The Unbound Book conference report

By admin, July 9, 2013

Report available as pdf. The Unbound Book Conference Report functions both as a summary and as archive of the project of the Unbound Book, held in Amsterdam May, 2011. It consists of the key results, the conference program, all conference blogposts and many other (research) blogposts concerning the topic of e-publishing. The conventional notion of [...]

Unlike Us #2 conference report

By admin, July 1, 2013

The conference ‘Unlike Us #2 – Understanding Social Media Monopolies and their Alternatives’ was held in Amsterdam March 8 -10, 2012. This report is an overview of the key results, the program and all the blogposts written about the project. Moreover, an overview of the budget is included. Part of the file is in Dutch, [...]

Video Vortex #6

By admin, July 9, 2013

Two years after the Video Vortex #2 conference, the Video Vortex events came back to Amsterdam to organize the sixth event in March 2011: Beyond YouTube. Organized by the Institute of Network Cultures, and in a top cultural venue, Video Vortex 6 offered artist presentations (performances, screenings and talks), hands-on workshops, the launch of the [...]

Economies of the Commons #2

By admin, July 9, 2013

The Economies of the Commons conference is second in a series on the political economy of new media and its consequences for the cultural sector. The first Economies of the Commons was held in Amsterdam and Hilversum from April 10-12, 2008, organized by De Balie, The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, and Kennisland. For [...]

Critical Point of View

By admin, July 9, 2013

It would be no exaggeration to state that Wikipedia is at the brink of becoming the de facto global reference of dynamic knowledge. The highly visible clashes amongst opinion leaders, university professors, Web 2.0 ‘evangelists’ and publishers over accuracy, anonymity, trust, vandalism and expertise only seem to fuel further growth of Wikipedia and its user [...]

Society of the Query: Stop Searching, Start Questioning

By admin, July 9, 2013

With the Society of the Query conference – Stop Searching, Start Questioning -, the Institute of Network Cultures aimed to critically reflect on the information society and the dominant role of the search engine in our culture.What does this high dependency on search engines to manage the complex system of knowledge on the Internet mean? [...]