Masters of Media

What is in your bag or what have you wore today?

A very popular group on Flickr is the “What is in your bag group”, where 10722 photo’s are placed of bags and its content and around 19500 flickr- users are a member of this group. When you are...

By Hanneke Mertens on 10/30/10 Comments Off

Professional use of e-readers: a whole different e-game

Take off your shoes, kick back and relax: cuddling up on the couch with your e-reader. Or forget about the couch and lay before the crackling open fire, maybe with a cup of hot coco like you might have...

By Anouka Slemmer on 10/30/10 2

Facebook: open minded panopticon?

Something caught my eye this week that seemed so contradictory that I want to share it with you. In the course New Media Theories, and actually in every other new media course, the principles of Michel Foucault are relevant....

By Jorien De Wandeler on 10/30/10 Comments Off

The console wars, back to the 16bit era

Bits. Eight of them or sixteen meant a world of difference to me when I was a kid. I didn’t know what a bit was and actually I still don’t. I tried looking it up but it’s a very...

By Frank Molenaar on 10/29/10 Comments Off

Dark blog

As the first half of this semester draws to an end, and we all wrap up our compulsory blogging and prepare for the next hurdles of our MA course, I was surprised at not hearing a single word about...

By Hans Terpstra on 10/29/10 11

Epic Win. The Ludification of Life

We all have stuff to do. Some stuff we want to do, but most times we just have to. Stuff to keep your finances in order, to keep the people around you happy or just to avoid that the...

By Joris Pekel on 10/29/10 Comments Off

Blood in our mobiles

Corporate social responsibility has had a great impact on businesses the last decade. In light of this awareness, the Dutch television station VARA aired an episode last week of ‘Uitgesproken’ - an in-depth news program - that was about...

By Bob Nefkens on 10/28/10 1

Pleasure and Desire in The Matrix

The Matrix is often used as an example of several phenomena when it comes to new media analysis. The following fragment for example, the one of the blue and red pill, is...

By Elias van Hees on 10/28/10 Comments Off

AR CV OTW!?

The Augmented Reality Curriculum Vitae, in short AR CV, has been developed in a business collaboration between CWJobs.co.uk and Symbian co-founder David Wood.

By Agathe Wiedemair on 10/28/10 Comments Off

Some first thoughts on the Mom-blog redesign

It’s been a couple of weeks now since some of the Masters of Media students started thinking about redesigning the MoM-blog and luckily more and more of you have joined in on this project. Lots of good ideas have...

By Anouka Slemmer on 10/28/10 Comments Off

Follow up: Dutch Wikipedia strangely crueler than English Wikipedia

It is with great sadness that I announce the death of two Wikipedia articles. These were articles I introduced with parental pride a couple of weeks ago. On beforehand we were told that the English Wikipedia would be the...

By Cendy Calis on 10/28/10 5

E-books: que sera, sera. (but that’s ok, as long as we’re still reading)

One of the main challenges that the emergence of e-books has brought upon us is linked to the idea of ownership, be it the ownership of copyright or the actual feeling one gets when purchasing a book. Some argue...

By Stefania Bercu on 10/28/10 2

Digital Distribution + Music = Global Divide

A couple of months ago I was sitting at my desk with a friend, going through my iTunes collection and trying to put together a...

By Megan Adams on 10/28/10 2

The Invention of the Century: Privacy

Privacy is considered to be an important issue for it is not just a social structure within a community, which can be regulated by social control anymore. It has developed to a dialectic notion of widespread surveillance activities within...

By Fenneke Mink on 10/27/10 2

Chatroulette, no longer The Ultimate Online Experience?

In a previous post called; NEXT!Chatroulette; a shuffle through genital exposure and musicality I went a head and proclaimed Chatroulette to be an ultimate online experience, allowing visitors utter anonymity and random shuffles between users. Yet recently I returned to...

By ibtisam omer on 10/27/10 3

Qwiki will be launched soon, what should we expect?

Qwiki is the award winning start up in the TechCrunch Disrupt, San Francisco. It is founded by Doug Imbruce and Luis Monier and promises to offer a new information exprerience and to solve the problem of the information overload....

By olga paraskevopoulou on 10/26/10 3

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Mysterious LED

Wandering around some Mac-aficionado forums in search of good repairing tips for my powerbook maybe-a-bit-old’n’dusty-thus-winding-way-too-slow-and-definitely-too-noisy internal fan, I found this amazing asynchronous, multi-user dispersed chat: user A: I keep my powerbook on my desk when I work. When it goes to...

By Alberto Angelini on 10/26/10 2

Facebook cares about our heartbreak?

Facebook has declared that they will stop showing your ex’s in the Photo Memories box (occasionally on the top right box, where the adds usually are). In practice this means that they’ve created an algorithm which won’t show tagged...

By Cendy Calis on 10/26/10 2

Event review: Music & Bits – day 1 of ADE Conference

The funniest line in the opening speech for Music & Bits was “now for a practical matter – does anyone have an iPad charger?” I loved to hear that, in a room of music geeks, developers and techies, and...

By Janice Wong on 10/26/10 Comments Off

The Shelfless Bookstore

What is the difference between a traditional bookstore and an online bookstore? You could say it’s in the opening hours, the delivery time and number of employees, but let’s focus on one of the main differences. A traditional bookstore...

By Marije Rooze on 10/26/10 1

Is it really all that bad?

A recent Vancouver Sun article about the documentary Catfish, brings up an arguable and in vogue topic. One that commonly seems to be brought up quiet often about the rising popularity of social media platforms: What are the (psychological) dynamics between the...

By Agathe Wiedemair on 10/25/10 Comments Off