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  • Jidi Guo
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  • About the user: I'm Jidi, I was born in China and at the early age of 4 I moved to the Netherlands with my mother, aunt and grandmother. Lived in Hoorn until I turned 18 and then moved to Amsterdam to study, live on my own, explore big city life. Now four years later I finished my BA in Communication Science and started a MA in New Media. Future plans are living in China for a year or so to learn proper Mandarin and after that who knows..?

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Weibo Revolution

Jidi Guo | 02 June 2011, 9:15 am | 3 comments | tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

As China is famous for their copied and rip-off products there is no difference in the digital sphere. Services and platforms that we have learned to love, resent or can’t go without also exist within the borders of China but only for the national market. Google became Baidu, Facebook became Renren, Foursquare became Jiepang. As social media develops and comes…

Shanzhai Factory Life

Jidi Guo | 09 May 2011, 10:41 pm | 3 comments | tags: , , , , ,

One of the things that I really wanted to do in Shenzhen aside from sightseeing was to visit a factory where they produce electronics. Quickly I found out that factories in general are not too eager on letting in nosy people, asking questions or certainly not taking pictures. Aside from the sometimes not so comfortable working circumstances in the factories…

The HK iPhone 4 hunt

Jidi Guo | 24 April 2011, 7:13 pm | 5 comments | tags: , , ,

Arriving in Hong Kong felt a little weird for me, as frequent mainland visitor with Chinese origin. It was a like coming home, but this time home was a bit off. Now after a couple of days I realize that Hong Kong is in many ways like a European city, only with loads of Chinese people, and smellier…

ERROR: The Art of the G/itch

Jidi Guo | 20 February 2011, 2:58 pm | tags: , ,

With the advent of new technologies come new possibilities and applications that hitherto had been unthinkable. New technologies can also affect existing forms of production and presentation. These changes can lead to the emergence of new styles and ideologies, eventually claiming a space of their own in society. The creative industry is no exception to this.

This mini exhibition has…

Booklistening

Jidi Guo | 18 October 2010, 3:05 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , , , , ,

Late November this year Folium Partners, LLC will launch the world’s first automated audiobook and app-creation service under the name ModernBookFactory.com. The service will give the opportunity to independent digital publishers, authors and copyright owners to upload their manuscripts, select narrators and receive professionally produced audio. ModernBookFactory also produce  the books as self-contained audiobook apps within 30 days.…

Twitter Research Supported by Info Visualisation

Jidi Guo | 07 October 2010, 5:26 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , ,

Everyday users of Twitter users provide the world with us with of tweets on topics differing from what they ate, how they feel to what music they listen to. This is a great source for researchers who want to look deeper into certain topics of interest. The question is only how to organize and present all this information and…

Wokipedia

Jidi Guo | 04 October 2010, 4:03 pm | 2 comments | tags: , ,

After long thinking about what subject to write a Wikipedia page on I decided to keep it close to home, well not literally, but if you read my last name you’ll know what I mean. Since the Wikipedia entry didn’t had to involve a new media topic I choose my favorite dish from the tasty Chinese cuisine;

Is Crowd Funding Viable? Best and Worst Practices

Jidi Guo | 27 September 2010, 3:10 pm | tags: , , , , ,

During PICNIC 2010 last week I attended the session Crowdfunding: The Financial Solution for the Creative Industry, it was an interesting presentation/discussion with crowdfunding experts who shared their best practices and visions of the future. Discussions emerged on how to create better (financial) solutions for the creative industry. Roy Cremers and Valentine van der Lande were two…

PICNIC ‘10 The Next Generation Enterprise meets the Net Generation Consumer by David Roman

Jidi Guo | 22 September 2010, 1:09 pm | tags: , , , , ,

David Roman speaks about the emergence first globally consistent market called “the net generation”. The worldwide generation aging from 16 till approximately 35 grew up with internet and new technology. The Internet created a physical web of people located all around the world with more common interests then any other generation before. They form a group…

Book review: Rethinking Curating – Art after New Media by Beryl Graham and Sarah Cook

Jidi Guo | 20 September 2010, 2:49 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , , , , ,

Rethinking Curating explores the characteristics distinctive to new media art, including its immateriality and its questioning of time and space, and relates them to such contemporary art forms as video art, conceptual art, socially engaged art, and performance art. The book offers curators a route through the hype around platforms and autonomous zones by following the lead of current artists’ practice