Network Notebook #08: The Allure of the Selfie: Instagram and the New Self Portrait, Brooke Wendt

By Miriam Rasch, October 9, 2014

About the publication: Over 130 million images with the hashtag ‘selfie’ have been uploaded to the social media platform Instagram. In The Allure of the Selfie: Instagram and the New Self-Portrait, Brooke Wendt examines the significant hold that the ‘selfie’, or the digital self-portrait, has over self and society. Media theorist Vilém Flusser observed that [...]

Network Notebook #07: Radical Tactics of the Offline Library, Henry Warwick

By Miriam Rasch, June 20, 2014

About the publication: The Personal Portable Library in its most simple form is a hard drive or USB stick containing a large collection of e-books, curated, archived and indexed by an individual user. The flourishing of the offline digital library is a response to the fact that truly private sharing of knowledge in the online [...]

Society of the Query Magazine

By Miriam Rasch, June 6, 2014

In dit magazine zijn tien van de artikelen uit de INC Reader Society of the Query: Reflections on Web Search bewerkt in het Nederlands, van verhelderende filmpjes en links voorzien en aangevuld met discussievragen. Veel van de auteurs spraken in november 2013 op de gelijknamige conferentie in Amsterdam. Op de website van Society of the [...]

Tulipomania DotCom Reader

By Miriam Rasch, May 27, 2014

In times of rapid growth of new media as an economic factor, the danger of creating a stagnating cultural ghetto is immediate. The aim of Tulipomania was not to express “Schadensfreude” towards all those who gambled – and lost, nor to mobilize resentment towards the steadily growing number of Internet millionaires. The conference was neither [...]

Society of the Query Reader: Reflections on Web Search

By admin, April 23, 2014

PDFs of all the articles can be downloaded separately from this page. Read the Introduction to the volume here. About the book: Looking up something online is one of the most common applications of the web. Whether with a laptop or smartphone, we search the web from wherever we are, at any given moment. ‘Googling’ [...]

MoneyLab: Coining Alternatives 2014 conference report

By Miriam Rasch, May 26, 2014

MoneyLab: Coining Alternatives videos and blog reports are now online! If you missed out on this year’s conference or would like to experience it again, be sure to check out the reports, photos and videos of the speakers on the MoneyLab page. MoneyLab: Coining Alternatives, an initiative of the Institute of Network Cultures, Hogeschool van [...]

TOD #14: Transcoding the Digital: How Metaphors Matter in New Media, Marianne van den Boomen

By admin, February 12, 2014

Read online about this publication: Transcoding the Digital: How Metaphors Matter in New Media by Marianne van den Boomen is a material-semiotic inquiry into the constitutive role of metaphors in our daily encounters with computers and networks. While interface concepts such as desktop and windows are easily recognized as metaphors, this research shows how in [...]

TOD #13: The Dark Side of Google, Ippolita

By admin, October 4, 2013

  about this publication: In The Dark Side of Google Italian writers’ collective Ippolita provides a thorough, fresh analysis of what is behind the universe of Google and the metadata industry. In recent years Google has established itself as a major point of Internet access. We have progressively adapted to its sober, reassuring interface and [...]

Anti-Media: Ephemera on Speculative Arts, Florian Cramer

By admin, June 20, 2013

        Anti-Media: Ephemera on Speculative Arts by Florian Cramer About the book: 1. There is art, and there is anti-art. 2. If that is so, there must also be anti-media. 3. ‘Media’ as a term is as fuzzy as ‘art’. 4. Both ‘art’ and ‘media’ refuse to go away. Anti-media is what [...]

Society of the Query #2 conference report

By admin, February 13, 2014

The Society of the Query #2 conference report offers an overview of the conference held November 7-8 2013 in Amsterdam. The file functions both as a summary and as archive of the project. It consists of the key results, the conference program, all conference blogposts and many other (research) blogposts concerning the topic of ‘online search [...]