Posts Tagged: UnlikeUs#2

Max Schrems talks about Europe versus Facebook: our way or Mark’s way?

By orsolyagulyas, March 10, 2012

Max Schrems, an Austrian law student and founder of the Europe versus Facebook group, took the stage in the last session of Unlike Us #2 – Social Media Activism and the Critique of Liberation Technology – and told his audience about his ongoing battle for privacy with the social networking giant Facebook. It all started [...]

Anne Helmond and Carolin Gerlitz Explain the Like Economy

By lisavanpappelendam, March 10, 2012

Session #4 Software Matters on the second day of Unlike Us #2 gives the floor to Anne Helmond (pictured right) and Carolin Gerlitz (pictured below). They read from their paper “Reworking the Fabric of the Web: The Like Economy”, which focuses on medium specific qualities that organize value and rework the fabric of the web. Facebook, [...]

Seda Gürses and Privacy in Online Social Networks

By lisavanpappelendam, March 9, 2012

For session #3 The Private in the Public, Seda Gürses (pictured right), the coordinator of the interdisciplinary project Security and Privacy in Online Social Networks (SPION), was invited to speak about the technological responses to present-day privacy issues. SPION proved to be a very challenging and highly necessary endeavor to reconcile notions of privacy and [...]

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 [...]

“What is Reification 2.0?”, Asks Dylan Wittkower

By lisavanpappelendam, March 9, 2012

Reification 2.0 runs parallel to Web 2.0. We are continuously taking an active role in this online process of reification. We reify ourselves and others. Or so claims Dylan Wittkower (pictured right) on the morning of March 9th, 2012. Wittkower starts his talk at the Unlike Us #2 conference with an explanation of David Fincher’s movie [...]