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Charlotte Hendriks

Now a Bachelor of Arts, Charlotte has mainly focused on new media throughout her academic career. At the University of Amsterdam she started the Media & Culture BA in 2006 and earned the degree mid 2009. Apart from studying New Media, she also focused on Art History, Philosophy and Science and Technology Studies.
This year she is aiming to earn my Master Degree in New Media, also at the University of Amsterdam.

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Augmenting your way through walls (and other applications)

Our world today becomes more and more penetrated by screens. Wherever we go, information is made available through dynamic surfaces, which can adapt to whichever piece of information that is relevant at that specific time and place. More than...
By Charlotte Hendriks on 10/31/09 Comments Off on Augmenting your way through walls (and other applications)

The Rise of the Network Library

Times change, and, as it seems, our time has changed a lot. The Internet can be blamed for many a change, since the constant information stream that is generated through the Internet influences a major part of our everyday...
By Charlotte Hendriks on 10/17/09 Comments Off on The Rise of the Network Library
The different faces of Twitter

The different faces of Twitter

The enormous growth of the social networking site that is Twitter has many a person wondering. Suddenly every self-respecting website, newspaper, enterprise or person has a Twitter account, which enables Twitter users to follow. Even though the amount of...
By Charlotte Hendriks on 10/04/09 Comments Off on The different faces of Twitter

The Construction of an Online (Facebook) Identity

The web has become something other than the illusive place where we can get as much information as we want at all times. More than a knowledge database, the Internet has transformed into a place where we can not...
By Charlotte Hendriks on 09/28/09 Comments Off on The Construction of an Online (Facebook) Identity

Wikipedia: a Social Playground

The online encyclopedia Wikipedia is an interesting product of the Web 2.0. Wikipedia asks its users to actively participate, add and change the content of the website, in order to create a knowledge database which is more up to...
By Charlotte Hendriks on 09/22/09 2

Book Review of: Search Engine Society – Alexander Halavais

In his 2009 published book “Search Engine Society”, Alexander Halavais looks at the impact of the phenomenon of search engines in the everyday online lives of Internet-using citizens around the world. Search engines have become a widely used component...
By Charlotte Hendriks on 09/14/09 Comments Off on Book Review of: Search Engine Society – Alexander Halavais