Interview: On the Filter Bubble in Social Media

By Geert Lovink, October 20, 2016

Interview with Geert Lovink on the Filter Bubble in Social Media By Sena Partal (graduate/research student at Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design) Sena Partal: Lars Backstrom, engineering director at Facebook, said in a statement “Our top priority is keeping you connected to the people, places and things you want to be connected to — starting [...]

Interview for La Repubblica at Pisa Internet Festival

By Geert Lovink, October 7, 2016

Interview for La Repubblica with Geert Lovink By Valeria Strambi Interview conducted for the Social Media Abyss book launch at the Internet Festival in Pisa (6-8 October 2016). Valeria Strambi: The title of your last book is “Social Media Abyss”: why abyss? It means that when you are captured by the net, is it impossible [...]

Launch of online version of the Amsterdam Radio Collection (1991)

By Geert Lovink, September 17, 2016

By Geert Lovink and Bart Schut URL: We’re proud to present a sample of the Amsterdam free radio sounds from the early 1990s. It is a collection of audio cassettes, compiled in 1991, which we’ve digitized, and uploaded to Archive.org. The URL: https://archive.org/details/AmsterdamRadioCollection1991 The background of this audio collection is the following. In Summer 1991 [...]

Essay in e-flux journal #75: On the Social Media Ideology

By Geert Lovink, September 8, 2016

http://www.e-flux.com/journal/on-the-social-media-ideology/ Geert Lovink, On the Social Media Ideology Social networking is much more than just a dominant discourse. We need to go beyond text and images and include its software, interfaces, and networks that depend on a technical infrastructure consisting of offices and their consultants and cleaners, cables and data centers, working in close concert [...]

Organised Networks and the Brain–an Exchange

By Geert Lovink, September 2, 2016

Email Exchange between Geert Lovink and Miles Englezou I received an email with the following request from Miles Englezou: “Your concept of ‘organised networks’ reminded me of what I have learned about the brain. I’m currently at the end of a neuroscience master’s degree. Incidentally I studied at Vrije Univeriteit Amsterdam, although now I am [...]

Weaving the Web: Interview with Sebastian Giesmann

By Geert Lovink, July 16, 2016

Just published in the Spring 2016 edition of Necsus, European Journal for Media Studies: A philosophy of weaving the web: An interview with German media theorist Sebastian Giessmann by Geert Lovink Unlike predictions, ‘networks’ are on their way out. The reason for this is the unprecedented concentration of money, power, and infrastructures in the hands [...]

Interview for La Repubblica on the Politics of Crypto-Currencies

By Geert Lovink, June 12, 2016

E-mail Interview with Geert Lovink By Francesca De Benedetti For la Repubblica, published on June 12, 2016, original full version in English here: Francesca De Benedetti: Why did you decide to create MoneyLab? Do you think “economies of dissent” are a fundamental issue to research? Geert Lovink: Our international network initiative MoneyLab, which brings together [...]

Interview for Lavoro Culturale on Digital Political Economy

By Geert Lovink, May 26, 2016

Interview conducted by Bernardo Parrella, the translator of my new book Social Media Abyss in Italian (Egea, Milan, 2016). http://www.lavoroculturale.org/geert-lovink-interattivita-cooperativa/ BP: Recent controversy about Facebook Trends/Newsfeed: Given that similar issues about its internal mechanisms (and “neutral” algorithms) are flaring up again and again, can we expect a more general backlash against FB in terms of [...]

Just out: Social Media Abyss by Geert Lovink

By Geert Lovink, May 25, 2016

Just Out: Social Media Abyss, Critical Internet Culture and the Force of Negation by Geert Lovink In this fifth volume of his ongoing investigations, Dutch media theorist and internet critic Geert Lovink plunges into the paradoxical condition of the new digital normal versus a lived state of emergency. There is a heightened, post-Snowden awareness; we [...]

Net.art and beyond, an interview with Daniel G. Andújar

By Geert Lovink, April 29, 2016

The Delicate Mix between Technology, Politics and Aesthetics Interview with Daniel G. Andújar For the sexy, full multi-media version, go here: http://www.onlineopen.org/the-delicate-mix-between-technology-politics-and-aesthetics By Geert Lovink In April 2015 I had the honour to receive a private tour by the Spanish artist Daniel G. Andújar of his solo show, Operating System, at the Museo Nacional Centro [...]

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