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Dorris de Heij

I finished my Bachlor in Information science last year and am now a student at the New Media Master.

http://www.dorrisnewmedia.blogspot.com

The Twitter Society

Twitter has been studied by Akshay Java et al. (2007), in their research paper "Why we twitter" they explain the different kind of twitter users. They've looked at every post made on twitter for 2 months in 2007. This...

Is Couchsurfing.com an Actual SNS?

In her research paper "Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship", Danah Boyd makes explicit what the features of a social network are and what their purpose is. I decided to check if these features are present in the...
PICNIC 08 – De Variegata Setup

PICNIC 08 – De Variegata Setup

When I was walking through the Picnic event area where the only free access tent (the E-Art Dome) was situated, there was nothing going there yet. So I walked through this big white tent and saw, between all the...

Surf Around the World! An Analysis of ‘couchsurfing.com’

Couchsurfing is a non profit organisation based primarely on volunteers and donations. It is a site for people who want to meet new people and travel cheap. The site only works because there are mostly non opportunistic people on there,...

Book Review Volume: Destination Library

Book review Volume: Destination Library   This edition of Volume is all about the future of libraries. Guided by editors Rem Koolhaas, Mark Wigley and Arjen Oosterman the nice thing about this book-magazine is that the subject is adressed from so many different fields...