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  • Charlotte Hendriks
  • Url: http://charrahcblog.wordpress.com
  • Posts: 6
  • About the user: Now a Bachelor of Arts, Charlotte has mainly focused on new media throughout her academic career. At the University of Amsterdam she started the Media & Culture BA in 2006 and earned the degree mid 2009. Apart from studying New Media, she also focused on Art History, Philosophy and Science and Technology Studies. This year she is aiming to earn my Master Degree in New Media, also at the University of Amsterdam.

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Augmenting your way through walls (and other applications)

Charlotte Hendriks | 31 October 2009, 11:35 pm

Our world today becomes more and more penetrated by screens. Wherever we go, information is made available through dynamic surfaces, which can adapt to whichever piece of information that is relevant at that specific time and place. More than static objects like posters, these interactive screens can deliver information in real time and allow their users to be fully up…

The Rise of the Network Library

Charlotte Hendriks | 17 October 2009, 9:49 am

Times change, and, as it seems, our time has changed a lot. The Internet can be blamed for many a change, since the constant information stream that is generated through the Internet influences a major part of our everyday lives. Our society is an information society and with that in mind, one can understand the emphasis of recent thinkers on…

The different faces of Twitter

Charlotte Hendriks | 04 October 2009, 7:29 pm | tags: , ,

The enormous growth of the social networking site that is Twitter has many a person wondering. Suddenly every self-respecting website, newspaper, enterprise or person has a Twitter account, which enables Twitter users to follow. Even though the amount of press attention is through the roof and the hype is definitely worth looking at, what strikes me most about Twitter…

The Construction of an Online (Facebook) Identity

Charlotte Hendriks | 28 September 2009, 12:29 pm | tags: , , , , , , ,

The web has become something other than the illusive place where we can get as much information as we want at all times. More than a knowledge database, the Internet has transformed into a place where we can not only extend information, but also extend ourselves.

Social Networking sites have taken a huge jump in user numbers in the past…

Wikipedia: a Social Playground

Charlotte Hendriks | 22 September 2009, 11:53 am | 2 comments | tags: , , ,

The online encyclopedia Wikipedia is an interesting product of the Web 2.0. Wikipedia asks its users to actively participate, add and change the content of the website, in order to create a knowledge database which is more up to date and holds more information then any other encyclopedia in the world. Basically, Wikipedia employs a power to the people…

Book Review of: Search Engine Society – Alexander Halavais

Charlotte Hendriks | 14 September 2009, 11:35 pm | tags: , , , ,

In his 2009 published book “Search Engine Society”, Alexander Halavais looks at the impact of the phenomenon of search engines in the everyday online lives of Internet-using citizens around the world. Search engines have become a widely used component of the Internet experience. It should be no surprise then, that search engines are part of the academic discourse…