New Media M.A. Research Blog | Media Studies, University of Amsterdam

The little Big Belgian Firewall?

For the first time in history, the Belgian federal government has blocked an internet site. It is not a website containing child porn, but a website that publishes the whereabouts of (possible) pedophiles. The blocked website is similar to...

By Arno de Natris on 04/22/09 1

Huffington Post

After more and more frequently visiting the website the Huffington post I’ve been wondering if this website is a social networking site (SNS), as multiple people blog here and are connected, or is this site just a news and...

By Hannah Biemold on 10/14/08 Comments Off

(B)Logging: To Anticipate Future Investigations

The current blogs have a lot of remarkable things in common with old traditional logs. With the theory of remediation (Bolter & Grusin, 1999) in mind you could easily state that the old medium of the log has remediated...

By saskia korsten on 10/12/08 1

PROblogger: book review

PROblogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income INTRODUCION For some time now I’ve been interested in the eBook phenomenon for a couple of reasons: the business model that lies beneath it (how to make money by...

By Jasper Moes on 09/19/08 2

Book Review: Uses of Blogs, a Toolbox for New Media Practicians

A university professor, after publishing an article about weblogs that provokes a snowball of critical responses from bloggers themselves, is forced to use one of his students’ blog to save his reputation (he does not have one by his...

By Andrea Fiore on 09/14/08 Comments Off

Generation Geenstijl, or a Virtual Death Threat in Parliament

It's already old news (that's what I get for reading the Saturday paper on a Sunday) but I saw this article earlier: "Geenstijlgeneratie bedreigt erop los," which I'll embellish in translation as "Generation Geenstijl issues threats like there's...

By Michael Stevenson on 07/20/08 7

Chinese Internet companies expanding overseas

This Friday it is finally happening; I will head off to China for my research! After months of stalking people with interview requests and reading everything I could about Internet in China, I am going to visit some of...

By Pieter-Paul Walraven on 04/05/08 6

It’s the definitions, bloggers.

Lately I've been taking a shovel to the Internet Archive, looking for material on the history of blogging. It used to be that a query for 'blog history' would return a number of would-be Spanish civil war buffs, but...

By Michael Stevenson on 12/16/07 3

Rethinking the Blog as Database: My First Post on the Blog Herald

I am proud to announce that I have joined the Blog Herald. The Blog Herald has been blogging about the blogosphere since 2003 and has since become an established source in the blogosphere. I have been reading the Blog...

By Anne Helmond on 10/16/07 1

The art of abusing the possibilities of collaboration

A few days ago I read a remarkable story in the paper about the readers of an infamous and rebelious website/blog called Geenstijl that was able to mess with the election of the best Dutch slogan ever that was...

By Pieter-Paul Walraven on 10/15/07 1

Pingback Spam, Popularity and Protecting Investments

This blog is a real magnet for pingback spam lately. While I’d like to take it as a sign of our growing popularity, that would be like being flattered by calls from telemarketers. Also, it probably says more about...

By Michael Stevenson on 10/09/07 9

Watching Frank; an analysis of the blog Frankwatching.com

In my MA New Media course New Media in practise, blogs are a prominent subject. Besides blogs in general and everything that has to do with the phenomenon blogging we talk a lot about our class blog. In the...

By Pieter-Paul Walraven on 09/23/07 1

Blog research survey

I recently came across a Dutch student who is doing research on bloggers and social bookmarking and he is currently seeking people to fill out a short survey. It only takes 5 to 10 minutes to help out a...

By Anne Helmond on 02/28/07 Comments Off

Mailing Lists for New Media Research

In a time when everything is about blogging, vlogging and glogging it is necessary to highlight an old school tool used by researchers years before anyone had ever heard of blogs, the mailing list. There are thousands of mailing...

By Jeff van Schie on 11/07/06 2

Dualism, Objectification and Gazing: A Philosophical View on Why Pro-Ana Blogs are so Succesful

Why are there so many pro-ana blogs? What makes them so attractive to people who suffer from anorexia nervosa? I would like to make clear that this post is not going to answer these big questions, but I will...

By Jeff van Schie on 10/18/06 3

More archiving of the archived Internet

Not unlike Yahoo’s Timecapsule, BBC points to a British initiative to use a mass blog to record ‘everyday life’ on October 17th. We used to only come together to commemorate the past or yell at the present, now we...

By Michael Stevenson on 10/17/06 3

We Are Iran

It all started in 2001 when Hossein Derakhshan, an Iranian journalist living in Canada, published a how-to-blog guide in Farsi (Persian). By doing this he started what can be considered as one of the most thriving sub-cultures in the...

By Jeff van Schie on 10/16/06 Comments Off

Surveillance – From Jeremy Bentham to Michel Foucault to Gilles Deleuze to blogs

On the left you can see the prison that philosopher Jeremy Bentham designed in the 19th century. In this design the prison cells are being build in a circle around a centre in which the guard resides. The guard...

By Heleen on 10/15/06 3

What is social media? An e-book from Spannerworks

This e-book contains 32 pages and can be found here. Spannerworks is a company in the UK that provides search engine optimisation, and paid search and social media optimisation. Therefore this company has written a short e-book to explain...

By Heleen on 10/10/06 2

A review of “Gatewatching: Collaborative Online News Production” (2005) written by Axel Bruns

“Gatewatching” is a fairly expanded study on collaborative publishing of online news. Bruns describes the practice of journalistic gatekeeping which refers to a regime of control over what content is allowed to emerge from production processes in the media....

By Eva Kol on 10/10/06 Comments Off