Filter posts by:
art axel bruns book review danah boyd design digital activism interactivity marketing Moderating new media Randal Scott social control social media social networks teens Twitter Hoax what did you whore today? what is in your bag? wikipedia wikis
What is in your bag or what have you wore today?

What is in your bag or what have you wore today?

A very popular group on Flickr is the “What is in your bag group”, where 10722 photo’s are placed of bags and its content and around 19500 flickr- users are a member of this group. When you are...
By Hanneke Mertens on 10/30/10 0

Fashion is on the street: Fashion bloggers seated front row

Something has changed in the fashion industry. Since 2002 blogging about fashion started and has become more and more popular. In 2003 fashion blogger Kathryn Finney of the Budget Fashionista was invited to the New York Fashion Week....
By Hanneke Mertens on 10/17/10 12
Twitter: how it supports a fast spread of news

Twitter: how it supports a fast spread of news

Last summer we had the Carglass-Twitter-incident in the Netherlands, which was caused by three Twitter-users. Two of them posted some negative tweets about the Dutch company Carglass and used the #carglasszuigt, next to that the third user created a...
By Hanneke Mertens on 10/15/10 0

My Wikipedia experience: Stewards, Moderators and Hitler

So, that’s why I thought I could easily handle this wiki-entry assignment. I started working on the translation of the page of the European Culture Foundation. While doing this I received an email that there was to much...
By Hanneke Mertens on 10/04/10 0

Shift in power

If you google “social media” or “social networksites” you will receive tons of links. Everybody seems to use social networksites and you need to be involved soon. Most of the links use a kind of paranoia, to make you...
By Hanneke Mertens on 09/27/10 1
Book review: Uncorporate Identitity

Book review: Uncorporate Identitity

Welcome to Europe shows us a picture of a painted sun in red, yellow and black colors. This logo was created by the Spanish artist Joan Miró in 1980. This logo, or brand had as main purpose to...
By Hanneke Mertens on 09/19/10 0

New Media and Marketing

Since the rise of use of new media, marketing departments seem to be stressed out because they don’t know how to handle this new medium. Should they invest? How, where and how can they measure the effects? Companies don’t...
By Hanneke Mertens on 09/16/10 0