Year: 1925. Place: Rue de Château no. 54, Paris, France. Characters: André Breton, Marcel Duhamel, Jacques Prévert and Yves Tanguy. Plot: A group of surrealists invents a collaborative storytelling technique called cadavre exquis (the Exquisite Corpse) named as such...
By Catalina Iorga
on 10/18/10 Comments Off on The Exquisite Digital Corpse
Along with the growth of the popularity of e-books as well as iPad, e-reader and other devices that allow for reading digital publications on the screen there is a huge increase in books piracy, what causes enormous losses for...
By Michal Kielbasa
on 10/17/10 Comments Off on E-books – The Black Market. Can We Stop It?
A quick glance at the Twitter research bibliography compiled by danah boyd shows that Twitter is increasingly being seen as a serious object of study within academic circles; on the aforementioned page there are 69 Twitter-related journal publications, conference...
By Catalina Iorga
on 10/13/10 Comments Off on Twitter Research: What To Study and How To Study It
"...A way to get a glimpse of the collective human consciousness as an extension of my own. Something that I don't have to continually check or poll, but instead, like a part of my body, it will tell...
By Laila Koubia
on 10/11/10 Comments Off on The World’s Mood in a Box!!
Amongst many for and against internet as a public sphere Paparachisi (2002) comes up with very important characteristic, I would like to focus on here. Namely, the potential of the internet to bring people from diverse backgrounds together, which...
By Michal Kielbasa
on 10/10/10 Comments Off on The Dark Side of Twitter
The main criticism on Wikipedia is the lack of transparancy in the background of the users. How can we know whether a certain user is a professional with an academic background (which would confirm the reliability of the article)...
By Laila Koubia
on 10/04/10 Comments Off on Wikipedia University – designing the new student
Geert: "Yes, you can write your Wikipedia post in your own language"
Me (not saying that aloud of course): "Finally! This is going to be a piece of cake"
Well... it wasn't. Instead I could describe it like a nerve-breaking, patience-challenging...
When contributing to Wikipedia it is always best to stick to what you know. The concept behind the world’s largest online encyclopedia is that everyone has valuable accumulated knowledge that should be shared, on what is essentially a global...
By Ronen Shay
on 10/04/10 Comments Off on A Canadian Wikipedia Adventure
While searching for a subject to write about on Wikipedia, every word I came up with already existed. So I thought about the example that was given, and decided to write about the history of the Amsterdam Dance Centre....
By Mares Kahrel
on 10/02/10 Comments Off on A for Effort
In the first systematic study about movie stardom and its heavy influence on early mass culture, Edgar Morin (1957) argues that during the golden studio-age Hollywood was able to dramatically change the ritual function of the mythical universe: by...
By Alberto Angelini
on 09/29/10 Comments Off on Excerpts of audiovisual astronomy
Last week, ‘surveillance and control’ was the theme the Masters of Media-students were debating about. Theorists as Michel Foucault, Deleuze, Galloway and Thacker and Chun passed the revue. With the articles of the last three theorist there was some...
By Xander Stolwijk
on 09/27/10 Comments Off on MIN(D)ING Your Data
In the space of just over a decade, virtual game goods have gone from being a black market cottage industry to an extremely successful business model for gaming and social networking virtual goods industries. This evolution, caused by player...
Facebook is everywhere. It connects 500 millions of people around the world. No doubts, it is an effect of purposeful endeavours of those who stay behind the success of the platform. It is becoming more and more interconnected into...
By Michal Kielbasa
on 09/26/10 Comments Off on Does Facebook Rule? Ideas For The Future.
With the dominance of social networking, user generated content, and the ability to comment on just about anything, web 2.0 has changed the way consumers interact with corporations, especially when they are pissed off. Many corporations are performing the...
What are MMO games? Massively Multiplayer Online games are a fresh genre to the gaming industry, as all of them require a strong and stable Internet connection. This particular branch of gaming is becoming more and more popular due...
Researchers in all areas of human knowledge are overwhelmed with data. Through the process of sensemaking, in which information is collected, organized, and analyzed, new knowledge is formed and further action is informed. We must make sense of data...
The definition by Card et. al. of information visualization as “the use of computer-supported, interactive, visual representations of abstract data to amplify cognition (1999),” is the basis for many. But there are also parties involved from outside the academic...
As Wikipedia is currently the number 7 most visited website in the world according to Alexa, and a major source of information for all layers of society, it makes sense to engage in a critical review of its benefits,...
By Niels de Hoog
on 09/22/09 Comments Off on Astroturfing on Wikipedia
Lee Siegel was born in New York in 1957 and has Bachelor, Master and Master of Philosophy degrees from Columbia University. While working as a staff writer at The New Republic, an American magazine on politics and the arts,...
By Maarten Hoogvliet
on 09/17/09 Comments Off on Book review of “Against The Machine – Being Human In The Age Of The Electronic Mob” by Lee Siegel