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Finished the Master in New Media in august 2009. See for mor details about me on http://www.arnodenatris.nl

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Possibilities and threats for popstars in Web 2.0

Popstars have an economic function, like filmstars. They promise a performance. They are the profit makers of the entertainment industries. From an ideological point of view, popstars maintain a myth of meritocracy. The industries and the stars themselves want...
By Arno de Natris on 09/02/09 1

The little Big Belgian Firewall?

For the first time in history, the Belgian federal government has blocked an internet site. It is not a website containing child porn, but a website that publishes the whereabouts of (possible) pedophiles. The blocked website is similar to...
By Arno de Natris on 04/22/09 1

CBS: 29.000 Predators on MySpace

The Internet gives the citizen possibilities for surveillance. Citizens use these possibilities when they think vertical surveillance fails. Especially children are put into discourses of surveillance as if they are members of a vulnerable group, not watched over by...
By Arno de Natris on 04/16/09 3

The digital Grim Reaper

Isn’t it remarkable that a profile on a social network site is almost always linked to a person that exists in real life? Most profiles are related to someone, some group or something that is palpable. Of course, some...
By Arno de Natris on 12/18/08 3

Man and/or machine

The BBC recently broadcasted ‘James May’s Big Ideas’. In this sequence of documentaries May, probably best known as anti superhero in ‘Top Gear’, explores in the episode ‘Man-machine‘ some projects on cyborgs, avatars, artificial intelligence and robots. Unfortunately, the episode isn’t...
By Arno de Natris on 11/24/08 Comments Off on Man and/or machine
When virtual life mixes with real life

When virtual life mixes with real life

Sherry Turkle talks in ‘Video Games and Computer Holding Power’ (1984) about Jimmy, a fourteen year old. Jimmy isn’t gaming (with the game Space Invaders) and thinking of winning and losing. He wants to see how long he can...
By Arno de Natris on 11/15/08 Comments Off on When virtual life mixes with real life

Twitter: Faking a Train Delay

Last Sunday, I tried to put Twitter in some theoretical framework with surveillance theory. I went further in a more practical exploration of this microblogging application. Twitter is more than just a message board as compared to in my...
By Arno de Natris on 10/15/08 Comments Off on Twitter: Faking a Train Delay

Twitter: a Member of the Big Brother Family?

My first experience with Twitter was a kind of déjà-vu. I had seen something like this before, a few years ago. It was, I think, at a music festival. There was a big screen with a telephone number. You could...
By Arno de Natris on 10/12/08 3

MoM discussion: Should we pay for events?

Trying to provoke a discussion here. Why do conferences and other events costs so much money? All access to PICNIC would have costed you more than €1200, getting involved in BlOG08 conference €195, with a discount still €95. ‘Ridiculous’, says MoM...
By Arno de Natris on 10/07/08 9

Cybernetics in the Lowlands

Although the place to be for technological dreams is, or was, Silicon Valley in the United States, the Lowlands have their own valley: Eindhoven. In the seventies and the eighties a museum called the Evoluon exposed modern technology that...
By Arno de Natris on 10/04/08 Comments Off on Cybernetics in the Lowlands

Hyves: Social Network Site?

Social networksite Hyves is declared ‘website of the year’ by internet users in The Netherlands. About fifty percent of the Dutch own a profile on this fast growing social network site. But what is Hyves and how to study...
By Arno de Natris on 10/02/08 131

Wikipedia’s Criterion: Google

Creating a hoax on Wikipedia isn’t that difficult. Just write it down and save it. But it won’t take long before the Wiki-officials will delete it. This afternoon, I created a fake ‘legend’ and wrote a Wiki about it. Four hours...
By Arno de Natris on 09/27/08 7

PICNIC 08 – Just a Photocollage

For those who don’t have €1200 in the pocket and so aren’t able to get inside the Picnic sites that really matter, Picnic offered some free activities. I was enjoying the sun and a coffee, watching some homeless people fighting nearby, joining the...
By Arno de Natris on 09/26/08 Comments Off on PICNIC 08 – Just a Photocollage

‘Worth1000’: Artists 2.0

Products of post modernity, made by volunteers are gathered in a big online commercial community: Worth1000. Mash-ups, parodies, manipulations made by Photoshop are submitted in contests and are rated in this digital musuem of amateur art. With Photoshop, everybody...
By Arno de Natris on 09/21/08 Comments Off on ‘Worth1000’: Artists 2.0

I Reviewed this: _New Cultural Networks

At the Stifo@Sandberg masterclass professionals from all kind of disciplines, from film and art to radio and internet, come together for exchanging thoughts and working on several (cross)media products. It’s a joint project of the Dutch Cultural Broadcasting Fund (Stifo)...
By Arno de Natris on 09/14/08 Comments Off on I Reviewed this: _New Cultural Networks