Posts By: lisavanpappelendam

Anne Helmond and Carolin Gerlitz Explain the Like Economy

By lisavanpappelendam, March 10, 2012

Session #4 Software Matters on the second day of Unlike Us #2 gives the floor to Anne Helmond (pictured right) and Carolin Gerlitz (pictured below). They read from their paper “Reworking the Fabric of the Web: The Like Economy”, which focuses on medium specific qualities that organize value and rework the fabric of the web. Facebook, [...]

Seda Gürses and Privacy in Online Social Networks

By lisavanpappelendam, March 9, 2012

For session #3 The Private in the Public, Seda Gürses (pictured right), the coordinator of the interdisciplinary project Security and Privacy in Online Social Networks (SPION), was invited to speak about the technological responses to present-day privacy issues. SPION proved to be a very challenging and highly necessary endeavor to reconcile notions of privacy and [...]

Beyond Facebook’s Linearity in Time and Space: Thomas Cheneseau

By lisavanpappelendam, March 9, 2012

  Thomas Cheneseau (pictured right) is a French artistic researcher with a passion for abstraction and who considers social media as both his found object and his blank canvas. As part of the second session , Artistic Responses to Social Media, at Unlike Us #2, Cheseneau talked about two of his visually stunning projects. First up was Facebook Feedback, an initiative that consists [...]

“What is Reification 2.0?”, Asks Dylan Wittkower

By lisavanpappelendam, March 9, 2012

Reification 2.0 runs parallel to Web 2.0. We are continuously taking an active role in this online process of reification. We reify ourselves and others. Or so claims Dylan Wittkower (pictured right) on the morning of March 9th, 2012. Wittkower starts his talk at the Unlike Us #2 conference with an explanation of David Fincher’s movie [...]