Several speakers in this session, Everything We Know about Transmedia is Wrong are sharing their thoughts about on transmedia and what is about. What are the current views on transmedia and is it still a dominant tool in for example marketing and social events nowadays.
The AI game, which came out in 2001, resulted in an enormous success…
In November, 2009, Philippe Brault and David Dufresne, journalists for Arte.tv were onstage at the International Documentary Film Festival in Amsterdam to present the online platform and the first 30 minutes of edited footage of their upcoming project: Prison Valley- a webdocumentary. Prison Valley is a road movie about a small city in the state of Colorado,…
When just a few months ago the iPad was revealed, it seemed only a matter of when not if the first DJ applications for the newest Apple gadget would hit the market. Now it looks like the Austrian energy drink brand Red Bull will pioneer the electronic music scene with a DJ tool compatible for the iPad, iPod…
Researchers in all areas of human knowledge are overwhelmed with data. Through the process of sensemaking, in which information is collected, organized, and analyzed, new knowledge is formed and further action is informed. We must make sense of data in order to produce real value from it. “The availability of information is irrelevant without a means to interpret it effectively”…
There are many variants of social networking sites. Some of them are based on an analog medium. The use of the Internet and the computer has resulted in that the digital medium differs from the analog medium. Examples of this are online encyclopedia such as: wikipedia, Filmaffinity, Flixster, ANobii. The last three examples are…
This short article is a response to sarahnats’ article “What is Causing the Decline in Wikipedia Participation”? You can see this short article as a further extension of her argumentation structure and my own experience of adding information to the Wikipedia community.
Sarahnats argues that the rise and power of the editorial management on the site is…
Show off your favorite videos to the world.
Take videos of your dogs, cats, and other pets.
Blog the videos you take with your digital camera or cell phone.
Securely and privately show your videos to your friends and family
around the world. …and much, much more!
(About Us page of YouTube, 2005)
YouTube. One…
Review of the book ‘Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations’ by Clay Shirky about new tools of communication and organizing of groups on the Internet. What are the social implications and what will change?
Mark Deuze, professor of Journalism and New Media at Leiden University and assistant professor at Indiana University, was the latest speaker in the ongoing New Media Research Lecture Series here at the University of Amsterdam, and spent the afternoon discussing his latest book, Media Work.