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Interview with Elias Aboujaoude MD, author of ‘Virtually You’

Ave Tampere | 30 October 2011, 12:50 pm | tags: , , , , , , , , ,

‘Virtually You‘ is the book I reviewed some time back. It talks about the dangerous effects life online can have on our personalities and lives. I managed to get hold of the author of the book, Elias Aboujaoude MD, for a quick email interview. I approached him with the thought that perhaps he could offer some thinking points for…

Interview with Sanne Stricker from Roamler

Jorrit Schaap | 29 October 2011, 3:55 pm | tags: , , , , , ,

Sanne Stricker (26) graduated cum laude from the Master of Business Studies at the University of Amsterdam. Her master thesis focused on the influence of negative tweets on consumer attitude towards brands and received a lot of media attention from the Dutch press. Sanne is currently working at Roamler, the company behind the successful iPhone app on crowdsourcing. Her advice? Go work at a startup!

Interview with James Robinson: Mapping the World’s Signal

Daan Fliervoet | 29 October 2011, 11:42 am | 2 comments | tags: , , , ,

A couple of weeks ago I wrote a blogpost about Open Signal Maps, an application for android that maps the world’s signal. I used the application myself for several days and it worked pretty fine and gave me better understanding of signal strength in my area. But I was still curious about the story behind this application. I…

New Media in Brazil: An interview with the curator of FILE

Juliana Paiva | 29 October 2011, 1:25 am | tags: , , , , , ,

FILE stands for International Festival of Electronic Language and is the biggest festival of new media in Brazil. The event happens annually in São Paulo and eventually in other cities of Brazil and holds projects, installations, screenings and presentations from all over the world. The organization of FILE is a non-governmental and non-profit group, all event entrances are  free. In…

Interview: Marlus Araujo

Mario Gesteira | 29 October 2011, 12:57 am | 1 comment | tags: , , , , ,

In Brazil we can see overtime more and more designers starting to work with programming and merging those tools to create their projects. The figure of the designer/programmer has emerged and became fundamental in the web market and the quality of their work is improving as the time goes on.
Marlus Araujo is a Brazilian design…

2012: An Offline Year for Bram van Montfoort

Leander Roet | 27 October 2011, 4:26 pm | 3 comments | tags: , , , ,

Bram van Montfoort (‘87) is an online man. He once started with a dial-up internet connection and egg timer to keep track of ‘online’-time, nowadays Bram is equipped with iPad, PC and mobile phone and can be followed on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube and Vimeo. All that is about to

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Online Fan Communities and Research Ethics: An Interview with Dr. Natasha Whiteman

Liam Voice | 26 October 2011, 11:23 am | 1 comment | tags: , , , , , , ,

Where there are communities there will, almost inevitably, be researchers observing and studying them. Just as the Internet provides a refuge for fan communities to dwell, so to does it provide a site for academics to research.
Dr Natasha Whiteman studied two online fan communities: Silent Hill Heaven, a website and forum dedicated to the videogame Silent…

An interview with Jerom Fischer

Sebastiaan Smink | 25 October 2011, 1:46 pm | tags: , , , , ,

Some say this is the best time for artist and creative entrepreneurs. Others think the creative industries are coming to an end thanks to the negative impact of the Internet on industries like the music industry. Since I’m interested in writing my Master-thesis about the future of the cultural industries, I wanted to find out more about how today’s young…

Interview met Reinder Rustema: Nieuwe Media & Politiek

Floris Spronk | 25 October 2011, 10:40 am | 1 comment | tags: , , , , ,

Voor veel studenten Nieuwe Media aan de UvA is Reinder Rustema geen onbekende. Naast het doceren aan de UvA is Rustema een oudgediende op het vlak van Nieuwe Media en politiek. Zo maakte hij ooit deel uit van De Digitale Stad, schreef tientallen politieke opinieartikelen, was zelf verkiesbaar en beheert hij sites als

“Funny is fun but humor is cool.” – The New Style of Humor in China’s Film

Duohuai Zhang | 22 October 2011, 5:41 pm | 1 comment | tags: ,

Ning Hao, from Taiyuan, Shanxi province, who had studied at Beijing Normal University in Art Department, and in June 2003 graduated from the Beijing Film Academy School of Photography. Winner of “The Eighth Student Film Festival Best Director Award” in 2003, The Director of Crazy Stone and Crazy Racer.

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