Masters of Media

6000 years of world conflicts online

Enjoy history and modern technology? Then prepare to get yourself time-sucked into the virtual world of wars and conflicts. Recently I have discover a website that clearly illustrates how isolated battles overlap and entwine into a never-ending strand of...

By Natalia Miszczak on 09/12/11 1

Out with the old, in with the new?

The emerge of a new medium often raises the question: what will happen to the old medium? The e-reader can be seen as a remediation of the traditional printed book. But has the e-reader changed the way we buy...

By Leonie Nijenmanting on 09/12/11 2

Re-evaluating the cultural industries

With the rise of the Internet, ‘creative content’ has become an increasingly debated concept with regard to its nature, availability and legality. Within each of these respects severe changes have been seen which altogether have dealt a significant blow...

By Philip Breek on 09/12/11 1

The battle between industry and ideology

Just a quick word on something that might sound obvious to all of us, yet is a topic that in my opinion is applicable on most new media discourses. The struggle between ideology and the ‘real world’.

By Renoud Netjes on 09/12/11 3

Web 3.0: Against the Semantic Web

There seems to an awful lot of speculation about where the web as a whole is heading. Whereas it's possible to make predictions and regard the web as a homegenous entity, doesn't seem to be relevant. We like our...

By Eelke Hermens on 09/12/11 5

Mission Has To Be Completed

Intro is always puzzling for a songster who tries to set up an album. It seems that at this very special moment even I encounter the same problem. Virtually I want to say: For god’s sake, what should I...

By Duohuai Zhang on 09/11/11 2

Social Media are taking over our identity, for better or for worse.

With Facebook now claiming to have over 750 million active users, along with a 100 million tweeters traceable through the current 22 million checkins of 725.000 Foursquare users , it is safe to argue that one out of 9...

By Jeroen Rijskamp on 09/11/11 5

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

pre-CONDe’s campaign to organize the 21th Ndesign

Ndesign is the national congress for design students and professionals in Brazil, it is the largest congress in this area in the country and one of the largest in Latin America. It is organized by a commission made of...

By Mario Gesteira on 09/11/11 7

Google’s Doodles: How transforming logo can empower a brand

I’m always get excited whenever I enter Google’s page and there’s an intervention in the logo – more or less expressive – featuring a holiday, birthday or something totally new to me with drawings, videos, games or interactive animations....

By Juliana Paiva on 09/11/11 2

Raising awareness on Product Placement

Advertising is everywhere. From print ads in magazines and billboards, pop ups and spam on Internet, or commercials on television, it is virtually impossible not to see advertisements in daily life. Some researchers even say that we see on...

By Clément Adam on 09/11/11 Comments Off

Not About Media!

The Impossibility of Media Theory Where previous generations of Serious Men saw in the concept of Medium but marginal or esoteric wordplay, we in our times seem to attribute to it almost magical qualities, such as the 19th century...

By Daniel de Zeeuw on 09/11/11 Comments Off

Why artists (should) support piracy

Considering the severely limiting effects of current copyright and the culture industries, artists are better off supporting piracy - financially, artistically and morally.

By Joep Hegger on 09/11/11 1

A Domain By Any Other Name

Websites are headed towards major name changes. Recent amendments have authorized the creation of a porn specific .XXX domain, allowed non-Latin alphabet characters into the address bar, and most significantly freed top-level domain names from the conventional endings of...

By Autumn Hand on 09/11/11 1

True Blood invades virtual reality

The development of new communication means in recent years has turned into a genuine PR and advertising opportunity. The rise of the Internet together with the changes in the behavior of the media consumer triggered a special interest in...

By Luana Pascu on 09/10/11 Comments Off

CrunchWars

If the TechCrunch controversy reveals anything, it is that CPM advertising is a corrupting revenue stream.

By Andrian Georgiev on 09/09/11 Comments Off

Is the internet ruining our brains?

We shouldn’t be talking about the rise of the social media and new media any more. It’s here, in everyone’s lives on a daily basis. And it’s doing things to us. It’s changing the way we communicate, learn, socialise...

By Ave Tampere on 09/09/11 Comments Off

GLI.TC/H 2011

GLI.TC/H was a simple idea that was hatched upon the notion of folks gathering together and engaging/chatting/debating the issues/theories/concerns of failure, systems, art, && glitches. We were able to realize this gathering last year in Chicago. GLI.TC/H 2010 brought people...

By Rosa Menkman on 08/29/11 Comments Off

Masters of Media: The Animation

I ran into this animation and couldn’t resist the temptation to share it here. It’s an animated documentary called ‘The Masters of the Media‘. It analyses monopolization in the Media Industry.

By Minke Kampman on 08/19/11 Comments Off

Saskia Korsten’s Thesis Abstract Voted Among Top in LABS 2011

The Leonardo Abstracts Service (LABS) connected with the journal Leonardo) recently announced the results of its competition for top MA and PhD abstracts submitted to its English language database from scholars around the world. Korsten’s abstract for her thesis,...

By Edward Shanken on 08/18/11 Comments Off

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

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

Legal vs. Illegal: Understanding Dutch Copyright

If one were to compare the Netherlands to the United States on just a topical issues alone it would seem like oil and water. The obvious differences, are well, just that – obvious (no need to discuss coffee shops,...

By Megan Adams on 07/23/11 2

An interview with User:Markellos, prolific editor and administrator on the Greek-language Wikipedia.

This is an interview with Markellos Stevis, an administrator of the Greek-language Wikipedia and one of its most prolific editors. Markellos participates actively in the “I participate in Wikipedia” initiative, a campaign that aims at the development and enrichment...

By Ilektra Pavlaki on 07/23/11 Comments Off