New Media M.A. Director: Prof. dr. Richard Rogers
New Media M.A. Thesis Coordinator: Dr. Geert Lovink
Staff Specializations
Richard Rogers
Prof. dr. Richard Rogers is University Professor and Chair in New Media & Digital Culture, University of Amsterdam. He is a Web epistemologist, an area of study where the main claim is that the Web is a knowledge culture distinct from other media. Rogers concentrates on the research opportunities that would have been improbable or impossible without the Internet. His research involves studying and building info-tools. He studies, critiques and builds on top of adjudicative devices online, such as search engines. He is founder of Govcom.org, the group responsible for the Issue Crawler and other Web research instruments, and also founder of the Digital Methods Initiative, Amsterdam, reworking method for Internet-related research. Rogers is author of Technological Landscapes (London: Royal College of Art, 1999), editor of Preferred Placement: Knowledge Politics on the Web (Maastricht: Jan van Eyck, 2000), and author of Information Politics on the Web (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2004), awarded the 2005 Best Information Science Book of the Year Award presented by the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST). He recently published The End of the Virtual (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2009). His latest book, Digital Methods, is forthcoming at MIT Press.
See also:
Rogers homepage: http://home.medewerker.uva.nl/r.a.rogers/
Digital Methods Initiative (DMI): http://digitalmethods.net
Govcom.org Foundation: http://www.govcom.org
Geert Lovink
Dr. Geert Lovink is a media theorist, activist and Internet critic, and author of Dark Fiber, Uncanny Networks and My First Recession. He worked on various media projects in Eastern Europe and India. He is an organizer of new media conferences and co-founder of Internet projects such as The Digital City, Nettime, Fibreculture and Incommunicado. He is founder and director of the Institute of Network Cultures, research professor at Interactive Media (Hogeschool van Amsterdam), associate professor within the new media program of Media Studies, University of Amsterdam. In 2005-2006 he was a fellow at the Berlin Institute for Advanced Study where he finished his latest book Zero Comments. His areas of interest are internet research with a special focus on blog theory, media philosophy and German media theory, creative industries research and ICT for Development critique.
See also:
Institute of Network Cultures: http://www.networkcultures.org/
Jan Simons
Dr. Jan Simons is Associate Professor in New Media at the University of Amsterdam. He has published on cinema, photography, new media theory, and game theory. His research focuses on the processes of convergence and divergence brought about by new media. His latest book is Playing the Waves: Lars von Trier’s game cinema. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2007.
See also:
Simon’s homepage: http://home.medewerker.uva.nl/j.a.a.simons/
Yuri Engelhardt
Dr. Yuri Engelhardt is Assistant Professor in New Media at the University of Amsterdam. He holds an M.A. in medicine and a PhD in computer science. Engelhardt’s research interests focus on pictorial languages. His PhD has been published in book form, The Language of Graphics (Amsterdam, 2002).
See also:
Engelhardt’s homepage: http://www.yuriweb.com
Thomas Poell
Dr. Thomas Poell (1973) is assistant professor of New Media. Previously, he has published on the historical struggles over the democratization and centralization of the Dutch state. Currently, his research focuses on the role of specific new media, such as blogs, Internet forums, and social network sites, in contemporary political conflicts.
See also: http://nl.linkedin.com/in/thomaspoell
Bernhard Rieder
Dr. Bernhard Rieder (1976) is Assistant Professor of New Media at the University of Amsterdam and Assistant Professor at the Hypermedia Department at Paris VIII University. His research interests focus on the history, theory, and politics of software, more particularly on the role of algorithms in social processes and the production of knowledge. He has worked as a Web programmer on various projects and is currently writing a book on the history and cultural significance of information processing.
See also: http://thepoliticsofsystems.net
Sebastian Scholz
Sebastian Scholz, MA (1977) is a lecturer in New Media and Television at the University of Amsterdam. His current research interests focus on relations of visibility, knowledge and media, the ‘newness’ of new media and the history and theory of (popular) television programmes. He is finishing his PhD on scientific productions of visibility by use of ‘epistemic images’, titled „Topologies of the Visible“. Scholz got his MA in Media Studies from the Ruhr University Bochum, Germany with a thesis on transforming visual cultures of surveillance and control. He recently co-edited a book on the German crime series “Tatort” and published on (micro)photography, film, scientific visualization and pornography.
See also: http://home.medewerker.uva.nl/s.scholz/
Erik Borra
Erik Borra, M.Sc. (1981) is PhD candidate and docent Digital Methods for Internet Research at the University of Amsterdam, as well as Digital Methods Initiative’s lead developer. He holds an M.Sc. in Artificial Intelligence. His research focuses on rethinking the Web as a source of data for social and cultural science.
See also: digitalmethods.net