Tag Archives: politics

you will _KNOW how_ : interview with Nancy Mauro-Flude

Kendall Grady | 31 October 2011, 7:54 pm | 5 comments | tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

I first encountered the work of Tasmanian performance artist and media researcher Nancy Mauro-Flude during The Art of Hacking exhibition opening at the Netherlands Media Art Institute (NIMk) on September 9, 2011. Mauro-Flude’s Error_in_Time(V.T_3), a poetic coding performance featuring sister0 (Mauro-Flude), ko66 (Sara Platon), and netwurker_Mez (Mez Breeze aka Mary-Anne Breeze), inspired questions on the…

Avaaz.org: Click for Change

Floris Spronk | 31 October 2011, 6:39 pm | tags: , , , ,

These are harsh times. There’s an economical crisis and a climate crisis. There’s drought in the Horn of Africa and flooding in Thailand, chaos in Libya and war in Afghanistan, protests on Wall Street and censorship in China. If only there was an easy way to end it all..

There might be. And it’s very easy: you don’t have to…

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

Russian Classmates, politics and Georgia

Mzia Kupunia | 03 October 2011, 2:42 pm | 5 comments | tags: , , , , , , , , , , ,

Despite having over 100 friends and former classmates in my friends list on a popular Russian social networking site Odnoklassniki.ru, I left it following a brief Russian-Georgian war in August 2008 and joined an increasing number of people in Georgia who preferred to stick to other popular social networking website Facebook only. “I am…

What Juliet Didn’t Ask

Kendall Grady | 02 October 2011, 7:22 pm | tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Deepening the Motivations and Consequences of Facebook Aliases

I was a freshman in college when Facebook was fresh off the server. The social network’s inaugural class has since grown up, and so has its Facebook identity. An established social networking presence is now taken for granted, and you’re free to be more playful and less encyclopedic in filling out your…

Thank You, Louis!

Daniel de Zeeuw | 30 September 2011, 2:49 pm | 2 comments | tags: , , , , ,

Instead of writing about my Wikipedia entry, which was quickly accepted, as it was about such a marginal and unimportant topic that it could not be ‘biased,’ i.e. nobody cared, I would rather ventilate my frustrations caused by a lecture I witnessed today at the conference “Media Squares” in de Balie by Nadia Plesner about…

We The People: A Direct Line To The White House?

Floris Spronk | 14 September 2011, 12:01 am | 2 comments | tags: , , , , ,

The White House recently announced the development of a new platform: We The People. Obama is quoted in the introduction explaining why: “I pledged to make government more open and accountable to its citizens. That’s what the new We the People feature on WhiteHouse.gov is all about”. It is an appealing project in several ways, and especially for a New Media…

‘Headdesking’ and Beyond: The British Uprisings

Jamie Franklin | 12 September 2011, 8:34 pm | 2 comments | tags: , , , ,

‘Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather.’ (Barlow, 1996)

David Cameron’s reaction to the…

Not About Media!

Daniel de Zeeuw | 11 September 2011, 12:49 pm | tags: , , , , , ,

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…

On the Political Value of TED

Bob Nefkens | 24 March 2011, 8:57 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , , ,

The Technology Entertainment and Design conference, better known as TED, has spread its worthy ideas annually since 1990. The last couple of years the TED-virus has spread the world as TED became globally known by letting their talks be viewed online for free. As a result the wide range of topics within the research and practice of science and culture of TED are also being addressed here in Amsterdam under the label of TEDx events. Its popularity seems undeniable, but what is the value of TED to us?