David Berry Thinks Software
David Berry, the second speaker of the Software Matters session at the Unlike Us #2 conference, took the audience on an informative journey into the ever-increasing scale and importance of...
Catalina Iorga
BA in International Politics and History ’09 from Jacobs University Bremen. Research MA in Media Studies (in progress) at Universiteit van Amsterdam. Currently finalising my MA thesis on the topic the challenges of studying Facebook as an ever-changing techno-cultural platform. I also own my own journalism and social media consulting business. Passionate about sustainability, arts & culture, software studies and helping SMEs expand their social media reach.
http://catalinaiorga.com
Ganaele Langlois Speaks about Language and Meaning in Software
Software Matters, the first session of the second day of Unlike Us #2, was introduced and chaired by Korinna Patelis, who underlined that software can be read and interpreted as a text, which has...
Jodi Dean Says “There Is No Such Thing as the Social”
After Geert Lovink’s enthusiastic welcome speech, which also introduced Social What? Defining the Social, the first session of UnlikeUs #2, Jodi Dean (pictured right) took to the stage and launched into...
Online Video Art: Ashiq Khondker and Eugene Kotlyarenko Play with the Diegetic Desktop
Originally published on the Video Vortex #6 conference blog.
Ashiq Khondker and Eugene Kotlyarenko's presentation was the most entertaining and confusing of the first day of Video Vortex #6. To begin with, their collaboration took place exclusively...
Online Video Aesthetics: Florian Schneider Talks about the Open Source Documentary
Originally published on the Video Vortex #6 conference blog
German filmmaker, media artist and activist Florian Schneider ambitiously set out to present a mission statement for a novel type of documentary, the open source mode, and launched into a...
Jeff Ubois and Wishful Thinking: Thoughts on Cultural Institutions and Archival
Jeff Ubois, of archival.tv, gave the last talk of the Economies of Commons 2 conference at De Balie, Amsterdam and presented his...
Michael Dale Explains the Benefits of Open Video Platforms
Michael Dale is an advocate for open standard and free video formats for the web. The past two years he has lead...
Eelco Ferwerda Talks About Open Access in Academic Publishing
Eelco Ferwerda, the president of the recently established Association of European University Presses, has been involved in electronic publishing...
The Exquisite Digital Corpse
Year: 1925. Place: Rue de Château no. 54, Paris, France. Characters: André Breton, Marcel Duhamel, Jacques Prévert and Yves Tanguy. Plot: A group of surrealists invents a collaborative storytelling technique called cadavre exquis (the Exquisite Corpse) named as such...
Pecha Kucha Night @Mediamatic, Amsterdam
Here I am, sitting on a couple of pillows in the front row of Mediamatic’s jam-packed main room. In just a few minutes, the Pecha Kucha Night Amsterdam Volume 15 will start. 12 presentations given at lightning speed (20...
Twitter Research: What To Study and How To Study It
A quick glance at the Twitter research bibliography compiled by danah boyd shows that Twitter is increasingly being seen as a serious object of study within academic circles; on the aforementioned page there are 69 Twitter-related journal publications, conference...
To Be or Not To Be Deleted: My First Wikipedia Entry
There are 3,431,688 articles in the English Wikipedia on a dizzying range of topics. Surely there must be one on data-driven journalism, right? Well, the answer is no; an article on database journalism focuses on computer-assisted reporting, the digital...
Do You ‘Like’ Wikipedia? The Socialization of an Encyclopedia
It’s official: Wikipedia has jumped on the social media bandwagon. The online encyclopedia recently announced the introduction of an article feedback tool currently being tested on 400 articles pertaining to the WikiProject on United States Public Policy. (Melanson, 23...
Book Review: Mythologie du Portable (Laurence Allard)
In an age where the iPhone and similar devices have become staple accessories of an always connected global citizen, it is high time to track the origins of the mobile phone, its emergence as a crucial tool for economic...
‘Masters of Media’ on the Web
According to the 2010 call for New Media MA applications, the Masters of Media blog has been nominated for a best education blog award and enjoys a broad, global readership. Masters of Media‘s international prestige and academic acclaim undoubtedly...