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Digital resistance: A brief introduction to decentralized data-right movements

Digital resistance: A brief introduction to decentralized data-right movements

This post provides a brief introduction to collective organization as a form of resistance, whose ambition is overcoming technological determinism and creating new paths to re-define our relationship with “new” technologies, connecting the labor and knowledge of so many...
By Marta Espuny on 09/22/19 Comments Off on Digital resistance: A brief introduction to decentralized data-right movements

Participatory Culture – literature

We’ve talked about Participatory Culture in class with Richard Rogers. To get some idea of what this is, here’s some recommended reading:
By Jasper Moes on 11/07/06 4
Iranian Censorship of Women’s Online Magazines

Iranian Censorship of Women’s Online Magazines

Although media censorship in Iran is a widely publicized fact, this research report seeks to establish a clearer picture of which women’s online consumer lifestyle titles Iranian web users are currently forbidden to view. This report was conducted...
By Natalie Dixon on 11/15/10 4
Censorship creates discourse: the implications of banning political advertising

Censorship creates discourse: the implications of banning political advertising

Ayushi Arora (13237748, arora.ayushi@gmail.com) Thomas Ba (13286544, thomas.ba.7@outlook.it) Maurice Dharampal (10439250, maurice.dharampal@student.uva.nl) Alex Soete (13208918, alex.soete@gmail.com) Introduction Is free-speech under attack? Founder and CEO of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg has recently joined the head of Twitter, Jack Dorsey, in the...
By on 10/20/20 Comments Off on Censorship creates discourse: the implications of banning political advertising
Spotify the Data Sage.

Spotify the Data Sage.

Is Discover Weekly a step forward or a step back? In the good ol’ days people discovered music by listening to the radio and recording the music on audio tapes. The disk jockeys were the opinion leaders that could...
By Daniël Landman on 09/15/15 Comments Off on Spotify the Data Sage.
Copyright Infringements: Exploring Fair Use Policies on YouTube

Copyright Infringements: Exploring Fair Use Policies on YouTube

Abstract  Copyright infringement and fair use are critical issues for YouTube creators, especially ones who primarily work with content they do not own. This research investigates how copyright is understood and navigated by YouTube creators from the genre of...
By Marta Ceccarelli on 10/29/21 Comments Off on Copyright Infringements: Exploring Fair Use Policies on YouTube
Looking behind the shiny, shiny lights – The tremendous rise of DOOH Advertising

Looking behind the shiny, shiny lights – The tremendous rise of DOOH Advertising

Looking behind the shiny, shiny lights – The tremendous rise of DOOH Advertising Imagine walking around Amsterdam Centraal Station during the day. Feel the eyes of strangers coveting you, hear the sounds of the multiple vehicles whizzing by, see...
By Sushanth Shyamsundar on 09/24/18 Comments Off on Looking behind the shiny, shiny lights – The tremendous rise of DOOH Advertising
The Dilemma of Prisoners on TikTok: An Analysis of the Implications of Dark Subcultures Online

The Dilemma of Prisoners on TikTok: An Analysis of the Implications of Dark Subcultures Online

By Alejandra O’Connor (oconnorale@hotmail.com), Li Shen (lshen141@gmail.com), Niall Manley (niall.m76@gmail.com) Abstract This research study analyses the content of previously-seen, crime-related online content – such as Tumblr’s True Crime Community – exploring the implications of this type of content for...
By Li Shen on 10/20/20 Comments Off on The Dilemma of Prisoners on TikTok: An Analysis of the Implications of Dark Subcultures Online
Chinese Communist Youth League: Your Next Influencer

Chinese Communist Youth League: Your Next Influencer

Social media  platforms are easy to access, to use and could be seamlessly integrated within different cultures and social structures. They are an integral part of how new content is propagated online, hence making them important in political lives...
By Xiaoxuan Ma on 10/24/19 Comments Off on Chinese Communist Youth League: Your Next Influencer
The only way to save the Internet is to claim it back from Big Data

The only way to save the Internet is to claim it back from Big Data

Sometime in November, the proportion of humans on earth using the web will exceed 50%. Close to 4 billion people will have become internet “users”, bringing with them 4 billion sets of data. Tim-Berners Lee created the internet and...
By Lucie Chateau on 09/23/18 Comments Off on The only way to save the Internet is to claim it back from Big Data
Ceci n’est pas une Influencer; the rise of ‘Virtual Influencers’ a fad or the future of online interaction?

Ceci n’est pas une Influencer; the rise of ‘Virtual Influencers’ a fad or the future of online interaction?

Not everything we see on the internet exists outside of our computers and in 2019 we’re not that easily fooled anymore, or so we think… Instagram influencer Lil Miquela truly seems like any other influencer these days; she has...
By Anniek de Koning on 09/23/19 Comments Off on Ceci n’est pas une Influencer; the rise of ‘Virtual Influencers’ a fad or the future of online interaction?
From art to ethical design; Studio Roosegaarde’s quest for a sustainable and aesthetic future

From art to ethical design; Studio Roosegaarde’s quest for a sustainable and aesthetic future

The clock is ticking: sea levels and temperatures are rising, plastic is building up, and animals face extinction. What if art can be the activator for change?
By Victor Loye on 10/20/20 Comments Off on From art to ethical design; Studio Roosegaarde’s quest for a sustainable and aesthetic future
Clinton’s campaign app – play for presidency

Clinton’s campaign app – play for presidency

Traditional campaigning is not enough anymore – politicians need to follow technological trends. Fittingly, the Hillary Clinton campaign developed its own app for the upcoming US presidential elections. Launched this July, “Hillary 2016” lets users compete challenges in their personalized...
By Vincent Buss on 09/19/16 Comments Off on Clinton’s campaign app – play for presidency
Web historiography of MuchMusic.com

Web historiography of MuchMusic.com

“Just as video killed the radio star three decades ago, the Internet has killed music television in the new millennium.” – Greg Quill The Role of Music on MuchMusic.com from 1996 to 2012 Before MTV’s arrival in Canada, the...
By Jolien Siemerink on 11/18/12 Comments Off on Web historiography of MuchMusic.com
Twitch.tv: A Socially Valuable Platform, or Just Another Amazon Revenue Stream?

Twitch.tv: A Socially Valuable Platform, or Just Another Amazon Revenue Stream?

Instagram influencers and YouTube vloggers have long been seen as the leaders in monetizing one’s online self. New to this scene are an entirely different cohort of digital money makers: those who profit as professional video gamers on live...
By Emma Knight on 09/21/18 Comments Off on Twitch.tv: A Socially Valuable Platform, or Just Another Amazon Revenue Stream?
Is Apple our Online-Privacy Vigilante?

Is Apple our Online-Privacy Vigilante?

Abstract: Apple purports that its new Intelligent Tracking Prevention Technology integrated in Safari browser prevents 3rd-party cookies from collecting users’ data, therefore, reducing online ads, and ultimately protecting users’ privacy. This paper challenges this by arguing that ITP’s functionality...
By K. Abdulghani on 09/24/17 Comments Off on Is Apple our Online-Privacy Vigilante?
Dissecting Facebook’s Censorship

Dissecting Facebook’s Censorship

Since September 2016, Facebook’s banning of the “Napalm Girl” photograph, one of the most powerful images that represented the atrocities of the Vietnam War, has sparked a debate on Facebook’s censorship power and policies. In the 1972 photograph, Kim...
By Tu Quynh on 10/24/17 Comments Off on Dissecting Facebook’s Censorship
Feminist Movements in the Age of Social Media: Crossing the Thin Line Between Authentic and Performative Activism

Feminist Movements in the Age of Social Media: Crossing the Thin Line Between Authentic and Performative Activism

By Irem Ergul, Emma Fuchsová, Alexandra Hagedorn 1. Introduction Activism is conventionally seen as a form of public protest, that is a rally, public meeting or a march (Anderson and Herr 20). In this day and age, however, activism...
By Alexandra Hagedorn on 10/21/20 Comments Off on Feminist Movements in the Age of Social Media: Crossing the Thin Line Between Authentic and Performative Activism
Sex Work Re-loaded: How Digital Platforms are re-defining Sex Work

Sex Work Re-loaded: How Digital Platforms are re-defining Sex Work

“Maybe I should start an OnlyFans” has become a well-known phrase across different platforms. This blog post explores how the dynamics of sex work have changed on online spaces by looking into the relationship between OnlyFans and Instagram, specifically...
By Martin Trans on 10/27/21 Comments Off on Sex Work Re-loaded: How Digital Platforms are re-defining Sex Work
Big tech goes to war over Augmented reality (AR) dominance

Big tech goes to war over Augmented reality (AR) dominance

In the year between June 2016 and June 2017, AR went from being a fun optional technology in a handful apps - like Pokémon GO – to becoming a vital part of the future strategy for every technology company...
By Ståle Grut on 09/24/17 Comments Off on Big tech goes to war over Augmented reality (AR) dominance
“Hidden Cost”: Social Commerce Practices and the Collaboration between Snapchat and Amazon

“Hidden Cost”: Social Commerce Practices and the Collaboration between Snapchat and Amazon

In an era when S-commerce (social commerce) is dominating digital environments, social media platforms use more and more tools to achieve this combination of commercial and social activities. Like Instagram and Pinterest, now Snapchat jumped onto this trend and...
By Aikaterini Mniestri on 10/19/18 Comments Off on “Hidden Cost”: Social Commerce Practices and the Collaboration between Snapchat and Amazon

9/11 Conspiracy blogculture

Concise conspiracy guide to the web Films ‘Loose change’ – www.loosechange911.com ‘Martial Law’ – http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6517776133137328105&q=alex+jones ‘Everybody’s got to learn sometime’ – http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8372366181300641663 Sites on conspiracy www.ditkannietwaarzijn.nl www.vkmag.com/zapruder/C50 www.daanspeak.com/1/911.html www.911review.org www.911blogger.com www.cooperativeresearch.org/project.jsp?project=911_project www.rense.com/general66/dirt.htm www.pentagonresearch.com www.911truth.org www.st911.org Sites that go against...
By Roman Tol on 09/10/06 Comments Off on 9/11 Conspiracy blogculture
Like, swipe, match… “you vaxxed?”

Like, swipe, match… “you vaxxed?”

How Hinge and Tinder have adapted their affordances to the COVID-19 pandemic The COVID-19 pandemic caused a spike in dating app usage while simultaneously altering the standard dating practices. To analyze how dating apps have responded to this change,...
By Simran Tamber on 10/27/21 Comments Off on Like, swipe, match… “you vaxxed?”
Book review: UBERMORGEN.COM

Book review: UBERMORGEN.COM

UBERMORGEN.COM might be always trying to combine some nice entertainment with very intellectual European subversive art, but God Christ, we need to relax sometime and sell Google ad space on eBay and write a book about it and sell...
By Hania Piotrowska on 09/18/09 Comments Off on Book review: UBERMORGEN.COM