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By ainibestari, July 6, 2017
Written by: Dwi Aini Bestari In attempt to exchange knowledge and broadening network amongst researchers, practitioners and communities as also aimed by the Institute of Network Cultures, I present an overview of potential networks in Indonesia which share relevant interests and agenda. Many Indonesian communities aim to create online publication in various formats such [...]
Written by: Dwi Aini Bestari During my internship at the Institute of Network Cultures, I developed an applied research on online dialogues from an ethnographic approach. Inspired by INC’s recent project, “Fear and Loathing of the Online Self” (FLOS) and INC’s agenda of creating an international online dialogue, I tried to combine the two [...]
By ainibestari, July 4, 2017
Written By: Dwi Aini Bestari Every year, Indonesia has always been on the list of country with the most social media users in the world. Reports on social media demography have consistently showed the extent to which Indonesian young people are simultaneously engaged with multiple social media platforms (APJII 2014; Redwing 2014; UNFPA 2014; Statista [...]
By Miriam Rasch, June 9, 2017
While usually working with publication series, to insure a speedy and professional production process for both print a digital books, the INC also collaborates on experimental publishing projects that try to reach, understand, or even defy the limit of what a digital publication can be and do. One such project is our collaboration with 1001 [...]
By ainibestari, June 8, 2017
Written by: Dwi Aini Bestari a.dwiainibestari@students.uu.nl Nowadays, the internet becomes increasingly embedded in our lives. People are engaged in social media platforms everyday; expressing emotions through status updates, uploading selfies and tagging the locations to the social media platforms or tracking movements through wearable device and posting them online. These data that we [...]
By Leonieke van Dipten, July 3, 2017
Het boek In Defence of Serendipity: For a Radical Politics of Innovation van Sebastian Olma verscheen in December 2016 en kwam tot stand na een jarig fellowship bij het Instituut voor Netwerkcultuur. Door Eke Rebergen Sebastian Olma wil in zijn boek In Defence of Serendipity de creatievelingen tot de orde roepen. Terecht, zo wil ik [...]
By Leonieke van Dipten, May 19, 2017
‘The Post-digital Condition’ is the English translation of the opening essay from Swimming in the Ocean: Texts from a Post-digital World, the essay collection by INC’s very own Miriam Rasch to be published in Dutch by renowned publishing house De Bezige Bij in June 2017. The essay is published in the INC Longform series. The translation [...]
By ainibestari, May 17, 2017
Author: Dwi Aini Bestari (a.dwiainibestari@students.uu.nl) In INC’s Theory on Demand publication titled “Playful Mapping in Digital Age”, the notions of play and mapping are comprehensively described through various case studies and approaches; geography, game studies, new media studies, etc. One of the cases explained in the book is The Go Go Gozo, a collaborative field [...]
By grainne, May 4, 2017
At the Institute of Network Cultures we are encouraging the publication of longform articles and to that end we are looking for new submissions for the INC Longform series. We are looking for authors from both freelance and professional backgrounds, working on interesting topics and eager to share their work with a wide international audience. [...]
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 [...]