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Annewil Neervens

I hold a Bachelor's degree in journalism and recently graduated with a Master's degree in New Media and Digital Culture at the University of Amsterdam. I am particularly interested in online social networks, software and digital influence.

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(Re-)Constructing Social Networking Sites: Examining Software Relations and its Influence on Users

It's a little overdue, but I hereby officially want to post my MA thesis for everyone to read (and/or use under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 license). This thesis was written in a total period of about...
By Annewil Neervens on 10/18/09 Comments Off on (Re-)Constructing Social Networking Sites: Examining Software Relations and its Influence on Users

Twitter’s Implications: Is Less Really More?

It’s around us everywhere. Increasingly, the trend of creating single-phrase sentences – or aphorisms – is taking over the way we write and read, on line and offline. It almost seems as though there is no more room for...
By Annewil Neervens on 10/12/08 1

Social Networking Sites: What Added Value Lies in the Connections?

In having different social networking sites, connections are also different. This might seem obvious, but how do these connections differ and what does that mean? In their paper ‘Public Displays of Connection’, MIT Media Lab professor Judith Donath and academic...
By Annewil Neervens on 10/05/08 1
PICNIC 08 – All Media

PICNIC 08 – All Media

Today’s themes in the E-Art Dome, presented by Virtueel Platform, are ecology, online life/social networking and mobility. The second presentation of the day is All Media, by Mieke Gerritzen and Koert van Mensvoort, which definitely fits those descriptions. ...
By Annewil Neervens on 09/25/08 2

Does the DailyMe Dissolve Our Social Glue? Analysis of a Web 2.0 Application

The term ‘Daily Me’ was first coined in 1995 by author and MIT Lab founder Nicholas Negroponte. Law professor Cass Sunstein took up this notion in his book Republic.com published in 2001 (he also wrote about it in the...
By Annewil Neervens on 09/21/08 2

Book Review: Republic.com 2.0

After the book Republic.com (2001), law professor Cass Sunstein now provides us with an updated version by the name of Republic.com 2.0. As we look at the table of contents, not much seems to be changed except for the inclusion...
By Annewil Neervens on 09/14/08 1