Author Profile

  • Leonie Nijenmanting
  • Url: http://lnijenmanting.blogspot.com
  • Posts: 7
  • About the user: New Media enthusiast, especially interested in privacy concerns online. What people know about their privacy and how they deal with it. In addition, I'm a rock climber and one of the bloggers of Vertical Athletes

Author Archive

e-culture in the Amsterdam Museum

Leonie Nijenmanting | 18 October 2011, 2:02 pm

The Amsterdam Museum uses crowdfunding to fund the restauration of one of the biggest paintings of the Netherlands. An interview with Hester Gersonius about the implementation of e-culture in the Amsterdam Museum.

Adding emotional value to apps: Buurtwinkels

Leonie Nijenmanting | 06 October 2011, 2:35 pm | tags: , , , ,

We all use apps for practical reasons; checking e-mail, messaging, checking train departure times and much more. These apps are down-to-earth practical; they don’t bring tears to my eyes or amaze me with flashy images or unbelievable content. But they could, right?

Technologies are still seen as ‘cold’ and don’t offer us the same emotional experience as older media do.…

Bits of Freedom: Do your bit!

Leonie Nijenmanting | 06 October 2011, 2:10 pm

Their timing is quite unfortunate. With Steve Jobs passing away, it’s hard to get through on Facebook and Twitter, so I thought I’d help them out a bit and shamelessly promote Bits of Freedom on the MoM blog.

Bits of Freedom (BoF) is the Dutch digital rights organization, focusing on privacy and communicatios freedom in the digital age. BoF…

Network sites and their limitations

Leonie Nijenmanting | 03 October 2011, 9:00 pm

The growth of the Internet has made us reconsider concepts that stood strong for decades. Boundaries that we knew have disappeared or shifted to an extend we could not have imagined in the early 80’s. What is private and what is public? We share much more information freely, with a larger audience which we canno see. What happens to our…

How did the Internet change your way of thinking?

Leonie Nijenmanting | 02 October 2011, 2:10 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , ,

The Edge project asked artists, scientists and writers how the Internet changed their way of thinking. Specifically their way of thinking, resulting in a book with diverse and personal essays. Larry Sanger, co-founder of Wikipedia and Citizendium wrote an essay to answer this question, and I found his point of view very refreshing.

There’s no denying that…

Book Review: The new rules of the game

Leonie Nijenmanting | 19 September 2011, 1:43 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , , , ,

Note: this is a review on a Dutch book called De nieuwe regels van het spel. This book is not available in English. Visit the RMO website for more information.

In this advisory report, the Dutch Counsil for Social Development, an advisory commission to the Dutch government, explores the role of the Internet in public…

Out with the old, in with the new?

Leonie Nijenmanting | 12 September 2011, 1:30 pm | 2 comments | tags: , ,

The emerge of a new medium often raises the question: what will happen to the old medium? The e-reader can be seen as a remediation of the traditional printed book. But has the e-reader changed the way we buy and read our books? Has it affected the sales of traditional books in the way publishers feared?

In the first five

…