Masters of Media

Facebook the Movie

July this year Facebook achieved a big milestone, their 500 million member-mark. If Facebook were a country, it would be the third largest one in the world. This success story started with Mark Zuckerberg who created Thefacebook at the...

By Jidi Guo on 09/10/10 4

Nasty Old People and a CC Licence

Sweden is famous for lots of reasons. Like for their food, their furniture and their women. They are also known as the biggest pirates in the world. Not on the open sea, but online. The Swedish Piratebay is one...

By Joris Pekel on 09/09/10 2

My infotainment thesis

I chose the New Media master for several reasons. 1. I want to expand my view and expertise from Television to New Media. 2. New Media is the future. 3. I’m interested in the way television is more and...

By Floor Broer van Dijk on 09/09/10 Comments Off

YouTube, please give me an iTunes link!

YouTube does not endorse infringement of copyright. But with so many newly uploaded videos per day, YouTube has had to come up with alternatives to terminating the accounts of every poor 14 year old who decides to make a...

By Janice Wong on 09/09/10 9

This is not a book

A fair part of the Internet activity is spend by surfing and reading the private findings of others about the cool stuff in live. Random strangers with a talent of writing tell us by blogging little stories of their...

By Fenneke Mink on 09/09/10 1

The Whole Truth and Nothing But……Or Not?

I keep hearing that consumers demand transparency in advertising campaigns. We don’t want advertising companies to promise us one thing, and end up doing another. What else is new? Especially with the rise of online advertising and the popularity...

By Mares Kahrel on 09/09/10 3

Pink is the New Blog

One of the most popular personal blogs in Norway belongs to Emilie Nereng, a 14-year-old girl. On blogglisten.no, a ranking of the most visited blogs in Norway, she is number one with an average of over 68.000 visitors daily. Her...

By Marte Lindstrom on 09/09/10 Comments Off

The Craigslist Circus

Last month a friend was planning a trip to the U.S and while trawling Craigslist for a short-stay apartment in New York she commented on her growing wariness of...

By Natalie Dixon on 09/08/10 1

No school like the old school

Schools are complicated places, they not only mirror society’s obstacles and challenges but also represent our collective hopes for youth, education and knowledge. Teaching is to an extend an individual enterprise in that many teachers adopt a style of...

By Bram van der Kruk on 09/08/10 2

The reign of Justin Bieber

We’ve all seen him, heard him sing or heard the likes and dislikes of other people talking about him: Justin Bieber. Personally I am not really a fan: if you told me half a year ago that I would...

By Sander Jansma on 09/08/10 4

The Wilderness Downtown: When New Media and Music Reinforce Each Other

Musicians are struggling, as they have always been. It seems to have to be part of the deal in one way or another. In the past decade or so however, things have gotten increasingly difficult for artists as the...

By Rosanne Sliuzas on 09/07/10 3

Using Twitter To Support 3FM’s ‘Serious Request’ Campaign

Using Facebook, Youtube, Hyves and Twitter in particular for the good cause? It's possible in the coming weeks with Serious Retweets. The site www.seriousretweets.nl supports the yearly 3FM campaign 'Het glazen huis'...

By Elias van Hees on 09/07/10 Comments Off

Persistence of Life-Streams – An Inquiry Into the Implications of Mixed Surveillance

Here’s the final version of my thesis which covers the nature and implications of (participatory) surveillance in the field of social media, and specifically in life-streaming services like Twitter and Facebook. (PDF can be downloaded here). Introduction: In this...

By Sjoerd Tuinema on 09/06/10 Comments Off

Fellow Sorcerers: Rhizomatic Animality in New Media Art

Here’s my thesis, relevant for any fan of cyborg studies: Fellow Sorcerers PDF Abstract Beginning in the industrial revolution and possibly before, the balance of animal life has tipped away from a state of autonomy to a state of...

By Allison Guy on 09/06/10 Comments Off

New Media Shaping of Perception and the New Space of the Body

The past few months I have been working on my master thesis. The aim of this thesis was to research human perception of space and of time, as well as of the body, and how digital new media have...

By Marta Colpani on 09/05/10 Comments Off

Automated Ontology Structure In Folksonomy

My master thesis is finished! I’ve made it available for download for everyone interested in hybrid folksonomy/ontology Web organization. Download Automated Ontology Structure in Folksonomy (.pdf, 3100 kb) Abstract The purpose of this research is to evaluate automated folksonomy...

By Maarten Hoogvliet on 09/05/10 1

Remediation: Will new media eat older media alive?

In their book Remediation Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin argue that new visual media achieve cultural significance by refashioning earlier media. New media define themselves in relationship to older media. Remediation operates in two directions: older media tries...

By Suzanne Schram on 09/04/10 3

The immersive and interactive qualities of literature

In “Immersion vs. Interactivity: Virtual Reality and Literary Theory” Marie-Laure Ryan explores the problematics of Virtual literature. Marie-Laure Ryan is a literary scholar and critic. She has written several books and articles concerning narratology, fiction and cyberculture, and she...

By Suzanne Schram on 09/04/10 Comments Off

The Politics of Social Media. Facebook: Control and Resistance

Hereby I post my MA thesis ‘The Politics of Social Media. Facebook: Control and Resistance’ for anyone who is interested in the political dimension of social media. A link to the full PDF can be found below. Abstract This...

By Marc Stumpel on 09/04/10 2

GLI.TC/H seeks audio/video bumpers!

**********http://GLI.TC/H in Chicago Sept 29 – Oct 03, 2010!*********** GLI.TC/H is an international gathering of noise & new media practitioners in Chicago from September 29 thru October 03, 2010! GLI.TC/H is a physical and virtual assembly of artists, hackers,...

By Rosa Menkman on 09/04/10 Comments Off

Angst About the Future of the Book at Edinburgh’s Book Fest

It’s always a pleasure to hear publishers hash out their anxieties about the future. You get passionate, articulate types – fanatic bibliophilia often attracts peoples to the business to begin with – who pounce on issues with impressive granularity....

By Morgan Currie on 09/02/10 Comments Off

Web culture circa 1995 – some first thoughts on the history of HotWired and Suck.com

"Early histories of 'the digital content revolution' will center around one area, San Francisco's South Park." (Justin Hall talking about San Francisco's multimedia gulch) I'm in the bay area researching HotWired - Wired's ambitious website created in 1994 -...

By Michael Stevenson on 08/31/10 Comments Off

Bringing the Libre: An Interview with Free Software Developer Jon Phillips

At the recent Libre Graphics Meeting in Brussels, I had the lucky pleasure of meeting Jon Phillips, a man with seemingly as many projects in a given moment as he has fingers and toes. Just a few of his...

By John Haltiwanger on 07/12/10 1

Graphics con Libre: Designing tools for design outside and beyond the proprietary

Though I’m following up quite late, I wanted to list highlights of the presentations I attended at the Libre Graphics Meeting in Brussels (about which I’ve blogged before). While I strongly suggest you look at the recorded presentation archive...

By John Haltiwanger on 07/10/10 1