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Eva Kol

I recently got my MA degree at the VU studying CIW (in my case a combination of Dutch literature, Italian and communication sciences). At the moment I'm happily working to become a Master of (New!) Media at the UvA. My thesis will be about the social networking website Hyves.

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A member survey on location-based social networks

I herewith include the essay I wrote for New Media Theories, which is about location-based social networking websites. I did a small member survey by interviewing members of sites like Dodgeball, Plazes and Meetro. The many responses I received were...
By Eva Kol on 01/26/07 Comments Off on A member survey on location-based social networks
Flash Mobs in the age of mobile connectivity

Flash Mobs in the age of mobile connectivity

Since we didn’t have enough time yesterday to do all the presentations, I will give you a summary of the article on flash mobs by Judith Nicholson (2005). What is a flash mob? According to a definition by the...
By Eva Kol on 12/15/06 Comments Off on Flash Mobs in the age of mobile connectivity
Generation here: 3G mobile phone technology

Generation here: 3G mobile phone technology

My presentation is on the Motorola-sponsored research “Generation here:   exploring the impact of 3G mobile phone technology on global communications”. It talks about the key developments in the field of mobile phone technology of the third generation. Between 2004-2006 a...
By Eva Kol on 10/12/06 1

A review of “Gatewatching: Collaborative Online News Production” (2005) written by Axel Bruns

“Gatewatching” is a fairly expanded study on collaborative publishing of online news. Bruns describes the practice of journalistic gatekeeping which refers to a regime of control over what content is allowed to emerge from production processes in the media....
By Eva Kol on 10/10/06 Comments Off on A review of “Gatewatching: Collaborative Online News Production” (2005) written by Axel Bruns

Blog ‘fatigue duty’

Tasks: Check the codes in the posts if the layout looks messy. Check the comments through Manage > Awaiting moderation (delete spam: “mark all as spam” > “moderate comments”). Update the blogroll. Write a post on a new media...
By Eva Kol on 10/05/06 7
An example of online collaboration

An example of online collaboration

The marketplace at the social network Hyves is an example of online collaboration. Theorist C. Shipley makes a distinction between cooperation and collaboration: “Collaboration is a much less involved affair in which sole, independent participants advance separately.”...
By Eva Kol on 10/02/06 Comments Off on An example of online collaboration
Hassan Bahara’s wiki

Hassan Bahara’s wiki

I wikied the writer Hassan Bahara, whose book Een verhaal uit de stad Damsko I used for writing my thesis. As I promised, I added a few internal and external links. It’s my first wiki ever, but I think...
By Eva Kol on 09/28/06 2
Web 2.0 review: Webjay

Web 2.0 review: Webjay

What’s it for? On Listible I found the website Webjay which is a so called ‘playlist community’ from Yahoo. The site introduces itself as ‘a tool that helps you listen to and publish web playlists.’ People can upload songs...
By Eva Kol on 09/25/06 3
ANP

ANP

LOL :) I don’t think we made it to the front page of any important newspaper, but I found the picture of us getting a tan in between classes on the ANP-website :) http://www.anp-photo.com/search.pp?page=11&ShowPicture=3775254&pos=108   “AMSTERDAM – Studenten ‘nieuwe media’...
By Eva Kol on 09/22/06 4

An example of online market collaboration

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By Eva Kol on 09/18/06 Comments Off on An example of online market collaboration

Modblogging

When surfing the web for a blogculture to study, I coincidentally arrived in the miraculous world of modblogging. Check out the following website on the subject: http://modblog.bmezine.com/2006/04/page/6/ There appears to be a fairly big group of people that gets...
By Eva Kol on 09/11/06 Comments Off on Modblogging