Associate Professor of Media, Data & Society
In het kader van de Open Monumentendag Amsterdam 2011 bezocht ik de Centrale Markthal op het terrein van Food Center aan de Jan van Galenstraat. Ik fiets elke dag langs het Food Center en zie dat er op dit moment gewerkt wordt aan herstructurering van het gebied en de restauratie van de Centrale Markthal. Ik… Read more Foto’s: Open Monumentendag Amsterdam 2011, Centrale Markthal
Zaterdag was de feestelijke opening van de Tuin Jasper Leijnsenstraat 21 waar zich in de binnenplaats een gezamenlijke tuin en 11 individuele moestuintjes bevinden. Het project genaamd I CAN CHANGE THE WORLD WITH MY TWO HANDS is geïnitieerd door kunstenaar Natascha Hagenbeek en bevindt zich op dit moment in een testfase. Het weer was prachtig,… Read more Foto’s: Opening moestuin Bos en Lommer
Last week the Netherlands-German border was struck by a 4.2 earthquake which went unnoticed by many but not on Twitter. It was joked that the quake had a bigger impact on Twitter than anywhere else. I was interviewed by Radio 1 about this phenomenon and I briefly talked about the resemblance between the recent East Coast… Read more Interview on Radio 1 about Twitter and the Dutch earthquake
Section two of the High Line in New York City was recently opened and the walk is absolutely beautiful. The photograph in the second photo is Nebraska State Highway 2, Box Butte County by Robert Adams. See my black and white set of the High Line on Flickr.
Invitation to join the network (a series of events, reader, workshops, online debates, campaigns etc.) Concept: Geert Lovink (Institute of Network Cultures/HvA, Amsterdam) and Korinna Patelis (Cyprus University of Technology, Lemasol) Thanks to Marc Stumpel, Sabine Niederer, Vito Campanelli, Ned Rossiter, Michael Dieter, Oliver Leistert, Taina Bucher, Gabriella Coleman, Ulises Mejias, Anne Helmond, Lonneke van… Read more Unlike Us: Understanding Social Media Monopolies and their Alternatives
Update: A rewritten version of this paper has been published in New Media & Society. Please use the following citation: Gerlitz, Carolin, and Anne Helmond. 2013. “The Like Economy: Social Buttons and the Data-Intensive Web.†New Media & Society 15 (8): 1348–65. doi:10.1177/1461444812472322. [link] Co-authored paper by: Carolin Gerlitz (Goldsmiths, University of London) and Anne Helmond (University… Read more Hit, Link, Like and Share. Organizing the social and the fabric of the web in a Like economy.