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Bookreview: Communication Power

Where lies the power in network society? That’s the question Manuel Castells tries to answer in his book ‘Communication Power’. An interesting and relevant question considering our changing society. According to Castells, power relationships operate in networks. In his...
By Mathijs Voordenberg on 10/02/10 Comments Off on Bookreview: Communication Power

Contributing to Wikipedia: a painstaking task on an too open platform

Ever since Wikipedia has been embraced by millions, the online and collaboratively created encyclopedia has been heralded as the manifestation of Web 2.0’s possibilities. Often, Wikipedia has been ascribed characteristics that belong to online media that are approachable to...
By Lennard Torbijn on 10/02/10 Comments Off on Contributing to Wikipedia: a painstaking task on an too open platform

Botting, Plotting and Multiboxing

A short entry on people botting, people plotting, bots multiboxing, and virtual goods adverts in games. Includes a MOVIE!
By Bart Brodzki on 10/01/10 3

The Ultimate Boycott of Brains?

About the other, less seen, side of Israel: Technology and digital innovation “People of good conscience have chosen to boycott israeli products and companies supporting the zionist entity.” is stated on the Anti-Israël website inminds.com. Such political statements are...
By Elias van Hees on 10/01/10 Comments Off on The Ultimate Boycott of Brains?

Virtueel Platform at PICNIC 2010: HOT and NOT

I can call myself HOT officially since last Thursday the 23th. Attending PICNIC 2010 with 99 fellow HOT-students is a hot experience indeed. Packed in a decorated marquee, listening to  Sebastian Chan who is currently the Head of Digital,...
By Xander Stolwijk on 09/30/10 Comments Off on Virtueel Platform at PICNIC 2010: HOT and NOT

The panopticon is just a prison, guys: On a new approach to understanding new media

Numerous academic books and articles that have claimed to address the workings of new media tend to merely present an online phenomenon’s lineage or draw an analogy between older (media) theory and newer media (theory). Let us, for instance,...
By Lennard Torbijn on 09/30/10 3

Wikipedia for Experts

I am in the process of creating an English Wikipedia page for the school I work at, Het Amsterdams Lyceum. The state I initially found this Wikipedia page in is illustrative of the reasons many teachers believe forms of...
By Bram van der Kruk on 09/30/10 Comments Off on Wikipedia for Experts

Africa Unsigned: the Professionalizing of User Input

In the past years the Internet has been flooded with user generated content. The theory on new media has subsequently been flooded with research into this phenomenon, that is commonly centered around the web 2.0 concept. This theorizing of...
By Erik van Bemmelen on 09/30/10 Comments Off on Africa Unsigned: the Professionalizing of User Input

Social Media Is Not Social

Last week I saw this TEDx presentation by David Armano. In this inspring 16 minutes he talks about how social media itself, is not social. Armano says that it is the people itself that are social. It is time...
By Joris Pekel on 09/30/10 Comments Off on Social Media Is Not Social

Introducing: A Wiki Debut

In order to gain some more insight in the inner workings of Wikipedia, I've created a new entry about the book Learned Pigs & Fireproof Women by Ricky Jay. A highly recommended history book about some of the...
By Laurent Hubeek on 09/30/10 Comments Off on Introducing: A Wiki Debut
Excerpts of audiovisual astronomy

Excerpts of audiovisual astronomy

In the first systematic study about movie stardom and its heavy influence on early mass culture, Edgar Morin (1957) argues that during the golden studio-age Hollywood was able to dramatically change the ritual function of the mythical universe: by...
By Alberto Angelini on 09/29/10 Comments Off on Excerpts of audiovisual astronomy

Open Data

There is an open data movement afoot, now, around the world. (Berners-Lee, 2010) Tim Berners-Lee is optimistic in his 2010 Ted talk The year open data went worldwide. Berners-Lee is one of the advocates for open data, he is...
By Marije Rooze on 09/29/10 1

Adopted Teen Traced on Social Network

A great example of how the privacy issues we face on social networks are not just limited to our data being sold to marketers. This BBC interview tells how a British girl was traced by her natural sister on...
By Natalie Dixon on 09/29/10 Comments Off on Adopted Teen Traced on Social Network
Reflection and critique on the development of location-based mobile applications.

Reflection and critique on the development of location-based mobile applications.

Location-based applications are the new hype. Their presence is prominent in festivals, conferences and symposia that address to new media technologies, or to use the most recent terminology, that address to cross media developments. Thinkers and researchers  either praise...
By olga paraskevopoulou on 09/29/10 Comments Off on Reflection and critique on the development of location-based mobile applications.
Not to get too emotional… but what happened to emotion?

Not to get too emotional… but what happened to emotion?

She' ll smile to you if you move to the left. No, try a different angle. I don't know... Is she smiling at all? For over 500 years, viewers and researchers have been trying to interpret Mona Lisa's...
By Ilektra Pavlaki on 09/28/10 Comments Off on Not to get too emotional… but what happened to emotion?
Online Activism, Offline Passivism?

Online Activism, Offline Passivism?

Jyllands Posten Social media and Web 2.0 have radically changed the way we communicate with each other. Blogs and social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter let us...
By Fei An Tjan on 09/28/10 Comments Off on Online Activism, Offline Passivism?

Researching online music networking in the Web 2.0 era: Soundcloud and the demise of MySpace

With the current steady rise of social networking sites, it is by all means an important question to ask how to research these in the field of new media studies. Furthermore, a lot of these sites offer services destined...
By Hans Terpstra on 09/28/10 Comments Off on Researching online music networking in the Web 2.0 era: Soundcloud and the demise of MySpace

The Internet – a ‘seductive data set’ accessed at the touch of a button

The rapid expansion of internet uptake throughout the world created a potential for new social experiences, and thus offers researchers new environments for their social enquiry (Beddows, 2008). Kaye and Johnson predicted already in 1999 that the World Wide...
By Anne Lukas on 09/28/10 1
Involve me, and I’ll understand: Classroom 2.0

Involve me, and I’ll understand: Classroom 2.0

Returning to the topic I wrote about two weeks ago, I’d like to have another look at the use of technology in education. It was easy to express my annoyances about the way platforms such as Blackboard are oftentimes...
By Anouka Slemmer on 09/27/10 1
Can the web become more social?

Can the web become more social?

We have always thought that ‘less is more’ but according to Wired’ editor in chief  Chris Anderson ‘more is better’.  We have to move away from the idea of scarcity and exploit the power of waste on the web....
By Levien Rocha on 09/27/10 Comments Off on Can the web become more social?

Amazonian Geeks and Social Activism: An Ethnographic Study

A couple of months ago I went to Brazil to conduct my MA reseach in the North of Brazil. This ethnographic study offers insight in the usage and appropriation of ICTs and the several projects and initiatives aiming at...
By ellen sluis on 09/27/10 Comments Off on Amazonian Geeks and Social Activism: An Ethnographic Study
Relationships matter! Even for our royal!

Relationships matter! Even for our royal!

Since last Saturday our Royal is on twitter as well! And today on the news there was a new article about it. U can read the full article here. Although i am not very interested in our Royal, it...
By Layla Van Daalen on 09/27/10 1
Will Wikipedia end the disregarding of Swedish artist?

Will Wikipedia end the disregarding of Swedish artist?

Swedish singers are often disregarded. They won’t make it out side the Swedish borders. What happened there? Did publicity fall short? Didn’t MTV pick it up? Or is there some other reason why Swedish musicians mostly don’t appear on...
By Chris Hoogeveen on 09/27/10 2

Shift in power

If you google “social media” or “social networksites” you will receive tons of links. Everybody seems to use social networksites and you need to be involved soon. Most of the links use a kind of paranoia, to make you...
By Hanneke Mertens on 09/27/10 1