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  • Marte Lindstrom
  • Url: http://masterinamsterdam.wordpress.com
  • Posts: 9
  • About the user: I am born and raised in Oslo, Norway. I have been studying at the University of Bergen in Norway, and I finished my bachelor degree in Media Studies in 2006. I have also been so lucky to be an Erasmus- exchange student in Rome, where I took courses in political science and European history. I have been working for some years, mainly as a consumer consultant. I recently decided it was time to learn some new tricks, so I went back to school.

Author Archive

Visualizing Political Chatter

Marte Lindstrom | 03 May 2011, 9:07 pm | tags: , ,

With regards to political campaigns, the Internet has attracted the attention of politicians, researchers and the general public. During the last years the medium has developed into one of the most important – if not the most important – channel of communication during political elections, and it has even taken over the place of television as the main…

The Simple Ways of Information Visualization

Marte Lindstrom | 18 April 2011, 11:18 pm | tags: , , , , ,

There is no doubt that the human brain is an amazing and complex bodily organ, perhaps even the most amazing of them all. Personally, I do not think I will ever cease to be amazing by it.  But, despite its impressive capabilities, the brain has its limitations too. In fact, Norman goes as far as to say that…

And the nominees are…

Marte Lindstrom | 21 October 2010, 12:40 pm | tags: , , ,

The Nobel Peace Prize is handed out every year to a person or an organization that has acted according to the standards written by Alfred Nobel in his final will;

“The whole of my remaining realisable estate shall be disposed of in the following way:…and one part to the person who shall have done the

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If it Looks Like a Book, and Reads Like a Book, is it a Book?

Marte Lindstrom | 17 October 2010, 5:42 pm | 2 comments | tags: , , , , ,

The death of the book has been foreseen:  Several sources have predicted the demise of the book as we know it, like a modern Nostradamus. However, this is not the first time in history that we have heard this prediction. The introduction of the radio was also supposed to kill the book, as was the advent of …

What’s happening, Twitter?

Marte Lindstrom | 10 October 2010, 11:42 pm | tags: , , ,

One of the latest trends on the World Wide Web is micro-blogging. A micro-blog is a platform for short text updates, usually not more than a sentence or two in length. The most famous micro-blog service is Twitter where the user can update a text containing no more than 140 characters. And there is no doubt that…

WikiAdmin: No Recent Changes

Marte Lindstrom | 03 October 2010, 7:09 pm | tags: , ,

After being asked to write a Wikipedia article I soon realised that the challenge would not be related to the technical side of things, but rather to coming up with a topic. It was difficult to think of a topic that  is not yet part of the over 3.4 million articles that make up the English version of Wikipedia.…

Social Networks and Multicultural Societies

Marte Lindstrom | 26 September 2010, 11:36 pm | tags: ,

After the web crash in the 90’s a new way of thinking about the internet arose. This lead to a brand new composition of the internet, often referred to as web 2.0. The term does not refer to any particular technical development, but a new way of thinking about the user when developing software. Media theorist

Review, ‘Internet Governance Forum (IGF), The First Two Years’, Edited by Avri Doria and Wolfgang Kleinwächter in cooperation with IGF Secretariat

Marte Lindstrom | 18 September 2010, 9:03 pm | tags: ,

The Internet Governance Forum (IGF) is a forum for multi-stakeholder policy dialogue. It is a direct outcome of the World Summit on the Internet Society (WSIS). Its purpose is to facilitate open and inclusive dialogue about the World Wide Web, between government officials, representatives of the private sector, members of civil society,  academics and agents of the…

Pink is the New Blog

Marte Lindstrom | 09 September 2010, 3:49 pm | tags:

One of the most popular personal blogs in Norway belongs to Emilie Nereng, a 14-year-old girl. On blogglisten.no, a ranking of the most visited blogs in Norway, she is number one with an average of over 68.000 visitors daily. Her followers can read about school trips, clothes, hair extensions and other topics related to the everyday life of…