Tag Archives: ownership

E-books: que sera, sera. (but that’s ok, as long as we’re still reading)

Stefania Bercu | 28 October 2010, 3:09 pm | 2 comments | tags: , , , , ,

One of the main challenges that the emergence of e-books has brought upon us is linked to the idea of ownership, be it the ownership of copyright or the actual feeling one gets when purchasing a book. Some argue that in order to feel that a book belongs to you, there is a need for the physical object: the smell…

The Beast File: Google

Marc Stumpel | 17 March 2010, 8:02 pm | 4 comments | tags: , , , , , , ,

This video, created for ‘Hungry Beast‘, a news program that airs in Australia on the ABC1, depicts Google as a dangerous, pretentious, ubiquitous and ever growing advertising giant: ‘building an empire on your street, in your phone, in your DNA, trying very hard not to be evil’.

The animation features most of Google’s services…

Video Vortex: opening session Friday January 18

Jasper Moes | 19 January 2008, 12:46 am | 8 comments | tags: , , , , , , , ,

Introduction

Yesterday the workshop, this morning the start of the two-day “Video Vortex – responses to YouTube”, an international conference organized by the Institute of Network Cultures at PostCS11, Amsterdam. A good crowd fills the hall at the 11th floor of the ex- Dutch postal service building, all waiting for the first session to kick off. When everyone has…