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  • Harro Heijboer
  • Url: http://www.redox-studios.com/
  • Posts: 8
  • About the user: In 2008 I graduated from Rotterdam University of Applied Science, after a course in Communication and Multimedia Design. In 2009 I finished the pre-master Media and Culture at the University of Amsterdam and currently I'm a master student Media and Culture with special interest in Copyright, Net Neutrality and Software Studies. Beside my very active schedule as a student I'm working as an independent freelance new media producer, specialized in technical web applications, and 2 days a week I'm appointed as Community Manager for a medium sized hardware producer in Rotterdam. In my spare time I'm politically active for the Socialist Party in The Netherlands on all kind of subjects and on the Internet as independent voice against Copyright and pro Net Neutrality.

Author Archive

Rethinking Googlization

Harro Heijboer | 21 December 2009, 1:53 am | 1 comment | tags: , , , , , , , ,

In current search engine research the importance of Google as object of study seems to be inevitable. Google seems to be indexing parts of the physical and digital world, which we first thought to be unsearchable. Googlization, the term that is used to describe this, points out how Google is at the core of this research. “It is to describe…

Google’s Global Dissociative Identity Disorder

Harro Heijboer | 30 November 2009, 1:22 am | tags: , , , , , ,

A lot has been written already about the local and global. Comparing this to other local Google websites and the general Global Google (google.com). But how global is this Global Google actually? Is google.com really global? Is the result on google.com for example the same in the United States as it is in Australia?

Changing Turn in Copyright Debate: Cultural Industry is to Move

Harro Heijboer | 21 October 2009, 11:51 pm | 2 comments | tags: , , , , ,

Many theorist have already expressed their concern with the current copyright system; Simon Frith (1987), Lawrence Lessig (2002), Yochai Benkler (2005), Hal R. Varian (2005), Chris Anderson (2009) and many others. A lot of their arguments are based on cultural development and innovation. Argument from pro copyright organizations on the other hand are not about cultural development or innovation, but…

Google Takes Command: Shaping the Web

Harro Heijboer | 14 October 2009, 4:29 pm | tags: , , , , , , , ,

Even though the web doesn’t have a central point, sometimes Google, or search engines in general, seem to form the center of this universe. Bringing together all these different websites into one database, ready to be searched. Google’s software, the algorithm, seems to be a aggregator, carrying out contextual analysis and grouping similar websites together. But Google’s search results are…

The Social Status Race: Battle for the Followers.

Harro Heijboer | 08 October 2009, 11:24 pm

Have you ever had that moment were you where looking at someone else’s social network site profile and wondered about the amount of friends this person had? A person with more than 10.000 friends for example? And that you thought; “he can never ever have that many friends in real life, this must be somebody with no life at all…

The Social Paradox of Social Network Sites

Harro Heijboer | 30 September 2009, 5:51 pm | tags: , , , , , , , , ,

When I was young, although with 26 years of age I’m not old, so let’s say; when I was younger, most of the time when I wasn’t in school I was playing with my friends on the streets. Playing street football (soccer for our American friends), organizing all kind of crazy clubs, building tree houses in the woods behind my…

Wiki’s Political Point of View?

Harro Heijboer | 22 September 2009, 11:47 pm | tags: , , , ,

A conflict usually has two or more oppositional factions. They all have their own reason for this conflict, they all have a different point of view on this conflict, and most important; they do not agree with each other on who is right or wrong. These points of views are not only visible in what the opposing factions say but…