Monthly Archives: June 2011

Berghain: Adventures in Techno

Megan Adams | 29 June 2011, 11:26 am | tags: , , ,

Over the past few weeks I have situated myself in Berlin on a mandate to take in and absorb all that is the music culture here.  On a mission to discover the heartbeat of the European music industry, I haven’t had to look very far to gain my experiences.  The only other two cities in Europe that I have spent…


Notes from Visualizing Europe: the power and potential of data visualization

Liliana Bounegru | 24 June 2011, 1:49 pm | tags: , , , ,

Last week I attended Visualizing Europe, a one-day conference where a very interesting and diverse group of data visualization experts and designers talked about the power and potential of data visualization.

Below are some notes and comments on some points presented and issues debated in the conference:

  • Use cases for data visualization: explorative versus communicative

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Theory on Demand: an interview with editor Margreet Riphagen

Morgan Currie | 22 June 2011, 3:13 pm

Margreet Riphagen is the Institute of Network Culture’s project manager and the editor of the Theory on Demand book series. Here she explains TOD project’s background and how it operates as action-oriented research – and also proof the exploding possibilities for publishing today.

Can you explain the ‘On Demand’ part of the Theory On Demand project?
We decided…


The revolutionary potential of Wikipedia’s equipotential paradigm.

Ilektra Pavlaki | 19 June 2011, 2:58 pm | tags: , , ,

This is part of the final paper I submitted for the course “Culture of Spectacle”

As shown in the previous post, the “anyone can edit” philosophy of Wikipedia is often viewed with great skepticism in academic circles, while its collective intelligence function model is occasionally treated as a threat to authority, individuality and creativity.

In…


De-Funkification? The Fight For The Right Of The Funkeiro

ellen sluis | 16 June 2011, 8:06 pm | tags: , , , , , , , ,

As a result of the “pacification” project through the implementation of a “peace police” (UPP) in Rio de Janeiro, which is intended to combat (armed) drugs trafficking and decrease violence in the favelas, the Baile Funk (Funk party) has become criminalised.


e-G8: Governments Acknowledge Importance of Open Internet

Joris Pekel | 14 June 2011, 10:38 am | tags: , , ,

Image ‘Mark Zuckerberg elysee france Nicolas Sarkozy e-G8‘ by Admond filed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic licence

Two weeks ago, leaders of several nations gathered to discuss worldwide challenges at the G8 conference. Prior to this event, French president Nicholas Sarkozy organized for the first time the e-G8 conference. Here, the focus was

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Knowledge, not the way you knew it: Studying the impact of Wikipedia on the reception of knowledge

Ilektra Pavlaki | 13 June 2011, 4:00 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , , , , , ,

This is part of the final paper I submitted for the course “Culture of Spectacle”

17.000.000 articles. 91.000 active contributors. 270 languages.

No matter what words one would choose to describe Wikipedia, numbers cannot speak but the truth: Wikipedia, which was set out as an “experiment” in 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger, nowadays constitutes the largest free,…


The Internet Is Taking My Pictures

Pim van Bree | 06 June 2011, 3:57 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , ,

Unlike Google Maps, Russia’s Yandex Карты is much more tourist friendly in that it does not blur your face away when you have been caught on camera! Yandex does not seem to uphold an evenly strict privacy policy as Google is imposed to do. A big help, as it assists me in taking touristic…


Srebrenica and the Dutch Wikipedia

Bram van der Kruk | 03 June 2011, 6:05 pm | 3 comments

With the case against Ratko Mladic underway, the collective blind spot developed by the Dutch for the massacre of Srebrenica is again taking central stage in news coverage.  The argument for a supposed blind spot may be backed up by analyzing the Dutch Wikipedia entry on the Srebrenica massacre, this post offers two visualization tools that can help doing this.…


Weibo Revolution

Jidi Guo | 02 June 2011, 9:15 am | 3 comments | tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

As China is famous for their copied and rip-off products there is no difference in the digital sphere. Services and platforms that we have learned to love, resent or can’t go without also exist within the borders of China but only for the national market. Google became Baidu, Facebook became Renren, Foursquare became Jiepang. As social media develops and comes…