INC Readers

The INC Reader series are derived from conference contributions and available in print and pdf form.

Incommunicado Reader
The Incommunicado Reader brings together papers written for the June 2005 event, and includes a CD-ROM of interviews with speakers. Geert Lovink and Soenke Zehle (eds.), Incommunicado Reader, Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2005. ISBN: 90-78146-01-X.

The Art and Politics of Netporn
C’Lick Me: A Netporn Studies Reader is an anthology that collects the best material from two years of debate from The Art and Politics of Netporn 2005 conference to the 2007 C’Lick Me festival. Katrien Jacobs, Marije Janssen and Matteo Pasquinelli (eds.), C’Lick Me: A Netporn Studies Reader, Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2007. ISBN: 978-90-78146-03-2

MyCreativity
The MyCreativity Reader is a collection of critical research into the creative industries. The material develops out of the MyCreativity Convention on International Creative Industries Research held in Amsterdam, November 2006. Geert Lovink and Ned Rossiter (eds.), MyCreativity Reader: A Critique of Creative Industries, Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2007. ISBN: 987-90-78146-04-9.

Video Vortex, responses to YouTube
The Video Vortex Reader is the first collection of critical texts to deal with the rapidly emerging world of online video – from its explosive rise in 2005 with YouTube, to its future as a significant form of personal media. Geert Lovink and Sabine Niederer (eds.), Video Vortex Reader: Responses to YouTube, Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2008. ISBN: 978-90-78146-05-6.

Studies in Network Cultures

This book series, edited by Geert Lovink, is a collaboration between the Institute of Network Cultures (INC) and NAi Publishers.

Delusive Spaces
The formerly open terrain of the new media is closing fast: market concentration, legal consolidation and tightening governmental control have effectively ended the myth of the new media networks as the home of the free. The object of this book is not simply to critique these conditions. Eric Kluitenberg, Delusive Spaces: Essays on Culture, Media and Technology, NAi Publishers, Rotterdam and the Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam, 2007. ISBN 978-90-5662-617-4.

Organized Networks
The celebration of network cultures as open, decentralized, and horizontal all too easily forgets the political dimensions of labour and life in informational times. Organized Networks sets out to destroy these myths by tracking the antagonisms that lurk within Internet governance debates, the exploitation of labour in the creative industries, and the aesthetics of global finance capital. Ned Rossiter, Organized Networks: Media Theory, Creative Labour, New Institutions, NAi Publishers, Rotterdam and the Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam, 2006. ISBN 90-5662-526-8.

Networked Notebooks

Network Notebooks presents new media research commissioned by the INC. Available free in print and pdf form. Edited by Geert Lovink and Sabine Niederer.

Technobohemians or the new Cybertariat?
This INC commissioned research goes beyond contemporary myths to explore how people working in the field experience the pleasures, pressures and challenges of working on the web. Rosalind Gill, Technobohemians or the new Cybertariat? New media work in Amsterdam a decade after the web, Network Notebooks 01, Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam, 2007. ISBN: 978-90-78146-02-5.

Online Magazines

Cut-up Issue 20: The Art and Poltics of Netporn
In cooperation with the Institute of Network Cultures, online magazine cut-up has produced an issue on The Art and Politics of Netporn. Bas van Heur (ed.), The Art and Politics of Netporn, issue #20 (2005).

Cut-up Issue 32: Databodies
In co-operation with the INC and the Databodies research group, online magazine cut-up produced a ‘Databodies’ issue about the social consequences of profiling, tagging and security. Contributors include: Richard Rogers, Sabine Niederer, Loes Sikkes, Michael Stevenson, Jasper Moes, and Esther Weltevrede. Theo Ploeg (ed.), Databodies, issue #32 (2006), cut-up.

First Monday: Urban Screens
In February 2006, peer-reviewed Internet journal First Monday published this special issue on urban screens. Contributors include: Anthony Auerbach, Giselle Beiguelman, Pieter Boeder, Vera Bühlmann, Wael Fahmi, Ava Fatah, Raina Kumra, Paul Martin Lester, Lev Manovich, Scott McQuire, Rekha Murthy, Julia Nevárez, Tore Slaatta, Mirjam Struppek and Kate Taylor. Pieter Boeder and Mirjam Struppek (eds.), Urban Screens: discovering the potential of outdoor screens for urban society, issue #4 (2005), First Monday.

Newspapers

54.780 Woorden over Nieuwe Media Cultuur in Nederland
We hebben twintig mediatheoretici, wetenschappers en publicisten gevraagd om vanuit hun eigen discipline te beschrijven wat er in Nederland zoal gebeurt op het gebied van nieuwe media. Het resultaat is een lappendeken van bijdragen waarin wordt geput uit praktijk én theorie.

The Creativity
The Creativity is a free accidental newspaper dedicated to the anonymous creative worker. The Creativity was produced by Sandberg Institute, the Institute of Network Cultures (Hogeschool van Amsterdam) and the Centre for Media Research (University of Ulster). The newspaper was officially presented at the MyCreativity convention on creative industries research, which took place 16-18 November 2007, in Amsterdam.

Geert Lovink’s publications

Zero Comments
In this third volume of his studies into critical Internet culture, following the influential Dark Fiber and My First Recession, Lovink develops a ‘general theory of blogging.’ Unlike most critiques of blogging, Lovink is not focusing here on the dynamics between bloggers and the mainstream news media, but rather unpacking the ways that blogs exhibit a ‘nihilist impulse’ to empty out established meaning structures. Geert Lovink, Zero Comments: Blogging and Critical Internet Culture, New York: Routledge, 2007. ISBN: 978-04-1597-315-1.

The Art of Free Cooperation
This book takes an inventory of the art of collaborative practice, surveys the landscape of new, cooperation-enhancing technologies, and renders the inner workings of cooperative processes as a new model for social movements. Civic participation is on the decline, but, online, more people work together than ever before. Geert Lovink and Trebor Scholz (eds), The Art of Free Cooperation, New York: Autonomedia, 2007. ISBN: 978-15-7027-177-9.

The Principle of Notworking
Inaugural speech at the Hogeschool van Amsterdam, february 2005, with three chapters on multitude, network and culture, the theory of free cooperation and the dawn of the organized networks. Geert Lovink, The Principle of Notworking: Concepts in Critical Internet Culture, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2005.

My First Recession
My First Recession starts when the party is over. This study maps the transition of critical Internet culture from the mid-to-late 1990s Internet craze to the dotcom crash, the subsequent meltdown of global financial markets, and 9/11. Geert Lovink, My First Recession: Critical Internet Culture in Transition, Rotterdam: V2_NAi Publishers, 2003. ISBN: 90-5662-353-2.

Uncanny Networks
A collection of interviews with new media artists, theorists and critics from East and West-Europe, USA and Asia who reflect on their concepts and practices. It provides a critical context of ideas, networks and artworks that have shaped the past decade. Geert Lovink, Uncanny Networks: Dialogues with the Virtual Intelligentsia, Cambridge: MIT Press, 2002. ISBN: 0262621878.

Dark Fiber
In Dark Fiber, Lovink combines aesthetic and ethical concerns and issues of navigation and usability without ever losing sight of the cultural and economic agendas of those who control hardware, software, content, design, and delivery. Geert Lovink, Dark Fiber: Tracking Critical Internet Culture, Cambridge: MIT Press, 2002. ISBN: 0262621800.