Tag Archives: new media

Review on Jason Fried: Rework

I would like to start off this review by mentioning that Rework is not your average new media literature. In fact, from the perspective of the authors it can be considered as business book. However, if we read between the lines, and take the background of the authors into account, we might see that this book is all about new…

Masters thesis: Virtualized Subjectivity in Contemporary Art Practice

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A few weeks ago I completed and submitted my Masters thesis, ending my yearlong study at the University of Amsterdam’s New Media MA program. Our cohort will officially graduate this Tuesday, 20 Sept, 2011.

Here it is, if anybody’s interested…

Ashiq Khondker – Virtualized Subjectivity in Contemporary Art Practice (PDF)

Abstract:

This paper will attempt to address issues of

Eagerness to share our lives with the others — where are the online boundaries?

More and more often I find on Facebook things which I would rather never want to find. Sonograms of unborn children of people who I know from high school and didn’t talk to them since then, tomographies of their heads after having an accident, pictures of their half-naked

Book review: Virtually You by Elias Aboujaoude, MD

The humankind is moving online. Our work, relationships, communications, banking and even shopping can be done online today, and where possible we’ll happily take the easy ‘one click away’ shortcut, because it’s faster, more efficient and more convenient. For most, the internet is comfortable. But it’s not all so beneficial after all. Elias Aboujaoude, MD writes in his book ‘Virtually

The like button: Something mutual, nothing too personal

An interview with an average net user about the role of the virtual in her life.

War is Over?

As a professional journalist and newbie blogger I had never thought about a question whether online news sites and citizen journalists are undermining journalistic profession until I was assigned to write an essay on this issue as part of an entry exam for one of the Universities I had applied for. As I started writing my essay I got a…

4chan, Ethics and Digital Methodology

How much are you willing to disclose online? Do you post your phone number? Do you have embarrassing pictures on Facebook? Do you Tweet your current location? I think it’s fair to say most people have boundaries when it comes to posting personal information online. However, this blog post explores the infamous /b/ forum on the image board

Introducing myself.

Ever since I was young I was fascinated by media and in particular the way advertising, when executed well, could influence people. After finishing my high school the promise of someday working in the advertising business got me to sign up for the bachelor Communications science at the University of Amsterdam. Though not my initial motivation for choosing this study, while I was learning more about the different media I found myself, at the backdrop of a quickly changing media landscape, more and more pulled to new media.

Not About Media!

The Impossibility of Media Theory

Where previous generations of Serious Men saw in the concept of Medium but marginal or esoteric wordplay, we in our times seem to attribute to it almost magical qualities, such as the 19th century use of the concept ‘aether,’ which was discovered by Einstein to be an unnecessary postulate. Will we ultimately also…

Is the internet ruining our brains?

We shouldn’t be talking about the rise of the social media and new media any more. It’s here, in everyone’s lives on a daily basis. And it’s doing things to us. It’s changing the way we communicate, learn, socialise – to name a few. But what is it really doing to our cognitive (and perhaps social) skills?

The question arose…