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New Network Theory – Parallel Sessions – ‘The Link’

Michael Stevenson | 29 June 2007, 2:20 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , ,

nnt-0227The first round of parallel sessions is underway, and a crowd has gathered in a computer lab at the Media studies department to discuss ‘the link’.. A preview comes in the form of one participant’s notes, where I spotted the question, in bold, “What about Google?!”
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New Network Theory – Noshir Contractor

Michael Stevenson | 29 June 2007, 11:10 am | tags: , , , ,

Net Network TheoryNoshir Contractor is the first speaker today, here to present MTML meets Web 2.0: Theorizing social processes in multidimensional networks.

Noshir begins with a story of the social life of (technologically-enhanced) pets. Your smart-tagged dog can meet other dogs and exchange information. When your dog returns home, that information can be downloaded, you can learn about your dogs’ friends, the owners of…

New Network Theory – Florian Cramer

Michael Stevenson | 29 June 2007, 11:02 am | tags: ,

New Network TheoryToday’s final speaker is Florian Cramer of the Piet Zwart Institute, who has a nicely low-key website. Florian’s work deals with text, code and aesthetics – one piece of his is the extended essay, Words Made Flesh: Code, Culture, Imagination, which is a kind of alternative history of code. His presentation here is about Text and Networks.

Florian asks, what is the…

New Network Theory – Rob Stuart

Michael Stevenson | 28 June 2007, 3:48 pm | 1 comment | tags: ,

New Network TheoryRob Stuart is an activist based in Philadelphia. Here he gave an overview of some of his work, especially that which made use of new technologies. In this way he gave conference-goers some network practice to go along with the theory.

His first case study drew comparisons between the railroad and the new media network. Railroad operators have traditionally been able to…

New Network Theory – Alan Liu

Michael Stevenson | 28 June 2007, 2:54 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , , ,

New Network TheoryCan Network knowledge improve? The second New Network Theory session starts with this question from Alan Liu in his presentation Network Knowledge: Policing Web 2.0.

Alan’s aim today is to present a draft proposal for a non-reactionary policy for regulating and improving Web 2.0 knowledge. In doing so, he’s opening up the can of worms that is the Wikipedia debate.

(Read more and discuss…

New Network Theory – Siva Vaidhyanathan

Michael Stevenson | 28 June 2007, 12:08 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , , , , ,

New Network TheorySiva Vaidhyanathan, author of The Anarchist in the Library: How the Clash between Freedom and Control is Hacking the Real World and Crashing the System and currently associate professor at NYU, is here to talk about the Googlization of Everything.

Siva’s starting point is that Google is part of our lives, and we talk about in a way that resembles the way…

New Network Theory – Opening

Michael Stevenson | 28 June 2007, 11:53 am | tags: , , ,

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The Masters of Media are at the New Network Theory Conference – organized by Network Cultures, ASCA and the Media Studies department at the University of Amsterdam (that’s us!).

Geert Lovink introduced the program as an ambitious attempt to reinvent network theory – a post-Castellsian theory, if you will – before Jan Simons gave a brief history of ASCA the Media Studies department.…