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My name is Stephan Barmentloo. I hold bachelor degree in Business Information Systems and a BA degree in Media and Culture. I'm a student of the New Media MA at the University of Amsterdam.

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New posts to Scopic Regimes of Virtuality course blog

Rachel O’Reilly explores concepts of virtuality and (post-) modern machinic perception that emerge in Lauren Berlant’s article, ‘The Intuitionists’: History and the Affective Event.’ Vi Nguyen investigates the meaning of the Baroque by analyzing Gilles Deleuze’s ‘The Fold: Leibniz...
By Stephan Barmentloo on 03/11/09 Comments Off on New posts to Scopic Regimes of Virtuality course blog

Oral Culture 2.0

Because both television and micro-blogging can be explained according to the concept of secondary orality, does this also mean that the effects of micro-blogging, such as reading and writing short messages on Twitter for instance, are similar to the...
By Stephan Barmentloo on 10/21/08 9

The Uncontrolled Use of Ustream.TV

The Ustream.TV service can be considered as a social network site (SNS) according to the definition of Danah Boyd and Nicole Ellison. Next to lifecasting, the service is also used for redistributing copyrighted content. The infringement of copyright poses...
By Stephan Barmentloo on 10/12/08 Comments Off on The Uncontrolled Use of Ustream.TV

PICNIC 08 – Conducting Creativity by Itay Talgam

Through different examples of conducting an orchestra Itay Talgam, highly acclaimed Israeli conductor and founder of the Maestro program, explores some of the aspects that are related to the practice of collaboration. In his presentation he addresses...
By Stephan Barmentloo on 09/25/08 3
‘Whisher’, Opening Up the Internet?

‘Whisher’, Opening Up the Internet?

A short analysis of Whisher, a web 2.0 application. With the tagline ‘Building the world’s largest WiFi network’ the goal of Whisher doesn’t leave anything to the imagination. Whisher tries to create a global and dense WiFi network with...
By Stephan Barmentloo on 09/22/08 Comments Off on ‘Whisher’, Opening Up the Internet?
Book review: Two bits, the Cultural Significance of Free Software

Book review: Two bits, the Cultural Significance of Free Software

As the title of this book might suggest, it is mainly about the history of the Free Software phenomenon from a anthropological viewpoint, but as the author, Christopher Kelty, makes clear this history can also be seen as the...
By Stephan Barmentloo on 09/15/08 1