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Lev’s lecture (2)

Lev’s lecture (2) Lev Manovich’s lecture on May 17 in Paradiso, Amsterdam had at least one unmistakeable feature of a good lecture: it rose controversy. Already immediately after concluding his presentation, Lev was accused during the Q&A of endangering...
By Jan Simons on 05/30/09 2

American Podcasting at New Vision

  Rebecca Jane Harshbarger is an American journalist freelancing at the New Vision newspaper. The New Vision Group is the biggest multimedia house in Uganda. It publishes 8 newspapers and 5 magazines. It owns 3 FM radio stations and...
By Ali Balunywa on 05/21/09 Comments Off on American Podcasting at New Vision

In Memoriam GeoCities (1994-2009)

Yahoo! will soon pull the plug on the once-famous GeoCities.com. The passing of this iconic Internet site is interesting for two reasons. Firstly, GeoCities (and its competitors like Tripod and Angelfire) were an important catalyst for the development of...
By on 05/03/09 4

join Hap-poken-ing020 next weekend!

Hi everyone! Hap-poken-ing020 is happening next Saturday (May 9th) at 13:00hr. I hope you all will be there! Still haven’t subscribed yet? please, go to here and sign-up. If you want to bring any friends, but they haven’t got...
By Bas Bisseling on 05/02/09 Comments Off on join Hap-poken-ing020 next weekend!

New Vision’s Vision Revealed

For the first time since travelled to Uganda for my research, I woke up with a purpose. I was invited to attend the editorial meeting at the New Vision Newspaper to meet all journalists. Editorial meetings take place every...
By Ali Balunywa on 04/27/09 1

Media Students Embrace digital culture

  On Wednesday 8 April, I escorted Ben to Makerere University Faculty of ICT. During our discussions with the deputy dean, we were introduced to the communications manager. After explaining our fields of study, I was requested to make...
By Ali Balunywa on 04/23/09 4

New Media at the New Vision

  After finalizing the formalities with the administration, the human resource manager of the New Vision handed me over to the Mr. Ben Opolot, the Chief sub-editor. She made for me an appointment to meet him (Ben) on Monday...
By Ali Balunywa on 04/20/09 Comments Off on New Media at the New Vision

New Media meets old Media

  I started working on my research proposal last year. By the beginning of this year, I knew exactly what I wanted to do. And that is to research on the impact of ICT use on the print media...
By Ali Balunywa on 04/16/09 1

The 45-Hour Flight To Africa

Ben and I booked the same flight to Uganda: Egypt Air. The flight was supposed to take off at 3.30pm from Schiphol airport (Amsterdam) on Saturday 4 April 2009.  We were to transit through Cairo in Egypt lasting one...
By Ali Balunywa on 04/16/09 1
First impressions on ICT in Kampala

First impressions on ICT in Kampala

On the plane from Cairo to Kampala I met a young Ugandan guy of 19 years old who just flew back from a tennis match in Egypt. He was a real cosmopolitan; he had traveled already all over the...
By Guido van Diepen on 04/15/09 7
TweetDeck: A Cyberspace Odyssey

TweetDeck: A Cyberspace Odyssey

Some people get very nervous using Twitter; they find the constant stream of (seemingly) unimportant personal exclamations incredibly annoying. They say: how on Earth are you supposed to keep track of all that information? Well, those people should try...
By on 04/10/09 2

Two months in China

Two months of my semester in Beijing have now gone by. With everyday feeling like a year of new impressions, it is crazy to see how fast time flew by. Right now I just made my first blogpost, but...
By Heleen Kerkman on 04/07/09 1

Mobile Everywhere in Kampala

Kampala – April 6th, 2009 First impressions – I have just arrived in Uganda and can tell you that the presence of the mobile phone is felt and seen everywhere! Just some notes from my trip from the airport....
By Ben White on 04/06/09 Comments Off on Mobile Everywhere in Kampala

New posts to Scopic Regimes of Virtuality course blog

Rachel O’Reilly explores concepts of virtuality and (post-) modern machinic perception that emerge in Lauren Berlant’s article, ‘The Intuitionists’: History and the Affective Event.’ Vi Nguyen investigates the meaning of the Baroque by analyzing Gilles Deleuze’s ‘The Fold: Leibniz...
By Stephan Barmentloo on 03/11/09 Comments Off on New posts to Scopic Regimes of Virtuality course blog

Call for Applications Fall ’09 Admissions UvA New Media MA

The New Media International MA program at UvA has issued a call for applications for students who would like to begin study in Fall 2009.  We already have an impressive pool of applicants and encourage additional applications in order...
By Edward Shanken on 03/10/09 1

Institute of Network Cultures’ Winter Camp

This week was Winter Camp week, an event organized by the Institute of Network Cultures (INC). The event brought together different networks that had been around for at least two years, to see what happens at this stage of settling down,...
By Marijn de Vries Hoogerwerff on 03/08/09 Comments Off on Institute of Network Cultures’ Winter Camp

lost faces

just a simple translation of a flyer that I found at the Network Cultures Winter Camp conference. On the 28th of February 25 people went on hunger strike, because they have no other way to oppose the regime of...
By Rosa Menkman on 03/06/09 Comments Off on lost faces

New posts to Scopic Regimes of Virtuality course blog

Andrea Fiore discusses mutual relationships and reciprocal interplays between space, time and money in virtual worlds.  Saskia Korsten addresses melancholy and folding in Baroque and Postmodern art. Inge Ploum explores a dynamic concept of embodiment joining Mark Hansen’s understanding of...
By Edward Shanken on 03/04/09 Comments Off on New posts to Scopic Regimes of Virtuality course blog
A decline in P2P-sharing

A decline in P2P-sharing

I just read an article on Tweakers that Ipoque, a German company that sells ‘deep packet inspection-hardware’, has published a study on the distribution of protocol classes. This chart is a representation of their findings.
By Bas Bisseling on 02/20/09 1

Latent Remixability

In the early days, photography was solely predestined for the photographer. This skilled worker governed both the analogue camera as the development of its negatives. The dawn of the digital age introduced a less labor intensive way to produce...
By Bas Bisseling on 02/09/09 3
Gun vs. OLPC Computer

Gun vs. OLPC Computer

One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) has once again put itself into the eye of the storm. The organization recently released a commercial where we see a child polishing a shoe, a little girl standing on a street corner and...
By Ben White on 12/13/08 Comments Off on Gun vs. OLPC Computer

Software Takes Command

6 days ago Lev Manovich released his softbook Software Takes Command. He described his book as a software, as it will have its patches in the same way as a new installments requires its bug (big?) -fixes: One of...
By Rosa Menkman on 11/27/08 4

Mark Meadows discussing The Authority Of Robots

Monday the 24th of November, Mark Meadows will be visiting the University of Amsterdam for a discussion on 'The Authority Of Robots: How Automated Systems Are Automating Us'. The discussion will be held at the Media Studies building on...
By Marijn de Vries Hoogerwerff on 11/18/08 1

Metareporter.nl Launched: a First Look…

How, why, where and when do traditional press write about new media and how can we critically look at those articles? This week a great new blog called metareporter has launched, made just to answer those questions. The blog...
By Marijn de Vries Hoogerwerff on 11/11/08 2