I went to Radical Networks in Berlin (19-21 October 2018). It was a very inspiring experience and I took notes feverishly for 3 days. The program was diverse and inclusive, in-depth but accessible to non-techies. I worked out the notes of the talks that I found especially interesting a bit further and added references below. […]
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The Online Self across Platforms and Realms: Multiple Social Media Platforms and Complex Identities Modes amongst Peripheral-urban Youth in Indonesia
Written By: Dwi Aini Bestari Every year, Indonesia has always been on the list of country with the most social media users in the world. Reports on social media demography have consistently showed the extent to which Indonesian young people are simultaneously engaged with multiple social media platforms (APJII 2014; Redwing 2014; UNFPA 2014; Statista […]
Go Go Gozo 2017: Looking at Tourism and Social Media through ‘Play’
Author: Dwi Aini Bestari (a.dwiainibestari@students.uu.nl) In INC’s Theory on Demand publication titled “Playful Mapping in Digital Age”, the notions of play and mapping are comprehensively described through various case studies and approaches; geography, game studies, new media studies, etc. One of the cases explained in the book is The Go Go Gozo, a collaborative field […]
Investigating Longforms in a Research Context
In preparation for the new longform series the INC started a research into the genres of longform or longread. Miriam presented the project during a lunch meeting for co-workers in the research center of the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences. You can find the slides and notes on the website of the PublishingLab and below. […]
Wooing the Digital Crowd
The question keeping me awake over the last month has been: how do designers or publishers get to know their audience? ‘Audience’ sounds like a faceless mass to me, so I decided to find some faces, some voices and some eyes – to question, track and analyse. I want to know a little more about real readers in order to (hopefully) get […]
Paulina Borsook: Cyberselfish 15 years after, Part I
“Cyberselfish/a critical romp through the terribly libertarian culture of high-tech”, which I have nicknamed “That Damned Book” aka TDB, came out in the year 2000. It’s been more than a little disconcerting that TDB turns out to still have relevance, as did short pieces I wrote such as “How the Internet Ruined San Francisco” (in […]
Art criticism online, or: Hybrid criticism
At the launch of the latest issue of art magazine Kunstlicht I gave a short talk about online art criticism. Using my own experience in online literary critique and the transfer from paper to e-publishing, I want to introduce the concept of hybrid criticism. (The slides are in Dutch, but still easy to follow I […]
A World Digital Library Is Coming True! Sort of.
In the May 22nd issue of The New York Review of Books, Robert Darnton wrote an article whose title proudly proclaims that a world digital library is coming true. [1] I would argue that this is true, but not for any of the reasons or purposes he discussed. In the process of making these claims […]
Facebook as Virtual Mirror – Book review
By Serena Westra Facebook makes us unhappy is the main premise of Dutch author Koen Damhuis. In his new book ‘De Virtuele Spiegel; Waarom Facebook ons Ongelukkig Maakt’ (The Virtual Mirror; Why Facebook makes us Unhappy) he is examining his generation, Generation Y, which is raised in a society with high expectations and no room […]
Theory on Demand: an interview with INC editor Margreet Riphagen
Geert Lovink at the launch of Theory on Demand books #1 through #4 Margreet Riphagen is the Institute of Network Culture’s project manager and the editor of the Theory on Demand book series. Here she explains TOD project’s background and how it operates as action-oriented research – and also proof the exploding possibilities for publishing […]
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