Unlike Us Reader available in ePub format

By Silvio Lorusso, June 25, 2013

The ePub version of the Unlike Us Reader is available! It can be downloaded here and on the publication page. This e-book represents the first experimental attempt to provide more digital versions of INC Readers, like ePub. Comments and suggestions are welcome. Please write to miriam@networkcultures.org.

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 [...]

Unlike Us #3 Conference Report

By serenawestra, June 5, 2013

We have completed a conference report about Unlike Us #3; it is a great summary of the project. The report consists of an overview of the key results, the program of the conference and all the research and conference blogposts concerning the project. The file is in English. In case you are interested, you can [...]

Unlike Us: Looking Ahead

By Andrew Erlanger, April 25, 2013

It’s been an exciting few years for the Unlike Us initiative, with three conferences, a published reader, an iPad magazine and countless blog posts. Adopting a unique perspective that combines artistic, academic and activistic elements, both social media monopolies and their decentralized alternatives have been analysed in great detail. With Unlike Us #3 having drawn to a close, [...]

Unlike Us #3 – The Videos

By Andrew Erlanger, April 24, 2013

Unlike Us #3 is now online! If you missed out on this year’s conference or would like to experience it again, be sure to check out our Vimeo channel, where each presentation can be viewed in its entirety: https://vimeo.com/channels/unlikeus3 Taking place in Amsterdam from the 22nd to the 23rd of March, Unlike Us #3 featured [...]

Social-R-Us – Unlike Us #3 Party

By serenawestra, March 27, 2013

The second conference day of Unlike Us #3 ended with a smashing party at Op de Valreep. Op de Valreep used to be an old animal shelter, but the building functions now as a squat with a big variety of cultural, political, and social events. It appeared to be the perfect – although a bit [...]

Bernard Stiegler – From Neuropower to Noopolitics

By Katía Truijen, March 26, 2013

Unlike Us #3 has begun, and we start immediately with the very essence of social media, namely the conception of ‘the social’, and how this is transformed by social media today. Before we will zoom in to the practices of e.g. the Facebook Demetricator and Anti-Social Media later today, we are now still zoomed out, [...]

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 [...]

Simona Levi – Tactics 2.0: Learn in the Net, Act Everywhere

By Andrew Erlanger, March 25, 2013

The tools of the web pose unique opportunities to transform overarching political structures, spawning real and positive change at a fundamental level. Rounding out the second day of Unlike Us #3, Spanish activist Simona Levi took the stage to reflect on what we’ve learned from the internet and how this might be extrapolated to all [...]

Simone Halink – The Non-Transparency Report

By freyjavandenboom, March 25, 2013

Since our lives increasingly take place online we leave behind all sorts of personal data about what we like, what we do and where we are. This might not be of concern to those who claim they have nothing to hide but most of us, though perhaps not as much as those who joined Project [...]