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Heleen Kerkman

After finishing my BA in Media and Culture at the University of Amsterdam I recently started the Ma New Media.

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Visualizing for America

Visualizing for America

On the 8th of this March, the Sunlight foundation launched the Design for America contest. This non-profit organization aims to make government data more accessible for citizens. The development of information visualizations from governmental data is becoming a fruitful...
By Heleen Kerkman on 05/11/10 Comments Off on Visualizing for America
INFORMATION VISUALISATION, SHARING THE STORY

INFORMATION VISUALISATION, SHARING THE STORY

No one knows everything, but everyone knows something, all knowledge resides in humanity While the notion of collective intelligence –as coined by Pierre Lévy- has already been extensively discussed in regards to the collective phenomenon of Wikipedia, the current rise...
By Heleen Kerkman on 04/20/10 1

Two months in China

Two months of my semester in Beijing have now gone by. With everyday feeling like a year of new impressions, it is crazy to see how fast time flew by. Right now I just made my first blogpost, but...
By Heleen Kerkman on 04/07/09 1
Twitter elections 2008: a landscape of thoughts

Twitter elections 2008: a landscape of thoughts

The popular micro-blogging service of Twitter offers its users the possibility to update their online profiles with up to 140 characters at a time. These updates emerge on their profiles so they can be read by other users and...
By Heleen Kerkman on 10/12/08 1

Digital Handshakes in Networked Publics: a Case Study

In her essay ‘Digital Handshakes in Networked Publics: Why Politicians Must Interact, Not Broadcast' Danah Boyd explains how politicians in the United...
By Heleen Kerkman on 10/06/08 Comments Off on Digital Handshakes in Networked Publics: a Case Study

Personalizing the Public Sphere: From Personal Start Pages to Personal Webtops

Your personalized Internet. You can add what you like and remove what you don't like and it's totally simple. - Pageflakes* - Pageflakes is only one of the dozen sites that offer to personalize your internet experience by creating a...
By Heleen Kerkman on 09/22/08 Comments Off on Personalizing the Public Sphere: From Personal Start Pages to Personal Webtops
…Imagine This is a Review. Thoughts on: ‘Style First’ by Mieke Gerritzen

…Imagine This is a Review. Thoughts on: ‘Style First’ by Mieke Gerritzen

In her paperback Style First, graphic artist Mieke Gerritzen directly addresses and confuses the reader by stating that ‘...this book provides no final definition of what style is about.' Containing articles written by media theorists as well as...
By Heleen Kerkman on 09/14/08 Comments Off on …Imagine This is a Review. Thoughts on: ‘Style First’ by Mieke Gerritzen