Online Video Research: an Interview with Leisa Gibbons

By Geert Lovink, June 2, 2011

Leisa Gibbons wrote me the following request: “My name is Leisa Gibbons and I am conducting a research project with Sue McKemmish, Professor and Director of the Centre for Organisational and Social Informatics in the Caulfield School of IT towards a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree at Monash University. My research interest is on personal [...]

Drei Fragen von Mercedes Bunz (DE:BUG)

By Geert Lovink, June 2, 2011

(Anlass für dieses De:bug Emailinterview mit Mercedes Bunz ist das netz.macht.kultur Kulturpolitische Bundeskongress das am 9-10.6 2011 in Berlin stattfinden wird wo wir beide auftachen. /GL) MB: Die Digitalisierung hat keine Zukunft, die ist jetzt. Was meinst du damit? GL: Wir müssen in Bezug auf digitale Medien aufhören, über die Zukunft zu reden. Das ist [...]

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By Geert Lovink, April 6, 2011

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Translation in Portuguese of Free Cooperation Intro

By Geert Lovink, February 21, 2011

O trecho a seguir é o prefácio do livro The Art of Free Cooperation, e nos fornece uma série de insights preliminares sobre a livre cooperação (e também sobre o que NÃO É livre cooperação). Colaboração em cima do muro Editado por Geert Lovink e Trebor Scholz Traduzido por Rafael Reinehr para Coolmeia, Ideias em [...]

Transit Labour #2 available as pdf

By Geert Lovink, February 9, 2011

The publication of Transit Labour #2, a booklet collecting texts and images produced around the Shanghai research platform, June-July 2010 in which I took part, is out. The booklet is available as a pdf. Download here. There are also a limited number of hardcopies available. If you would like to get one, write to: info@transitlabour.asia. [...]

Back from Oslo and more

By Geert Lovink, February 7, 2011

I have been silent over the past month or so. Last week I had a deadline for the first draft of my upcoming book, right now entitled Unlike Us, that Polity Press is going to publish later on in the year. In order to speed things up we agreed that I submit a first draft. [...]

Interview with the Berliner Gazette on Internet & Education (in German)

By Geert Lovink, December 29, 2010

Please do not get frustrated if you do not read German (yet). Here is another interview with me, in German, rewritten into a text by Magdalena Taube. The text is full of links. This time it deals with my upbringing in Amsterdam in the 1970s, the use of computers at uni in the early 1980s, [...]

Code and Complexity for Global Communities: Interview with Ramesh Srinivasan

By Geert Lovink, December 26, 2010

By Geert Lovink Ramesh Srinivasan is an ambitious worldwide traveller. Maybe we could best describe him as a techno antropologist. He is based in LA where he is assistant professor both in the Department of Information Studies and in Design|Media Arts at the University of California Los Angeles. He is describes himself as a “hybrid of an [...]

Variations on a Theme

By Geert Lovink, December 23, 2010

“The choice between the laws of the market (proprietary software) and the laws of code (collaboration) is a choice between masters. There is always a master, though some are better hidden than others. And in the area of computing, not using proprietary software means searching for new masters.” Detlef Holz Just for the fun… for [...]

Happy New Wikileaks USB by St. Auby Tamas

By Geert Lovink, December 21, 2010