Posts Tagged: Unlike Us!

Romanian review of the Unlike Us reader

By vince, September 3, 2013

Review by George Hari Popescu, assistant professor at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication Studies from the University of  Bucharest, Romania. I tried to get out of Facebook a few times. It was an excruciating process which ended with a failure every single time. Mark Z.’s buddies held on to me for a whole [...]

Marc Stumpel & Tobias Leingruber – Facebook Resistance Workshop

By serenawestra, March 25, 2013

Marc Stumpel and Tobias Leingruber organized the Facebook Resistance workshop for Unlike Us on Friday evening at the Studio HvA. Marc Stumpel is a new media researcher form Amsterdam and has been involved with Unlike Us from the outset. He is part of the Facebook Resistance project and has written about Facebook Resistance for the [...]
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Call for videos! Unlike Us conference

By Larissa Hildebrandt, January 7, 2013

The Institute of Network Cultures is looking for people interested in submitting a short video (maximum 3 minutes) to be screened at the upcoming Unlike Us conference in Amsterdam (March 22-23). All videos are meant to be screened at the following session: Are you Distributed? The Federated Web Show The best way to criticize platform [...]
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Save the Date! Unlike Us: March 22-23, 2013 in Amsterdam

By Larissa Hildebrandt, November 22, 2012

The Institute of Network Cultures is happy to announce the second Amsterdam edition of the Unlike Us conference, taking place March 22nd and 23rd, 2013 at TrouwAmsterdam. This year, the new MediaLAB Amsterdam will also be used as a community space with workshops. In the coming weeks, ticket sales will commence. Keep checking the ‘Amsterdam 2013’ tab on [...]
CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS: Unlike Us Reader: Understanding Social Media Monopolies...

Call for contributions: Unlike Us Reader

By serenawestra, May 21, 2012

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS: Unlike Us Reader: Understanding Social Media Monopolies and their Alternatives INTRODUCTION Following the success of the previous INC readers we would like to propose to put together a reader with key texts (see under below for possible topics). Anthology (print, pdf, epub) produced by the Institute of Network Cultures in collaboration with [...]

Unlike Us! #1 Session 2 – Oliver Leistert and Marc Stumpel

By reiniervriend, November 25, 2011

In the second session of the Unlike US! meeting, Oliver Leistert and Marc Stumpel addressed the entity that is rapidly becoming synonymous with the term social media: Facebook. As the giant among other platforms like Twitter, Youtube and such, Facebook seems to singlehandedly dictate the list of issues raised by the Unlike Us! network in [...]