Tag Archives: new media

Edial Dekker, CEO of Gidsy: from hacking to collaborative consumption

Bree Tahapary | 04 November 2011, 4:42 pm | 3 comments | tags: , , , , , , ,

In yesterday’s class we discussed the development of free software and open source. A major shift has been taking place, albeit in a slow pace, from proprietary software to a more open and free form. This change is described by the likes of Eric S. Raymond in his seminal paper “The Cathedral and the Bazaar”. In it Raymond makes an…

Netexplorateur Observatory. Talking about Crowdmash, VirtuRéalité and Webego…

Aurelie Ghalim | 02 November 2011, 1:15 pm | tags: , , ,

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Tuesday 25th of October I went to see a conference in Brussels of The Netexplorateur Observatory at Institut des Hautes Etudes des Communications Sociales (IHECS). This observatory is formed of sociologists that analyse hundreds of innovation in the area of new media. Every year international experts select the 100 most interesting cases presenting during the annual…

Interview with The Find Magazine

Aurelie Ghalim | 01 November 2011, 11:48 pm | tags: , , , ,

The Find Magazine is a global collective of music lovers dedicated to promoting the diffusion of hip hop, jazz, funk, soul, and related genres. We are inspired by the culture of ‘crate digging’ and thus constantly scour the dusty corners of record shops and outskirts of the internet to find the best music for you.

The Find…

City Vibes Project – A heartbeat of the city based on its BPM

Andrei Florian | 01 November 2011, 12:23 pm | tags: , ,

We choose our music to best fit our mood, our spirit or our activities. We use it to celebrate our victories, to soothe our pain or to give us energy when we are feeling down. This is why ensuring that we can take our music everywhere with us has become one of the objectives of technological development. Building on these…

Interview with Annelie Grob: New Media at the Children’s Book Museum

Maarten Jansen | 31 October 2011, 11:59 pm | tags: , , , , , , ,


In The Hague there is the Dutch Children’s Books Museum (Kinderboekenmuseum). On the 8th of December 2010 was the opening of the new exhibition called Papiria. Within the new exhibition children with the age of three trough thirteen, learn about the way stories are written, what is important for telling a scary story or a love story. They discover…

What makes Warsaw Film Festival a ‘one of a kind’

Urszula Jurgiel | 31 October 2011, 7:06 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , , , ,

This month 27th Warsaw Film Festival took place. It’s organised since 1985 which makes it the second oldest film festival in Poland after Gdynia Polish Film Festival. This year 370 movies were displayed, 152 filmmakers from 39 countries presented their projects in person and the festival audience amounted to 111 000 people.

WFF is an A category festival which…

Get to know your MoM…

Leander Roet | 29 October 2011, 5:02 pm | tags: , , , ,

As new media students most of us are leading frequently updated online lives through social media.
At the same time we encounter a substantial amount of research pointing to possible dangers concerning issues of privacy and identity that are connected with this wide and frequent use of social media. Since new media students will the ones eventually

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Interview: Moos Lamerus on changes and quality in professional music

Joep Hegger | 18 October 2011, 1:45 pm | tags: , , , , ,

New media caused a lot of change in the music industry over the last decade. Comments on such changes tend to focus on general consequences, and overlook the changes as perceived by musicians and other people working in the industry. This text aims to open a door to an insider review through an interview with Amsterdam based musician and music professional Moos Lamerus.

Book review:Taking Care of Youth and the Generations by Bernard Stiegler

Mzia Kupunia | 20 September 2011, 1:02 pm | tags: , , , , , ,

Marketing technologies pose great threat to the future generations – this is the main thesis of French philosopher, Bernard Stiegler’s book Taking Care of Youth and the Generations. In a work published in English language in 2010, Stiegler begins with discussing the issue of lack of responsibility among the adults in the contemporary society. He reviews a then…

Book Review: ‘Voice: Vocal Aesthetics in Digital Arts and Media’ by Norie Neumark, Ross Gibson and Theo van Leeuwen (Editors)

Liam Voice | 20 September 2011, 1:00 am | tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

I am sitting in a room, different from the one you are in now. I am trying to find my voice. (Maybe I should just steal it).

“Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.” (Polonius’ advice Laertes in Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 3)

Our voice is important. Implicit in this quote is the knowledge that our voice communicates…