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From Cable TV to IGTV: The media might indeed be the message.

From Cable TV to IGTV: The media might indeed be the message.

Abstract –  Instagram’s new application, IGTV brings about a change in how we consume media. Will it act as a replacement for platforms such as YouTube, Vimeo or Snapchat sending them out of business? IGTV also raises questions about...
By Shikha Bajaj on 09/24/18 Comments Off on From Cable TV to IGTV: The media might indeed be the message.
Working the Social Network

Working the Social Network

 “Social media is not Facebook. Nor is it YouTube. Neither is it blogging or tweeting. Facebook, YouTube, blogs, and twitter are merely platforms and channels; players on a much broader stage collectively referred to as social media” ....
By Janina Sommerlad on 10/17/14 1
Tangible Data Visualizations

Tangible Data Visualizations

We live in a world of three dimensions (alright 4, and a spattering of more depending on which school of quantum theory you adhere to). However, when it comes to visualizing data, the results are surprisingly 2-dimensional, and mostly...
By Philip Anderson on 04/22/14 1
Ideas worth spreading… Is the TED Blog worthwhile?

Ideas worth spreading… Is the TED Blog worthwhile?

TED.com is best known for its videos of talks given by experts and up-and-comers in the fields of Technology, Education and Design. Since its inception as a global set of conferences, the TED brand has branched off into many...
By Susan Clandillon on 10/10/13 Comments Off on Ideas worth spreading… Is the TED Blog worthwhile?
De Correspondent: New Media in News Media

De Correspondent: New Media in News Media

After months of media attention and a very successful crowd funding campaign, De Correspondent (Dutch for The Reporter) was launched the 30th of september 2013. It is presented as a journalistic platform, which supplements rather than substitutes traditional mainstream...
By Leon Meuwese on 10/07/13 Comments Off on De Correspondent: New Media in News Media
Global Internet Censorship – ACTA

Global Internet Censorship – ACTA

The internet as we know is a place with limitless accessibility and constant access to all shareable online information within an open exchange where media exist and co-exist in the way of informing and entertaining. It also means to...
By Christoph Rauch on 09/13/13 1
From Coin to Movie Ticket: the changed currency in the gaming industry

From Coin to Movie Ticket: the changed currency in the gaming industry

Amazing voice-acting,  a great and mature storyline, emotional depth and solid directing while keeping the action tense and gripping. Judging from this praise above many would be inclined to say the subject matter here is a big budget Hollywood...
By Vincent Sloof on 09/08/13 Comments Off on From Coin to Movie Ticket: the changed currency in the gaming industry
Rhythmanalysis – Henri Lefebvre

Rhythmanalysis – Henri Lefebvre

This post functions as an introduction to a project by Charlotte van Dalfsen, Egle Mykolaityte, Mihaela Naftanaila, Lydia van der Spek and Laura Zimmermann. Our project is an interpretation of Henri Lefebvre’s seminal book “Rhythmanalysis” (1992). In doing so,...
By Lydia van der Spek on 11/02/12 Comments Off on Rhythmanalysis – Henri Lefebvre
So you think your a journalist?*

So you think your a journalist?*

It started off as a protest, a personal objection to the poorly made yellow journalism we all come across on a daily basis. Being called a “grammar nazi” so many times before certainly has its perks. At first, you’re...
By Vicentiu Dinga on 09/10/12 Comments Off on So you think your a journalist?*
The Problem With Advertising-Driven Content

The Problem With Advertising-Driven Content

It’s been almost 20 years since the web made its grand entrance into the lives of average consumers. It was around that time the internet was also opened for business and companies started assessing it for its profitability. Initially...
By Richard Zimerman on 09/09/12 1

Phone fun — Phone art

With the help of Internet and what follows it, with the help of social media and mobile phones development, today many people percieve themselves as artists. What we can easily observe is that the form of artistic creativity which...
By Urszula Jurgiel on 10/10/11 2

CrunchWars

If the TechCrunch controversy reveals anything, it is that CPM advertising is a corrupting revenue stream.
By Andrian Georgiev on 09/09/11 Comments Off on CrunchWars

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

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

Internet in Cuba: reason to be skeptic?

Last month Reuters and LA Times publicized articles about the Cuban Internet use. Both articles were skeptical about the use of Internet in Cuba. Less than 14.2% of the Cubans make use of the Internet, and most of the...
By Mathijs Voordenberg on 09/13/10 2
‘Masters of Media’ on the Web

‘Masters of Media’ on the Web

According to the 2010 call for New Media MA applications, the Masters of Media blog has been nominated for a best education blog award and enjoys a broad, global readership. Masters of Media‘s international prestige and academic acclaim undoubtedly...
By Catalina Iorga on 09/13/10 Comments Off on ‘Masters of Media’ on the Web
Google-izing the television

Google-izing the television

For a couple of years now scientists and new media enthusiasts have been talking about the merging of television and personal computers. Nowadays there are a couple of examples through which this merging takes place and last week almighty...
By Bob Nefkens on 09/11/10 6
This is not a book

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

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 on Pink is the New Blog

Blog-art

A Few weeks ago I attended the blog-art.nl/over-blog-art/">Blog-art Festival in The Hague. I was eager to see how they interpreted the concept of ‘blog-art’, but as it turned out they did not interpreted it at all.
By Kimberley Spreeuwenberg on 11/01/09 2

Discourse network 2000 Does technology influence what we write?

How do the tools that you use for writing influence what you write? Alan Liu researches this relation between technology and writing. He argues that our reading and writing is part of “discourse network 2000”. We structure our knowledge...
By Kimberley Spreeuwenberg on 10/15/09 2

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
A review of: Blogging

A review of: Blogging

Blogging is written by Jill Walker Rettberg. She is a blogger her self. On her blog she presents her self as “an associate professor at the University of Bergen, and I do research on how people tell stories online.”...
By Suzanne Schram on 09/17/09 Comments Off on A review of: Blogging

BOOK REVIEW ‘say everything’ by Scott Rosenberg

Rosenberg, a former newspaper journalist and co-founder of Salon.com, gave himself the difficult task of recounting the history of blogging and – as the subtitle indicates – providing an idea of what’s to come and ‘why it matters.’
By Kimberley Spreeuwenberg on 09/17/09 1