Posts By: serenawestra

Unlike Us #3 Conference Report

By serenawestra, June 5, 2013

We have completed a conference report about Unlike Us #3; it is a great summary of the project. The report consists of an overview of the key results, the program of the conference and all the research and conference blogposts concerning the project. The file is in English. In case you are interested, you can [...]

Social-R-Us – Unlike Us #3 Party

By serenawestra, March 27, 2013

The second conference day of Unlike Us #3 ended with a smashing party at Op de Valreep. Op de Valreep used to be an old animal shelter, but the building functions now as a squat with a big variety of cultural, political, and social events. It appeared to be the perfect – although a bit [...]

Marc Stumpel & Tobias Leingruber – Facebook Resistance Workshop

By serenawestra, March 25, 2013

Marc Stumpel and Tobias Leingruber organized the Facebook Resistance workshop for Unlike Us on Friday evening at the Studio HvA. Marc Stumpel is a new media researcher form Amsterdam and has been involved with Unlike Us from the outset. He is part of the Facebook Resistance project and has written about Facebook Resistance for the [...]

Simona Lodi – Art as Networked Machinery: When Art Becomes Anti-Social for Being More Social

By serenawestra, March 25, 2013

Simona Lodi took the stage fore the third session of UnlikeUs #3 – Political Economy of Social Networks: Art & Practice. Lodi is an Italian art critic and curator and she is interested in the relationship between art and technology. In her work she is focusing on methods and language, and the relation between social [...]

The poster and flyer are out now

By serenawestra, January 10, 2013

The poster and flyer of the Unlike Us 3 conference are out. Interested in having a copy? Send an e-mail to info[@]networkcultures.org.

Unlike Us conference report and retrospect from an insider

By serenawestra, September 26, 2012

For many people, looking at Facebook is the first thing they do when they wake up. There are about 600 million users on Facebook, and you might as well say that Facebook – together with other SNS like Twitter – has a monopoly power on the Internet. This is in strike with the old ideology [...]

Interview met Koen Damhuis over Facebook, Generatie Y en de samenleving

By serenawestra, May 22, 2012

Afgelopen woensdag sprak Serena Westra van het Institute of Network Cultures met auteur Koen Damhuis over zijn boek ‘De Virtuele Spiegel: Waarom Facebook ons Ongelukkig maakt’. In zijn boek werpt hij een sociologische blik op de positie van zijn generatie, Generatie Y, die in de huidige samenleving steeds meer moeite heeft met de hoge prestatiedruk [...]
CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS: Unlike Us Reader: Understanding Social Media Monopolies...

Call for contributions: Unlike Us Reader

By serenawestra, May 21, 2012

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS: Unlike Us Reader: Understanding Social Media Monopolies and their Alternatives INTRODUCTION Following the success of the previous INC readers we would like to propose to put together a reader with key texts (see under below for possible topics). Anthology (print, pdf, epub) produced by the Institute of Network Cultures in collaboration with [...]

Facebook as Virtual Mirror – Book review

By serenawestra, May 3, 2012

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 [...]

Digital Vertigo: Andrew Keen talks about his new book and web 3.0

By serenawestra, April 25, 2012

Today British new media critic Andrew Keen gave a lecture about his new book ‘Digital Vertigo’ at the Hogeschool van Amsterdam. The book is all build around Hitchcock’s movie ‘Vertigo’ in which the main character falls in love with a woman that does not really exist. This is comparable to web 3.0 argues Keen: ‘it [...]