net critique blog by Geert Lovink
By sabine, July 7, 2006
The Internet enables new transdisciplinary forms of interaction and organisation. NGOs are increasingly performing communicative tasks and actions that go well beyond the original scope of their primary processes. As such, they can be considered new players on a field previously reserved to the classic actors within the public sphere. By effectively using current innovations [...]
By sabine, July 6, 2006
URBAN SCREENS 2007, a joint project of BBC Public Space Broadcasting, Cornerhouse Manchester, MDDA, and the Institute of Network Cultures, is seeking candidates for the CURATOR position for its 2007 conference.
By sabine, June 27, 2006
By Nancy Mauro-Flude I would like to share my perspective on ‘social software’ in order to introduce some thoughts about its potentiality, where not only people conduct social and cultural modes of exchange but also other ways of engaging with space, time and place are brought about. Here, rather then speaking as an expert, I [...]
By sabine, June 18, 2006
Lost in ‘Open Social Order’s Remains* By Kenneth C. Werbin Like the current discussion noted on the Corante weblog, I too am struck by ‘ranking lists’ in the blogosphere. But I would argue that the emergence of ‘ranking lists’ are merely a material reification of more disturbing trends that I associate with the complexities and [...]
By sabine, May 29, 2006
Chat rooms monitored. Blogs deleted. Websites blocked. Search engines restricted. People imprisoned for simply posting and sharing information.
By sabine, May 12, 2006
Er waart een gewaad door de universiteit…. Angstig wordt er naar de rugtas gekeken. Het is een tas vol studieboeken. Studieboeken die gevuld zijn met westerse denkers. De Nederlandse houding tegenover mensen met een andere achtergrond, met name moslims, wordt bepaald door een aanwakkerende angstcultuur. Men beziet hen vanuit het stereotype van de gevaarlijke en [...]
By sabine, April 25, 2006
The Amsterdam Creativity Exchange (ACX) is a community and social networking service for creative industries professionals in the greater Amsterdam region. Membership is open to anyone with a desire to share information, experience, and ideas. The ACX Web site enables its members to liaise, network, and communicate. It offers a platform for the presentation of [...]
By sabine, February 28, 2006
Dear all, I would like to announce the start of my blog, which is part of the INC site and will be used during my stay here at the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin, where one of main topics is the theory of blogging. If you would like to link to it, please feel free to do [...]
By sabine, February 1, 2006
A special Urban Screens issue of peer-reviewed journal First Monday, the first publication of its kind, was published on February 6, 2006. First Monday is one of the first openly accessible, peer-reviewed journals on the Internet, solely devoted to the Internet. Anthony Auerbach, Giselle Beiguelman, Pieter Boeder, Vera Bühlmann, Wael Fahmi, Ava Fatah, Raina Kumra, [...]
By sabine, January 17, 2006
Interview with Cecile Landman By Geert Lovink Cecile Landman is a Dutch freelance investigative journalist, who specializes in the facts behind the news. One of the areas she researches and works in is Italy, a country she is passionate about. Cecile has often said to me that she was born in the wrong part of [...]
