Institute of Network Cultures Blog
Siva Vaidhyanathan in Vrij Nederland
Posted on Wednesday, 3 February 2010, 1:17 pm by margreet
Naar aanleiding van de Society of the Query conferentie, die gehouden is in november 2009, is er een interessant interview afgenomen met Siva Vaidhyanathan voor Vrij Nederland. Siva is de auteur van het boek ‘the Googlization of Everything‘ dat momenteel geschreven wordt. Een boek over één bedrijf, Google, een volledige cultuur, economie en community kan veranderen [...]Critical Point of View: Wikipedia research conference 26-27 March
Posted on Monday, 1 February 2010, 2:28 pm by sabine
Critical Point of View Second international conference of the CPOV Wikipedia Research Initiative Practical Info Date: 26-27 March 2010 Location: OBA (Public Library Amsterdam, next to Amsterdam central station), Oosterdokskade 143, Amsterdam Organized by: Institute of Network Cultures Amsterdam, and Centre for Internet and Society Bangalore, India. Website: www.networkcultures.org/cpov Conference program: http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/cpov/program/amsterdam-program/ Discussion List: http://p10. […]Recent pictures
Wikipedia, Critical Point of View
Short summary and review from Joseph Reagle’s “In good faith…”
Posted on Tuesday, 2 February 2010, 11:09 am by julianabrunello
Wikipedia: Collaborative Culture and the Fulfillment of a Vision Short summary and review of Joseph Reagle's dissertation "In Good Faith: Wikipedia Collaboration and the Pursuit of the Universal Encyclopedia". (http://reagle.org/joseph/2008/03/dsrtn-in-good-faith. New York (NY), 2008). By Juliana Brunello Reagle's introduction is somewhat unclear about the central quest of his dissertation. After reading his essay and re-reading the [...]Interview with Erinc Salor
Posted on Tuesday, 2 February 2010, 10:21 am by julianabrunello
Interview with Erinc Salor, 20.01.2010 By Juliana Brunello Erinc Salor and Joseph Reagle have something in common: One is writing and the other has already written a PhD thesis using a historical perspective to explain Wikipedia. Their backgrounds are completely different [...]net critique by Geert Lovink
Rapid Response (rr:) on List Culture and Web 2.0
Posted on Tuesday, 2 February 2010, 4:51 pm by geert
Email interview with Geert Lovink, by Rasa Smite (February 2, 2010) Q1. What was your motivation to found Nettime mailinglist back in 1995? The background story can be found in the nettime chapter of my book Dark Fiber. I don’t have much to add to the story that wrote back in 2001. Q2. How you would define Nettime [...]Web 2.0 interview with me by Victoria Lynn for Broadsheet
Posted on Sunday, 31 January 2010, 9:16 am by geert
In October the Australian curator Victoria Lynn came to Amsterdam to work on her PhD research. Her topic is the role of archives in visual arts and new media. We did a tour and visited the new Amsterdam municipal archive, the new facilities of the University of Amsterdam special collections and the International Institute of [...]Society of the Query
Googolopoly
Posted on Wednesday, 3 February 2010, 3:08 pm by Shirley Niemans
Internet board game from box.netNYU graduate class goes ‘A week without Google’
Posted on Wednesday, 3 February 2010, 2:47 pm by Shirley Niemans
NYU professor Mushon Zer Aviv and his graduate class in (new) Media (networked) Culture and (distributed) Communication met quite a challenge this past week as the class assignment was to live and work for a full week without using any Google service. Read about the assignment, the rules and the outcomes on http://cultureandcommunication.org/tdm/s10/admin/a-week-without-google/, and be [...]
