Masters of Media

Science Fiction, Science Faction- An exploration of the visions behind the contemporary digital world.

ANNOUNCEMENT Science Fiction, Science Faction An exploration of the visions behind the contemporary digital world. Organized by the Waag Society, Internet provider XS4ALL and the Cyberspace Salvations Research Team (University of Leiden, Erasmus University Rotterdam): In the mid-1980s, due...

By Heleen on 03/01/07 Comments Off

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

Discipline & Dance: Foucault on pointe shoes

Ballet & Discipline have always been inseparable, but this link now gets a new meaning. PANOPTICON is an interdisciplinary performance for three dancers, a musician and video, inspired by Michel Foucault’s Discipline and Punish: the birth of the prison....

By Jasper Moes on 02/28/07 1

Six seconds from 1969

Nate Harrison is a media theorist / artist, whose work deals with remix culture and the related issues of copyright and creativity: Can I Get An Amen? is an audio installation that unfolds a critical perspective of perhaps the...

By Michael Stevenson on 02/26/07 1

Plans in European Commission to require publication of subsidized research

Viviane Reding, the European Commissioner for information society and media, has released a document (a “communication”) in which the European Commission reveals its plans to require scientists to publish the results of subsidized research. For those who believe in...

By Heleen on 02/25/07 Comments Off

UvA New Media Research Lectures

We are pleased to announce: “Mobile Affect, Mediality and Abu Ghraib” Richard Grusin Thursday, 22 February 15-17u. Turfdraagsterpad 9, Room 0.04

By Roman Tol on 02/12/07 3

Blogger sued for copyright infringement

The Telegraaf (Dutch newspaper) reported in their issue of yesterday that Perez Hilton (real name Mario Lavandeira) is being sued for 7.5 million dollars by 7 photo agencies. This blogger searches the internet for photo’s of celebrities and then...

By Heleen on 02/12/07 Comments Off

dr Leo Kannerhouse

This Thursday I will be visiting the Dr Leo Kanner house in the Netherlands. In this house there is a special multimedia theatre were people can experience the world through the eyes of a person with autism. The headquarters...

By Heleen on 02/12/07 Comments Off

The Parlor – A waiting room conversation

Check out this eleven minute video of a conversation in a waiting room which is entirely relevant in the context of new media (studies). It’s well worth your time!

By Pepijn Uitterhoeve on 02/10/07 7

Olympic Athlete Blogs: Expressing Opinion or Journalism?

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is considering lifting the ban on athletes blogs during the Olympic Games. A rule in the Olympic charter states that it is forbidden for athletes to partake in journalism whilst competing in the Olympics,...

By Jeff van Schie on 02/08/07 1

Wikipedia Battle Log: Neologisms, Minorities and US Centric Views

In a couple of the previous posts on MoM we announced that we were adding the term ‘Shocklog’ to the English Wikipedia. Why? Well, the term is used often in the field of Media Studies and genre specific blogs...

By Twan Eikelenboom on 02/06/07 18

True Crime Blogging

This site is an interesting mix of blogging and amateur online investigative journalism – trying to get more information on reported crimes by searching Google, MySpace, etc. Lots of advertising, though – true crime is a popular and lucrative...

By Michael Stevenson on 02/02/07 1

Review of Information politics on the Web (review by Adrienne Massanari)

Richard Rogers is head of the new media department from the University of Amsterdam. Adrienne Massanari wrote a review on Rogers book “information politics on the Web”. Information Politics on the Web Author: Richard Rogers Publisher: Cambridge, MA: MIT...

By Heleen on 02/02/07 1

A member survey on location-based social networks

I herewith include the essay I wrote for New Media Theories, which is about location-based social networking websites. I did a small member survey by interviewing members of sites like Dodgeball, Plazes and Meetro. The many responses I received were...

By Eva Kol on 01/26/07 Comments Off

Second Life backlash no. 3

this is (very) funny: Get a first life the guy behind it explains his actions here

By Michael Stevenson on 01/21/07 3

The Oracle Machine: PRESENTATION Saturday January 20, 20.00 hrs / De Balie, Amsterdam

A N N O U N C E M E N T The Oracle Machine An installation for the façade of De Balie in Amsterdam. “This is what we write, this is what we read; this is how we...

By Heleen on 01/15/07 Comments Off

More Local Web

Amsterdam is using a Google map mashup to display complaints they’re dealing with. Imagine, those two neighbors who hate each other, constantly using this mashup to get even.. Speaking of, what does the local web mean for that old...

By Michael Stevenson on 01/12/07 Comments Off

Chinese censorship applied to bloggers

Today the Chinese state media announced that its government is not satisfied with the growing popularity of blogging in China and wants to force users to register with their genuine name. This way bloggers can be penalized when they...

By Roman Tol on 01/11/07 1

Wikipedia and AI

Lately I’ve been looking at the possibility of using Wikipedia’s interlinking to study collective memory – seeing what associations are made and so on. Here’s an article about using similar techniques to make computers smarter. For example, with anti-spam...

By Michael Stevenson on 01/08/07 Comments Off

Second Life backlash no. 2

Nicholas Carr: A second life avatar consumes as much energy as the average Brazilian.

By Michael Stevenson on 01/07/07 Comments Off

Diversionary Therapy Technology- a game that helps Australian burns sufferers

In this project children with serious burns get diverted during the treatment of their injuries. This project has won the Australian national award for collaboration. From their website: “ACID is working with the Royal Children’s Hospital Brisbane to develop...

By Heleen on 01/06/07 Comments Off

Surveillance theory and ‘that video’

In Consumer Technology after Surveillance Theory, Richard Rogers and Sabine Niederer talk about how consumer technology unsettles old institutional power, possibly bringing a whole new set of problems along. There was the consumer-soldier, for example, who produced the Abu...

By Michael Stevenson on 01/03/07 5

I recently came across the site Blue Ball Machine. Because I think the artist (Eathbounder) in contrast to his own view did a wonderful job (he calls the image SomethingAwfull), I highly recommend checking it out.

By Roman Tol on 01/03/07 4