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  • marie-anne soyez
  • Url: http://marisom.wordpress.com/
  • Posts: 4
  • About the user: BA Literary, Cultural and Media Studies (University of Siegen, Germany), currently attending MA Cultural Analysis (University of Amsterdam, NL)

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Fakebooks

marie-anne soyez | 13 October 2008, 12:53 am | tags: , , , , , , ,

Every social network service has its own parodies, the more successful it is, the more it has. I will take facebook as an example for applications and actions that play around with SNS. Facebook is surrounded by at least six fakebooks and dozens of clips and mocking songs.

PICNIC ‘08 – Itay Talgam Interview

marie-anne soyez | 29 September 2008, 7:37 pm | 4 comments | tags: , , , ,

This is an excerpt of an interview with Israeli conductor Itay Talgam done by Markus Huendgen during Picnic ‘08. Talgam illustrates how conducting an orchestra can be a metaphor for the collaboration of people in general.

senduit.com

marie-anne soyez | 21 September 2008, 8:25 pm | tags: , , ,

Senduit.com does not connect your wisdom (wikipedia), pictures (flickr), your videos (you tube), does not show your words (wordpress), your profile (facebook), your character (felonspy), your location (plazes) or your voice (snapvine). Senduit.com is a friendly stucky homing pigeon flying above all the multimulti interconnections with one clear misssion: directing data.

Review: Hartmut Winkler, Basiswissen Medien, 2008

marie-anne soyez | 13 September 2008, 11:55 pm | tags: , ,

Basiswissen Medien explains the most common terms used in media theory and gives an idea about the relationship between them. As a student looking for a basic overview, this book can be really helpful. It is short enough to be a quick read and explicit enough to make you think about coherences.