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  • Sebastiaan Smink
  • Url: http://cardboardmotel.com
  • Posts: 6
  • About the user: Study: BA degree New Media (University of Amsterdam) MA student New Media (University of Amsterdam) Work: Dancefair.nl Passion: Electronic music

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An interview with Jerom Fischer

Sebastiaan Smink | 25 October 2011, 1:46 pm | tags: , , , , ,

Some say this is the best time for artist and creative entrepreneurs. Others think the creative industries are coming to an end thanks to the negative impact of the Internet on industries like the music industry. Since I’m interested in writing my Master-thesis about the future of the cultural industries, I wanted to find out more about how today’s young…

Pretty Lies

Sebastiaan Smink | 24 October 2011, 5:20 pm

Take a look at yourself in the mirror. This is who you are. Raw and honest, the mirror never lies.

Now take a look at your Facebook profile picture. Is this who you are? Or do we only get to see your best side? What do you mean with this photo? Have you constructed a new online-self? And…

Facebook is a self constructed reality

Sebastiaan Smink | 18 October 2011, 3:25 pm

All right, here we go. For this blog post I was asked to write something about social network sites. Geert asked us to think about what we disliked about social network sites, like for example Facebook. Furthermore he told us to think about what kind of research we were still missing on social network sites.

I Like Facebook

First of…

App review: Soundcloud

Sebastiaan Smink | 10 October 2011, 11:24 am

Today I’m reviewing one of my favourite apps: the Soundcloud application. With the Soundcloud app you can access SoundCloud directly without using your Internet browser. It allows you to stream or download all tracks available on SoundCloud. The SoundCloud app also enables you to record and share your sounds on the go.

This app can be downloaded…

Book Review: The Net Delusion by Evgeny Morozov

Sebastiaan Smink | 22 September 2011, 1:04 pm | 2 comments | tags: , , , , , , ,

In his book ‘The Net Delusion: How Not to Liberate the World’ Belarusian-born writer Evgeny Morozov finely describes and critiques a delusion he calls cyber-utopianism: the believe that online communication technologies have the power to liberate, democratize. Many people today believe that social network sites can reinvent social activism. Instead Morozov, a digital-scepticist so to say, argues that…

Inspiration

Sebastiaan Smink | 13 September 2011, 1:20 pm | tags: , , , , , , ,

Inspiration is the basis to a lot of creative processes. If it’s writing, composing music, painting, blogging or even finding a good subject for your thesis. Inspiration is needed for getting new and innovative ideas. So, as an electronic musician I’m constantly looking for new music, pieces of art or interesting stories that can give me a new and fresh…