Tag Archives: Foucault

Sciencemappr: Trying to unleash the hypertextual potential of the Web

Frank Molenaar | 04 May 2011, 12:01 am | tags: , , , , , , , ,

Last week I already pointed out the amazing significance and potential of the Internet to organize, structure and index all knowledge gathered across the globe. Rather than an indirect library of indexes and references, the web is equipped with the possibility to reference directly and instantly. This takes care of both the physical as well as the psychological issues that…

The Privacy Paradox in a control society

Sander Jansma | 24 September 2010, 4:24 pm | 3 comments | tags: , , , , , ,

Nowadays a lot of people are in some form represented on the internet. These virtual forms can include profiles on social network sites like Facebook and Twitter, but also as writings on a personal websites and blogs. They has been labeled many names, including data double (Haggerty & Ericson, 2000), a databased self (Simon, 2005) and the one I like most: the dividual…

Book-review- Open 19: Beyond Privacy. New Perspectives on the Public and Private Domain

Layla Van Daalen | 21 September 2010, 12:09 am | tags: , , , ,

Book-review- Open 19: Beyond Privacy. New Perspectives on the Public and Private Domain [Paperback]
Jorinde Seijdel (Editor), Liesbeth Melis (Editor)

ISBN: 978-90-5662-736-,144 pages,

This book is an edition of Open, published by SKOR a foundation of art and public space.

At this time, an information age where information is everywhere and increases daily,…

Persistence of Life-Streams – An Inquiry Into the Implications of Mixed Surveillance

Sjoerd Tuinema | 06 September 2010, 1:20 pm | tags: , , , , , , ,

Here’s the final version of my thesis which covers the nature and implications of (participatory) surveillance in the field of social media, and specifically in life-streaming services like Twitter and Facebook. (PDF can be downloaded here).

Introduction:

In this thesis, I will investigate the use and organization of so-called ‘life-streams’, a…

Twitter: The Inverse Panopticon?

Joery Bruijntjes | 05 October 2009, 9:59 am | 8 comments | tags: , , , ,

There’s a lot to be said about Twitter and alike, even though few have done so from a humanities perspective. Today, I would like to pose some thoughts that might inspire more new media researchers to move forward in this field.

In 1977 Foucault wrote a book called ‘Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison’ in which he describes…

Sexuality and Wikipedia

Jelle Kamsma | 24 September 2009, 1:08 pm | tags: , , , ,

Foucault argued that political power and coercion is not only exercised by our government but also by institutions which we don’t immediately see as political, like our education or our healthcare. I would like to add Wikipedia to that list. Wikipedia sees a Neutral Point of View (NPoV) as “a fundamental Wikimedia principle and a cornerstone of Wikipedia.”…

Micro-blogging: Towards Temporal Micro-economics

Alejandro Ortega Lozano | 15 October 2008, 9:30 am | 1 comment | tags: , , , , , ,

‘As Oliver Selfridge puts it, an intimate, interactive conversation is, in some sense, the lack of it’. (Nicholas Negroponte) [1]

See also complete analysis HERE

Launched in October 2006 and taking off worldwide in March 2007 by…

Watching You Watch Me!! (…on Facebook)

Kai Henriquez | 22 September 2008, 1:28 am | 3 comments | tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

The Web 2.0 application FACEBOOK analysed through FOUCAULTS PHILOSOPHIES ON SOCIETY.

WARNING|DANGER: With this knowledge a consciousness is created with which people become aware about the possibilities of people watching/observing/monitoring people, both virtually as in the real world.

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Rosa Menkman | 06 July 2008, 9:27 pm | 1 comment | tags: , ,

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In 1961, in the First Preface to Histoire de la folie, Foucault writes that the modern man and the madman no longer communicate. There is no longer a common language connecting the two; there is only silence. According to him, the language of psychiatry, which is a monologue…

Alex Galloway on Protocol @ UvA

Esther Weltevrede | 08 November 2007, 12:33 am | tags: , , , , , , , , ,

After the talk Alex Galloway gave on The Game of War Rosie asked him to give us an introduction to Protocol, which is key literature for one of our courses. This is the first spontaneously organized event by Geeks for World Domination aka g4wd. Anne has made a great post related to her thesis topic…