Tag Archives: data

The Internet – a ’seductive data set’ accessed at the touch of a button

Anne Lukas | 28 September 2010, 4:04 pm | 1 comment | tags: , ,

The rapid expansion of internet uptake throughout the world created a potential for new social experiences, and thus offers researchers new environments for their social enquiry (Beddows, 2008). Kaye and Johnson predicted already in 1999 that the World Wide Web and other new electronic technologies might soon become prime survey vehicles due to convenient, verifiable, low-cost delivery and return systems…

Hyves, THE information source for companies

Floor Broer van Dijk | 26 September 2010, 4:57 pm | tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

How would I do research in web 2.0 and Social Network Sites? First I have to make clear for myself what web 2.0 exactly is. According to Tim O’Reilly, one of the founders of web 2.0, web 2.0 existed after the dot.com crash in 2001. In the…

Book Review: “Nach Feierabend: Daten” [After work: Data]

Anne Lukas | 23 September 2010, 2:48 pm | tags: , , ,

Data have an incredible argumentative potential. Data can be produced, filed, saved, evaluated, spread, sold, aggregated, falsified, interpreted, transmitted, protected, processed and combined. Data show relations, support theses and disprove assumptions. Data can also change over the time and become a trend, which warns of the future or predicts better times. That means that data can have a prognostic potential…

Who do you think you are?

Chris Hoogeveen | 15 September 2010, 10:34 pm | tags: , , , , , , , , , ,

Review: Karin Spaink, Wie is U?

Ever had a Déjà vu, the feeling that you have experienced something before? It’s a strange feeling. You can’t exactly explain what it is and where it comes from, but it’s there. You know you’ve been somewhere before or heard something before. Mostly the experience lasts only a moment and then it’s gone.…

Mobile city conference – Stephen Graham on the politics of urban space

Tjerk Timan | 29 February 2008, 3:45 pm | 9 comments | tags: , , , , , , ,

Introduction by Ole Bouman:
At the NAI, values of architecture are defended that we are fond of to defend. Most architects and policy makers do belief that architecture is about shelter and enclosure, occupation and representation. Archiving architecture used to be at the core of the NAi, but it has to look at what is happening with architecture now…