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Cottagecore as a Budding Anti-Capitalist Movement

By Agnieszka Wodzińska, January 21, 2021

Among many online subcultures and communities, there is an online space which rejects Internet-era aesthetics in exchange for the soft glow and calm reminiscent of romantic paintings. Rustic picnics, flowing garments, embroidery tutorials and tours of cosy homes await on the cottagecore tag on TikTok, the uber-popular social media app that lets users edit, share, [...]

Out now: Disruption des Journalismus

By Leonieke van Dipten, July 9, 2018

Today, public interest in journalism seems greater than ever. Buzzwords such as ‘fake news’ or ‘click bait’ indicate that we are dealing with a polarising political issue. Anyone who dares to investigate journalism in this intensified situation also wants to better understand the world in which we are living. After all, journalists play a decisive [...]

Mediating Culture and ICT: Conflicts on Location-Based Application of Transportation Services in Indonesia

By ainibestari, May 1, 2017

Author: Dwi Aini Bestari [a.dwiainibestari@students.uu.nl] Growing up in still developing Indonesia, I’ve witnessed how the society, especially in urban areas, struggles with the messiness of disintegrated systems between information and transportation; worsening the already horrifying traffic due to uncontrolled numbers of private vehicles. This creates an urgent need of a more secure and controlled transportation [...]

New INC Longform: A Dream Of An Algorithm by Agnieszka Zimolag

By Leonieke van Dipten, September 26, 2016

‘As I walk towards my home at night a wet surface of the pavement glitters in all shades of black, reminding me that I am surfing. Not just on the street, but on the endless glassy surface of the interface of this world. This is where I belong. The warmth of the reflection entangles me, [...]

New INC longform: The Web and its Wanderers by Jeroen van Honk

By Leonieke van Dipten, February 19, 2016

Early in the year 2012 Evgeny Morozov pronounced the death of the cyberflaneur. One could be forgiven for never having heard of this ill-fated figure, but for those whose use of the web stretches back to the 1990s, its behavioral description would certainly be familiar. The cyberflaneur – like the original flâneur – strolls, wavers, [...]

INC Longform: Corporate Social Networking Platforms As Cognitive Factories

By Leonieke van Dipten, January 22, 2016

We are manufactured and produced by corporate social networking platforms such as Facebook and Twitter, so that our increasingly predictable behavior can generate ever more targeted ads. As Facebook ’employees’ we are to agree with the use of our personal data, we are asked to keep our contact information up to date and we are [...]

INC longform: The effect of the List

By Leonieke van Dipten, November 9, 2015

Is the best place to hide a dead body page 2 of Google search results? INC is happy to announce the third  longform: The effect of the List, by Nikos Voyiatzis. You can find and read the latest longform here. Nikos Voyiatzis’ (Athens, 1982) work explores information organization in its political and aesthetic dimensions, particularly [...]

Out now: Network Notebook 10 – The Internet Revolution by Richard Barbrook

By Vera van de Nieuwenhof, October 19, 2015

We’re happy to announce the publication of the 10th Network Notebook: The Internet Revolution by Richard Barbrook. It is available online through Issuu, but you can also order your hardcopy here. About this publication: Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron’s The Californian Ideology, originally published in 1995 by Mute magazine and the nettime mailinglist, is the [...]
Between Control and Emancipation Edited by Lina Dencik, lecturer in...

Critical Perspectives on Social Media and Protest

By Vera van de Nieuwenhof, October 8, 2015

Between Control and Emancipation Edited by Lina Dencik, lecturer in the School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies at Cardiff University in the UK, and Oliver Leistert, postdoctoral researcher at the DFG Research Training Group “Automatisms” at University Paderborn, Germany. Geert Lovink has contributed a chapter in collaboration with Ned Rossiter: Network Cultures and the [...]
http://public-cultures.unimelb.edu.au/ The Research Unit in Public Cultures (RUPC) was established...

Introducing the Melbourne Unit of Public Cultures

By Geert Lovink, June 5, 2013

http://public-cultures.unimelb.edu.au/ The Research Unit in Public Cultures (RUPC) was established in 2012 and is housed in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne (Australia). It focuses on transformations in public culture produced by new intersections of knowledge, media, space and mobility, within Australia and internationally. The Unit seeks to develop new [...]