net critique blog by Geert Lovink
By Miriam Rasch, May 8, 2013
By Stijn Peeters It’s become an almost reassuring ritual: whenever Facebook changes its layout, adds a feature or modifies its privacy policy, the internet will quickly be filled with people screaming bloody murder, sharing ways to keep using the older settings and setting up petitions to let Facebook know that this time they’ve really made [...]
By Andrew Erlanger Y U No Guy has been bestowed with ‘God Tier’ status on Memegenerator.net for articulating some of society’s most pressing questions. In this instance, he inquires as to why Facebook couples seem intent on projecting their relationships throughout Mark Zuckerberg’s empire rather than keeping them private – a curious trend that shows [...]
By margreet riphagen, April 9, 2013
By Ali Balunywa A qualitative research of the mobile money phenomenon in Uganda carried out by Geert Lovink (INC), assisted by Ali Balunywa (independent media consultant) Background Five Master students from the University of Amsterdam, Ali Balunywa, Wouter Dijkstra, Ben White, Guido van Diepen and Kai Henriquez Uganda for two months of field research. The [...]
By Miriam Rasch, April 3, 2013
Reading (academic texts) on networks, it is easy to get confused by the various labels attached to the networks described in texts. Federated, distributed, centralized, decentralized… Stijn Peeters wrote an article trying to clear up the entangled terminology. Read it on the Unlike Us resources-page: Beyond distributed and decentralized: what is a federated network? Are [...]
By Miriam Rasch, March 14, 2013
Download nu het Unlike Us Magazine: 10 artikelen over social media! Ga op je tablet naar unlikeus.dmci.hva.nl/ en kies voor ‘Voeg toe aan beginscherm’. Je kunt het magazine ook in pdf downloaden: Unlike Us Magazine: 10 artikelen over social media. Woord vooraf Als je niet op Facebook zit, tel je niet mee. In elk geval [...]
By Miriam Rasch, March 4, 2013
Read online, download pdf or order a copy here. Video is everywhere, like a space in which we move, an ocean we can dive into. But video is no longer the video we once knew. To address this techno-social shift, Andreas Treske sketches the outlines for a philosophical and practical understanding of online video, offering [...]
By Miriam Rasch, February 21, 2013
Geert Lovink and Miriam Rasch (eds), Unlike Us Reader: Social Media Monopolies and Their Alternatives, Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2013. ISBN: 978-90-818575-2-9, paperback, 384 pages. Freely downloadable as pdf on: networkcultures.org/blog/publication/unlike-us-reader-social-media-monopolies-and-their-alternatives To order free print copies of the reader, visit networkcultures.org/publications Check the book trailer on the bottom of this post and share! The [...]
By Miriam Rasch, February 14, 2013
By Adrian Lucas Th Guardian article Tehran landlords and tenants lock horns in heat of property boom highlights what I consider to be the financial nemesis of our time: capital (=savings+speculation) pouring into property buying, creating dysfunctional property markets throughout the world. The policies to control property speculation are failing (in many countries tax policies [...]
By serenawestra, February 13, 2013
On Wednesday January 23 2013 INC’s Francesca Coluzzi and René König presented at the Brown Bag Lunch sessions of the Hogeschool van Amsterdam. Graphic Designer and visual artist Francesca Coluzzi from Italy worked on the Out of Ink project for the last 5 months as a research intern at the Institute of Network Cultures. In [...]
By Miriam Rasch, February 5, 2013
‘Lovink is one of the most brilliant and original theorists around today. Every word he writes elicits a repsonse.’ Simona Lodi on The Huffington Post: What Happens When Networks Are Without a Cause? Geert Lovink Answers in His Last Book Read more about Networks without a Cause by Geert Lovink and order the book online [...]
