Posts By: margreet riphagen

John Chris Jones: Thank you very much. As you’ve just...

John Chris Jones

By margreet riphagen, June 5, 2014

John Chris Jones: Thank you very much. As you’ve just heard I’ve been waiting a long time to be able to give you this talk, probably thirty from fifty years. Because in the 1950s, I was concerned as an ergonomic industrial designer with the interface of one of the early mainframes, the AEI 1010, and [...]
Geert Lovink: Lets just start with Michael Indergaard, from New...

Michael Indergaard

By margreet riphagen, June 5, 2014

Geert Lovink: Lets just start with Michael Indergaard, from New York. He is the Associate Professor at St. Johns University in sociology and anthropology, and we asked him to speak here because he published the history of the New York, New Economy, the so-called “Silicon Alley”. The book is called Silicon Alley, The Rise and [...]
Geert Lovink: Rosalind Gill teaches at the London School of...

Rosalind Gill

By margreet riphagen, June 5, 2014

Geert Lovink: Rosalind Gill teaches at the London School of Economics, there she is also heading the Master Program of Gender and Media, and she wrote an influential paper called Working Practices in New Media and it is one of the few based on empirical work that looks into work and practices with a strong [...]
Caroline Nevejan: Our next speaker is Geke van Dijk, connected...

Geke van Dijk

By margreet riphagen, June 5, 2014

Caroline Nevejan: Our next speaker is Geke van Dijk, connected to the Open University in England, she has worked for a long time in digital culture in Amsterdam; started ACS-i and later sold it to Lost Boys; Geke van Dijk. Geke van Dijk: Hello. I’ve chosen the title “A Decade of Web Use”. When I [...]
Angela Beesley Richard Rogers: Okay, welcome to the structures of...

Angela Beesley

By margreet riphagen, June 5, 2014

Angela Beesley Richard Rogers: Okay, welcome to the structures of meaning session, my name is Richard Rogers I am from the University of Amsterdam Media Studies, and the govcom.org Foundation here in Amsterdam. I am joined by three experts, or actually four experts, from what you might call the space between the front-end and the back-end. We [...]