Masters of Media

Virtual Worlds in Modern China

Since the launch of Second Life (SL) by Linden Lab in 2003 it has attracted the attention of many Chinese users. Despite the popularity of SL in China and partly because SL has never been officially launched in China,...

By Pieter-Paul Walraven on 10/24/07 18

An analysis of a vj collaboration; “A Collaborating Cooperation or a Cooperating Collaboration?”

Different definitions, or interpretations if you will, have been linked to words like 'collaboration' and 'cooperation'. One example of this is a part of 'The Art of Free Cooperation' (2007). In the chapter 'Collaboration on...

By Minke Kampman on 10/24/07 Comments Off

Reporting from Recalling RFID

On the morning of the Recalling RFID public program at Amsterdam’s De Balie, I passed one of the newly installed OV chipcard terminals at the metro station. It proved to be the beginning of a day that aimed to...

By Twan Eikelenboom on 10/24/07 Comments Off

Talking about the spinplant

After some weeks the spinplant is still alive. A search with the query “spinplant” in Google gives an overview of some nice and weird links. For example a mention on a Japanese site, linked to Secondlife. But the spinplant...

By Laura van der Vlies on 10/23/07 6

How Social is Wikipedia?

On the Wikipedia site itself, it does state 'Wikipedia' under the entry "Social Software". But I was wondering about how social Wikipedia is in comparison with other social sites (for instance YouTube, MySpace, etc - see previous post). Because...

By Minke Kampman on 10/23/07 1

What’s wrong with Web-cynicism?

Whether you're the latest social networking site out of Silicon Valley, or a lowly blogpost fueled by coffee, plans don't always work out. I started writing this post with the title The Wasteland of Web 2.0, and was going...

By Michael Stevenson on 10/22/07 1

Thanks for the add

Myspace started in 2003 as a stage for aspiring bands and musicians, but evolved from a subculture platform to a mainstream profiling and networking giant. I want to have a look at the...

By Maarten van Sprang on 10/22/07 Comments Off

Information R/evolution

Michael Wesh, known from his web 2.0 movie 'The machine is Us/ing Us' on Youtube (linked below) has created a new movie on the 'Information R/evolution' - this time focusing on the...

By Erik Borra on 10/22/07 1

Cyberbullying or Collaborative Violence?

Media and communication technology has provided us with tools to enable and facilitate collaboration without physical participation or geographical constraints. When it comes to the impact of new media on childhood and youth, there has always been much discussion...

By Qilan Zhao on 10/22/07 Comments Off

Online collaboration scales

In talking about collaboration on the web, the first thing I did was running the term ‘collaboration’ through the WikiScanner, in order to find out to what extent online collaboration was used to create the article on collaboration on...

By Tjerk Timan on 10/22/07 Comments Off

Cooperation and feeling of unity

Online multiplayer games tend to encourage communication and cooperation. Constance SteinKuehler, from the University of Wisconsin, has found that these types of games are ‘sites for socially and materially distributed cognition, complex problem solving, identity work, individual and collaborative...

By Fleur Dujardin on 10/21/07 3

L.A. Raeven fighting Spehr

Spehr articulates the freedom part of cooperation in three points: freedom of negotiation, freedom of refusal and freedom of movement. This political utopia Spehr is talking about, is certainly interesting but also evokes...

By Paulien Dresscher on 10/21/07 1

Dystopias after Google

Here at MofM we've done our share of Google criticism, but I think The Last Psychatrist has one up on us. What Hath Google Wrought is a giant-sized portion of skepticism about the 'accidental monopoly', which...

By Michael Stevenson on 10/20/07 2

Eternal life?

Eternal life is a fairytale. It is not possible to live forever. Or at least, this is the case these days. But what if it really becomes possible to live forever? According to three scientists, Anders Sandberg, Aubrey de...

By Laura van der Vlies on 10/19/07 2

Learning from Hardware: rethinking cooperation.

When we scrutinize the structure of data management, we could find a solution in looking at project cooperation as a metaphor. The metaphor I will be using, is data management as project cooperation. One way to establish the preservation...

By Bas Bisseling on 10/18/07 1

The Spinplant Continues: Legal Questions at Google?

Although I’m not really sure what this is all about, on page 3 of the Google search query on the spinplant I got the following: In response to a legal request submitted to Google, we have removed 1 result(s)...

By Twan Eikelenboom on 10/18/07 9

Games as tools @ cinekid

The lecture was meant as an introduction to the workshop given by Mediamatic on games as tools, but also as an inspirational talk to all involved/ interested in film making and new media. First to talk was Friedrich Kirschner (zeitbrand.net...

By Tjerk Timan on 10/18/07 1

blog.google.com: Internet finally subsumed by Blogs

It is well known that Google, which depends on every link it indexes to recommend search results, has a certain 'vulnerability' that blogs expose. Bloggers are professional-amateur-pointers. They publish frequently, they link a lot, and then they syndicate...

By Michael Stevenson on 10/18/07 3

The collaborative Web 2.0

According to Wikipedia, collaboration is a structured, recursive process where two or more people work together towards a common goal - typically an intellectual endeavor that is creative in nature - by sharing knowledge, learning and building consensus....

By Laura van der Vlies on 10/17/07 Comments Off

Football with the boys 2.0

As a new media student I'm always interested in examples of how new media applications find their way in peoples everyday lives. My football team is a good example off a social event that formerly only took place in...

By Rikus Wegman on 10/16/07 2

Rethinking the Blog as Database: My First Post on the Blog Herald

I am proud to announce that I have joined the Blog Herald. The Blog Herald has been blogging about the blogosphere since 2003 and has since become an established source in the blogosphere. I have been reading the Blog...

By Anne Helmond on 10/16/07 1

Discussion about the spinplant

On October 1st Geert Lovink posted a previous blogpost about the spinplant on the Nettime mailinglist. This was the beginning of what turned out to become a sprawling discussion. This is a summary of the original post,...

By Laura van der Vlies on 10/15/07 2

The Turing Test

Something droll, courtesy of xkcd.com :D

By Pepijn Uitterhoeve on 10/15/07 Comments Off

Collaboration under censorship

In response the problematic situation in Myanmar, social activists, students and Buddhist monks gathered to stand up against the totalitarian regime of the Burmese government. Blogging is the only way to get censorship free news and forms the heart...

By Maarten van Sprang on 10/15/07 3