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rMA Thesis Conference 2015: (pre)Cyberspace Perspectives on Information Technologies

rMA Thesis Conference 2015: (pre)Cyberspace Perspectives on Information Technologies

The following is a modified transcript of my research presentation for the 2015 Research Master in Media Studies Thesis Conference. My thesis is an exploration of magical writing practices in contemporary digital culture. This was too much to talk...
By Rose Rowson on 05/05/15 Comments Off on rMA Thesis Conference 2015: (pre)Cyberspace Perspectives on Information Technologies
[Event] Unlike Us #3 | Social Media: Design or Decline

[Event] Unlike Us #3 | Social Media: Design or Decline

This March, the Unlike Us conference is taking place in Amsterdam for a second consecutive year. Hosted by Amsterdam’s Institute of Network Cultures, the event gathers academics, artists and activists to discuss ‘social media monopolies and their alternatives’. Unlike...
By Larissa Hildebrandt on 02/28/13 Comments Off on [Event] Unlike Us #3 | Social Media: Design or Decline
PICNIC 2012: new ownership?

PICNIC 2012: new ownership?

by Serena Westra and Katía Truijen The 17th and 18th of September PICNIC 2012 was held in EYE Filminstitute in Amsterdam. At the international gathering, about 3000 professionals were present from different fields like  business, technology, government, NGO’s, education...
By Katía Truijen on 10/03/12 Comments Off on PICNIC 2012: new ownership?
Unlike Us Conference – Understanding Social Media Monopolies and their Alternatives

Unlike Us Conference – Understanding Social Media Monopolies and their Alternatives

For many people, looking at Facebook is the first thing they do when they wake up. There are about 600 million users on Facebook, and you might as well say that Facebook – together with other SNS like Twitter...
By Serena Westra on 09/11/12 1
The Next Web conference review

The Next Web conference review

In these 26 and 27 April Amsterdam received The Next Web conference in the Westegasfabriek. The conference is focused in business and populated by many startup and investors. The projects presented in the conference were new technological products. The...
By Mario Gesteira on 04/29/12 Comments Off on The Next Web conference review

David Berry Thinks Software

David Berry, the second speaker of the Software Matters session at the Unlike Us #2 conference, took the audience on an informative journey into the ever-increasing scale and importance of...
By Catalina Iorga on 03/18/12 Comments Off on David Berry Thinks Software

Seminar: CBS Data Visualization – Data Journalism

– Last Friday the Dutch Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) held an interactive data visualization day “Datavisualisatie in beweging” initiated by web designer Eugene Tjoa and Bas Broekhuizen. With this seminar several data visualization professionals were invited, to present their work in...
By Fenneke Mink on 02/07/12 Comments Off on Seminar: CBS Data Visualization – Data Journalism
Overview on the “I don’t know where I’m going but I want to be there” annual symposium

Overview on the “I don’t know where I’m going but I want to be there” annual symposium

On Saturday December 17th, The Museum of the Image (formally known as the Graphic Design Museum) organized a symposium about visual culture in Paradiso, Amsterdam. The symposium brought together a crowd of professional, students and industries from the fields...
By Clément Adam on 12/18/11 Comments Off on Overview on the “I don’t know where I’m going but I want to be there” annual symposium

Netexplorateur Observatory. Talking about Crowdmash, VirtuRéalité and Webego…

Tuesday 25th of October I went to see a conference in Brussels of The Netexplorateur Observatory at Institut des Hautes Etudes des Communications Sociales (IHECS). This observatory is formed of sociologists that analyse hundreds of innovation in the area...
By Aurelie Ghalim on 11/02/11 Comments Off on Netexplorateur Observatory. Talking about Crowdmash, VirtuRéalité and Webego…

Thank You, Louis!

Instead of writing about my Wikipedia entry, which was quickly accepted, as it was about such a marginal and unimportant topic that it could not be ‘biased,’ i.e. nobody cared, I would rather ventilate my frustrations caused by a...
By Daniel de Zeeuw on 09/30/11 2
Wikimania Day I: Plenary led by Sue Gardner and Q&A panel with the WMF Board of Trustees.

Wikimania Day I: Plenary led by Sue Gardner and Q&A panel with the WMF Board of Trustees.

Sue Gardner, Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation, had a very difficult task to accomplish: in 25’ she had to report on the Foundation’s activities during the year 2010- 2011, but also to treat the attendees to a sneak...
By Ilektra Pavlaki on 08/15/11 Comments Off on Wikimania Day I: Plenary led by Sue Gardner and Q&A panel with the WMF Board of Trustees.
Haifa, here I come: Wikimania 2011, Part I

Haifa, here I come: Wikimania 2011, Part I

03/08/2011, 08:20 am – Schiphol airport. Holding a small handbag in one hand and a packet of cinnamon cookies in the other, I was waiting to check in for my flight to Tel Aviv, Israel. From Tel Aviv I...
By Ilektra Pavlaki on 08/10/11 Comments Off on Haifa, here I come: Wikimania 2011, Part I

Anne Mangen on the Technologies and Haptics of Reading

[This post was originally published on The Unbound Book Conference Blog) ‘The Ascent of E-readers‘, the third session of the day, kicked off with Anne Mangen, Ph.D., an Associate professor in literacy and reading research and a reading specialist at The...
By Ekaterina Yudin on 05/22/11 1
Bernhard Rieder: 81,498 Words: the Book as Data Object

Bernhard Rieder: 81,498 Words: the Book as Data Object

[This post was originally published on The Unbound Book Conference Blog) The second session of day 1 of the Unbound Book conference – also titled The Unbound Book – was moderated by Geert Lovink, and discussions of what a book becomes once...
By Ekaterina Yudin on 05/22/11 3