net critique blog by Geert Lovink
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 [...]
By serenawestra, January 30, 2013
The flyer of the 9th edition of Video Vortex is out now. Re:assemblies of Video will be held between the 28th of February and the 2nd of March 2013 in Lüneburg, Germany
By Miriam Rasch, January 24, 2013
With more than 175 essays written by over 200 researchers from across the globe, the recently published International Encyclopedia of Media Studies is the most extensive resource at hand for those studying new media. The encyclopedia is divided into six parts. Geert Lovink contributed to the last volume, Media Studies Futures, with two articles. Media Studies: [...]
By Miriam Rasch, November 30, 2012
Facebook continues to anger its users. Last week timelines flooded with people claiming their copyright over their profile with a single status update – as if they never agreed to Facebook policy. (Half a day later the other half of the timeline flooded with Batman cartoons punching the silly copyright-believers in the face. Both were [...]
