Masters of Media

The Habermasian implications of the Twittersphere

‘Blogosphere’, ‘Twittersphere’, ‘Afrosphere’. We’re gradually getting used to a new media terminology whereby we quickly refer to new communication spaces and specified fields as ‘spheres’. As the Twittersphere is still rapidly growing, we might want to look back at...

By Marc Stumpel on 10/04/09 1

The different faces of Twitter

The enormous growth of the social networking site that is Twitter has many a person wondering. Suddenly every self-respecting website, newspaper, enterprise or person has a Twitter account, which enables Twitter users to follow. Even though the amount of...

By Charlotte Hendriks on 10/04/09 Comments Off

“Who Do You Think You Are?” —-Everyone is Narcissist

I admit that I am a fanatic. When I began to use twitter this week, I do find a new world: wow! I can communicate with celebrities! A lot of them use twitter to tell us what they are...

By Siying Yang on 10/04/09 Comments Off

We Are All In a show: Be a Mad Man on Twitter

So here is the story. You log in your Twitter account and find one user named exactly as a character on one current TV episodes, then another, and another. Obviously they are not real, although they talk exactly as...

By Sisi Yu on 10/04/09 1

From Tweet to Hypertextual Consciousness?

One might claim that Twitter is just another boring conversational platform not very different from any other kind of social network site, where you can share your cuts-ups of personal information instantly with your friends. But in a social-humanistic...

By Susana Zaragoza on 10/04/09 2

Collective writing: How literature is changed by the new medium

There are many variants of social networking sites. Some of them are based on an analog medium. The use of the Internet and the computer has resulted in that the digital medium differs from the analog medium. Examples of...

By Suzanne Schram on 10/04/09 Comments Off

Twitter is Joris Luyendijk’s Answer.

A lot of journalists discussing Twitter seem to fall back on an old habit, criticize. I guess it is a journalistic-reflex, maybe even a purpose to criticize. But in case of Twitter it is regrettable the discussion didn’t moved...

By Han Rusman on 10/04/09 5

We don’t need to read your blog to review it. And you don’t need to write it.

It all started by doing what every active internet user does once in a while: egosurfing (or something like that, I wasn’t looking for my own blog – this one here – but for the one I work for)....

By Nicola Bozzi on 10/04/09 1

Ning’s Privacy Issues

My background is not only media studies/theories but I’m also enrolled in the Bachelor program of Law at the University of Amsterdam. This post is about my critique on the interaction between privacy and user on Ning.com. For class...

By Tim van Essen on 10/03/09 4

Embedded Video Can Cost You a Lot (in Holland)

The Dutch organization Buma Stemra, monopolist in collecting copyright-remuneration for artists, announced a new price-plan today. In it’s brochure Buma Stemra proudly explains the model which starts at the 1st of January 2010. Although the brochure isn’t really clear, it...

By Han Rusman on 10/02/09 8

Become a Fan: Facebook marketing

Facebook is smart. And they certainly are not a charity sale. In order to provide the thousands of employees with the great benefits and to keep on growing they’ll annoy their users just enough to make some money, but...

By Hania Piotrowska on 10/02/09 Comments Off

Music 2.0 and the strategy of Artists.

There’s been a couple of postings regarding Music 2.0 and what it means for artists. I thought it might be a contribution to add my findings to this. First of all I would like to briefly introduce my Bachelor...

By Rakesh Kanhai on 10/02/09 1

#Picnic09: The Creative Commons Special in Amsterdam

The Creative Commons special, hosted by Paul Keller and Donatella Della Ratta, focused on three examples of organizations using Creative Commons (CC) in a positive (and hopefully a lucrative) way: Al Jazeera, Beeld en Geluid and VPRO.

By Chris Castiglione on 10/02/09 Comments Off

Absorbed into Facebook – Immersion, engagement and asynchronous communication

When I wake up I make myself a cup of coffee and open up my laptop. I enter the passwords to my Gmail, Youtube, Twitterific and Facebook account and until I close my laptop (on those very scarce moments)...

By Gwen Keupe on 10/02/09 2

Online representation: or how come I look sophisticated online.

Everyday it is the same routine, as soon as I open my Firefox browser the first thing I will type is the address of Facebook. To see what all of my friends are up to or what their status...

By Thomas Fonville on 10/01/09 Comments Off

#Picnic09: STEIM, Music, and Training Our Intuition

“Say goodbye to control. Say hello to improvisation,” these were a few of the opening remarks made by STEIM director Dick Rijken. He stressed that in a world of less control we need to concentrate on training our intuition.

By Chris Castiglione on 10/01/09 Comments Off

Social Networking Sites: to type oneself into being

“Typing oneself into being” sounds like a great way to summarize a person’s motive for online exposure. When you’re not online, you seem to be nowhere at all. Creating an online profile on a social networking site is an...

By Rutger van den Berg on 10/01/09 Comments Off

Yunomi: Advertising and Social Networking Sites

In the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant, of Saturday September 26th, there was an article (Dutch) on a new Dutch website: Yunomi. This website is stated to be a ‘platform’ for women, with articles about fashion, beauty and lifestyle. Visitors...

By Desiree de Jong on 10/01/09 1

Facebook THE example of data portability

Every now and then privacy issues of Facebook are addressed when a new feature, like News Feeds, show the accessibility of information. This discussion deserves to be in the limelight even when the media are not creating a hype...

By Albert Cornelissen on 10/01/09 Comments Off

Twitter Poetry and Mobility in Art

Twitter is the ultimate social networking site. The last trend for new media junks. Journalists, politicians, writers, artists, depressed teenagers, hyper-active middle-aged Internet addicted, new Iphone owners, everyone seems to be out there, on Twitter. Of course, because Facebook...

By Marta Colpani on 10/01/09 Comments Off