Institute of Network Cultures Blog
Everyone is a Designer – In the Age of Social Media
Posted on Tuesday, 6 July 2010, 7:51 am by margreet
Everyone is a Designer – In the Age of Social Media by Mieke Gerritzen and Geert Lovink (Juni 2010) Everyone Is a Designer in the Age of Social Media presents the Choice Generation of 2010. Looking back at the first edition of Everyone Is a Designer in 2000, when we proposed the idea of democratization of [...]Vito Campanelli – Web Aesthetics, How Digital Media Affect Culture and Society
Posted on Friday, 2 July 2010, 9:48 am by margreet
Available November 2010 Vito Campanelli – Web Aesthetics, How Digital Media Affect Culture and Society Design: Studio Léon & Loes, Paperback, 392 pages, 14 x 21 cm English edition, ISBN 978-90-5662-770-6, € 23.50 In association with NAiPublishers Web AestheticsWe live in a world of rapidly evolving digital networks, but within the domain of media theory, which studies the influence of these cultural [...]Recent pictures
Culture Vortex
Final report
Posted on Thursday, 1 July 2010, 12:46 pm by lorenazevedei
The Public 2.0 research as a first activity of the Programme line with the same name has come to an end. This three months research has been initiated in order to answer some vital questions related to the media art collections of NIMk and the groups of users that use this collection. 1. How do users [...]Discussion with the non-professionals
Posted on Tuesday, 29 June 2010, 9:40 pm by lorenazevedei
Culture Vortex is an innovation program to encourage public participation in online cultural collections. networkcultures.org/culturevortex/Wikipedia, Critical Point of View
Interview with Felipe Ortega
Posted on Wednesday, 21 July 2010, 8:46 am by julianabrunello
As a computer scientist and engineer you could have chosen among many different objects of study, why Wikipedia? For 3 reasons: Firstly, at that time (2005) it was very clear for me that Wikipedia was a new Internet phenomenon, a flagship initiative, one that would play a key role in the [...]Dare to Quote! On Zizek and Wikipedia
Posted on Thursday, 15 July 2010, 1:57 pm by geert
Reading Slavoj Zizek's 2010 Living in the End Times book, I noticed the author quoting Wikipedia a number of times. No big deal, you would say but it is significant in the light of the ongoing controversy around Wikipedia as a reliable (academic) source. Zizek is considered a leading intellectual, and arguably Europe's most famous [...]net critique by Geert Lovink
Cia Guo-Qiang’s Romantic Resolution of the Peasant Question
Posted on Sunday, 18 July 2010, 1:21 pm by geert
Shanghai’s State of the Creative Arts at the Opening of the Rockbund Art Museum The Rockbund Art Museum, situated on the Northern tip of the Shanghai Bund area, opened May 2010 in conjunction with the 2010 Shanghai World Expo (expected visitors 70 million). The museum is part of a redevelopment area and is housed in the [...]Report of Transit Labour Asia in Shanghai
Posted on Sunday, 18 July 2010, 10:26 am by geert
Next posting on this blog was written during a visit to Shanghai (July 8-11, 2010) as a result of the Transit Labour Asia research platform, an Australian-European-Asian coalition of scholars, artists and cultural workers who focus on urban issues, migration and new media (arts). Their first stop was Shanghai, next ones will be Kalkota and [...]
