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Mobile Tweeting – recognising usage frequency, tendencies and social interaction differences

The Question Academic research on Twitter has been rife since it hit off in 2006, with significant focus on two topics in particular- that of privacy and identity. Much that has been written by scholars of Twitter has generally...

By Christopher Mead on 10/05/11 0

Book Review: “What You See Is What You Feel” by Koert van Mensvoort

A fellow MoM’er already wrote a good review on the PhD thesis What You See Is What You Feel by Koert van Mensvoort. Read the MoM review here and download the full book here. I would like to give...

By Pim van Bree on 09/20/10 0

From Metaphysics to Metadata – #4. Conclusion

This is the conclusion of my thesis From Metaphysics to Metadata. Aesthetics and Politics of Interface. Click to read the first, second, and third part. ABSTRACT In the conclusion of my work I...

By Nicola Bozzi on 09/07/10 0

From Metaphysics to Metadata – #3. Interface and Choice: Types and Implications of Metadata

This is the third part of my thesis From Metaphysics to Metadata. Aesthetics and Politics of Interface. Check back to read the first part and the second part. ABSTRACT In this chapter I...

By Nicola Bozzi on 09/06/10 0

From Metaphysics to Metadata – #2. Infrastructure and Flow. The Channels of Metadata

This is the second part of my thesis From Metaphysics to Metadata. Aesthetics and Politics of Interface. Here’s the first part. ABSTRACT Starting from the example of urban simulacra (in form of virtual environments,...

By Nicola Bozzi on 09/05/10 0

From Metaphysics to Metadata – #1. Introduction

Starting from today, I will publish my thesis From Metaphysics to Metadata. Aesthetics and Politics of Interface on this blog. Since nobody wants to read some 70 pages in blog format, I’m attaching it in four separate PDFs introduced...

By Nicola Bozzi on 09/04/10 4

Galloway: The Medium is an Interface

... Interface and media may be two names for the same thing. From the viewpoint of McLuhan and the concept of re-mediation, media are merely containers that encapsulate other pieces of media. This can be seen as an “onion”...

By John Haltiwanger on 05/11/10 1

The Multilingual Internet, or Where the Green Ants Dream

In one of the last scenes of Werner Herzog‘s Where the Green Ants Dream (1984) an Aborigine stands up in a court room to speak up against some mineral excavations happening in a sacred tribal ground. The judge asks...

By Nicola Bozzi on 09/14/09 0

Wii can do so much more with a remote

To start off 2008 I'd like to show you some interesting videos by Johnny Chung Lee, a Ph.D. graduate student on human computer interaction. He uses the remote from the Nintendo Wii to create spectacular user interfaces. Three videoclips...

By Maarten van Sprang on 01/10/08 2