Associate Professor of Media, Data & Society
Tuesday the 22nd of September was a big day for both graduating New Media MA students and New Media studies itself. The first official graduation ceremony (which were previously held together with Film and Television studies in Mediastudies) marked the beginning of a new era for New Media within Mediastudies. New Media has grown in… Read more Photos from the first New Media MA Graduation Day
Selah Sue Bloc Party The Whitest Boy Alive Aux Raus Patrick Wolf Patrick Wolf Delain Peaches Audience Peaches Pictures taken for VPRO 3VOOR12. More Lowlands 2009 pictures on Flickr.
Music and Bits unconference Jeff Jarvis (What Would Google Do) Andrew Keen Ricardo Baeza-Yates Renato Valdés Olmos (My Name is E) Matt Mullenweg (Automattic/WordPress) More pictures on Flickr: The Next Web 2009 (Set)
On Thursday evening, the Hard Pencil collective gave a cardboard hacking workshop at Winter Camp. The workshop did not require any specific skills but everyone could hack at their own level. All the participants had to form duos and make an avatar. No, not your own well-known online representation but an avatar made out of… Read more Hacking the cardboard workshop by Hard Pencil
Tea and Twitter Yesterday, @puur from Puur* Amsterdam organized the second edition of Twitter Tea Amsterdam. We had a lovely high tea at the Bakkerswinkel Warmoesstraat in Amsterdam with 30 female tweeps. @10inc and @silvertje Twitter ladies Pie and scones @marlooz @SanneW More photos on Flickr in my Twitter Tea (Set)
Last night I was introduced to the phenomenon of nerdcore. Yes, I’ve been often labeled a nerd and me and my friends often spend evenings just geeking out so this sounded like the perfect evening. Glitched, the Dutch nerdcore event program started of with the premiere of the Nerdcore for Life documentary followed by several… Read more Photos and video from Glitched, the first Nerdcore event in Amsterdam.