Being present on a social network once was a way to escape parents’ attention. For many teens, home is a highly regulated space with rules and norms that are strictly controlled by adults. The internet is less regulated by social norms. Teenagers face a challenging dilemma on social networking sites. How can they be simultaneously cool to their friends and acceptable to their parents at the same time? Danah Boyd states:
“The power that adults hold over youth explains more than just complications in identity performance; it is the root of why teenagers are on MySpace in the first place.”
Working towards a fully connected professional world
Eugenie van Wiechen is the Dutch main director of LinkedIn, the largest professional networking site in the world with more than 55 million. Today on PICNIC10 she gave her vision on the growth of LinkedIn in the past few years especially in Holland. The critical question remains: “How to make…
Several speakers in this session, Everything We Know about Transmedia is Wrong are sharing their thoughts about on transmedia and what is about. What are the current views on transmedia and is it still a dominant tool in for example marketing and social events nowadays.
The AI game, which came out in 2001, resulted in an enormous success…
Today i’m present at Picnic’10 and i’m really excited to be here. I will be live blogging today via the ‘Masters of Media’ blog and also on my personal Twitter. Don’t hesitate to ask if there are any questions about PICNIC10.
Right now i’m in the seminar ‘The European Street Challenge‘, it’s about making a difference, especially through creative thinking:
A European Digital Design – Myth or Reality? A collaboration between the Futur en Seine, PICNIC, French and Dutch Designers, and the Paris and Amsterdam municipalities. Can European creatives design digital solutions across European cultures? A Parisian company can create and design a distinctive and expressive product for Paris. Can it do the same for Amsterdam?
Access Controlled reports on the new normative terrain of internet filtering, censorship of Web content, and online surveillance. The preface and foreword are clear about what the reader can expect per chapter and also give a quick overview of the content. Access Controlled offers six substantial chapters that analyze internet control in both Western and Eastern Europe, like the EU as a whole and Russia as well. The book is the latest report of a recent project by the OpenNet Initiative (ONI) and describes how the original character of the global cyberspace is being influenced and changed by mainly recent forms of online control.
Using Facebook, Youtube, Hyves and Twitter in particular for the good cause? It’s possible in the coming weeks with Serious Retweets. The site www.seriousretweets.nl supports the yearly 3FM campaign ‘Het glazen huis‘ which is based on dj’s who stick together in a box of glass in december for several days, isolated and without food to collect money for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).
The initiator of the project, Ferry van den Broek, claims that Serious Retweets is actually the first, combined social media fundraising project in the Netherlands.
