net critique blog by Geert Lovink
By margreet riphagen, September 28, 2010
By Annette Wolfsberger | Credits New Publication: Cultural Bloggers Interviewed Cultural blogging is not (yet) a well-known category within the blogosphere and LabforCulture wanted to find out more. Who blogs? What are they blogging about? Which audiences and communities are being engaged? What are the economic models and how sustainable are they? These are some [...]
By morgancurrie, September 27, 2010
There are two large events in early October related to open cultural archives and sustainability of the cultural commons. Both of these should be a potent convergence of international talents assessing the vanguard of open culture. The first is the Open Video Conference, a massive shin dig of programmers, video artists, hackers, theorists, and economists [...]
By margreet riphagen, September 20, 2010
The book *Good Faith Collaboration: The Culture of Wikipedia* (2010, The MIT Press) by Joseph Reagle is now available. A brief description is included below as well as a link to the blog announcement. There, comments can be left, follow the links to the book’s webpage which includes the foreword, preface, introduction, notes and bibliography; [...]
By morgancurrie, September 9, 2010
Eric Kluitenberg is a well-traveled theorist, writer, and lecturer who has produced media events in The Netherlands, Moscow, and Estonia, and also currently heads the media program at De Balie, a cultural and political hotbed in Amsterdam. I’ve had to the luck to attend some of Eric’s events, such as 2010’s Electrosmog fest, and witness [...]
By margreet riphagen, September 6, 2010
The Institute of Network Cultures (INC) is a media research centre that actively contributes to the field of network cultures through research, events, publications and online dialogue. The INC was founded in 2004 by media theorist Geert Lovink, following his appointment as professor within the Institute of Interactive Media at the Amsterdam University of Applied [...]
By admin, September 2, 2010
The Institute of Network Cultures proudly presents the 6th issue in the Theory on Demand series from Tom Apperley, Gaming Rhythms: Play and Counterplay from the Situated to the Global about this publication: Global gaming networks are heterogenous collectives of localized practices, not unified commercial products. Shifting the analysis of digital games to local specificities [...]
By morgancurrie, September 2, 2010
There was once a time, it seems so long ago now, when libraries were the place to go to find out how to train your dog, where your family lineage came from, the history of your neighborhood dive bar, and so on. Now, we simply plug in and rummage through the Web’s stunning panoply of [...]
By margreet riphagen, August 23, 2010
Het Netherlands Genomics Initiative, het Centre for Society and Genomics en Waag Society presenteren: De Designers & Artists for Genomics Award! Altijd al aan de wieg willen staan van opzienbarende kunst en op zoek naar transdisciplinariteit en de grenzen van artistieke en technologische mogelijkheden? Doe mee aan de Designers & Artists 4 Genomics Award en [...]
By morgancurrie, August 20, 2010
What will be Europeana? A digital portal, a universalizing library, a gateway to Europe’s largest archives? Recently I visited Europeana’s office in Den Haag, at the Koninklijke Bibliotheek, to ask for definitions from the source. Europeana is perhaps set to become Europe’s uber-aggregator of digital culture, a centralized, catholic platform that links through to millions [...]
