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Andrea Fiore

I am an amateur software designer and wannabe Internet researcher.
I am generally interested in non-conventional approaches to software; in both its production and its usage practice.

As graduation project for my MA in Media Design at Piet Zwart Institute (Rotterdam), I have been investigating web audiences analytics in relation with content personalization, behavioral marketing and web-based advertising. I am an expert in web-cookies and I try to devise tools and methods to better understand the economy behind them. Since few months, I contribute as a programmer to Digital Methods Initiative, a research group directed by Richard Rogers and based at UVA Amsterdam.

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The Long Now Of #picnic08: Microblogging And Networked Social Awareness In Live Events

The Long Now Of #picnic08: Microblogging And Networked Social Awareness In Live Events

Rather than reporting on a specific keynote, I would like to focus on something that has been experienced behind mobile screens and not on in front of the festival stages. Such phenomenon can be approached both as an emerging...
By Andrea Fiore on 10/12/08 Comments Off on The Long Now Of #picnic08: Microblogging And Networked Social Awareness In Live Events
Google Analytics: The Implications of an Easy Setup

Google Analytics: The Implications of an Easy Setup

Here at Masters of Media it is time for a redesign. As students of the new year we are encouraged not only to contribute with fresh new content to the blog, but also to re-think its shape; both in...
By Andrea Fiore on 09/26/08 2

Book Review: Uses of Blogs, a Toolbox for New Media Practicians

A university professor, after publishing an article about weblogs that provokes a snowball of critical responses from bloggers themselves, is forced to use one of his students’ blog to save his reputation (he does not have one by his...
By Andrea Fiore on 09/14/08 Comments Off on Book Review: Uses of Blogs, a Toolbox for New Media Practicians