollywood was able to dramatically change the ritual function of the mythical universe: by replacing traditional gods and heroes with god-like actors and stars, classical american cinema established a new emotional bridge between…


Open Data

Marije Rooze | 29 September 2010, 1:04 pm | 3 comments | tags: , , , , , , ,

There is an open data movement afoot, now, around the world. (Berners-Lee, 2010)

Tim Berners-Lee is optimistic in his 2010 Ted talk The year open data went worldwide. Berners-Lee is one of the advocates for open data, he is trying to archieve that governments, companies and communities put their data sets online. When all this data is accessible, online…


Adopted Teen Traced on Social Network

Natalie Dixon | 29 September 2010, 7:59 am | tags: , , , ,

A great example of how the privacy issues we face on social networks are not just limited to our data being sold to marketers. This BBC interview tells how a British girl was traced by her natural sister on a social networking site before her adopted mother had the chance to tell her she had an extended birth family.


Reflection and critique on the development of location-based mobile applications.

olga paraskevopoulou | 29 September 2010, 12:06 am | tags: ,

Location-based applications are the new hype. Their presence is prominent in festivals, conferences and symposia that address to new media technologies, or to use the most recent terminology, that address to cross media developments. Thinkers and researchers  either praise their possibilities and robustness or spread the fear concentrating in the malicious way that they may detect human and objects in…