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Influencer marketing: #Transparency over #ad

In other parts of the world it is already a well-established marketing technique; celebrity’s being paid to tweet, or post on Facebook and Instagram. However in “down to earth” Netherlands, this trend has just recently began to emerge. Social...

By sarah berzel on 09/24/18 Comments Off

Verifying Facts in a Post-Truth World

In a digital world chock-full with misinformation, post-truth proclamations, and misleading headlines, it is harder than ever for one to fully trust the news. From that lens, it is safe to say that the spread of objective facts has...

By Mahmoud Badry on 09/23/18 Comments Off

The Data-Ing Game: The Value Placed On Our Own Data; How Socio-Economics Play A Part And How Our App Will Help Educate Users On The Current Worth Of Data In The Market

Our project aimed to design an app called ‘The Data-ing Game’ that would educate people on the value of their data. Not many realised the valuable commodity that their own personal data has become*. We aimed to distinguish whether...

By Aisling Crabbe on 10/25/17 Comments Off

Bad News for Facebook

In the past couple of weeks Facebook and its content-monitoring policy as well as the changes made to its Trending Topics section made the headlines over and over again. These headlines have led to many opinion pieces and several...

By Ecesu Erol on 09/19/16 Comments Off

Do Not Track: together let’s track Big Brother

After four years of negotiations, an agreement was reached on September the 8th over data protection on the internet between the United States and the European Union. Many privacy violations scandals later (i.e.: Edward Snowden’s revelations on the NSA’s...

By Mathilde Grenod on 09/15/15 Comments Off

[Video] The Bias of (Online) Communication

By: Larissa Hildebrandt & Thomas Groen Our task for the 2012 Wild Card Symposium was to bring theory to life, by explaining a book in a new, digital way. In a merging of old and new media, we produced a...

By Larissa Hildebrandt on 10/31/12 Comments Off

[Interview] Juul Spee of Zesbaans: Digital Media Designer

Zesbaans is a digital media and design collective that experiments with media and interactivity. Zesbaans (Dutch for a six-laned highway) has been based in Utrecht, the Netherlands, since its founding in 2007 where it has been involved with projects...

By Joe Mier on 10/17/12 Comments Off

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

The BeBook Blues

Last years have been devout to digital publishing and the e-readers. The media made it seem that it was the new big thing and even my mother was considering an iPad. Because I was always annoyed by the enormous...

By Fei An Tjan on 10/18/10 Comments Off

E = Media Combinations2: The survival of the fittest

Every old medium was once new. And when something gets old we’ve got to search for a way to give it its old glance back. The printed book was once a new medium. It was revolutionary, groundbreaking. But today...

By Chris Hoogeveen on 10/13/10 3

A PICNIC in Pictures // Day 1 Roundup

PICNIC is certifiably special and cool. There’s a lot of love for ideas there and I’m happy to share that yesterday I finally had the chance to experience this unique festival first hand for the first time. Immediate impressions?...

By Ekaterina Yudin on 09/24/10 2

Picnic10, Live

So here we go, enjoying the amazing picnic experience! Below you can find some pictures from the activities you can access at the festival/ conference.. So far everything is amazing!

By Ourania on 09/22/10 1

Book Review: “Pirate Modernity: Delhi’s Media Urbanism” – Ravi Sundaram

media.hum.uva.nl/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Pirate-Modernity-Ravi-Sundaram.jpg"> Pirate Modernity by Ravi Sundaram

media.hum.uva.nl/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Pirate-Modernity-Ravi-Sundaram.jpg" alt="" width="50" />In Pirate Modernity: Delhi's Media Urbanism, Ravi Sundaram clearly explains the way the new media have affected post colonial Delhi's urban landscape from the 50's onwards....

By Fei An Tjan on 09/20/10 Comments Off

Did Internet Make Me Stupid?

Working in a coffee bar gives me the advantage of having access to many different newspapers. In quiet hours I try to read several articles from at least three newspapers in order to get a more balanced view of...

By Fei An Tjan on 09/13/10 1

tech celebrities vs. “real” celebrities and other deep thoughts

As I’m reading Vanity Fair online this morning I realize that I have two separate articles pulled up next to each other on my browser that are essentially telling the same story only with different characters. Yes, it happens...

By Megan Adams on 09/11/10 1

South Park and the Demise of the Big Other

Unsurprisingly, yet another South Park episode has made the news recently. And as usual, the comments have ranged from praise and approval to shock (and even subtly worded death wishes?). In pure South Park fashion, “Dead Celebrities” is a...

By Nicola Bozzi on 10/12/09 Comments Off

Twitter: Public Space or Public Sphere?

Internet kills writing? According to Andrea Lunsford, researcher at the Stanford University, it is totally the other way around. There is an immense increase of people starting to write and digital writing is the biggest revolution in writing since...

By ellen sluis on 10/06/09 3