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The Masters of Media are at the New Network Theory Conference –...

New Network Theory – Opening

By margreet riphagen, June 4, 2014

The Masters of Media are at the New Network Theory Conference – organized by Network Cultures, ASCA and the Media Studies department at the University of Amsterdam (that’s us!). Geert Lovink introduced the program as an ambitious attempt to reinvent network theory – a post-Castellsian theory, if you will – before Jan Simons gave a brief history of ASCA [...]

New Network Theory – Rob Stuart

By margreet riphagen, June 4, 2014

By: Michael Stevenson On: June 28, 2007 Rob Stuart is an activist based in Philadelphia. Here he gave an overview of some of his work, especially that which made use of new technologies. In this way he gave conference-goers some network practice to go along with the theory. His first case study drew comparisons between the railroad and [...]

New Network Theory – Alan Liu

By margreet riphagen, June 4, 2014

By: Michael Stevenson On: June 28, 2007 Can Network knowledge improve? The second New Network Theory session starts with this question from Alan Liu in his presentationNetwork Knowledge: Policing Web 2.0. Alan’s aim today is to present a draft proposal for a non-reactionary policy for regulating and improving Web 2.0 knowledge. In doing so, he’s opening up the can [...]

New Network Theory – Noshir Contractor

By margreet riphagen, June 4, 2014

By: Michael Stevenson On: June 29, 2007 Noshir Contractor is the first speaker today, here to present MTML meets Web 2.0: Theorizing social processes in multidimensional networks. Noshir begins with a story of the social life of (technologically-enhanced) pets. Your smart-tagged dog can meet other dogs and exchange information. When your dog returns home, that information can be downloaded, [...]

New Network Theory – Florian Cramer

By margreet riphagen, June 4, 2014

By: Michael Stevenson On: June 29, 2007 Today’s final speaker is Florian Cramer of the Piet Zwart Institute, who has a nicely low-key website. Florian’s work deals with text, code and aesthetics – one piece of his is the extended essay, Words Made Flesh: Code, Culture, Imagination, which is a kind of alternative history of code. His presentation here is about Text [...]

New Network Theory – Parallel Sessions – ‘The Link’

By margreet riphagen, June 4, 2014

By: Michael Stevenson On: June 29, 2007 The first round of parallel sessions is underway, and a crowd has gathered in a computer lab at the Media studies department to discuss ‘the link’.. A preview comes in the form of one participant’s notes, where I spotted the question, in bold, “What about Google?!” We begin with Iina Hellsten of [...]

New Network Theory – Siva Vaidhyanathan

By margreet riphagen, June 4, 2014

By: Michael Stevenson On: June 28, 2007 Siva Vaidhyanathan, author of The Anarchist in the Library: How the Clash between Freedom and Control is Hacking the Real World and Crashing the System and currently associate professor at NYU, is here to talk about the Googlization of Everything. Siva’s starting point is that Google is part of our lives, and we [...]