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Anne Helmond is Assistant Professor of New Media and Digital Culture and Program Director of the MA New Media and Digital Culture at the University of Amsterdam. She is a member of the Digital Methods Initiative research collective where she focuses her research on the infrastructure of social media platforms and apps. Her research interests include digital methods, software studies, platform studies, app studies, infrastructure studies and web history.

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Call for Applications – MA in New Media and Digital Culture at the University of Amsterdam 2017-2018

One-year and two-year international Master’s programs in New Media available: MA Media Studies: New Media and Digital Culture (one year, full time) Research MA Media Studies: New Media and Digital Culture (two years, full time) MA New Media and...
By Anne Helmond on 11/14/16 Comments Off on Call for Applications – MA in New Media and Digital Culture at the University of Amsterdam 2017-2018

Call for Applications: International M.A. in New Media ­University of Amsterdam

International M.A. in New Media ­University of Amsterdam. Call for Applications ­Fall 2011 admission deadline: 1 April 2011 Overview The International M.A. in New Media & Digital Culture (NMMA) at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) is accepting applications for...
By Anne Helmond on 02/15/11 2

Photos from the first New Media MA Graduation Day

Tuesday the 22nd of September was a big day for both graduating New Media MA students and New Media studies itself. The first official graduation ceremony (which were previously held together with Film and Television studies in Mediastudies) marked...
By Anne Helmond on 09/26/09 2

MA students present projects ‘Visualizing our World of Data’

Students from the MA New Media (UvA), MA Information Science (UvA) and MA Editorial Design (MaHKU) presented their interactive visualization projects at Crea. The Visualizing our World of Data program contained eight presentations (not all of them are described...
By Anne Helmond on 05/15/09 5
Stifo@Sandberg – The Moving Movie Industry

Stifo@Sandberg – The Moving Movie Industry

Where: Theater van ’t Woord Openbare Bibliotheek Amsterdam Oosterdokskade 143 1011 DL Amsterdam Time: 9.30 hours – 17.00 hours Entreance: Free Reservations via conference@sandberg.nl (obligated due to limited amount of seats) Program: 09.30 – Registration & coffee 09.50 –...
By Anne Helmond on 10/28/08 Comments Off on Stifo@Sandberg – The Moving Movie Industry

25 New Media Researchers Invited to Attend PICNIC’08

Would you like to attend the PICNIC conference, but your university refuses to finance your ticket unless you are the keynote speaker? If you are an academic researcher, scientist, or all-round investigator we have exactly 25 passe partout tickets...
By Anne Helmond on 09/12/08 Comments Off on 25 New Media Researchers Invited to Attend PICNIC’08

New Media Festival “Victorian Circus”

Victorian Circus, one of the most prominent new media festivals, thinks it is high time to explore THE FUTURE. Besides interesting lectures, brainstorms and debates you will be surprised by futuristic installations and films. As the cherry on the...
By Anne Helmond on 04/07/08 Comments Off on New Media Festival “Victorian Circus”
The Mobile City Conference 27 & 28 February 2008 @ NAI, Rotterdam, the Netherlands

The Mobile City Conference 27 & 28 February 2008 @ NAI, Rotterdam, the Netherlands

The Mobile City conference 27 & 28 February 2008 NAi (Netherlands Architecture Institute) Rotterdam, The Netherlands Announcement & Call for Participation www.themobilecity.nl “The Mobile City” is a two-day conference about locative & mobile technologies, urban culture and identity. The...
By Anne Helmond on 12/19/07 6

Rethinking the Blog as Database: My First Post on the Blog Herald

I am proud to announce that I have joined the Blog Herald. The Blog Herald has been blogging about the blogosphere since 2003 and has since become an established source in the blogosphere. I have been reading the Blog...
By Anne Helmond on 10/16/07 1

Lev Manovich on User Generated Content @ Video Vortex

The following post is a combination of a transcription of Manovich’s keynote and my own notes and commentary. Introduction by Geert Lovink Online video is renegotiating its (problematic) relationship with cinema. It deals with cinematographic principles versus the principles...
By Anne Helmond on 10/05/07 4
Radiohead and the Ethics and Future of Downloading Music

Radiohead and the Ethics and Future of Downloading Music

As you might have heard Radiohead dropped its major label and put its new album online for download. This is not a new strategy but what is interesting is that they don’t sell their music through iTunes for $0.99...
By Anne Helmond on 10/03/07 6

PICNIC07 – Cory Doctorow Q&A at the European Bloggers (Un)Conference

Thursday and Friday the European Bloggers (Un)Conference was held at the PICNIC conference and festival. Cory Doctorow attended for an hour to answer questions from the audience about Boing Boing. A lot of these questions concerned the business model...
By Anne Helmond on 09/29/07 1

New Network Theory- Parallel Sessions- ‘Network and Subjectivities’ – Ulises A. Mejias

Ulises A. Mejias offers us a network critique in the final talk of the parallel session ‘Network and Subjectivities.’ In his talk about ‘Hyperlocality and the tyranny of nodes’ he argues that we can see a shift in the...
By Anne Helmond on 07/05/07 1

Call for New Network Theory conference photos

We heard the rumor that some speakers and/or visitors would like to share their pictures with us. That would be absolutely great. So, if you have any photos you would like to share with us, please e-mail us at...
By Anne Helmond on 06/30/07 Comments Off on Call for New Network Theory conference photos

Photos New Network Theory Conference

View the whole New Network Theory set at Flickr (more to come the next two days).
By Anne Helmond on 06/29/07 Comments Off on Photos New Network Theory Conference

Facebook and MySpace class distinctions

danah boyd recently wrote an interesting article on “viewing American class divisions through Facebook and MySpace.” She points out that class divisions have emerged and are being played out through aesthetics in Facebook and MySpace. I think this is...
By Anne Helmond on 06/26/07 5

Essay: The Perceived Freshness Fetish

Why do I feel a need to blog daily? There seems to be some kind of consensus or norm in the blogosphere that blogs should be updated daily. Several blogs about blogging recommend posting daily and blog search engine...
By Anne Helmond on 06/22/07 1

What is your network called? Or: a religious wireless network war?

I recently worked at a friend’s house and I was trying to connect to their wireless networked called “GORGONZOLA.” I thought that was a pretty funny name until I noticed the names some neighbors had given their networks. One...
By Anne Helmond on 06/15/07 7

Masters of Media at Versgeperst

Twan did a great job presenting our blog at the first edition of Vers Geperst at Club 11 in Amsterdam. A New Media student from Utrecht from the audience contacted us afterwards to talk about the blog and New...
By Anne Helmond on 05/31/07 3
Where do you live online?

Where do you live online?

(click map to enlarge) Lately I’ve been living mostly in the Flickr/Last FM area and on the Blogipelago but I am a vivid traveler. I have day passes to del.icio.us and Wikipedia and I always enjoy a good swim...
By Anne Helmond on 05/07/07 4

YouTube: If you can’t beat them, join them!

While Viacom is sueing YouTube for $1 Billion for “massive intentional copyright infringement” the Dutch public broadcasting company VPRO is embracing YouTube. After entering the Digital TV market it now sees YouTube as a new distribution channel. The VPRO...
By Anne Helmond on 04/20/07 Comments Off on YouTube: If you can’t beat them, join them!

Second Open-Search Workshop

For your info: What: Second Open-Search Workshop When: Saturday April 28, 2007, 13.00h CET, 11.00h GMT, 06.00h EST, 4.00h EET, 01.00h HST, 04.00h MSTDuration: official program will be 4 hours Where (physical): CREA, room 204, Turfdraagsterpad 17, 1012 XT...
By Anne Helmond on 04/18/07 Comments Off on Second Open-Search Workshop
Smart spam and stupid spam and stock spam? Spam spam spam!

Smart spam and stupid spam and stock spam? Spam spam spam!

I was originally going to write about smart spam but recent spam led me to write about stupid spam. Spammers are constantly improving their methods to get through spamfilters. They increasingly use random names and academic, computer and web...
By Anne Helmond on 04/17/07 5
Google and Blogger, please stop localizing me!

Google and Blogger, please stop localizing me!

While writing a piece about the Ubiscribe event on my own blog I went to Blogger’s website. Blogger automatically localizes me based on my IP-address and welcomes me in my own language. Google does the same thing when I...
By Anne Helmond on 04/16/07 16