Storytelling is the conveying of narratives, an idea as old as human history itself. The origins of narration are difficult to grasp, and because this phenomenon plays such a prominent role in most of our lives, no one is able to imagine a life without it. Storytelling is an essential condition in order to communicate.
Basically, what the media does…
We’re seeking bloggers for the Unbound Book Conference (http://eboekenstad.nl/unbound/), a timely international forum on the future of the book and reading and publishing in the digital age.
Dates
Thursday, May 19 @ Hogeschool van Amsterdam
Friday, May 20 @ Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB), Den Haag
Saturday, May 21 @ Openbare Bibliotheek Amsterdam (ObA)
Speakers include:
Frank van…
The conventional notion of the book, based on centuries of print, is rapidly growing outdated. The book is coming unbound in a double sense: both freed from the bindings of the printed volume, and from the limitations of conventional text. The entire concept of ‘bookness’ needs reinvention. Critical cultural forces must step in…
In this session we focus on the contemporary connections between science, technology, and politics. The connections between these three domains are often neglected or unjust presented as complete seperated area’s. Bruno Latour speaks of matters that matter, by which a public around an issue (that matters) is created. Without a concern, there is nobody interested in a debate logically spoken.…
A nation that fascinates me enormous in many aspects is one of the smallest countries in the world. Despite that, this nation has four climatic zones and is the only democracy in the Middle East. Israel – that’s the country I’m referring to – also proportionally has the highest rate of R&D workers in the entire world. As I mentioned earlier in The Ultimate Boycott of Brains, lots of Israeli inventions are being developed during defense research. As prof. Albert Einstein stated..
The Matrix is often used as an example of several phenomena when it comes to new media analysis. The following fragment for example, the one of the blue and red pill, is often used as a proof of mythology in the Matrix or hyperreality as described by Jean Baudrillard. But, of course There are other perspectives and concepts through which this object (the scene of the pill) can be seen. If you take the mythical view the paradigmatic relations will become prominently visible..
Cheaper Books and Violation of Copyright?
The value added tax (VAT) for a Dutch digital book consists 19% instead of the 6% for a printed one. This results in only a minimal difference between both prices, where most people would expect the digital tangible version cheaper. Also newspapers can be read on most of the e-readers, which makes future classic books and newspapers unnecessary. Digital documents are easier to buy (online), transport and carry on different media devices (compatibility). Another benefit is the consequenses for the environment, especially the cutting of trees and the emission of carbon dioxide. Digital book-reading also avoids information storage by the use of big bookshelves in the future, ienvironmentn fact the digital bookfiles are easy downloadable and they can be deleted very fast. This results in a new paradigm of reading books if the Netherlands will adapt to this new technology like they did to for example: MP3.
Only 506 tweets resulted in the most popular page on microblog Twitter when it comes to the number of ‘followers’. Lady Gaga claimed two months ago that she is the queen of Twitter and since that day her amount increased with over a million new followers.
Exept describing Twitter as the the medium of the movement (according to the protests in Iran), Twitter can also be seen as a source for fandom. And fandom results in social change, most of the time on micro level and sometimes even bigger.
In 1945 Vannevar Bush already predicted an innovative new way of structuring information, a new library. Wikipedia was launched in 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger and was indeed a new initiative to structure data online. On the Wikipedia-page on Wikipedia itself is stated that New or occasional editors have significantly higher rates of their edits reverted (removed) than an elite group of regular editors, colloquially known as the “cabal”. This could make it more difficult for the project to recruit and retain new contributors, over the long term resulting in stagnation in article creation.
About the other, less seen, side of Israel: Technology and digital innovation
“People of good conscience have chosen to boycott israeli products and companies supporting the zionist entity.” is stated on the Anti-Israël website inminds.com. Such political statements are not new, in fact Israel has been fighting these attemps (and other attacks too) for decades. Nevertheless,…