Unlike Us Reader: Social Media Monopolies and Their Alternatives

By admin, February 20, 2013

About the book: The Unlike Us Reader offers a critical examination of social media, bringing together theoretical essays, personal discussions, and artistic manifestos. How can we understand the social media we use everyday, or consciously choose not to use? We know very well that monopolies control social media, but what are the alternatives? While Facebook [...]

Network Notebook #06: The Inner Life of Video Spheres, Andreas Treske

By admin, February 27, 2013

About the publication: 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 up a theory for the YouTube generation. [...]

Unlike Us Magazine

By admin, July 9, 2013

Unlike Us: sociale media – monopolies en alternatieven Lespakket ontwikkeld door het lectoraat Netwerkcultuur, CREATE-IT applied research, Hogeschool van Amsterdam Inleiding Unlike Us is het doorlopende onderzoeksproject naar sociale media van het Instituut voor Netwerkcultuur aan de Hogeschool van Amsterdam. Naast conferenties, een mailinglijst  en de Unlike Us Reader is er nu ook een lespakket beschikbaar [...]

Unlike Us #3 conference report

By admin, July 1, 2013

The Unlike Us #3 Conference Report is an overview of Unlike Us #3 Social Media: Design or Decline, held March 22nd – 23rd, 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) [...]

TOD #12: Variant Analyses, Interrogations of New Media Art and Culture, Patrick Lichty

By admin, April 8, 2013

Read online about this publication: Lichty’s range of commentary and analysis dissects nearly two decades of what has now become new media society. Before Facebook’s IPO and Wikileaks’ media storm, artist-as-activists experimented with data gloves, virtual world performance, and anonymous, anarchic disruptions determined to bewilder traditional enclaves of art and political society. In this collection [...]

TOD #11: Creative Networks, in the Rearview Mirror of Eastern European History, Rasa Smite

By admin, November 25, 2012

About this publication: Creative Networks explores the dawn of the Internet culture in the age of network society from the perspective of Eastern Europe. From a theoretical angle the networks are introduced and interpreted as complex socio-technical systems. The author analyzes the development of these networked self-organized formations starting off with ‘virtual communities’ of ‘creative [...]

Video Vortex Reader II: Moving Images Beyond YouTube

By admin, December 16, 2012

Print copies are out of stock. About the book: Video Vortex Reader II is the Institute of Network Cultures’ second collection of texts that critically explore the rapidly changing landscape of online video and its use. With the success of YouTube (‘2 billion views per day’) and the rise of other online video sharing platforms, the [...]

Nettitudes – Let’s Talk Net Art, Josephine Bosma

By admin, December 16, 2012

        Nettitudes: Let’s Talk Net Art by Josephine Bosma About the book: Never the darling of the media art institutions and ignored by many curators and critics since its emergence, net art still persists as a ‘non-movement’, residing in the cracks of contemporary media culture. Nettitudes provides an analytical foundation and an [...]

The Unbound Book conference report

By admin, July 9, 2013

Report available as pdf. The Unbound Book Conference Report functions both as a summary and as archive of the project of the Unbound Book, held in Amsterdam May, 2011. It consists of the key results, the conference program, all conference blogposts and many other (research) blogposts concerning the topic of e-publishing. The conventional notion of [...]

Unlike Us #2 conference report

By admin, July 1, 2013

The conference ‘Unlike Us #2 – Understanding Social Media Monopolies and their Alternatives’ was held in Amsterdam March 8 -10, 2012. This report is an overview of the key results, the program and all the blogposts written about the project. Moreover, an overview of the budget is included. Part of the file is in Dutch, [...]