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The Public Sphere, New Media and Politics

The Public Sphere, New Media and Politics

According to Metareporter, a student blog for BA-student Media en Culture about new media in newspapers, a lot of articles in Dutch traditional media are about new media subjects. The top 3 tags that are being used are:  Twitter,...
By Daan Fliervoet on 10/06/11 3

Twitter: an insignificance awareness engine?

@MA_Mel ahaahh nice my twitter makes you smile. If only it made men undress too!!10:17 PM Aug 4th via web from Garment District, New York in reply to MA_Mel Mentioning your whereabouts, describing your breakfast, sharing links, and replying to other...
By ibtisam omer on 10/15/10 Comments Off on Twitter: an insignificance awareness engine?
The Dark Side of Twitter

The Dark Side of Twitter

Amongst many for and against internet as a public sphere Paparachisi (2002) comes up with very important characteristic, I would like to focus on here. Namely, the potential of the internet to bring people from diverse backgrounds together, which...
By Michal Kielbasa on 10/10/10 Comments Off on The Dark Side of Twitter

Information Visualization and the Public Sphere

Democratization of Data Open Data is a practice (and philosophy) of making data freely available to everyone. Advocates of Open Data argue that restrictions, licenses, copyright, patents, or other mechanisms of control are against the communal good and that...
By Jan Bajec on 05/19/10 1

The Public Library as Instigator of a Modern Public Sphere

The digitalization of information has been a hot topic ever since the arrival of the computer. The internet must be the world’s biggest library by now. The classical role of the library is becoming old fashioned and maybe even...
By Rutger van den Berg on 10/30/09 1

Twitter: Public Space or Public Sphere?

Internet kills writing? According to Andrea Lunsford, researcher at the Stanford University, it is totally the other way around. There is an immense increase of people starting to write and digital writing is the biggest revolution in writing since...
By ellen sluis on 10/06/09 3

The Habermasian implications of the Twittersphere

‘Blogosphere’, ‘Twittersphere’, ‘Afrosphere’. We’re gradually getting used to a new media terminology whereby we quickly refer to new communication spaces and specified fields as ‘spheres’. As the Twittersphere is still rapidly growing, we might want to look back at...
By Marc Stumpel on 10/04/09 1

Personalizing the Public Sphere: From Personal Start Pages to Personal Webtops

Your personalized Internet. You can add what you like and remove what you don't like and it's totally simple. - Pageflakes* - Pageflakes is only one of the dozen sites that offer to personalize your internet experience by creating a...
By Heleen Kerkman on 09/22/08 Comments Off on Personalizing the Public Sphere: From Personal Start Pages to Personal Webtops
‘Whisher’, Opening Up the Internet?

‘Whisher’, Opening Up the Internet?

A short analysis of Whisher, a web 2.0 application. With the tagline ‘Building the world’s largest WiFi network’ the goal of Whisher doesn’t leave anything to the imagination. Whisher tries to create a global and dense WiFi network with...
By Stephan Barmentloo on 09/22/08 Comments Off on ‘Whisher’, Opening Up the Internet?

LivingLabs recap – what exactly is a creative city?

With every major city in Europe calling itself ‘creative capitol’ these days, the question raises how creative these cities really are and in what way they distinct themselves from others. In a ‘creative race’ between Asia, the US and...
By Tjerk Timan on 10/07/07 Comments Off on LivingLabs recap – what exactly is a creative city?

Review: Blogosphere The New Political Arena by Michael Keren

Blogosphere can be seen as a new and important element of the new public sphere. On a blog people are able to not only comment on public affairs or read about what they find interesting. On a blog they...
By Rikus Wegman on 09/17/07 Comments Off on Review: Blogosphere The New Political Arena by Michael Keren