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.

Create-IT Applied Research is het kenniscentrum van het domein. Studenten en onderzoekers werken samen in uitdagende projecten op het gebied van media, mode en IT. Het centrum wordt gekenmerkt door een ondernemende instelling en multidisciplinaire aanpak. Het onderzoek vindt zoveel mogelijk plaats binnen de bedrijven en instellingen waarmee samengewerkt wordt, maar er zijn ook verschillende labs, waar nieuwe technologieën onderzocht kunnen worden en waar studenten (afstudeer)opdrachten uitvoeren.

In januari 2004 is bij op de opleiding Interactieve Media het lectoraat Interactieve Media in het Publieke Domein gestart, dat niet veel later werd omgevormd tot het Instituut voor Netwerkcultuur (INC). Het INC maakt inmiddels onderdeel uit van het Kenniscentrum Create-IT. Tot de werkzaamheden van het lectoraat behoren onderzoek, het organiseren van theoretisch onderwijs en het ontwikkelen en uitvoeren van een programma van seminars, conferenties, evenementen en publicaties ten behoeve van kennisontwikkeling en kennisoverdracht. Het lectoraat bestaat uit een team van 3 medewerkers: de lector en twee projectmanagers. We zoeken voor voor het INC een

inhoudelijk projectmanager lectoraat (0,6 fte)

De functie
• Initieert en schrijft projecten in de context van de onderzoeksagenda van het lectoraat;
• Schrijft subsidieaanvragen en verzorgt de documentatie voor de verantwoording aan subsidiegevers en sponsors;
• Draagt zorg voor een goede inbedding van de projecten in de organisatie, met een heldere toedeling van verantwoordelijkheden;
• Redigeert en beoordeelt teksten en werkt met auteurs aan manuscripten die bedoeld zijn voor een van de INC publicatiereeksen (zowel Nederlands als Engels);
• Is inhoudelijk sterk en in staat om de verbinding te maken met de verschillende gebieden van digitale cultuur, kunst en maatschappelijke relevantie te signaleren en te ontwikkelen;
• Organiseert samen met de andere projectmanager seminars, conferenties en andere bijeenkomsten in het kader van het lectoraat;
• Verzorgt de communicatie rond de activiteiten (onderhouden van contacten met de pers, persberichten, brochures, publicaties op de website en het intranet);
• Draagt regelmatig bij aan het blog van het lectoraat met inhoudelijke onderzoeksvraagstukken;
• Draagt samen met de andere projectmanager zorg voor een goede documentatie van de activiteiten en de resultaten van de project, ten behoeve van de kennisopbouw en -verspreiding.

Wij zoeken
• Op de hoogte van de ontwikkelingen in het vakgebied, in het bijzonder op het gebied van nieuwe media en netwerk-cultuur;
• Beheerst Engels in woord en geschrift op hoog niveau;
• Kan omgaan met de complexe onderwijsomgeving;
• Heeft aantoonbare ervaring in een vergelijkbare functie;
• Is flexibel, pro-actief, enthousiast en ondernemend;
• Beschikt over WO werk- en denkniveau.

Arbeidsvoorwaarden
Het betreft in eerste instantie een dienstverband voor een jaar. De werkzaamheden maken deel uit van de organieke functie projectmanager 4. De bij deze functie behorende loonschaal is schaal 11 (cao hbo). Het salaris bedraagt maximaal € 4.365,- bruto per maand bij een volledige aanstelling en is afhankelijk van opleiding en ervaring. De HvA kent een uitgebreid pakket aan secundaire arbeidsvoorwaarden, waaronder een ruime vakantieregeling en een 13e maand.

Informatie
Nadere informatie: Margreet Riphagen, via telefoonnummer: 020-5951866 of per e-mail: vacatures@hva.nl (niet gebruiken om te solliciteren).

Kijk voor meer informatie over het lectoraat op http://networkcultures.org en over het Create-IT op: http://www.create-it.hva.nl/

Sollicitaties
Klik op de link onderaan deze advertentie om online te solliciteren. Sollicitaties die rechtstreeks naar de contactpersoon of op een andere wijze worden verstuurd, worden niet verwerkt.

Bij de werving en selectie ter invulling van deze vacature, houden wij de NVP Sollicitatiecode aan. Acquisitie naar aanleiding van deze advertentie wordt niet op prijs gesteld.

http://www.hva.nl/over-de-hva/werken-bij-de-hva/vacatures/

10.00 – 12.00u SLIMME STEDEN EN BEWONERS
In deze openingsessie staan de randvoorwaarden van creatief gebruik van content in de stad centraal. Een slimme stad leert van hoe de bewoners en bezoekers van de stad gebruikmaken. Maar wat als bewoners direct toegang krijgen tot het ‘urban operating system? En hoe slim of speels gaan bewoners eigenlijk al met hun eigen stad om? Slimme Steden en Bewoners toont de mogelijkheden van de slimme stad en bewoners die hun data in eigen hand nemen.

Joost Plattel THE QUANTIFIED SELF

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Leonieke Verhoog - FIGURERUNNING

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René van Engelenburg – DROPSTUFF

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13.00 – 14.30u CONTENT OP LOCATIE
In Content op Locatie worden drie projecten gepresenteerd waarin mobiele technologie een rol speelt. Gebruikmakend van bestaand (audiovisueel) materiaal over de stad, zoals documentaires en archiefmateriaal, of uitgaande van publieksparticipatie op locatie, transformeren de hier gepresenteerde projecten de stad tot haar eigen portret.

Hermen Maat en Karen Lancel - SAVING FACE

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Jeffrey Braun en Billy Schonenberg -DOCS ON THE SPOT

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Robbert Ritmeester - HET WAS VROEGER VANDAAG

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15.00-17.00u DATA IN DE STAD
In de sessie Data in de Stad wordt de grootstedelijke drukte en overbelaste infrastructuur letterlijk in vogelvlucht bekeken. wat zijn de ritmes en patronen van ons dagelijks leven in de stad? En wie zitten er in ons land eigenlijk achter de knoppen van de infrastructuur en geavanceerde technologie die alles in goede banen leidt?

Frédérik Ruys - NEDERLAND VAN BOVEN

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WdKA - SHOWCASE ONDERWIJSPROJECTEN

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After Unlike Us #1 in Limassol. there is now Unlike Us #2 in Amsterdam. Unlike Us #2 will take place from 8-10, March, 2012 in TrouwAmsterdam.

Unlike Us #2 is the second event for Unlike Us, a research network of artists, designers, scholars, activists and programmers who work on ‘alternatives in social media’. Through workshops, conferences, online dialogues and publications, Unlike Us intends to both analyze the economic and cultural aspects of dominant social media platforms and to propagate the further development and proliferation of alternative, decentralized social media software. Unlike Us #2 focuses on how the facilitation of free exchanges and the commercial exploitation of social relationships, which lie at the heart of contemporary capitalism, belly social media. Next to speakers addressing this theme, several alternative media projects will be showcased.

Conference themes (9, 10 March): Social what? Defining the social, Artistic Responses to Social Media, The Private in the Public, Software Matters, Pitfalls of Building Social Media Alternatives, and Social Media Activism and the Critique of Liberation Technology.

Confirmed Speakers: David M. Berry (NO), Frederik Zuiderveen Borgesius (NL), Philipp Budka (AT), Thomas Chenesau (FR), Jodi Dean (USA), Carolin Gerlitz (UK), Seda Guerses (TR/BE), Anne Helmond (NL), Eva Illouz (IL), Walter Langelaar -Web 2.0 Suicide Machine- (NL), Ganaele Langlois (CA), Carlo v. Loesch/lynX -Secushare- (??), Alessandro Ludovico -Face-to-Facebook- (IT), Caroline Nevejan (NL), Arnold Roosendaal (NL),  Eleanor Saitta (USA), Max Schrems -Europe vs Facebook- (DE), Elijah Sparrow -Crabgrass- (USA), Spideralex -Lorea- (ES), James Vasile -Freedombox- (USA) and Dylan Wittkower (USA).

Showcasing Alternatives in Social Media (8 March): The best way to criticize platform monopolies is to support alternative free and open source software that can be locally installed. There are currently a multitude of decentralized social networks in the making that aspire to facilitate users with greater power to define for themselves with whom share their data. Let us look into the wildly different initiatives from Lorea Spideralex (ES), Secushare Carlo v. Loesch/lynX (??), Crabgrass Elijah Sparrow (USA) and Freedombox  James Vasile (USA).

If you an interesting project or work to showcase on March 8, please send us a description (marc[at]networkcultures.org). Please note that we are interested in critical conversations, not in ‘sales pitches’.

Today, the Glitch Moment(um), INC Network Notebook #4 was officially launched at STEIM, Amsterdam.

In this book, Rosa Menkman, Dutch visualist, theorist and curator makes sense of recent glitch art and culture: technically, culturally, critically, aesthetically and finally as a genre. Menkman brings in early information theorists not usually encountered in glitch’s theoretical foundations to refine a signal and informational vocabulary appropriate to glitch’s technological moment(um) and orientations.

The glitch takes on a different form in relation to noise, failure or the accident. It transitions between artifact and filter; between radical breakages and commodification processes. Menkman shows how we need to be clearer about the relationship between the technical and cultural dimensions of glitch culture. Honing in on the specificities of glitch artifacts within this broader perspective makes it possible to think through some of the more interesting implications of glitched media experience. Using a critical media aesthetic orientation, Menkman addresses the ongoing definitional tensions, paradoxes, and debates that any notion of glitch art as a genre must negotiate, rather than elude.

The release of the Glitch Moment(um) is the kickoff of the GLI.TC/H Festival 2011 in Amsterdam at STEIM and PLANETART. GLI.TC/H 2011 is an International Noise && [DIRTY] New Media Event that includes works from over 100 participants from more than a dozen countries, taking place in virtual-space at http://gli.tc/h and in real-space from Nov 3 - 6 in Chicago, US; Nov 11 - 12 in Amsterdam, NL; Nov 19 in Birmingham, UK.

The GLI.TC/H 2011 event has been successfully crowdfunded on Kickstarter. Following the 2010 festival in Chicago, GLI.TC/H brings together those inspired, curious or provoked by glitches and provides an open platform to break things, share work and wares, an develop ideas. Thinkers and artists; makers and breakers converge to celebrate technological catastrophe.

GLI.TC/H is an open community that brings people together in panels, discussions, workshops and performances. There is no single definition of Glitch. In the book, however, Menkman delineates and explores technical, social and community based definitions of glitching. Cultural and technical flows and functions are designed to be taken for granted, but cannot be understood without interruptions of noise, feedback, and compression. Erroneous and/or intentionally created artifacts.

Glitch is becoming a prominent area of study and The Glitch Moment(um) is a an essential starting point for understanding Glitch art and culture.

Download The Glitch Moment(um) PDF.

Locatie: STEIM, Achtergracht 19, 1017 WL Amsterdam
Datum: vrijdag 11 november  2011
Aanvang: 13.00uur
Toegang: gratis
Programme: in English

Op 11 en 12 november vindt in PLANETART en STEIM (Amsterdam) een uitgebreid programma over GLITCH Art plaats als onderdeel van het internationale New-Media Event GLI.TC/H 2011. Het programma omvat realtime performances, video screenings, workshops, lectures, offline en online panels en een tentoonstelling. Ook onderdeel van deze manifestatie is de presentatie/boeklancering van het Network Notebook 'The Glitch moment(um)', een uitgave van het INC, geschreven door Rosa Menkman, visualist, theorica en curator.

Een glitch is 'een moment van storing' dat ieder uit het dagelijks leven kent maar meestal niet positief waardeert. In New-media Art wordt de glitch opgevat als een breekpunt dat nieuwe perspectieven opent. Recente teksten, werken en experimenten in glitch art tonen het potentieel om kritische verbanden aan te geven met onze (steeds meer gemedieerde) digitale cultuur.

De conferentie van 2010 (Chicago/USA) bracht divers samengestelde communities van wetenschappers, kunstenaars en geïnteresseerden uit vele plekken van de wereld bijeen. Zij toonden hun werk, deelden hun ideeën en   discussieerden. De uitkomsten van deze gesprekken en connecties zijn in het afgelopen jaar steeds verder ontwikkeld. GLI.TC/H 2011 wil deze glitchy ontwikkelingen een podium bieden door werk te tonen, ideeën te stimuleren en GLITCH te vieren in een niet te stoppen multi-city event, aangestoken door chaotische communities en enthousiaste deelnemers bestaand uit zowel wetenschappers als kunstenaars.

"What does the future hold for the Digital Publishing Industries?"

Watch here the videoreport of the inspiring afternoon.

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about the event: The HOT100 is Virtueel Platform's special talent program for new graduates in e-culture curricula. E-culture includes the fairly recent disciplines of interaction design, game design, media and electronic arts, and social media communication in parallel with digitally informed processes and artefacts from older cultural disciplines such as architecture, film and performing arts.

HOT100 during PICNIC brings together and highlights the most promising 2011 graduates from Dutch art academies, universities and universities of applied science in the fields of design, arts, theory, communication or development skills.

HOT100 also connects this upcoming generation with more established organisations and institutions that undertake interesting work in the field of e-culture. In the afternoon seven strategic questions and issues will be presented to the HOT100 by the VPRO, the Amsterdam Public Library (OBA), the Boijmans van Beuningen Museum, Dropstuff with NIMk and Hermen Maat, the Institute of Network Cultures with publisher Valiz, NOSop3 and Virtueel Platform itself. These questions serve as case studies in seven pressure cooker workshops that should lead to design solutions or input for new operational directions for the questioners. Later in the year all these organisations will invite the HOT100 graduates to visit to their workplaces and see what has happened with their input.

credits: Moderator: Joep Kuijper. Caseholders: Publisher Valiz, Pia Pol and INC. Camera and editing: Versch Vet, Anke Noorman. Camera: Silvio Lorusso. Virtueel Platform, Merel Willemsen and Klaas Kuitenbrouwer.

special thanks: René Bosch | self employed artist and photographer | www.renebosch.com
Vera van der Lubbe | gamer and loves to sing
Inge Maassen | freelance web & graphic designer, usability | www.mrswhite.nl
Inge Nahuis | communication and multimedia designer | www.ingenahuis.nl
Jeroen Peeters | interdisciplinary designer | www.jeroenpeeters.com
Anja Schenkels | creative internet and multimedia expert who loves to write
Billy Schonenberg | design is storytelling | www.billy.nl
Stefan Terwijn | developing interactive children's books | miraclebooks.blogspot.com
Daniel van der Zeeuw (A.K.A. Varvaras) | Conspiracy theorist and para politician  | www.varvaras.net

Download here the HOT100 program booklet.

Yet do-it-yourself quite often results in less than average outcomes - we
aren't all born as those qualified editors, graphic designers and
marketeers who traditionally play important roles in publishing a work.
This research therefore focuses on publishers of academic, theoretical,
and design-oriented work in the Netherlands to see how they are
confronting these massive upheavals in their trade. It will trace each
step of the publishing process and examine choices on copyright and
licensing restrictions. Are publishers experimenting with alternative
modes of publishing and licenses? How do they feel towards levels of
openness (free downloadable pdfs and epubs, reusable content,
non-traditional legal licenses, even open source software)? Another
critical component is to decipher if and how these changes in digital
technologies and workflow are bringing about entirely new forms of
long-format scholarly, intellectual, and visual communication.

Our research methods will be conducted via online questionnaires and by
personal interviews with publishing house representatives. We aim to
document and report our findings as a publication of INC’s own publishing
series.

» Out of Ink blog

Out of Ink: Future Publishing Industries is a project by the Institute of Network Cultures.

Supervision: Geert Lovink, Margreet Riphagen.

Research and interviews: Lily Antflick, Morgan Currie, Silvio Lorusso.

The Institute of Network Cultures wishes you a great summer! We are closed from the 22^nd of July and back on the 22^nd of August.

In this newsletter you can read more about:

Networks Without a Cause, A Critique of Social Media, by Geert Lovink (forthcoming February 2012)
Video Vortex #7, Yogyakarta, Indonesia | 18-21 July 2011
Video Vortex summerschool at University of Split, Academy of Arts | 22-31 August 2011
Theory on Demand research update
Urban Screens, Interactive Public Space, research program
New INC Research Network: Unlike Us - Understanding Social Media Monopolies and their Alternatives | Forthcoming two events | Amsterdam and Cyprus | February 2012

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Networks Without a Cause, A Critique of Social Media, by Geert Lovink

Beginning 2012 Geert’s latest book Networks Without a Cause is expected. It examines our collective obsession with identity and self-management coupled with the fragmentation and information overload endemic to contemporary online culture. With the vast majority of Facebook users caught in a frenzy of friending’, ‘liking’ and ‘commenting’, at what point do we pause to grasp the consequences of our info-saturated lives? What compels us to engage so diligently with social networking systems? With a dearth of theory on the social and cultural ramifications of hugely popular online services, Geert provides a path- breaking critical analysis of our over-hyped, networked world with case studies on search engines, online video, blogging, digital radio, media activism and the WikiLeaks saga.

This book offers a powerful message to media practitioners and theorists: let us collectively unleash our critical capacities to influence technology design and workspaces; otherwise we will disappear into the cloud. Probing but never pessimistic, Geert draws from his long history in media research to offer a critique of the political structures and conceptual powers embedded in the technologies that shape our daily lives.

Publisher: Polity Press 2012 and design: Studio Leon Loes.

Anticipating on the publication of this book, a series of videos have been made where Geert discusses his book. http://www.vimeo.com/album/1626182

Videos produced by Linda Wallace. Camera and editing: Emile Zile. Interviewer: Morgan Currie.

More information:

http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/weblog/2011/06/27/networks-without-a-cause/

Videos:

http://www.vimeo.com/album/1626182

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Video Vortex #7, Yogyakarta, Indonesia | 18-21 July 2011

Indonesia has seen an explosion of video practices and organizations since the arrival of affordable platforms for production and distribution. To date, much vital work has been done – in ground-up networks devoted to art and digital culture, social activism and participatory media – to survey this diverse activity, its growing purchase on the public sphere, and the challenges faced.

But as DV is absorbed into the mainstream media-scape, what are the crucial technical, social and aesthetic strategies for the politics of video going forward? What are the exemplary videos, who are the video-makers, and organizations, and why? And what histories have shaped the medium that has yet to be written into the discussion? This 4 day festival gathers key thinkers from diverse constituencies in Indonesia, and innovative practitioners from abroad, to exchange and discuss the discourse on video in Indonesia beyond overviews.

Project Partners & Hosts: House of Natural Fiber, Yogyakarta [HONF], Video Vortex (Institute of Network Cultures), Amsterdam [VV], Forum Lenteng, Jakarta [FL], KUNCI Cultural Studies Center, Yogyakarta [KUNCI], Indonesian Visual Art Archive, Yogyakarta [IVAA], ruangrupa and OK Video Festival, Jakarta [ruru], Engage Media, Jakarta [EM], Langgeng Art Foundation, Yogyakarta [LAF], Kedai Kebun Forum, Yogyakarta [KKF], Yogyakarta Documentary Film Festival [FFD].

This festival is supported by: Ford Foundation, Goethe-Institut Indonesien and the Institute of Network Cultures from the SIA RAAK program Culture Vortex.

More information:

http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/videovortex/7-yogyakarta-2

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Video Vortex summerschool at University of Split, Academy of Arts | 22-31 August 2011

We would like to invite you and your students to participate in the Video Vortex summer school Vis, 22-31 August 2011. This is the first year that a summer school is being organized as part of the international Video Vortex network. The aim of the project is to establish a European summer school and future joint study programs in the fields of film, media arts, performance and cultural theory.

The following Universities will be involved: Sint Lucas Art Academy of Gent, Belgium, Sussex University of Brighton, School of Media, Film and Music, UK, University of Nova Gorica, School of Arts, Slovenia, University of Zagreb, Academy of Dramatic Arts, Croatia, University of Rijeka, Academy of Aplied Arts, Croatia, and the University of Split, Academy of Arts, Croatia.

We expect to have 2-4 students from each university. All together, around 20 students and 10 teachers are expected. The invited teachers should select some of their students to participate in the workshop. Structure of the workshop is that students work in couples of groups. For example, one group will be working in the field as a mobile film-media crew and another group will be assembling and editing materials and/or putting it online. Other groups or individuals can develop their own work methods or they can work exclusively with online moving image. There will also be a small film set and the production of a couple of scenes for a feature film will be taking place. We will have underwater cameras and motion capture control, lighting and sound equipment. Each day there will be a conceptual round table centered on planning the next day of production. Each evening we will also have one presentation or lecture by one of the teachers. At the end of the workshop we will have presentations in the local cinema and on about 10 plasma televisions placed around the town of Komiza.

More information:

http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/weblog/2011/07/15/video-vortex-summer-school-at-university-of-split-academy-of-arts/

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Theory on Demand research update

During the last two months several implementations took place at the INC. All the readers are now available both on Issuu and Scribd. The two platforms gave great results in terms of reading and downloading: since the half of June the publications were read more than 3.000 on Scribd, while more than 2.700 on Issuu. Critical Point of View: A Wikipedia Reader, the most recent INC publication, was downloaded 58 times from Scribd.

Also, in order to adopt open standards, we began to test EPUB format. One result is the INC publications’ overview which is downloadable from our main website. Those experiments are a starting point to define the problematics of the EPUB format for non-fiction texts. Some of these reflections are reported on the Theory on Demand’s blog.

Another mean of DIY publishing was tried: the Espresso Book Machine. Employing this system, all the printing and binding operations take less than half an hour. A copy of the TOD no. 7 (Image, Time and Motion: New Media Critique from Turkey) was produced and all the process was documented in a little video.

Meanwhile, a new project called Out of Ink: Future Publishing Industries started. The project will firstly investigate the developments of the Dutch publishing houses -especially the ones involved in academic and art/design fields- considering the current digital opportunities. A website with a dedicated visual identity is under development and it will be ready in the next few weeks. It will employ open source typography and web architecture.

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Urban Screens, Interactive Public Space, research program

INC is already for years involved in Urban Screens. In 2009 it issued the the Urban Screens Reader. From early September, a collaboration will take place within the researchgroup Interactive Public Space from Mettina Veenstra. The aim of this researchproject is to create outdoor media with an added value for the public space. The role of public screens will be examined in supporting the needs and activities of individuals and organizations in public space. From INC, Sabine Niederer, Matthijs ten Berge and Denisse Iglesias will be invloved within this researchgroup. More information will available from early September on.
Sabine and Mattijs are both representatives in the Internationl Urban Screens Association.

More information:

http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/urbanscreens/

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New INC Research Network: Unlike Us - Understanding Social Media Monopolies and their Alternatives | Forthcoming two events | Amsterdam and Cyprus | February 2012

The aim of this proposal is to establish a research network of artists, designers, scholars, activists and programmers who work on 'alternatives in social media'. Through workshops, conferences, online dialogues and publications, Unlike Us intends to both analyze the economic and cultural aspects of dominant social media platforms and to propagate the further development and proliferation of alternative, decentralized social media software.

If you want to join the Unlike Us network, start your own initiatives in this field or hook up what you have already been doing for ages, subscribe to the mailinglist (see under). Traffic will be modest. Soon there will be a special page/blog for the initiative on the INC website. Also an independent social network will be installed shortly, using alternative software.

Whether or not we are in the midst of Internet bubble 2.0, we can all agree that social media dominate Internet and mobile use. The emergence of web-based user-to-user services, driven by an explosion of informal dialogues, continuous uploads, and user generated content have greatly empowered the rise of participatory culture. At the same time, monopoly power, commercialization and commodification are also on the rise with just a handful of social media platforms dominating the social Web. These two contradictory processes – the facilitation and the commercial exploitation of social relationships and communications – seem to lie at the heart of contemporary capitalism. On the one hand new media create and expand the social spaces we interact, play and even politicize ourselves through; on the other hand they are literally owned by three or four companies that potentially have phenomenal power to shape such interaction. Whereas the hegemonic Internet ideology promises open, decentralized systems, why do we, time and again, find ourselves locked into closed familiar corporate environments? Why are individual users so easily charmed by these 'walled gardens'? Do we understand the long-term costs that society will pay for the ease of use, simple interfaces of their beloved 'free' services?

Forthcoming; two events in Amsterdam and Cyprus in collaboration with the Cyprus University of Technology, Lemasol.

Unlike Us is an initiative from Geert Lovink and Korinna Patelis (Cyprus University if Technology, Lemasol).

More information:

http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/weblog/2011/07/15/new-inc-research-network-unlike-us-understanding-social-media-monopolies-and-their-alternatives/

Subscribe to the Unlike Us mailingslist to discuss and stay updated:

http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/unlike-us_listcultures.org

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