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Dissemination of Social Network Sites

Chris Hoogeveen | 23 September 2010, 10:54 am | tags: danah boyd, dead, death, facebook, frankfurt school, Geert Lovink, Isis, linkedin, marxism, Masters of Media, Microblogging, nicole ellison, Osiris, remediation, revival, Seth, SNS, social network sites, social networking sites, twitter, web 2.0

Social network sites are very popular within media studies. They are common research subjects. How often did you refer to Facebook or LinkedIn when writing an article? There is not one way to explore the universe of social media. But what direction do you need to go to reach that academic level? Is a Marxist approach necessary…

The Arab media revolution

Laila Koubia | 12 September 2010, 10:25 pm | tags: Arab media, media activism, new media, social networking sites, social networks, twitter

Since there have been inventions for the use of communication amongst the human race there have been institutions, governments and corporations trying to control them. As Noam Chomsky cites: ‘Unless people are controlled, they are going to challenge power’. The same goes for media in my opinion: unless it’s controlled, it’s going to challenge the established power.

Using Twitter To Support 3FM’s ‘Serious Request’ Campaign

Elias van Hees | 07 September 2010, 6:34 pm | tags: event, facebook, social networking sites, twitter, youtube

Using Facebook, Youtube, Hyves and Twitter in particular for the good cause? It’s possible in the coming weeks with Serious Retweets. The site www.seriousretweets.nl supports the yearly 3FM campaign ‘Het glazen huis‘ which is based on dj’s who stick together in a box of glass in december for several days, isolated and without food to collect money for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).

The initiator of the project, Ferry van den Broek, claims that Serious Retweets is actually the first, combined social media fundraising project in the Netherlands.

Social data analysis – Information visualization and participatory culture

Jan Bajec | 27 April 2010, 9:23 pm | 1 comment | tags: Henry Jenkins, information visualization, new media, participatory culture, social data analysis, social networking sites, web 2.0

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”…

Implications of Twitter: Crime 2.0

Tim van Essen | 11 October 2009, 12:55 am | tags: crime 2.0, Manuel Castells, privacy, social networking sites, space and time, surveillance, twitter

Sept. 30, 2008. White man about 20 years of age, wearing a blue shirt, yellow vest, safety goggle and a respirator mask. An ordinary road-worker going to work you might think. No you’re wrong, this is the story of a genius robber who used Craiglist to recruit a dozen of people to act as decoys while he robbed an…

Twitter Poetry and the Re-use Era: the Creation of Meaning

Marta Colpani | 09 October 2009, 11:55 am | 3 comments | tags: language, literature, poetry, social networking sites, social networks, twitter

As I wrote in the last post about my new media research on Twitter, this new social networking site offers a very specific new format for communication. It gives a constraint of 140 characters to write a status update. Although Twitter asks the user to write “what he is doing”, this space is used by different users in…

The different faces of Twitter

Charlotte Hendriks | 04 October 2009, 7:29 pm | tags: social networking, social networking sites, twitter

The enormous growth of the social networking site that is Twitter has many a person wondering. Suddenly every self-respecting website, newspaper, enterprise or person has a Twitter account, which enables Twitter users to follow. Even though the amount of press attention is through the roof and the hype is definitely worth looking at, what strikes me most about Twitter…

Collective writing: How literature is changed by the new medium

Suzanne Schram | 04 October 2009, 3:19 pm | tags: collaboration, Collaborative fiction, literature, participatory culture, SNS, Social networking site, social networking sites, social networks, wikinovel

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…

Ning’s Privacy Issues

Tim van Essen | 03 October 2009, 6:04 pm | 4 comments | tags: facebook, hyves, Ning, privacy, Social networking site, social networking sites, social networks

My background is not only media studies/theories but I’m also enrolled in the Bachelor program of Law at the University of Amsterdam. This post is about my critique on the interaction between privacy and user on Ning.com.

For class we had to do an assignment about the social networking site (SNS) Ning.com. Register, play and write about it.…

The ‘Flow’ of SNS

Simeona Petkova | 01 October 2009, 12:05 am | tags: deep remixability, flow, metadata, social networking sites

Recently, a good friend of mine asked if he can leave a comment on Wikipedia’s page. This made me think how frequently used online platforms can shape our expectations toward other online platforms. Usually these expectations get detected by the platforms’ designers and they become available through the next platform’s upgrade. No surprise if soon Wikipedia enables comments. In…

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