On 28 - 30 June 2007, the INC and Media Studies, University of Amsterdam and the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, organized the international conference New Network Theory. The object of study has shifted from the virtual community and the space of flows to the smart mob. When the object of study changes, so may the distinctions that dominate, particularly the schism between place-based space and place-less space, both organized and given life by networks. New Network Theory explored contemporary network theory that suits and reflects the changes to the objects of study that come to define our understandings of network culture – a post-Castellsian network theory, if you will, that takes technical media seriously.

In this archive you will find all the documentation on the New Network Theory conference.

website

Official conference website

blog posts

The New Network Theory has been blogged by the UvA Masters of Media.

publications

• Alice Verheij - The influence of informal networks on social care in the internet age [pdf]
• New Network Theory reader [pdf]
• Florian Cramer - “Text” and “Network”, Reconsidered [txt]
• Olga Goriunova - Towards a new critique of network cultures: creativity, autonomy and late capitalism in the constitution of cultural forms on the Internet [txt]

photos

Conference photography by Anne Helmond and other contributors at the New Network Theory Flickr group

video

Video documentation of the plenary sessions is available at the UvA media site.