Posts By: reiniervriend

Frederik Zuiderveen Borgesius on Online Audience Buying

By reiniervriend, March 9, 2012

In session three ‘The Private in the Public’ of the UnlikeUs #2 conference, Frederik Zuiderveen Borgesius gave a very clear talk on ‘The Ecosystem of Online Audience Buying’. The example Zuiderveen Borgesius used to visualize the workings of online audience buying was that of a set of dresses that he had ‘put’ in an online [...]

Raoul Boers & Ñusta Nina: Disliking the ‘Like’

By reiniervriend, March 9, 2012

During session three ‘The Private in the Public’ of the UnlikeUs #2 conference, Ñusta Nina en Raoul Boers presented ‘Disliking the Like’. Both speakers are lecturers at the Hogeschool van Amsterdam but in different fields, which gave the presentation a split focus, at once on the trying to understand the common success of Facebook from [...]

Olia Lialina and ’97 Web Melancholy

By reiniervriend, March 9, 2012

Olia Lialina took the stage in the 2nd session of UnlikeUs #2, Artistic Responses to Social Media. During her presentation she introduced artwork she had created together with Dragan Espenschied. Using the notion of  ‘digital folklore’, Upon (2011) is their most significant contribution to the theme of social media, as it reinvents current such platforms “with the technology [...]

Unlike Us! #1 Session 2 – Oliver Leistert and Marc Stumpel

By reiniervriend, November 25, 2011

In the second session of the Unlike US! meeting, Oliver Leistert and Marc Stumpel addressed the entity that is rapidly becoming synonymous with the term social media: Facebook. As the giant among other platforms like Twitter, Youtube and such, Facebook seems to singlehandedly dictate the list of issues raised by the Unlike Us! network in [...]