Monthly Archives: March 2015

Call for articles: Geoblocking and Global Video Culture (Edited by Ramon Lobato and James Meese)

By Miriam Rasch, March 23, 2015

IP address-based blocking (geoblocking), which restricts access to online content based on a user’s location, has become a popular strategy for managing digital media flows and maintaining separation of national markets. A diverse array of online video platforms – from YouTube and Netflix to BBC iPlayer, Telemundo and MTV Asia – use geoblocking to filter [...]

Asemia and the Gesture of Writing

By mattberos, March 18, 2015

“As happens with phenomena covered by habit, and more than habit, writing becomes almost mysterious, if we discover it by deliberate consideration.” Vilém Flusser   In the late 90s, the visual poets Tim Gaze and Jim Leftwich coined the term asemic writing to describe a growing body of work disseminated through blogs, tumblr, flickr and [...]
Het Instituut voor Netwerkcultuur zoekt een projectmanager met talent voor...

Update: we hebben twee vacatures!

By patricia, March 17, 2015

Het Instituut voor Netwerkcultuur zoekt een projectmanager met talent voor fondsenwerving. Je initieert en schrijft projectvoorstellen in de context van de onderzoeksagenda van het lectoraat. Je schrijft subsidieaanvragen en verzorgt de documentatie voor de verantwoording aan subsidiegevers en sponsors en draagt zorg voor een goede inbedding van de projecten in de organisatie, met een heldere [...]

Out now! Digital Tailspin: Ten Rules for the Internet After Snowden by Michael Seemann

By Miriam Rasch, March 11, 2015

The INC is proud to present Digital Tailspin: Ten Rules for the Internet After Snowden. Michael Seemann published his book Das neue Spiel after a succesful crowdfunding campaign last year. The 10 rules or strategies which he formulates have been translated and updated for this Network Notebook edition. Order a paper copy or download the [...]

Match-making with Plato

By jessvanzyl, March 10, 2015

Attention without feeling is only a report – Mary Oliver Was Plato right when he said that writing would only give us the semblence of wisdom by telling us many things without teaching us to use it? As any first time googler knows, an unrefined question results in an avalanche of search results – information [...]