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  • Rikus Wegman
  • Url: http://www.rikus.tumblr.com/
  • Posts: 9
  • About the user: Rikus is a student New Media on the university of Amsterdam. He has a bachelor degree in Social Science and a broad interest in the social and cultural implications of New Media. Rikus is interested in the development of New Media in Africa. He has a minor in cultural studies with a broad interest in youth culture.

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Zambia. An overview

Rikus Wegman | 14 July 2008, 6:40 pm | 2 comments | tags: , , , ,

For my master thesis I spend 3 months in Zambia to look at the way ICT was used in Secondary Schools. In this following text I will an overview of the organisations that I’ve visited, the teacher training programs I have seen, the workshops I have given and I will in short describe my personal experiences.

Zambia…the end of Holiday

Rikus Wegman | 07 May 2008, 2:25 pm | 4 comments | tags: , ,

Holiday is over in Zambia. After a couple of weeks in which Zambian teachers had the chance to join in on a variety of different ICT workshops throughout the country it is now time to go back to their pupils and overwhelm them with all the new knowledge and skills they have learned.

ICT4E Zambia

Rikus Wegman | 14 April 2008, 3:49 pm | 6 comments | tags: , , ,

For my Master Thesis I travelled to Kitwe, a town in the Copperbelt area in Zambia to study the use of ICT’s in Zambian Secondary school education. After a horrible first week of research in which my two laptops where stolen and a really fine second week in which I retrieved my stolen items I now finally have the time…

The mobile revolution in Africa, Hope or Hype?

Rikus Wegman | 14 January 2008, 1:24 pm | 2 comments | tags: , ,

battery charging station in KenyaThe mobile phone is considered to be the first application available for a lot of Africans to have communication over large distances and thus can serve as an important tool for the social and economical development throughout the continent. Is this view is correct or if the mobile phone is just another western hype that is dropped on the struggling continent?

Obey the HABBO way and you’re OK

Rikus Wegman | 08 November 2007, 4:00 pm | 13 comments | tags: , , , ,

In ‘the declaration of independence of cyberspace’ John Perry Barlow spread a utopian view on the internet in witch users will create their own rules and laws without restrictions or political interference. In this post I will compare this view to the Habbo Hotel. A virtual environment with 80.000.000 registered users in the age of 8 to 18 years and a strict Habbo-policy.

Football with the boys 2.0

Rikus Wegman | 16 October 2007, 6:29 pm | 2 comments | tags: , , ,

As a new media student I’m always interested in examples of how new media applications find their way in peoples everyday lives. My football team is a good example off a social event that formerly only took place in an offline environment but is more and more starting to use tools from an online environment to function.

Nietzsches aphorism as a new web tool

Rikus Wegman | 15 October 2007, 10:37 am | 3 comments | tags: , ,

Nietzsche was known for his fondness of aforisme. Using the fewest words for the finest thoughts. This distinctive style of using aphorisms intrigued me. Nietzsche uses rhetorical violence to overthrow and seduce the readers of his work. Within Web 2.0 it’s important to ‘seduce’ people into reading your content. Could Nietzsche’s aphorisms serve as a tool to attract attention?

BLOG-VIEW ON AFRICA 2.0

Rikus Wegman | 24 September 2007, 2:23 pm | 1 comment | tags: ,

In this post I’m analyzing two blogs that get into new media in ‘the black continent’. The black continent… that’s how Erik Hersman called Africa in one of his personal most loved posts on his blog, the white African. A romantic name for the once so mysterious continent that everyone knew so little about. Butt, while most of African mysteries…

Review: Blogosphere The New Political Arena by Michael Keren

Rikus Wegman | 17 September 2007, 12:25 pm | tags: , , , , ,

blogosphereBlogosphere can be seen as a new and important element of the new public sphere. On a blog people are able to not only comment on public affairs or read about what they find interesting. On a blog they actually have the possibility to create and manipulate their own, either real or fictive, identity and share it with the world.…