Masters of Media

Is micro blogging the future for writers?

Micro blogging gained a lot of success over the past few years. With the arrival of web 2.0 there was a need for a new form of writing. Long articles and ongoing features were not what people wanted anymore....

By Chris Hoogeveen on 10/06/10 3

My brother on Wikipedia is RELEVANT!

The policies and text regulations that are presented by Wikipedia, display a very different form of politics, the debate falls on the aspect of RELEVANCE. It is all very complicated, yet also very simple. Their requirements are seemingly reasonable;...

By ibtisam omer on 10/06/10 Comments Off

And the winner is…

This week I took my fist shaky steps on the Wikipedia. I was supposed to because of this week’s assignment, but I wasn’t quite enthusiastic. Wikipedia barbarian as I was, I thought it would be quite easy to create...

By Lotte Woerde on 10/05/10 Comments Off

Californian Ideology 2.0, A First Farewell

Where the internet and greater new technologies before have military origin, nowadays technologies and implementation are developed and financed by private companies and organizations. Even the backbone of the internet has become privatized, as part of its protocol, DNS,...

By Pim van Bree on 10/05/10 1

Cinekid On Wikipedia

Write what you know, it is often said. And love, is what I’d like to add. In embarking on the Wikipedia adventure this past week, the saying has certainly proven to be a very helpful starting point for me....

By Rosanne Sliuzas on 10/05/10 Comments Off

Wikipedia is the mother of my entry

Searching the definition of ‘community’ on Wikipedia (yes it is ironic) I found the most common one of ‘ a group of interacting people living in a common location. The word is often used to refer to a group...

By Levien Rocha on 10/05/10 1

Wikipedia’s ‘Rise of the eediots’?

Call someone an idiot. Expect trouble. Say to someone; ‘You eediot!’ and they just might respond in hysterical laughter, and then call you a purist. You just showed off that you’re into cult cartoons and you found an ally....

By Hans Terpstra on 10/04/10 2

Encyclopedic Enough?

The integration of wiki knowledge into mirror worlds would possibly satisfy our desire to capture and understand the world to a large extend. Mirror Worlds; Yes, I would like to contribute. The 80s ‘neutral’ knowledge-gathering tour took me from...

By Mareline Heijman on 10/04/10 1

Kaassouffle…good enough to stay?

My adventures in kaassouffle’ing have officially begun and the beloved Dutch streetfood snack has now triumphed to English Wikipedia status. Thus far, the bots have not attacked my entry and only a reviewer from the Czech Republic stepped in to...

By Ekaterina Yudin on 10/04/10 1

To Be or Not To Be Deleted: My First Wikipedia Entry

There are 3,431,688 articles in the English Wikipedia on a dizzying range of topics. Surely there must be one on data-driven journalism, right? Well, the answer is no; an article on database journalism focuses on computer-assisted reporting, the digital...

By Catalina Iorga on 10/04/10 Comments Off

Wokipedia

After long thinking about what subject to write a Wikipedia page on I decided to keep it close to home, well not literally, but if you read my last name you’ll know what I mean. Since the Wikipedia entry...

By Jidi Guo on 10/04/10 2

Please talk to AuntieRuth55

I am a student and this means that I love Wikipedia by default. When you hear about something you know nothing about, you just go to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is like a friendly Labrador, always there when you need it....

By Marije Rooze on 10/04/10 Comments Off

Wikipedia University – designing the new student

The main criticism on Wikipedia is the lack of transparancy in the background of the users. How can we know whether a certain user is a professional with an academic background (which would confirm the reliability of the article)...

By Laila Koubia on 10/04/10 Comments Off

Editor Generated Content?

I am a passive Wikipediaist, and as of this weekend, I will stick with that role. I use Wikipedia mainly as a source of quick, (semi)reliable information; yet I do not share stronger bonds with this particular cyber institution....

By Agathe Wiedemair on 10/04/10 Comments Off

My Wikipedia experience: Stewards, Moderators and Hitler

So, that’s why I thought I could easily handle this wiki-entry assignment. I started working on the translation of the page of the European Culture Foundation. While doing this I received an email that there was to much...

By Hanneke Mertens on 10/04/10 Comments Off

My first Wikipedia entry

Last friday 1st of October I published my very first Wikipedia entry ‘Howard Menger’ on the Dutch Wikipedia. The choosen topic actualy was based on a couple of simple Wikipedia-facts: First, when you want your Wiki-entry to have some...

By Xander Stolwijk on 10/04/10 Comments Off

Expertise vs. Wikiknowledge

Tuesday morning 10 o’clock: Workday as usual. I’m working on some notification plug-in for the forum on the website I manage for VOS/ABB – an organisation looking after the interest of people working in and managing public primary- and...

By Frank Molenaar on 10/04/10 Comments Off

The Diegetic Desktop in a New Media Film: “Skydiver AKA Instructional Video #4 – Preparation for Mission by Eugene Kotlyarenko”

A couple of weeks ago, during my routine deletion of facebook notices and invitations ("fpam"?), I fortunately bothered to open one headlined, "The Groundbreaking Last Movie from Eugene...

By Ashiq Khondker on 10/04/10 3

Greek Wikipedia calls for Βοήθεια (Help)!

Geert: "Yes, you can write your Wikipedia post in your own language" Me (not saying that aloud of course): "Finally! This is going to be a piece of cake" Well... it wasn't. Instead I could describe it like a nerve-breaking, patience-challenging...

By Ilektra Pavlaki on 10/04/10 2

Wikipedia: Propaganda or Contribution?

In 1945 Vannevar Bush already predicted an innovative new way of structuring information, a new library. Wikipedia was launched in 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger and was indeed a new initiative to...

By Elias van Hees on 10/04/10 Comments Off

Art: E-Waste

Renowned South African photographer Pieter Hugo's latest work Permanent Error features a haunting documentary of an e-waste(land) in Ghana.

By Natalie Dixon on 10/04/10 Comments Off

A Canadian Wikipedia Adventure

When contributing to Wikipedia it is always best to stick to what you know. The concept behind the world’s largest online encyclopedia is that everyone has valuable accumulated knowledge that should be shared, on what is essentially a global...

By Ronen Shay on 10/04/10 Comments Off

NEXT! Chatroulette: a shuffle through genital exposure and musicality

Presenting! an online webcam chat room with functions similar to that of Skype or any other audio-video-chat spaces, yet the difference here lays in the simplicity of Chatroulette. The creator; a seventeen year old Russian teenager named; Andrey Ternovskiy...

By ibtisam omer on 10/03/10 5

New Media drives project: Times Square to Art Square

Times Square to Art Square is a project to turn all billboards on Times Square into art. At the opening party of Dutchproblogger’s book Sex, Blogs & Rock ‘n’ Roll I was fortunate to meet Justus Bruns, one...

By Janice Wong on 10/03/10 1