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  • Layla Van Daalen
  • Url: http://www.laydesign.nl/blog
  • Posts: 7
  • About the user: I am MA New Media student of the University of Amsterdam. After I passed my study Communication Multimedia & Design, I worked for half a year as a graphic designer. 1 year ago I moved to Amsterdam to start my premaster at the university. I succesfully completed my premaster this year, and I’ll hope to complete my master at the end of this schoolyear (2010-2011). Beside my study I am still working as a graphic designer and beside my creative activities I am also interested in new media theories. In particulair I am interested in social media, design & interactive installations, locative media, user experience & behaviour.

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Back to the fairytale, to make science? Digital publishing a new revolution, what about the truth?

Layla Van Daalen | 18 October 2010, 9:19 am | tags: , , , , , , ,

While thinking of a new blog about digital publishing, I am a little bit confused. What about the impact of my writings? I can describe the influence of digital publishing with a non objective view, quote a lot of researchers, convert my blog to a pdf and publish it on the internet. The next time you are

Twitter and cognitive surplus, to create a better world?

Layla Van Daalen | 12 October 2010, 11:55 am | 1 comment | tags: , , , , , ,

I post this tweet on my twitteraccount last week. This question leads me to an overarching question:

Why Twitter? Why should we participate?

Twitter is a tool for microblogging, let see how it works:

Twitter can also be seen as an awareness system, a system around news and events. As Hermida says about Twitter:

“For

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Going to England, the city of trust? Internet eyes is watching you!!

Layla Van Daalen | 08 October 2010, 2:34 pm | 2 comments | tags: , , , ,

If u have nothing to hide why should you care?
Public to monitor CCTV from home

I think the most of you ever heard of the famous story of Orwell “1984″. Its about an inhuman state, a state that is under the control of the other, The Big Brother.

Surveillance of the public became common in our…

Layar in the wikipedia – How to improve and secure?

Layla Van Daalen | 03 October 2010, 8:25 am | tags: , , ,

The English Wikipedia remains more than 3,4 million articles, the Dutch Wikipedia on the other hand less than one million, so I thought it should not be difficult to find an interesting subject for a new entry on this free encyclopedia. During the brainstorms, thinking of new-media related and other different kind of subjects, I found out it was…

Relationships matter! Even for our royal!

Layla Van Daalen | 27 September 2010, 8:53 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , , , , ,

Since last Saturday our Royal is on twitter as well! And today on the news there was a new article about it. U can read the full article here. Although i am not very interested in our Royal, it reminds me too of her criticism of social media. Our Queen have said in her christmas speach: Social media makes us less social in our offline world, also called urban open spaces.

Book-review- Open 19: Beyond Privacy. New Perspectives on the Public and Private Domain

Layla Van Daalen | 21 September 2010, 12:09 am | tags: , , , ,

Book-review- Open 19: Beyond Privacy. New Perspectives on the Public and Private Domain [Paperback]
Jorinde Seijdel (Editor), Liesbeth Melis (Editor)

ISBN: 978-90-5662-736-,144 pages,

This book is an edition of Open, published by SKOR a foundation of art and public space.

At this time, an information age where information is everywhere and increases daily,…

“I believe” an one-to-one experience to go alone to an unknown world.

Layla Van Daalen | 12 September 2010, 8:52 pm | tags: , , , , ,

Even though it was just a simple interactive installation with video, music, the artist and a few special effects, in 15 minutes you will get an impressive one-to-one experience. Beyond the impressive meeting with a stranger and all the questions and emotions he leaves you, it’s a nice evening out, to go alone to an unknown world.