Masters of Media: The Animation
I ran into this animation and couldn’t resist the temptation to share it here. It’s an animated documentary called ‘The Masters of the Media‘. It analyses monopolization in the Media Industry.
Map of Autocomplete Holland by Google
I had a look at the United States of Autocomplete by Dorothy Gambrell (found through Erik Borra's mood message on Skype, thanks!). I couldn't resist trying it out with our own little country and this what you see below...
YouParticipate: the politics of YouTube’s flagging system
My thesis is about a seemingly small detail of YouTube’s interface, the ‘flag’ button. I got intrigued by this function because of the politics that are at play behind it, hence the title “YouPartipate: the politics of YouTube’s flagging...
I tweet you this: “Obama wins, but …”
The silence on this blog was just because we were holding our breath the last couple of days. We are a new media blog and not a political one. But we cannot let this pass without mentioning. Now Obama...
A New Discourse? – The Position of Data Art within InfoVis
For our literature presentation on ‘Information Visualization and Data Art’ we (Erik Borra, Paulien Dresscher and Minke Kampman) read articles of Pousman, Vande Moere and Kosara. They look at data art from a scientific perspective and discuss how it...
A nice addition to previous posts on this blog by 
New Media = New Education
Yesterday the graduation of the Sandberg Institute was held at Pakhuis de Zwijger, Amsterdam. Together with the presentations of the graduates it was also the launch of the book ‘Masters of Rietveld: Dutch Design in the 21st Century',...
An analysis of a vj collaboration; “A Collaborating Cooperation or a Cooperating Collaboration?”
Different definitions, or interpretations if you will, have been linked to words like 'collaboration' and 'cooperation'. One example of this is a part of 'The Art of Free Cooperation' (2007). In the chapter 'Collaboration on...
How Social is Wikipedia?
On the Wikipedia site itself, it does state 'Wikipedia' under the entry "Social Software". But I was wondering about how social Wikipedia is in comparison with other social sites (for instance YouTube, MySpace, etc - see previous post). Because...
YOU have become Nietzsche’s Madman
Is Nietzsche’s Madman not a parable that is still appliable to the world of today? Let’s have a look and see for ourselves; —-Have you not heard of that madman who lit a lantern in the bright morning hours,...
BLOG ANALYSE (in progress): “How social software is being (mis)used by high-rated blogs.”
extract: By comparing the activity of blogs on social websites with the activity of the persons ‘behind’ the blogs, I am trying to make a picture of the different uses of these social sites. And meanwhile looking at the...
review: “Emergence” by Steven Johnson
“Emergence – the connected lives of ants, brains, cities and software” Steven Johnson New York: Scribner, 2001 Are you familiar with the situation in which you’re having a talk over the hedge with that neighbor that emerges from behind...