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  • Gwen Keupe
  • Url: http://gwenkeupe.blogspot.com
  • Posts: 6
  • About the user: Gwen Keupe is a New Media Master student at the University of Amsterdam. She graduated her Bachelors degree with a thesis titled 'One Million Strong for Barack - Openness and involvement through online deliberation'. Her research interests lie within online social networks and the way people use them to accomplish real things offline.

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Digital Preservation and Online Journals

Gwen Keupe | 02 November 2009, 12:51 am | 2 comments | tags: , , , ,

Paper documents can be neglected for long periods of time, digital documents on the other hand, cannot. Digital documents have to be transferred to new storage media or software environments in order to keep the document accessible. Storage media and software expire rapidly. This problem is called digital preservation and revolves around the question; how can we keep…

Weerwoord.nl as a Digital Public Sphere

Gwen Keupe | 01 November 2009, 7:03 pm

Weerwoord.nl is a Dutch website that functions as a political en social forum where people can deliberate. The subjects that people deliberate on are various and their viewpoints are often contradictory, making Weerwoord.nl a divers and interesting website to visit.

Critical discourse surrounding the Internet as a place for political debate is two folded. On the one hand people see…

Twitter in the workplace – Communities of practice, phatic communication and knowledge sharing

Gwen Keupe | 08 October 2009, 11:58 pm | tags: , , ,

Twitter is easy. When you want to start tweeting you only have to enter your e-mail address, think of a screen name and you immediately can start tweeting your every thought. You can make the choice of starting to follow other people on Twitter and you again will easily find out that almost every celebrity and

Absorbed into Facebook – Immersion, engagement and asynchronous communication

Gwen Keupe | 02 October 2009, 10:39 am | 2 comments | tags: , , ,

When I wake up I make myself a cup of coffee and open up my laptop. I enter the passwords to my Gmail, Youtube, Twitterific and Facebook account and until I close my laptop (on those very scarce moments) these sites are always running. Especially Facebook takes a lot of my time and I…

Wikipedia – Anyone can edit? Actually, no.

Gwen Keupe | 24 September 2009, 5:27 pm

On the mainpage of Wikipedia.org you can read, “Wikipedia – the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit”. I would like to contest this. I am anybody and I was not able to make a Wiki. What happened, you might ask.

For some part, I really don’t know. Apparently I did just about everything wrong. Although I consider myself quit…

Review of The Digital Campfire – An Ethnography of Online Social Networking

Gwen Keupe | 17 September 2009, 11:22 am | 1 comment | tags: , , , , , , ,

Ever felt guilty about spending so much time online, browsing through your friends Facebook pages and leaving them massages on their walls? No need for that anymore, this is what we’ve been doing for centuries and it can actually help you establish intimate relationships, expand your knowledge of the world and help you empower yourself (or, at least,…