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  • Sjoerd Tuinema
  • Url: http://shoord.nl
  • Posts: 11
  • About the user: I'm a New Media MA student at the University of Amsterdam, carry a bachelor degree on Communication and Media Management, do design-work and am known as a notoire media junkie.

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Mark Changizi – “Cultural selection as the new blind watchmaker” at “I don’t know where I’m going but I want to be there”

Sjoerd Tuinema | 21 December 2011, 10:00 pm | 6 comments | tags: , , , , , , , , ,

In his presentation at MOTI’s “I don’t know where I’m going but I want to be there” theoretical neurobiologist Mark Changizi elaborated on the research method he applies to investigate the field of why it is that the human brain processes optical information like it does. Instead of…

Persistence of Life-Streams – An Inquiry Into the Implications of Mixed Surveillance

Sjoerd Tuinema | 06 September 2010, 1:20 pm | tags: , , , , , , ,

Here’s the final version of my thesis which covers the nature and implications of (participatory) surveillance in the field of social media, and specifically in life-streaming services like Twitter and Facebook. (PDF can be downloaded here).

Introduction:

In this thesis, I will investigate the use and organization of so-called ‘life-streams’, a…

INFODECODATA and Manuel Lima about the rise of the info-visualisation research field

Sjoerd Tuinema | 04 June 2010, 11:47 am | tags: , ,

First off, I’d first like mention that there’s an upcoming symposium as a part of the INFODECODATA exhibition on Sunday 13 June at the Graphic Design Museum Breda. There’ll be plenty of interesting speakers including Lev Manovich, Jack van Wijck and Yuri Engelhardt, who will be discussing fundamental topics like ‘Will the Graphic Designer become a Software Developer?’…

Social Media, Privacy and Publicity with danah boyd

Sjoerd Tuinema | 14 April 2010, 4:03 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , , , ,
Last week I had the opportunity to attend at a symposium held at the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology and Society (TILT) entitled as ‘Privacy and Social Network Sites’. The keynote speaker of the day would be danah boyd, who has worked in many think

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Consumentenbond goes Twitter (and hopefully learns from it)

Sjoerd Tuinema | 13 December 2009, 1:47 pm | 2 comments | tags: , , ,

The Dutch consumers union, the ‘Consumentenbond’, wants to reach new audiences. With their monthly magazine, readers can figure out which broom or coffee machine is the best buy, often leaving out impurities of production methods (well, not always). This time, noticed by a friend, they announced a debate to be held on Twitter. The topic would be

BEACON and the use of datasets in media art

Sjoerd Tuinema | 01 November 2009, 11:50 pm | tags: , , , , , , , , , , ,

When I attended at the ‘Accelerated Living’ conference as a part of the Impakt Festival (Utrecht), it once more appeared there’s plenty of academic prospect on the subjects of time and space. As the works often build on theory coming from (or at least involve) Paul Virilio or Manuel Castells, it showed that many new routes…

Empire forces in contemporary videogames, hyperbole or justified concern?

Sjoerd Tuinema | 19 October 2009, 11:40 pm | 2 comments | tags: , , , , , , , ,

In a discussion between the Paris-based culture theorist Paul Virilio and Jérôme Sans titled ‘The game of love and chance’, Virilio questions what kind of form virtuality has currently taken on nowadays:

The imminent home installation of domestic simulators and virtual space rooms for game-playing, poses many questions, and in particular this one: ”What is a game once the virtual invades

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Does Twitter promote writing?

Sjoerd Tuinema | 05 October 2009, 1:37 am | 2 comments | tags: , , , , , ,

Over the years Twitter has gradually developed, meanwhile its practices have also changed drastically. The contemporary celebrities took their places, the early adopters started exploring the potentials while lobbying about it and ultimately the platform rapidly started to expand in terms of functionality. Although the range of features on the site stayed very loyal to its core functions, there has…

Twitter and its networking (in)capabilities

Sjoerd Tuinema | 27 September 2009, 11:20 pm | tags: , , , , , , ,

Nowadays, many of the popular social network sites are advanced platforms that more or less evolved from simple community platforms or fora. Where Myspace, Friendster and The WELL (later the Dutch De Digitale Stad popped up as a similar landmark) took off during the 90’s,…

The semantic web versus Wikipedia?

Sjoerd Tuinema | 21 September 2009, 10:44 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , , , , , ,

From the day of birth of the Wikipedia project, the online encyclopedia has been a highly controversial case. The debates range from information accuracy (including the inquiry of the information-knowledge relation once again) to the pyramidic usermodel (often undermined as too free or too open) or elsewhere as a fierce debate on the contributions coming from businesses, or just from…