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The Wikipedia Entry: Birth of a Digital Entity

I would like to continue a story I’ve started more then a month ago, my story of the Wikipedia entry. It was not long ago after my beloved Wikipedia entry was removed from the face of the interface that...

By Marijn de Vries Hoogerwerff on 11/10/08 2

The Tactical Media Files

Yesterday at the Balie in Amsterdam, Erik Kluitenberg and David Garcia launched The Tactical Media Files. The Tactical Media Files is a new archive that stores mainly material gathered from the Next 5 Minutes festivals organized in Amsterdam between...

By Paulien Dresscher on 11/01/08 Comments Off

Moving Movie Industry Conference

Introduction Friday October 31 the –free- Moving Movie Industry Conference organized by the Stifo@Sandberg took place at the theater in the Public Library in Amsterdam. It was a full days program with different speakers around the theme of how...

By Paulien Dresscher on 11/01/08 10

Long Distance and Intimacy (Response Is the Medium)

Over the past decade, distant lovers have been offered an array of new ways to connect: email, SMS, live video chat and even through ambient intimacy (the idea of staying attuned to someone else's life through frequent status updating)....

By Chris Castiglione on 10/27/08 3

Twitter, The Aphorism & Semantic Analysis

Twitter What are you doing? Twitter allows us to broadcast (“Tweet”) the answer to this question for the rest of the world to view. Using 140 characters or less, twitter users can communicate their thoughts, ideas, links to external...

By Kai Henriquez on 10/23/08 2

Micro-blogging: Towards Temporal Micro-economics

‘As Oliver Selfridge puts it, an intimate, interactive conversation is, in some sense, the lack of it’. (Nicholas Negroponte) See also complete analysis HERE Launched in October 2006 and taking off worldwide in March 2007 by winning a...

By Alejandro Ortega Lozano on 10/15/08 2

Hello Twitter! “I have forgotten my umbrella”

A good chance that while browsing through the endless database of Twitter one could come across a line like this: "I have forgotten my umbrella"...in fact you will. The expression of mundane or day to day activities and thoughts...

By Marijn de Vries Hoogerwerff on 10/14/08 3

Twitter and the Aphoristic Society

Twitter has been denounced by some as a useless waste of time. However, the short and snappy, "aphoristic" communication tool may also be a symptom of how people like to communicate today. The author argues that we are probably...

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Secondary Orality in Microblogging

Orality versus literacy in the history of human consciousness In the book “Orality and Literacy: the Technologizing of the World”, Walter Ong compares orality and literacy, as defining features of oral cultures (cultures which do not have a system...

By Liliana Bounegru on 10/13/08 3

Twitter: ‘resistance is futile’

First of all I have to define twitter for myself, I have no clue where this...

By Wouter Dijkstra on 10/13/08 3

“To Twitt or Not To Twitt”

As it is defined in Wikipedia – Micro-blogging is a relatively new phenomenon defined as “a form of blogging that lets you write brief text updates (usually less than 200 characters) about your life on the go and send...

By Maggie Badermadjian on 10/13/08 Comments Off

Twitter elections 2008: a landscape of thoughts

The popular micro-blogging service of Twitter offers its users the possibility to update their online profiles with up to 140 characters at a time. These updates emerge on their profiles so they can be read by other users and...

By Heleen Kerkman on 10/12/08 1

Did I just find a farmer from rural Africa on Twitter ?

I think this might be only the beginning. As we start to understand Twitter and its creative uses we will increasingly see the links and the relevance in parallel to what we see happening with SMS. And like SMS,...

By Ben White on 10/12/08 Comments Off

The Long Now Of #picnic08: Microblogging And Networked Social Awareness In Live Events

Rather than reporting on a specific keynote, I would like to focus on something that has been experienced behind mobile screens and not on in front of the festival stages. Such phenomenon can be approached both as an emerging...

By Andrea Fiore on 10/12/08 Comments Off

Understanding Microblogs as Microworlds

The evolution of blogging has introduced another breed of blogs: the microblog. The microblog is a type of blogging that allows users to write compact messages and publish them. By comparing microblogging with the concept microworld, I’ve tried to...

By Inge Ploum on 10/11/08 2

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...

By Dorris de Heij on 10/11/08 1

Objects that blog

In his ‘manifesto for networked objects’ Bleecker argues another view on an internet of things. The conceptual framework of an internet of things is about understanding how physical objects, once networked and capable of information sharing, will behave and...

By Tjerk Timan on 10/07/08 Comments Off

How Can We Study The Data of Social Networking Sites?

How can we make use of all the data stored in Social Networking Sites? And how can we study those data? In 2005 Jeffrey Heer and danah boyd developed a system called Vizster. It is an information visualization system...

By Bram Nijhof on 10/06/08 Comments Off

Digital Handshakes in Networked Publics: a Case Study

In her essay ‘Digital Handshakes in Networked Publics: Why Politicians Must Interact, Not Broadcast' Danah Boyd explains how politicians in the United...

By Heleen Kerkman on 10/06/08 Comments Off

Social Network Sites as Stages of ‘Dramaturgical Performance’ – Interpretation Sketch

A study of the University of Georgia describes as more likely to be narcissist those Facebook users who have a large number of friends and wallposts, narcissism in this case being defined as an emphasis on self-promotion and quantity...

By Liliana Bounegru on 10/06/08 Comments Off

Typing Social Links: Modeling Relations In On-Line Networks

There is a good chance that most addicts to Mark Zuckerberg’s social gossip platform will easily recognize the modal window depicted down here. It’s what users are asked for when they click the option details accessible from the friends...

By Andrea Fiore on 10/06/08 Comments Off

SNS: Between Diversity & Online Cultural Schizophrenia

See also the complete ‘SNS: Between Diversity & On-line Cultural Schizophrenia’ Reflexion Here ‘The accident of where one is born is just that, an accident; any human being might have been born in any nation.’1 With these words Martha...

By Alejandro Ortega Lozano on 10/05/08 Comments Off

Educating the Educators?

Social Networking Sites are increasingly becoming places where people articulate themselves, both aware and unaware sharing personal information to a huge society of internet users. Especially the exposure of young people online has been subject to anxieties and fears...

By Marijn de Vries Hoogerwerff on 10/05/08 Comments Off

Second Life as ‘YASNS’

Danah Boyd is a doctoral candidate in the School of Information at the University of California-Berkeley and a Fellow at the Harvard University Berkman Center for Internet and Society. Her research focuses on how American youth use networked publics...

By Maggie Badermadjian on 10/05/08 2