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  • Mareline Heijman
  • Url: http://www.mareline.nl
  • Posts: 7
  • About the user: Prior to the master New Media, I've completed the ba Media & Cultuur at the University of Amsterdam. Interests: virtual reality, identity, future, creation, the way new media shapes us.

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Resistance to Locative Media: Google Germany

Mareline Heijman | 01 November 2010, 8:20 pm | 3 comments | tags: , , ,

The Germans proof that castles in the skies can be actualized. A real act of resistance to power has been put . More than 244.000 German internet users requested Google not to photograph their houses for Google Street View. The navigation service caused a lot of commotion. Earlier this year vandals in Germany have sabotaged a Google Street View car.…

Pet animal 2.0: Neopets

Mareline Heijman | 31 October 2010, 3:23 pm | 2 comments | tags: , , , , , ,

If blogs are Foucauldian confession than this is mine. I used to play Neopets. Nine years ago I’ve created an account to be recognized in Neopia as “Mareline”. My virtual pets, luckily a user is only allowed to have four of them, consisted of a Mynci, a Shoyru, a Chia and a Quiggle. The yellow froggy Quiggle Semafortje was…

A Clay Tablet Is Not a Book

Mareline Heijman | 19 October 2010, 2:03 pm | tags: , , , , , , , , ,

Mcluhan believed the medium to be the message. When we are trying to understand the effects of the medium, we ought to analyze the medium. And when the medium changes, the message is bound to transform.

Who’s utopian vision is it to carry all your files, music, films, images and “books” on an exterior device? More and more we’ve incorporated…

Fail Whale: Studying Discourses by Means of Twitter

Mareline Heijman | 11 October 2010, 2:18 am | tags: , , , ,

It’s a bit difficult to study Twitter when you’re not on it. Hence I log in with the user account I’ve created a while ago, 18 months ago to be exact. Again, I don’t really get the excitement. Despite the airy web 2.0 graphics interface, the service feels rather claustrophobic, enclosed. Twitter seems at first nothing more than a…

Encyclopedic Enough?

Mareline Heijman | 04 October 2010, 5:58 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , , ,

The integration of wiki knowledge into mirror worlds would possibly satisfy our desire to capture and understand the world to a large extend.

Mirror Worlds; Yes, I would like to contribute.

The 80s ‘neutral’ knowledge-gathering tour took me from reading massive encyclopedias in the dusty corners of the primary school library, via browsing categories on Microsoft cd-rom Encarta, to final…

Book Review: Check in/ check uit. De digitalisering van de openbare ruimte. [The Digitalization of Public Space] by C. van ’t Hof, R. van Est, F. Daemen

Mareline Heijman | 26 September 2010, 4:41 pm | 4 comments | tags: , , , , , , , ,

Is it still possible to check out? Check in/ check uit. De digitalisering van de openbare ruimte. stems from the assumption that new media developments such as OV-chipkaart and Google Street view are the visible parts of a fundamental development: the digitalization of public spaces. There’s an increasing layer of invisible intelligence round the earth,…

Blogging and IKEA

Mareline Heijman | 12 September 2010, 8:31 pm | tags: ,

Knowing I have the opportunity to express my feelings in a blog, makes me feel content. Yes, this may seem as the perfect outlet for my thoughts. They only need some organization. Normally I would buy boxes, at the IKEA, for organization. How wonderful would it be to have your mind organized, clean and labeled. But what’s…