A week ago I went to a lecture about The Googlization of the Global street by Siva Vaidhyanathan. The lecture was at “de Balie” and organized by Open. With Googlization Siva mean the process of being processed rendered and represented by Google. And the more we use Google the more Google knows about us.
The main question…
E-readers are on the market for a while but the digital version of the book never got really popular. Readers were slow, dull, and not sexy at all. The image of the e-reader changed a couple of months ago with the introduction of the iPad. The iPad, which was never specially designed as an e-reader had and will have a…
A couple of day ago I as watching a dutch television show, ‘de wereld draait door’ (DWDD). I got distracted by a woman in the audience. She had a lowbrow presence and was talking all the time. I was not the only was who was distracted. On twitter a lot of tweets mentioned the woman, the ways…
The CoffeeCompany, a Dutch chain of coffee bars, is well known by every Amsterdam coffee drinker. And, because I live next to one, it’s my regular coffee dealer. A couple of days ago I found out they didn’t have a Wikipedia page so I decided, being a wikinoob, to write one. It was the first time I made a Wikipedia…
Where lies the power in network society? That’s the question Manuel Castells tries to answer in his book ‘Communication Power’. An interesting and relevant question considering our changing society. According to Castells, power relationships operate in networks. In his book he concentrates on the communication networks, because power relations are mainly based on shaping the human mind. So, according to…
‘Sharing information about ones Identity on the net is a process of self-portrayal’ (Baier et al. 2003: p. 3).
A couple of years ago the world of social network sites was quite clear. There was facebook for students, linkedIn for professionals and your parents didn’t have any interest in social network sites. Things have changed, especially facebook. facebook is no…
Last month Reuters and LA Times publicized articles about the Cuban Internet use. Both articles were skeptical about the use of Internet in Cuba. Less than 14.2% of the Cubans make use of the Internet, and most of the use was for government purposes only. They also both make a comparison with other Latin American countries where the…