Posts By: Stijn Peeters

Thomas Boeschoten – Project X Haren: Participation and Mobilization on Facebook

By Stijn Peeters, March 24, 2013

Thomas Boeschoten is a Dutch new media researcher, currently in Utrecht University’s New Media & Digital Culture program and involved with the Utrecht Data School. He was part of a committee that was formed after the 2011 riots in Haren, following a widely distributed announcement of a party there that originated on Facebook. In his [...]

Leighton Evans – Buying and Selling People and Places: The Political Economy of Mobile Social Media

By Stijn Peeters, March 24, 2013

Leighton Evans, a research associate at Cardiff University with a PhD from Swansea University under his belt, is as a researcher chiefly interested in location-based social media services. His article How to Build a Map for Nothing: Immaterial Labor and Location-Based Social Networking dealing with this topic appeared in the Unlike Us Reader, and at [...]
As online social networks gain a larger and larger influence...

Social media for the illiterate: CGNET Swara

By Stijn Peeters, March 21, 2013

As online social networks gain a larger and larger influence on our lives, it is easy to forget that even though Facebook has over a billion users, that means there are still over 5 billion people that are not part of Mark Zuckerberg’s empire. And while some of those people may deliberately avoid Facebook out [...]

Presentatie Unlike Us-app 14 maart

By Stijn Peeters, February 25, 2013

Kom naar de presentatie van de Unlike Us-app donderdag 14 maart. De app bevat tien toegankelijke Nederlandstalige artikelen vol filmpjes, discussiepunten en leestips over sociale media en de kansen en gevaren voor bouwers en gebruikers. De app is gebaseerd op de Unlike Us Reader, een uitgebreide verzameling essays die als boek bij het lectoraat Netwerkcultuur [...]
With our queen abdicating at the end of coming April,...

The Dutch queen and the dark side of social media

By Stijn Peeters, February 21, 2013

With our queen abdicating at the end of coming April, it’s hard to avoid the retrospectives of her reign that now dominate the Dutch news. When it comes to social media, however, you might expect there’s not much to look back on; as a 75-year old woman living a highly sheltered life, surely the queen [...]
Culinary tourism isn’t what it used to be. Two months...

We’re commodities, but maybe that’s all right – what do we pay for using FourSquare?

By Stijn Peeters, February 5, 2013

Culinary tourism isn’t what it used to be. Two months ago, I spent a few days in London. Having never been there before, every evening presented a new challenge: where to eat? A decade ago, I might have consulted my Lonely Planet guide (or my Guide Michelin, had I not been a poor student) or [...]