Unlike Us: Understanding Social Media Monopolies and their Alternatives
Unlike Us: What to expect in 2012
Posted on Thursday, 5 January 2012, 4:57 pm by marcstumpel
2011 was an exciting year with the Occupy movement, Facebook’s settlement with FTC’s charges, Europe versus Facebook, decentralized social media alternatives developing, critical social media art, more awareness about tracking and a significant wave of criticism after Facebook’s new changes. Moreover, the Unlike Us research network was launched at the Cyprus University of Technology, Limassol, [...]Launch Speech -2- Geert Lovink (INC/HvA)
Posted on Wednesday, 14 December 2011, 7:09 pm by eratopishiara
Geert Lovink (representing the Institute of Network Cultures and Hogeschool van Amsterdam) in his opening speech referred to the Unlike Us Limassol event as the global launch of the research initiative of Unlike Us Network. Unlike us is an initiative which is about how and why social media bring us together. Going back, Lovink stated [...]Urban Screens
Screening the City video documentatie
Posted on Monday, 12 December 2011, 8:07 pm by margreet
De presentaties van Urban Screens 2011: Screening the City zijn geregistreerd en hieronder te bekijken. Dank aan alle sprekers voor hun bijdragen! 10.00 – 12.00u SLIMME STEDEN EN BEWONERS Joost Plattel THE QUANTIFIED SELF Leonieke Verhoog – FIGURERUNNING René van Engelenburg – DROPSTUFF 13.00 – 14.30u CONTENT OP LOCATIE Hermen Maat en [...]Light is like water
Posted on Monday, 12 December 2011, 5:49 pm by denisseiglesias
Andy Heminway is a San Antonio, Texas based photographer. The picture shown above is picked up from this work “Light Painting at the Abandoned Garage”. His canvas is an abandoned urban space, the medium is light in the form of some sort of graffiti, obtained from different bits of time and visually merged together. [...]Topologies of Value by Sebastian Olma
Appsterdam!
Posted on Monday, 23 January 2012, 7:58 pm by sebastiaanolma
A while ago I was sitting in café Latei across Klaas Speller who is one of the people running an initiative called Appsterdam. The name Appsterdam had been popping up for a while so I wanted to know what sort … Continue reading →Forget Knowledge!
Posted on Monday, 28 November 2011, 7:16 pm by sebastiaanolma
With reference to knowledge as factor of production there exists a serious problem. Since Peter Drucker’s first formulation of the knowledge economy thesis, forty years have passed in which the economic sciences have failed to produce an adequate theory of … Continue reading →Out of Ink
Interview with Alexandre Leray, Eduard Martínez Piracés, Eric Schrijver, Femke Snelting and Stéphanie Vilayphiou of Open Source Publishing
Posted on Sunday, 25 September 2011, 12:27 pm by Silvio Lorusso
Open Source Publishing is a design collective – or “caravan” – based in Brussels, but it includes people from all over the world. It was founded in 2006 and now it can even count on a second generation. OSP focuses on – just to mention a few things – free software culture, type design as [...]Hot100 2011 at PICNIC
Posted on Friday, 23 September 2011, 5:19 pm by margreet
For the fifth time, Virtueel Platform hosted the HOT100 sessions at the PICNIC Festival 2011 (14-16 Sept). HOT100 is a full day of lectures, masterclasses, workshops and networking opportunities for the most talented alumni from e-culture programs across the Netherlands. During this workshop INC and Publisher Valiz were one of the caseholders to bring up [...]Recent pictures
Institute of Network Cultures Blog
Word jij onze nieuwe collega?
Posted on Friday, 13 January 2012, 4:02 pm by margreet
Vacature Functie: projectmanager lectoraat Aantal fte: 0,6 Hay profiel: Projectmanager 4 Salarisschaal: 11 Sluitingsdatum: 29/01/2012 Het domein Media, Creatie en Informatie (DMCI) is onderdeel van de Hogeschool van Amsterdam en telt ruim 6.600 studenten en 425 medewerkers. Het domein, met een sterke crossmediale, mode en ICT-focus, is ambitieus en wil op alle fronten kwaliteit uitdragen. [...]the joy of books
Posted on Wednesday, 11 January 2012, 12:19 pm by margreet
net critique by Geert Lovink
Interview with Geert Lovink (by Krzysztof Gutfranski/Alternativa Editions)
Posted on Friday, 13 January 2012, 1:33 pm by geert
(Krzysztof Gutfranski is editor of Alternativa Editions in Gdansk (Poland) which is part of the visual arts festival Alternativa (hosted by the Wyspa Institute of Art) . The interview was conducted for the “Labour and Leisure” issue, with texts by Hannah Arendt, Miklos Haraszti, Cornelius Castoriadis, Boris Arvatov, Stanley Aronowitz, Yochai Benkler and others) KG: [...]Beyond ICT4D: New Media Research in Uganda (TOD #10)
Posted on Tuesday, 20 December 2011, 8:44 am by geert
http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/theoryondemand/titles/no-10-beyond-ict4d-new-media-reseach-in-uganda/ Beyond ICT4D: New Media Research in Uganda is a collection of ethnographic reports from diverse perspectives of those living at the other end of the African ICT pyramid. Crucially, these texts refocus on the so-called “ICT4D” debate away from the standard western lens, which depicts users in the developing world as passive receivers of [...]
