Posts Tagged: unlike us #3

Romanian review of the Unlike Us reader

By vince, September 3, 2013

Review by George Hari Popescu, assistant professor at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication Studies from the University of  Bucharest, Romania. I tried to get out of Facebook a few times. It was an excruciating process which ended with a failure every single time. Mark Z.’s buddies held on to me for a whole [...]

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 [...]

Simone Halink – The Non-Transparency Report

By freyjavandenboom, March 25, 2013

Since our lives increasingly take place online we leave behind all sorts of personal data about what we like, what we do and where we are. This might not be of concern to those who claim they have nothing to hide but most of us, though perhaps not as much as those who joined Project [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Richard Metzger – Promoted Posts and the Economics of Facebook

By kimberlyrosewaldbillig, March 24, 2013

With the presentation of a Skype interview, moderator Miriam Rasch introduced Richard Metzger’s commentary in light of his article “I Want My Friends Back” on DangerousMinds.Net [Twitter, Facebook] As practice against the political economy of social networks, a protest of sorts, it went viral. Metzger’s beef with Facebook is that they initiated algorithm changes without consideration of the trickle-down effects (1). A [...]

Ippolita – Minds Without Bodies: Rites of Religions 2.0

By kimberlyrosewaldbillig, March 23, 2013

Ippolita is an international research and writing collective for convivial research and writings based in Italy. It’s born of hackers that corroborate with media and media technologies as a terrain of struggles for power and control (1). Investigations and workshop topics include: (reality) hacking, free software, and philosophy and anthropology of technologies. Representing a heteronomous (2) [...]

Petra Löffler – A History of Distraction From a Media-Archaeological Perspective

By Michelle Oosthuyzen, March 21, 2013

Discussing the theory and critique of ‘social’ during the first session of Unlike Us #3, Petra Löffler provides us with a media-archaeological perspective on the rise of the concept of distraction; an important source of critique when it comes to mass media. By leading us through the history of distraction, Löffler shows how some of [...]
In 2012, Constant Dullaart publically revealed his Facebook password as...

Facebook in film: Crystal Pillars

By Andrew Erlanger, February 27, 2013

In 2012, Constant Dullaart publically revealed his Facebook password as part of a Terms of Service performance at New York’s New Museum. For many, this might be seen as the most terrifying of social media prospects; a radical yet voluntary act perhaps best likened to stripping oneself bare in the heart of a crowded metropolis. So what [...]