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 [...]

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 [...]

Stefania Milan on Cloud Protesting

By orsolyagulyas, March 10, 2012

The very last session of Unlike Us #2, Social Media Activism and the Critique of Liberation Technology, was a culmination of what was in the air from the beginning of the conference. As Oliver Leistert has posed in his introduction to the session, the question is how does social media change activism, how does it [...]

David Berry Thinks Software

By Catalina Iorga, March 10, 2012

David Berry, the second speaker of the Software Matters session at UnlikeUs #2 conference, took the audience on an informative journey into the ever-increasing scale and importance of software. Berry’s talk aimed to provide a basic understanding of the role played by software in contemporary society, then to present ways of exploring and studying software, [...]

Ganaele Langlois Speaks about Language and Meaning in Software

By Catalina Iorga, March 10, 2012

Software Matters, the first session of the second day of Unlike Us #2, was introduced and chaired by Korinna Patelis, who underlined that software can be read and interpreted as a text, which has extraordinary implications for social media analysis. Users of social media read this text over and over again on a daily basis, while scholars [...]

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 [...]

Jodi Dean Says: “There Is No Such Thing as the Social”

By Catalina Iorga, March 9, 2012

After Geert Lovink’s enthusiastic welcome speech, which also introduced Social What? Defining the Social, the first session of UnlikeUs #2, Jodi Dean (pictured right) took to the stage and launched into a passionate presentation – that made excellent comic use of Lego-inspired imagery – to explain how there is no such thing as society or [...]