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Social culture in the game industry

Social culture in the game industry

Video games have changed dramatically over the last decades. There is obviously a big gap between 1958’s Tennis For Two and the games we play now on our consoles or PC. Of course, the rapid evolution of new technology...
By Renoud Netjes on 10/03/11 Comments Off on Social culture in the game industry
The analysis of SNS website’s viral marketing strategy by the actual example of Renren Website

The analysis of SNS website’s viral marketing strategy by the actual example of Renren Website

Overview of viral marketing With the popularity of Web2.0, the ways of communicating derived from social interaction amid diverse groups of people have come to the surface of Internet, which is known as social networking services referred to as...
By Duohuai Zhang on 10/03/11 1

Programmable dividuals: On social networks and programmability

Descartes Passions of the Soul set the humanistic notion of a separation between the body and the nonmaterial independent mind, emphasizing the conscious individuality and the controlling potential that the mind has over the body. Gille Deleuze departs from Descarthe’s dualism, by...
By Eelke Hermens on 10/03/11 1
Children’s Online Privacy

Children’s Online Privacy

Internet to me is a medium of convenience. The awkward feeling of being confined, limited, almost physically paralyzed, creeps on to me after being disconnected from the virtual dimension of the world wide web for more than one day....
By Jeroen Rijskamp on 10/03/11 Comments Off on Children’s Online Privacy

Social death of social networks

The question I was asking myself recently is what makes a social network cool or uncool? Why there are social networks in which having an account is considered embarressing? Why there are exsisting social networks to which some people...
By Urszula Jurgiel on 10/02/11 Comments Off on Social death of social networks
What happens to your online data when you die?

What happens to your online data when you die?

Not that you'd care, but it’s messy.
By Andrian Georgiev on 10/02/11 Comments Off on What happens to your online data when you die?

What is and what is not good enough for the Wikipedia(ns)?

Polish Wikipedia has more than 832 000 articles which makes it 5th according to the number of entries, after English, German, French and Italian edition. I believe that it could have got even more entries if it wasn’t for...
By Urszula Jurgiel on 10/01/11 Comments Off on What is and what is not good enough for the Wikipedia(ns)?
Possible Consequences of Critical Wikipedia users

Possible Consequences of Critical Wikipedia users

This week I made a new (dutch) Wikipedia page about ‘Source Festival’, this is a music festival which has two editions  a year, one in July and one in February . Wikipedia Source Festival Because this festival has had...
By Anne Laurine Stadermann on 09/25/11 Comments Off on Possible Consequences of Critical Wikipedia users
Book review: Moving Circles: Mobile media and playful identities

Book review: Moving Circles: Mobile media and playful identities

When I visited Jakarta a couple of years ago I was astound by the number of mobile phones that everybody used. My aunt actually owns five different phones that all are used on a daily basis. My family has...
By Wouter Timmermans on 09/22/11 1

Book Review: Alternative and Activist New Media by Leah Lievrouw

Drawing on the works of David Bolter and Richard Grusin and their seminal work – “Remediation: Understanding New Media”, Leah Lievrouw analyses in ‘Alternative and Activist New Media’ (Polity Press, 2011) a series of new media activism practices. Offering...
By Andrei Florian on 09/22/11 Comments Off on Book Review: Alternative and Activist New Media by Leah Lievrouw

Book review: Tactical Media by Rita Raley

In december 2004, an alleged spokesmen of Dow Chemical named ‘Jude Finisterra’ appeared on television to apologize for the Bhopal disaster, a 1984 industrial disaster in India that resulted in thousands of deaths. Two hours (an a lot of...
By Yeun Au on 09/21/11 1
Book review: In the Plex by Steven Levy

Book review: In the Plex by Steven Levy

"I wanted to write a book that got the reader inside Google and learned about its thought process, the way it planned and built products, its visions for the future, and the way it struggled with issues like China,...
By Demet Dagdelen on 09/20/11 Comments Off on Book review: In the Plex by Steven Levy
Review on Jason Fried: Rework

Review on Jason Fried: Rework

I would like to start off this review by mentioning that Rework is not your average new media literature. In fact, from the perspective of the authors it can be considered as business book. However, if we read between...
By Renoud Netjes on 09/19/11 2
Book Review on Sherry Turkle: Alone Together

Book Review on Sherry Turkle: Alone Together

Book Review on Sherry Turkle: Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other Sherry Turkle is a MIT technology and society specialist who is interested in the influence of technology at human life and...
By Anne Laurine Stadermann on 09/18/11 1

Review on Stephen Baker’s The Numerati

Stephen Baker’s The Numerati, published in 2008, tells the story of our modern world’s “binarization;” how every individual is deduced to ones and zeroes through the trails of data we leave behind which are consequently gathered, analyzed and categorized...
By Jeroen Rijskamp on 09/18/11 2

PICNIC: Life in Readable Cities

Using public transport, we leave digital traces when checking in and out with our OV chip cards. Once our Bonus Card at Albert Heijn got scanned over the counter, we provide Albert with valuable information about what we like...
By Caroline Goralczyk on 09/18/11 3

‘Mapping E-Culture’ book review

The book is recommended for people who start their new media education and/or want to get introduced to some pioneering digital artists in the Netherlands, Brazil, China, Egypt, Lebanon and Palestine.
By Andrian Georgiev on 09/17/11 Comments Off on ‘Mapping E-Culture’ book review

Web 3.0: Against the Semantic Web

There seems to an awful lot of speculation about where the web as a whole is heading. Whereas it's possible to make predictions and regard the web as a homegenous entity, doesn't seem to be relevant. We like our...
By Eelke Hermens on 09/12/11 5

Social Media are taking over our identity, for better or for worse.

With Facebook now claiming to have over 750 million active users,  along with a 100 million tweeters traceable through the current 22 million checkins of 725.000 Foursquare users , it is safe to argue that one out of 9...
By Jeroen Rijskamp on 09/11/11 5

9/11 memorized by media; for who actually?

This blog is posted on September the 9th. A date which as everyone knows is related to the attack on the World Trade Center in New York. Television, news papers and online blogs are showing us pictures, clips and...
By Anne Laurine Stadermann on 09/11/11 Comments Off on 9/11 memorized by media; for who actually?

CrunchWars

If the TechCrunch controversy reveals anything, it is that CPM advertising is a corrupting revenue stream.
By Andrian Georgiev on 09/09/11 Comments Off on CrunchWars

Saskia Korsten’s Thesis Abstract Voted Among Top in LABS 2011

The Leonardo Abstracts Service (LABS) connected with the journal Leonardo) recently announced the results of its competition for top MA and PhD abstracts submitted to its English language database from scholars around the world.  Korsten’s abstract for her thesis,...
By Edward Shanken on 08/18/11 Comments Off on Saskia Korsten’s Thesis Abstract Voted Among Top in LABS 2011

Legal vs. Illegal: Understanding Dutch Copyright

If one were to compare the Netherlands to the United States on just a topical issues alone it would seem like oil and water.  The obvious differences, are well, just that – obvious (no need to discuss coffee shops,...
By Megan Adams on 07/23/11 2

The development of the Greek-language Wikipedia: An interview with the general coordinator of the “I participate in Wikipedia” campaign- PART III.

You can also read part I and part II of the interview here: PART I, PART II Wikipedia & Greece In your presentation of the campaign in TedXAthens, you mentioned that “through Wikipedia, Greece can claim a better place...
By Ilektra Pavlaki on 07/09/11 Comments Off on The development of the Greek-language Wikipedia: An interview with the general coordinator of the “I participate in Wikipedia” campaign- PART III.