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  • ibtisam omer
  • Url: http://drlemonsays.blogspot.com
  • Posts: 15
  • About the user: Hi and hello I am twenty three years old and for the past four years I have studied sociology and media studies in three different places: Stockholm, UK and Hong Kong. I graduated at the University of Essex in July and after that spent a few weeks interning at Global Grind in NY. Now I am here at the UvA and Im just about exploring the fundamentals of my degree, so far so nice. Other than this I was born and raised in Stockholm Sweden , to Eritrean parents. Stockholm being an immensly integrated city, I grew up enjoying a diverse cultral atmosphere. I travel a lot , I eat even more and I love social netwoking platforms; its beauty lays in the opportunity it gives people to exploit a public space introducing individual self projections. ibtisam

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The Social Network film coming soon to a cinema near you…or a laptop screen

ibtisam omer | 07 October 2010, 4:58 pm | tags: , , , , , , , , , , , ,

The film The Social Network was directed by  West Wing creator Aaron Sorkin, and David Fincher recognized  producer of  films such as Fight Club and Panic Room. The two men set out to make a film reflecting the establishment of  social media wonder child Facebook. The movie portrays Mark Zuckenbergs  College years at Harvard University conceiving Facebook together…

My brother on Wikipedia is RELEVANT!

ibtisam omer | 06 October 2010, 3:21 am | tags: , , ,

The policies and text regulations that are presented by Wikipedia, display a very different form of politics, the debate falls on the aspect of RELEVANCE. It is all very complicated, yet also very simple. Their requirements are seemingly reasonable; no entries about one self, your friends, your relatives, your own establishments, or the company you work…

NEXT! Chatroulette: a shuffle through genital exposure and musicality

ibtisam omer | 03 October 2010, 11:14 pm | 5 comments | tags: , , , , ,

Presenting! an online  webcam chat room with functions similar to that of Skype or any other audio-video-chat spaces, yet the difference here lays in the simplicity of Chatroulette. The creator; a seventeen year old  Russian teenager named; Andrey Ternovskiy briefly explained in an interview with the NY Times that his ambitions were simply to establish another…

Book Review: SUSTAINABLE ARCHIVING OF BORN –DIGITAL CULTURAL CONTENT

ibtisam omer | 20 September 2010, 8:31 am | tags: , , , ,

Author and publisher: Annet Dekker through Virtueel Platform: May 2010

In a time where contemporary art is struggling to exist as a part of history and its cultural heritage, the transition into a digital era from an analogous epoch is a fact. Archives no longer serve its simple purpose and task of storing specific artefacts and documents. The…

Media as a culturally specific entity: appreciating the essence of international media

ibtisam omer | 13 September 2010, 2:39 am

Contemporary mass media shares a very distinct role in the production of social values and norms in today s globalised societies, as we are surrounded and constantly fed information from a multitude of media sources. Internet users, television viewers, radio listeners, magazine readers or even anyone remotely attentive to posters and billboards on public transports and other public areas, everyone…