Masters of Media

Dingpolitik and an internet of things

The relevancy of performing research into the topic of an Internet of Things lies in the fact that, although seemingly the concept has faded into the background, reality might be catching up. Where the web 2.0 bubble keeps on...

By Tjerk Timan on 09/11/08 1

Augmenting Your View on Reality with an Internet Phone

See the vid from tonchidot.com:

By Erik Borra on 09/11/08 Comments Off

Netbooks and Ubuntu

The new generation ultra thin laptops or ‘netbooks’ (by Acer, Asus and Dell) are not only very light (less than 1 kg) but they all have Ubuntu as their pre-installed operating system. Where Microsoft once ruled the world for...

By Hannah Biemold on 09/11/08 2

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< title > < /title > < /head > < body > As described in the last post, glitch artists regularly use glitch-techniques to make the spectator aware of the construction of flow. This intervention can be accomplished by...

By Rosa Menkman on 08/29/08 Comments Off

The Nexus between Reason and Unr3as0n[4ble]

Since the beginning of the digital era, the quest of the Renaissance seems to have re-entered the artist’s consciousness, with the aim of presenting the world in the highest level of reality. The holy grail of this search is...

By Rosa Menkman on 08/13/08 Comments Off

Non-figurative versus disfiguration

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By Rosa Menkman on 08/07/08 1

Tangos Chan on the Chinese Internet (Beijing 05/13/2008)

This post contains parts of a 2 hour interview I did with Tangos Chan from China Web2.0 Review. Among others I asked him about his views on the globalization of Chinese Internet companies, the future of the Chinese Internet market, and the...

By Pieter-Paul Walraven on 08/03/08 1

Amsterdam New Media Summer Talks: Networked Content

Warren Sack, Alexander Galloway, Greg Elmer and Anat Ben-David explore the contents of networks. The Summer Talks are hosted by Richard Rogers. The program is part of the 10-year Jubilee of Govcom.org, the group responsible for the Issue Crawler...

By Esther Weltevrede on 07/22/08 3

Generation Geenstijl, or a Virtual Death Threat in Parliament

It's already old news (that's what I get for reading the Saturday paper on a Sunday) but I saw this article earlier: "Geenstijlgeneratie bedreigt erop los," which I'll embellish in translation as "Generation Geenstijl issues threats like there's...

By Michael Stevenson on 07/20/08 7

Zambia. An overview

For my master thesis I spend 3 months in Zambia to look at the way ICT was used in Secondary Schools. In this following text I will an overview of the organisations that I’ve visited, the teacher training programs...

By Rikus Wegman on 07/14/08 1

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«´`¸* Introduction to glitch *¸´`» (¸. •’´(¸.•’´ * `’•.¸)`’•.¸ ) In 1961, in the First Preface to Histoire de la folie, Foucault writes that the modern man and the madman no longer communicate. There is no longer a common...

By Rosa Menkman on 07/06/08 1

The state of the Internet: For all you stat-lovers out there!

Background statistics for the internet are kind of hard to come by, mostly, they are kept in the iron vaults of the upperclass Internet companies, but Akamai (responsible for 20 procent of internet traffic) put out a very worthwhile...

By Twan Eikelenboom on 07/01/08 4

Patterns in China’s Economic Development

For my Masters thesis I am doing research on the global emergence of Chinese Internet companies. The theoretical part of my thesis consists of several studies on successfull development of other Asian countries in the past. The current emergence...

By Pieter-Paul Walraven on 06/20/08 Comments Off

Vriendjespolitiek.net: research into post-demographics

Since 1998, and on paper since 1989 (Stemwijzer 2008), general elections in the Netherlands have spawned a variety of so called voting recommendation machines. These systems typically ask the user to answer some questions after which they offer the...

By Erik Borra on 06/11/08 1

In-between Manifesto

By Lievnath Faber, Tim van der Heijden and Rosa Menkman. IN-BETWEEN MANIFESTO We are the Interdividuals We are the people that celebrate the in-between. Our manifesto is meant for everyone. One who is ‘in-between’ is neither an isolated individual...

By Rosa Menkman on 05/30/08 5

Manifesto for a Schizo-analysis of Media Culture

1. Contemporary media are characterized by a stammering stream of an ever growing schizophrenic ‘logic of addition’. 2. ‘Old’ mass media like television and cinema are not dead but undead. 3. Schizophrenia points to clinical and critical symptoms of...

By Patricia Pisters on 05/25/08 2

Visualizing the network

As a result of the course information visualization, a public screening was organized where all project teams involved got a chance to present their work at the Waag Society venue. Within a tight 6 minutes, concept explanation and implementation...

By Tjerk Timan on 05/22/08 9

Updated Hyves Pulls Plug on Student Projects After Waag Society Event

((Looks like a possible false alarm, please see update below)) Online social network Hyves has blocked access to the profiles pages for unregistered users. Now one has to be registered and logged in to view a Hyver's full profile,...

By Michael Stevenson on 05/22/08 3

Social Network Saturation Indeed

A colleague of mine sent me this funny and very true vid. It’s funny how the positioning and target groups of the different SN’s is translated into characters. Check it out!

By Pieter-Paul Walraven on 05/20/08 Comments Off

Mark Deuze on Media Work

Mark Deuze, professor of Journalism and New Media at Leiden University and assistant professor at Indiana University, was the latest speaker in the ongoing New Media Research Lecture Series...

By Michael Stevenson on 05/17/08 Comments Off

POLITICS: WEB 2.0 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

Written for the Institute of Network Cultures Crossposted at Institute of Network Cultures Weblog Download PDF (full text including pictures) On April 17th and 18th 2008 the department of Politics and International Relations at the Royal Holloway University of...

By Roman Tol on 05/13/08 1