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  • Sarah Moore
  • Url: http://sarahnatsumi.com/project/blog/
  • Posts: 8
  • About the user: I am a MA New Media Student at the University of Amsterdam. I received my bachelors in Radio-TV-Film and Sociology at the University of Texas in 2007. I am interested in graphic design and media arts. Currently working on a website about life in Amsterdam http://www.muntthee.com/.

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Post-Privacy: Talk by Christian Heller

Sarah Moore | 06 May 2010, 5:07 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , , , , ,

The first session at the Geneva Lift Conference covered “The Redefinition of Privacy” and what privacy and personal security means in the 21st Century. Independent Futurist Christian Heller spoke on the topic of Post-Privacy. Below is a summary on his views on privacy.
Fuller believes that privacy is gone for good. In the future,Long term privacy will only…

Lift10 Interactive Conference in Geneva

Sarah Moore | 04 May 2010, 12:56 pm | tags: , , , , , ,

This week, I will be a blogger for the Lift Interactive Conference in Geneva. The Conference will be held on May 5-7 and will focus on the topic “connected people”.

“Our next conference will gather one thousand participants to explore the most overlooked aspect of innovation: people. Known in techno-parlance as users, people ultimately define the success of all…

The Potential Power of Twitter’s Search Engine

Sarah Moore | 12 October 2009, 8:53 am | tags: , ,

Last week, I wrote about Twitter from the perspective of psychologist Barry Schwartz and what he calls the Paradox of Choice. “With so many options to choose from, people find it difficult to choose at all.”  From this perspective I argued against Twitter’s RSS Feed-like interface where more outbound links equals better.   From this approach, I looked at…

The Paradox of Choice on Twitter

Sarah Moore | 05 October 2009, 1:05 am | 1 comment | tags: , , ,

Even though I have spent a large portion of my life connected to the internet, I have noticed my attention span waning in the past few years. The first year I went to University in 2003, I walked into the library and the computer labs were full of people working on their papers. Now in 2009, I walk by the…

PICNIC Interior Design

Sarah Moore | 28 September 2009, 5:52 pm | tags: , , ,

I know many blog posts about the PICNIC conference from this weekend have been floating around the web the past few days. Most of them discussing the topics covered by the speakers and the future of new media. I was however so blown away by the innovative interior design at PICNIC and felt it deserved some attention.…

Are We Addicted to Social Networking Sites?

Sarah Moore | 27 September 2009, 9:21 pm | 1 comment | tags: , ,

Social Networking sites  such as Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, and Hyves have exploded in the past five years and have caused a societal shift in the way we communicate and connect with others. In 2009, time spent on social networking sites tripled compared to the previous year and we now spend 17% percent…

What is Causing the Decline in Wikipedia Participation?

Sarah Moore | 20 September 2009, 7:36 pm | 3 comments | tags: , ,

Wikipedia is considered to be the largest online database of information. Launched in 2001, Wikipedia has had exponential growth and have celebrated it’s 3 millionth article in August 2009. However, in the past month, both Times Magazine and Fast Company have written about the decline in user participation in Wikipedia in the last two years. In 2006 declines…

Review of Digitizing Race: Visual Cultures of the Internet

Sarah Moore | 17 September 2009, 7:41 pm | tags: , , ,

Lisa Nakamura’s book Digitizing Race and Culture: Visual Cultures of the Internet covers a range of issues involving race and gender on the internet. Nakamura is an associate professor in the Institute of Communication Research with a joint appointment in Asian American studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

She begins by giving a historical background of race in American…