Tag Archives: interactivity

New Media and Marketing

Hanneke Mertens | 16 September 2010, 11:48 am | tags: , ,

Since the rise of use of new media, marketing departments seem to be stressed out because they don’t know how to handle this new medium. Should they invest? How, where and how can they measure the effects? Companies don’t want to stay behind, but also don’t know what to do. Is twitter the new way to go? Or is creating…

I Fly with my Little Spy! New Stealth Techno-Toys.

Isobel Gorman | 12 September 2010, 6:53 pm | tags: , , , ,

The recent debate about the proposed use of military-style surveillance drones in the United Kingdom, and further afield, has fuelled fears and given rise to concern over the continual erosion of the individual’s right to privacy and safety. The very name ‘drone’ seems to evoke a particularly menacing connotation, especially given the current use of drones in conflict. So when the French company Parrot launched their new augmented reality (AR) gaming device called AR.Drone the immediate association was surveillance related.

Creating documentaries to engage the viewer: Prison Valley- a webdoc.

Stefania Bercu | 11 September 2010, 12:02 pm | 5 comments | tags: , , , , ,

Prison Valley posterIn November, 2009, Philippe Brault and David Dufresne, journalists for Arte.tv were onstage at the International Documentary Film Festival in Amsterdam to present the online platform and the first 30 minutes of edited footage of their upcoming project: Prison Valley- a webdocumentary. Prison Valley is a road movie about a small city in the state of Colorado,…

Notion Motion: a virtual existence

Chris Hoogeveen | 10 September 2010, 5:44 pm | tags: , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Darkness has fallen over the Bodon Chambers. Only slim light shimmers over a pool of water onto a massive wall, creating a Virtual Space of light and movement. The Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson created Notion Motion: a visualization of light waves. This space is not digital nor exactly analogue. It’s a grey area. But how close…

The immersive and interactive qualities of literature

Suzanne Schram | 04 September 2010, 9:33 pm | tags: , , , , , ,

In “Immersion vs. Interactivity: Virtual Reality and Literary Theory” Marie-Laure Ryan explores the problematics of Virtual literature. Marie-Laure Ryan is a literary scholar and critic. She has written several books and articles concerning narratology, fiction and cyberculture, and she has been awarded several times for her work. Ryan has a diverse background. She has studied literature, linguistics, German, French and…

Interpassivity on Facebook

Marc Stumpel | 16 October 2009, 3:05 pm | 2 comments | tags: , , , ,

Social networks give online opportunities to construct social connections, stay in touch with our friends and create/share user-generated content. They are characterized by interactivity; users are capable to react to each others’ actions. However, as our connections grow, our interactivity inherently might not. Therefore the question arises: what role does passivity play in social networks?

At first sight this may…

“To Twitt or Not To Twitt”

Maggie Badermadjian | 13 October 2008, 11:58 am | tags: , , ,

As it is defined in Wikipedia – Micro-blogging is a relatively new phenomenon defined as “a form of blogging that lets you write brief text updates (usually less than 200 characters) about your life on the go and send them to friends and interested observers via text messaging, instant messaging (IM), email or the web”, some examples…

An Analysis of Web 2.0: ‘YouTube’

Ali Balunywa | 21 September 2008, 8:10 am | 1 comment | tags: , , , ,
Introduction
Web 2.0 is a term describing changing trends in the use of World Wide Web technology and web design that aims to enhance creativity, information sharing, collaboration and functionality of the web. In short, Web 2.0 emphasizes the idea of the proliferation of interconnectivity and interactivity of web-delivered content. Web 2.0 concepts have led to the development

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Blogs, Wikipedia, Second Life, and Beyond

Maggie Badermadjian | 14 September 2008, 4:51 pm | tags: , ,



Dr Axel Bruns is the author of Blogs, Wikipedia, Second Life, and Beyond: From Production to Produsage. He is a Senior Lecturer in the Creative Industries Faculty at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia, and has also authored

Interactivity and Immersion/ Sonic Acts XII

Paulien Dresscher | 23 February 2008, 4:35 pm | tags: , , , ,

picture by Rosa Menkman
Moderated by Arie Altena, this part of the session the artists Jeffrey Shaw from Australia and the Dutch Marnix de Nijs talked about their work with video, ambient screens and immersive techniques. The session took off with a quote from Paul Ruiz, from the Poetics of Cinema.