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  • Renoud Netjes
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  • About the user: After graduated from both mediadesign and interactive media, I was trained to see the virtual as a place with huge advertising opportunities. Now I no longer try to see the virtual world only from this marketing perspective. Interested in innovation, the promises of new media and what they are or could mean in modern society.

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Participatory Media Art

Renoud Netjes | 05 March 2012, 12:00 am

This is a report of the session on participatory art held on February 28, 2012 from 9 to 11 AM in Amsterdam. The session was organised as part of a course called Critical Media Art, itself part of the University of Amsterdam New Media MA programme. The session was split up into three parts. First, the work on participatory art…

The new media designer, an interview with Robert Crain.

Renoud Netjes | 31 October 2011, 5:20 pm

designtrainer.nlCan you tell me something about your professional background?
About twenty years ago, I started studying audiovisual design at the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam, with an elective on graphic design. In my first years, I was working as a VJ, after that I directed commercials and videoclips. Then I got interested in Branding. I started working…

Netneutrality: a product of the control society?

Renoud Netjes | 30 October 2011, 12:34 pm

Early May 2011, Dutch telecom provider KPN announced her plans to block certain mobile Internet services like Voice over IP, in order to offer these services for an additional fee. One of the reasons for these measures is the decline of profit generated from regular text messaging and phone calls because of their online alternatives (Bits Of Freedom). After…

App review: Sleep as an droid. Or as a cyborg?

Renoud Netjes | 12 October 2011, 3:42 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , , , , ,

I love to sleep. So much that waking up early on Monday for morning classes is a hard and laborious task. I always set my alarm clock about half an hour early to compensate for the time spent snoozing -another thing that I love to do.

This Monday was a bit different. I woke up about forty minutes earlier than…

Social culture in the game industry

Renoud Netjes | 03 October 2011, 3:46 pm | tags: , , , , , , , ,

Video games have changed dramatically over the last decades. There is obviously a big gap between 1958’s Tennis For Two and the games we play now on our consoles or PC. Of course, the rapid evolution of new technology is one of the most important factors for today’s variety of games. Another wave of opportunities came when the Internet…

Review on Jason Fried: Rework

Renoud Netjes | 19 September 2011, 11:30 am | 2 comments | tags: , , , , , , , , , , ,

I would like to start off this review by mentioning that Rework is not your average new media literature. In fact, from the perspective of the authors it can be considered as business book. However, if we read between the lines, and take the background of the authors into account, we might see that this book is all about new…

The battle between industry and ideology

Renoud Netjes | 12 September 2011, 7:35 am | 3 comments | tags: , , , , ,

Just a quick word on something that might sound obvious to all of us, yet is a topic that in my opinion is applicable on most new media discourses. The struggle between ideology and the ‘real world’.