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Masters of Media: The Animation

Minke Kampman | 19 August 2011, 12:23 pm | tags: , , , ,

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

Minke Kampman | 17 December 2010, 10:34 am | 1 comment | tags: , , ,

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 is the result of an hour well spent playing copycat, with courtesy to Google of course.

YouParticipate: the politics of YouTube’s flagging system

Minke Kampman | 04 September 2009, 7:39 pm | 4 comments | tags: , , , , ,

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 system” [.pdf] . The function is not exclusive to YouTube, but it is one of the more self-reflexive platforms. In…

I tweet you this: “Obama wins, but …”

Minke Kampman | 06 November 2008, 2:05 am | tags: , ,

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 has prevailed he has lots of work to do. (YouTube video: “What the Next President Inherits”)

A New Discourse? – The Position of Data Art within InfoVis

Minke Kampman | 29 February 2008, 1:07 am | 5 comments | tags: , , , ,

InfoVis and Data Art

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 may be put to use within ‘traditional’ information visualization. Reading the articles, the position…

What is Twitter (not)?

Minke Kampman | 05 November 2007, 2:28 am | 1 comment | tags: ,

http://twitter.com/mnke

A web 2.0 review in Twitter-style:

Skype-to-skype by mobile phone.

Minke Kampman | 29 October 2007, 5:06 pm | tags: , ,

Skypephone A nice addition to previous posts on this blog by Laura en Daphne on ’skype alternatives’, here a pro-skype announcement. Today, mobile phone company 3 unveiled its Skypephone, which supports free calls over the internet with the use of Skype. In this post a summary of some pros and cons from the web.

New Media = New Education

Minke Kampman | 28 October 2007, 4:59 pm | tags: , , ,

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’, made by Coralie Vogelaar to celebrate the 10 year anniversary of the Sandberg Institute. The book is 388 pages and contains 2500 pictures. It shows the work of designers that graduated from Sandberg.

An analysis of a vj collaboration; “A Collaborating Cooperation or a Cooperating Collaboration?”

Minke Kampman | 24 October 2007, 12:45 pm | tags: , , , , ,

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 the Fence’ (by Geert Lovink and Trebor Scholz) Chris Shipley is mentioned with her essay ‘The Year of Working Together!’ (2006). What it even more important is determining the kind and the level of participation. This is the conclusion (or one of them) of Jeremy Rifkin’s book “The Age of Access” (2001). In this book he also mentions ‘the dialectics of a play ethos’ (p.260). These form the starting-points of my analysis.

How Social is Wikipedia?

Minke Kampman | 23 October 2007, 1:19 pm | 1 comment | tags: , ,

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 it doesn’t feel as a very sociable environment, unless perhaps when you’re incrowd (aka a Wikipedian). So what do other social sites have that Wiki does not and vice versa.