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  • Emina Sendijarevic
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  • About the user: I'm not as much interested in new media as I am in how people cope with the fast moving technological developments around them. Some find a great usefulness and comfort in new media, while others complain about the loss of privacy, intimacy and sociability. Technology in my opinion challenges people to rethink their position towards old standards, it challenges them to deconstruct the concepts they thought were embedded in time and space. Thus, instead of blaming or praising new media, we should see new media as an introspective tool for governing our selves and our conception of the world. I believe that interactive installations and research on cultures within social networks are a way to explore and understand how we think and feel about technology. - I have previously graduated from my bachelor Communication on the construction of norms and values within Youtube communities and worked as a webmistress at Mediamatic, a foundation and lab specialized in creating relationships between the virtual and real by cutting-edge new media, research and design. Within my masters New Media I'm focusing on the conception of privacy throughout history in terms of how people govern the self within a neo-liberal western society (Foucault's governmentality).

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Using 3D to ’spicen up’ geographic datavisualization

Emina Sendijarevic | 06 May 2011, 8:27 am | tags: , , , , , , , , , , ,

In the last 30 years advances in computer science and computer graphics have largely contributed to making maps interactive and dynamic. Interactive, computerized maps have the advantage of enabling the user to interact with the display, but are also able to express additional information for the user’s interest (Andrienko & Andrienko, 1999). Still, the emphasis of interactive computerized maps, as…

Adding street credibility to Google’s Street View

Emina Sendijarevic | 22 April 2011, 9:17 am | tags: , , , , , , , , , , ,

Google’s Street View is immensely popular, but where does the idea of seeing locations on street level come from? And how can it be used to enable users to gain insight in their local environment? Put differently, how can Google’s Street View gain street credibility*?

Google’s Street View offers the possibility to view locations as if you’re walking through them.…

Michael Edson on the Smithsonian Commons

Emina Sendijarevic | 15 November 2010, 3:21 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , , , ,

This is a blogpost originally posted on the Economy of the Commons Blog.

Michael Edson, director of Web and New Media Strategy for the Smithsonian Institution and Smithsonian Commons talks about how the Institute will make all Smithsonian resources available to the public. The Smithsonian Institution is the world’s largest museum complex and research organization composed of…

Simona Levi – “Power is always using the name of freedom to do the nasty thing”

Emina Sendijarevic | 15 November 2010, 3:06 pm | tags: , , , , , , , , ,

This post was orginaly posted in the Economy of the Commons conference blog:

Last, but surely not least in the session of “Critique of the Free and Open” is Simona Levi, multidisciplinary artist, director of Conservas and arts festival INn MOTION. She is also co-founder of EXGAE and organiser of the Free Culture Forum…

Fail and Prejudice: Using Inkscape as an alternative to Illustrator

Emina Sendijarevic | 31 October 2010, 4:34 pm | tags: , , ,

I was already familiar with Illustrator (CS3). However since it’s been a while ago, I thought I could use Inkscape without prejudice. Wrong. This is a quick illustration I made and as you can see it didn’t work out like I had in mind. The point was to make a head upside down, half filled with blood that was dripping…

Preserving the physical book by using social networks

Emina Sendijarevic | 18 October 2010, 1:49 pm | tags: , , , ,

Some day I will read from a Kindle, Ipad or another eBook reading device as well. But for now, I can’t imagine how the ‘feel of a book’ can be replaced by something digital. I love to turn pages, I love to feel a slight dispair when the last paper of the book approaches end the end of a…

How ‘having a kaassouffle’ can be relevant to your followers on Twitter

Emina Sendijarevic | 10 October 2010, 9:59 pm | tags: , , , , , ,

Surely Twitter had it’s impact on journalism, politics and advertising. If you’re a journalist, getting information fast and keeping in touch with sources is easy. Politicians have found a tool to directly talk and discuss political issues with voters. Fetishist as well as revolutionist have found a activation- and gathering tool in Twitter.

What…

‘Daggering Wikipedia’ or ‘How open is Wikipedia to subjects of sex and violence?’

Emina Sendijarevic | 03 October 2010, 3:20 pm | 3 comments

When thinking of a subject to write about on Wikipedia, a couple of considerations crossed my mind. It’s easy to write about a scientific subject in which you will know for sure that it’s going to remain on the website, but what about controversial subjects or the ones about sex and violence?

Looking at the policies and guidelines section…

Why you shouldn’t adjust your privacy settings in Facebook

Emina Sendijarevic | 27 September 2010, 12:23 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , , , , ,

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Chun states that we, the users, perceive the new media, in particular the Internet, to be free, democratic and save. We think we are in control of our content, but just like with other technologies, we can never have total control. It is only then, when technology fails, that we are reminded of our vulnerability and this is…

Review ‘Ideology of Design’ by Branka Ćurčić (Ed.)

Emina Sendijarevic | 21 September 2010, 2:37 pm | tags: , , ,

Before reading any further…

Being born in ex-Yugoslavia and understanding its culture, environment and heritage, I can not exclude them from my analysis of ‘Ideology of Design’. I hope that my analysis will not be judged and merely seen as a different non-Western perspective on the book.

The book promises to give us insight in the theories and practices…