net critique blog by Geert Lovink
By Vera van de Nieuwenhof, May 20, 2015
For the further development of its electronic publication strategy – combining digital and print books and other media – the Institute of Network Cultures is looking for an intern with a strong interest in digital publishing. The internship will be 4 days a week, starting September 2015 until January 2016. You will be producing international [...]
By Miriam Rasch, April 20, 2015
Read an excellent review of Digital Tailspin at Open online: Taking mass surveillance and Kontrollverlust as our “default settings,” the author builds a convincing ethics and practice of a post-privacy Internet, weaving in analogies and important lessons from the fields of activism, artistic practice, racial politics, feminism, clandestine migration, the monitoring and scrutinising of citizens [...]
By jessvanzyl, April 16, 2015
The question keeping me awake over the last month has been: how do designers or publishers get to know their audience? ‘Audience’ sounds like a faceless mass to me, so I decided to find some faces, some voices and some eyes – to question, track and analyse. I want to know a little more about real readers in order to (hopefully) get [...]
By patricia, April 8, 2015
The print edition of the MoneyLab Reader: An Intervention in Digital Economy is now available. The E-Pub of the Reader will follow shortly. Get your copy here. The MoneyLab Reader brings developments in crowdfunding, currency design, technologies of payment, and other economic experiments into dialogue. The authors of this volume discuss the implications of the current architecture of global [...]
The print edition of the MoneyLab Reader: An Intervention in Digital Economy is now available. The E-Pub of the Reader will follow shortly. Get your copy here. The MoneyLab Reader brings developments in crowdfunding, currency design, technologies of payment, and other economic experiments into dialogue. The authors of this volume discuss the implications of the current architecture [...]
By Geert Lovink, April 7, 2015
Symposium E-Discovery in Nederland. The Decade of E-Discovery. Digital bewijs van computer tot cloud. Datum: 23 april 2015 Tijd: 09.00 – 17.00 Locatie: Pakhuis de Zwijger “The Decade of E-Discovery. Digital bewijs van computer tot cloud.” Het Symposium E-Discovery in Nederland wordt dit jaar voor de zesde maal georganiseerd door het lectoraat E-Discovery van de [...]
By Miriam Rasch, April 2, 2015
INC is working on a new publication series with a focus on longform writing. For this purpose our interns Jess, Matt, and Leonieke conducted a research into existing longform publishing tools, comparing four of them in detail: Medium, Aesop Story Engine (WordPress plugin), Creatavist and Exposure. Read the overview on the PublishingLab blog and keep [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
