Institute of Network Cultures Blog
Research and Tools for Design Processes
Posted on Wednesday, 19 November 2008, 10:52 am by sabine
Our colleagues in Rotterdam have launched the alpha version of a portal of methods and tools which can be used throughout the user-centered design process. The research department (’lectoraat’) at Communication and Multimedia Design at the Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences, with research professor Ingrid Mulder, has worked on this toolkit with a research group [...]Report of Deep Search: The Digital Future of Finding Out // Part 2
Posted on Saturday, 15 November 2008, 12:52 pm by shirley
part 1 Session 2: Search Engines and Power Theo Röhle – Dissecting the Gatekeepers Theo Röhle is a PhD candidate in media culture at Hamburg University. His dissertation seeks to establish Actor-Network-Theory (ANT) and Foucauldian concepts of power within search engine research. Where does the power of search engines exist? One position of power is established in everyday discourse [...]Recent pictures
net critique by Geert Lovink
TU Delft Inaugural Speech of xs4all Professor Milton Mueller
Posted on Wednesday, 22 October 2008, 1:55 pm by geert
On Friday October 17 2008 US Internet governance expert Milton Mueller held his inaugural speech as XS4all Professor at Technical University Delft (The Netherlands). I took the train from Amsterdam to attend the event. The text will be available in a little while, as a booklet, and hopefully online as well, but I will give [...]Zittrain’s Foundational Myth of the Open Internet
Posted on Sunday, 12 October 2008, 1:06 pm by geert
A Critique of Jonathan Zittrain, The Future of the Internet–and How to Stop It, Yale University Press, 2008 Jonathan Zittrain’s Future of the Internet is based on a myth. Zittrain needs a foundational myth of the Internet in order to praise it’s past openness and warn for a future lockdown of PCs and mobile phones. From [...]
