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  • Yeun Au
  • Url: http://yeunmau.wordpress.com/
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  • About the user: Born in The Netherlands and raised with Confucianist values, Dutch education and Western thought. After studying multimedia design in Breda, I am currently pursuing my master's degree in New Media.

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Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness: an interview on Chinese internet usage

Yeun Au | 30 October 2011, 7:18 pm | 3 comments | tags: , ,

How do we find happiness? I cannot answer that question for you, but it is relevant to everybody. The state of happiness was deemed so important by the Founding Fathers of the United States that they added it to the Declaration of Independence: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed…

The Vibe that comes and goes – an app review

Yeun Au | 08 October 2011, 3:26 pm

In an event of ongoing demonstrations called ‘Occupy Wall Street’, people in the United States are demonstrating against the effects of the latest economic crises, corporate domination and negative capitalist effects in general. The idea of the protests came from Adbusters magazine in mid 2011. After the demonstrations started out on September 17th in New York City, they have since…

Diverse audience consumption of social media

Yeun Au | 04 October 2011, 10:07 am | tags: , , ,

I love statistics. I love seeing my Facebook friend count increase. I love looking at what songs I played most in my iTunes. (Unless it is an artist that is too embarrassing to love. Luckily you can reset this statistic.) Loving statistics is really great nowadays, since our computers and the internet are keeping track of everything. On Twitter, every…

Know your meme, Wikipedia

Yeun Au | 29 September 2011, 9:06 pm | 6 comments | tags:

Questioning whether one can sabotage Wikipedia is out of the question; there have been many cases throughout the last years. Some were humourous, others were insulting, many were vulgar. These cases were all to be found by Wikipedia editors sooner or later. We also wanted to put a critical view on Wikipedia, but not just by adding some abusive sentences.…

Book review: Tactical Media by Rita Raley

Yeun Au | 21 September 2011, 1:28 pm | 1 comment

In december 2004, an alleged spokesmen of Dow Chemical named ‘Jude Finisterra’ appeared on television to apologize for the Bhopal disaster, a 1984 industrial disaster in India that resulted in thousands of deaths. Two hours (an a lot of uproar) later, Dow Chemical released a press statement where they stated that an interview with one of their employees never occured.…

The Power of Electricity

Yeun Au | 13 September 2011, 12:35 pm | tags: , , ,

Every month 2.5 billion pictures are being uploaded on Facebook by their users. The social networking website is referring to itself as the ‘largest photo-sharing site’ on the web. The instant access of information and data means that servers containing this information always need to be up and running for people to retrieve whatever they desire. This includes pictures on…