I received this message from dr Eric McLuhan:
Dear Miss van der Klink,
I have just returned from speaking at a convention in Mexico City. The
students at the university there became somewhat excited about some work of mine and posted the essay on the convention web-site. As a result I have
decided to simply give this particular piece of research to the world.…
A while ago I found this flyer tied to my bike with a rubber band. First I was astonished, then it made me laugh. I have grown up in a small town in the Netherlands and of course quite often I have found flyers at the windscreen of my car, but this analog spamming phenomenon in Amsterdam was new to…
At the moment I am writing a paper for the tutorial “current themes in new media”. In this paper I am analyzing whether Fraps, a real-time video/ screen capture software program, is an appropriate tool to use to collect data for game research. In this paper it is my objective to see if new methods can be found in the field…
Matthijs Rutten has developed a digital survey for his thesis. It itvolves new media and politics, or in particular the manner in which politicians use digital communication tools in order to get as many votes as possible. In this survey Matthijs tries to find out the manner in which people are influenced by these digital communication tools when they choose…
SubmarineChannel presents the first documentary, entirely shot online within Second Life:
Several documentaries have been made about Second Life, but now there’s a film that actually takes place insÃde this popular virtual world. In the film ‘My Second Life’ the main character sets out on a journey and the viewer tags along.As more people are spending more time in virtual worlds –…
ANNOUNCEMENT
Science Fiction, Science Faction
An exploration of the visions behind the contemporary digital world.
Organized by the Waag Society, Internet provider XS4ALL and the
Cyberspace Salvations Research Team (University of Leiden, Erasmus
University Rotterdam):
In the mid-1980s, due to the rapid spread of personal and networked
computing and the development of computer graphics, digital
technologies seemed to change the world profoundly. Only nobody knew how.
Computer designers, entrepreneurs…
Viviane Reding, the European Commissioner for information society and media, has released a document (a “communication”) in which the European Commission reveals its plans to require scientists to publish the results of subsidized research.
For those who believe in Vannevar Bush‘ opinion that collective human knowledge should be available to anyone, this is a very important step, since the internet offers…
The Telegraaf (Dutch newspaper) reported in their issue of yesterday that Perez Hilton (real name Mario Lavandeira) is being sued for 7.5 million dollars by 7 photo agencies. This blogger searches the internet for photo’s of celebrities and then places them on his own blog. The blog of Perez focusses on gossip about celebrities, one could say he scoops the…
This Thursday I will be visiting the Dr Leo Kanner house in the Netherlands. In this house there is a special multimedia theatre were people can experience the world through the eyes of a person with autism.
The headquarters (the multimedia theatre) are shaped like a large head made out of steal brands and it has screens and headphones. In the…
Richard Rogers is head of the new media department from the University of Amsterdam. Adrienne Massanari wrote a review on Rogers book “information politics on the Web”.
Information Politics on the Web
Author: Richard Rogers
Publisher: Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2004
Review Published: February 2007
Scholars are increasingly interested in the politics that influence and structure the ways in which individuals interact with the web. Frequently, this takes…
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