Tag Archives: social media

Diverse audience consumption of social media

Yeun Au | 04 October 2011, 10:07 am | tags: , , ,

I love statistics. I love seeing my Facebook friend count increase. I love looking at what songs I played most in my iTunes. (Unless it is an artist that is too embarrassing to love. Luckily you can reset this statistic.) Loving statistics is really great nowadays, since our computers and the internet are keeping track of everything. On Twitter, every…

Social Network Abstinence

Juliana Paiva | 04 October 2011, 12:09 am | 2 comments | tags: , , , , ,

In this postmodern age, McLuhan’s thoughts about medium as an extension of ourselves seems more and more accurate. However, if the medium is us and we are the medium, how we can detach from it?

Nowadays, social media is one of the main examples of how integrated we can be. With every information just…

Luxury Brands and Social Media

Liselotte Doorduijn | 03 October 2011, 3:00 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , ,

For our next Blog we were given the assignment to write a proposal for a social media research. Social media, a term Andreas Kaplan and Michael Haenlein define as “a group of Internet-based applications that build on the ideological and technological foundations of Web 2.0, and that allow the creation and exchange of User Generated Content”. Social media are…

Relationships 2.0: Social media – taking the distance out of long distance relationships

Ave Tampere | 02 October 2011, 6:01 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , , , , , , , , , ,

Social media has drastically changed the way we go about our daily business – this has been firmly established by now. Media scholars are exploiting (in a good way) all the possibilities and data the exciting platforms provide for research to bring us a clearer picture of our society and the world. But somewhere in that system are also real…

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

Urszula Jurgiel | 17 September 2011, 7:45 pm | tags: , , ,

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

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Master New Media; a logical choice.

Daan Fliervoet | 15 September 2011, 11:00 am | tags: , , , , , , ,

The first week at the Master New Media was interesting and it gave a good view of what we will do in the upcoming year. It is nice to see that the classes consist of so many students from different nationalities and disciplines. It will be a whole new experience for me as a BA student Media en Culture.  Although…

The like button: Something mutual, nothing too personal

Demet Dagdelen | 14 September 2011, 5:58 pm | tags: , , , , , ,

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

Social Media are taking over our identity, for better or for worse.

Jeroen Rijskamp | 11 September 2011, 7:25 pm | 6 comments | tags: , , , , ,

Facebook Identity

With Facebook now claiming to have over 750 million active users,  along with a

True Blood invades virtual reality

Luana Pascu | 10 September 2011, 11:35 pm | tags: , , , ,

The development of new communication means in recent years has turned into a genuine PR and advertising opportunity. The rise of the Internet together with the changes in the behavior of the media consumer triggered a special interest in improving the marketing techniques. I will therefore discuss the importance of New Media in advertising, focusing on the campaign started for…

Twitter brings New Media student on stage with Imogen Heap

Janice Wong | 25 November 2010, 12:42 am | 7 comments | tags: , , , , , , ,

Imogen Heap & Janice Wong (cello)Thanks to Twitter, I (Janice Wong – cellist and New Media student at the UvA) was given a great opportunity to perform on stage at Melkweg, Amsterdam last night with my idol: UK Grammy award winner Imogen Heap.