Associate Professor of Media, Data & Society
I will be speaking (in English) at the first WordCampNL edition in Utrecht on 31 October 2009. I will be presenting my research on Blogging for Engines filled with updates and practical implications for bloggers. Please join us if you’re interested in blogging/WordPress and I hope to see you there! Summary: Blogging is often seen… Read more Speaking at WordCampNL in Utrecht
On August 31, the first day of the academic year, Elizabeth Losh, author of Virtualpolitik, gave a lecture at the University of Amsterdam. In her talk on “D.I.Y. Authentication: Digital Rhetoric and the Subversive Potential of Information Culture” she describes a subgenre within New Media that deals with new bridges between politics and new media.… Read more Liz Losh on Digital Rhetoric at the UvA
Last week I gave a presentation on social secrets of the web and their privacy issues for the Social Secrets Graduation Workshop at the University of Applied Science/HvA. The presentation (in Dutch) was filmed and can be viewed online at the Social Secrets website or in low-res below: Anne Helmond from Socialsecrets on Vimeo. The… Read more Presentation at the Social Secrets Graduation Workshop
When Esther Weltevrede gave a short lecture on our MacBook Reading Club at Mediamatic she placed the aesthetics of the Photobooth self-portrait within the larger history of self-portraits: Digital camera technology advanced ego-photography and ways for selfpresentation. Analogue photography mainly focused on the presentation of others. With exception of the time consuming and error prone… Read more The MacBook Reading Club revisited with the Facebook Self-Portrait
Yesterday I gave a presentation on blogging and art for a group of artists at Flatstation: FLATSTATION presents Mostly It Happens At Night: public event 2 ——————————————————————– Sunday 11 January 2009, 16:00 – 19:00 hrs Presentations by: Sander Veenhof and Anne Helmond Moderator: Lucas Evers Music: Mark Meeuwenoord Language: English This Sunday, January 11th, Flatstation… Read more Slidespace on “Blogs, blog art and the network”
Last Friday I gave a lecture on ‘The Perceived Freshness Fetish’ at the Stifo@Sandberg Moving Movie Industry Conference organized by Mieke Gerritzen and moderated by Koert van Mensvoort. In my lecture I focused on the changing notion of authorship in blogging as blogs are more and more becoming autonomous units within the network. This network… Read more Slides and notes from my presentation at Stifo@Sandberg Moving Movie Industry