Associate Professor of Media, Data & Society
I’ve been thinking about buying an e-book lately. I recently moved houses and, boy, books are heavy! I haven’t bought one yet because none of the available e-books currently meet my criteria: Fast: no flickering when turning pages Editable: make notes with qwerty keyboard or touchscreen writing: as a teacher this is a must have!… Read more The e-book is more than a medium, it’s a platform
Illustrations by Het Harde Potlood / The Hard Pencil The Hard Pencil are drawing illustrations at Winter Camp and this one refers to the plenary session from Wednesday night. Someone from the audience said that when we talk about networks and communities we need to keep in mind that our online friends are not our… Read more Facebook friends are not friends, not real friends
This post is inspired by Alex Halavais’ post Halavais is…. where Havalais listed “some of Google’s opinion of me via a search for “halavais is,†“halavais was,†and “halavais will be.†” It reminded me of the iTea project made at the RFID Hacker’s Camp 2007: iTea is an interactive installation in the form of… Read more Anne Helmond is…
I am really happy to announce that I’ve been awarded a commission to continue my research on “Traces of a Networked Life.” The official announcement from the Turbulence blog: We are pleased to announce the winners of our international juried competition, Networked: a (networked_book) about (networked_art). They are, ANNE HELMOND, PATRICK LICHTY, ANNA MUNSTER, MARISA… Read more Expanding my research with Lifetracing.com
Ik werd vanmiddag door Sanne Brand en Mark Zaremba via Twitter geïnterviewd voor hun project Social Networkz aan de Fontys Hogeschool voor Journalistiek in Tilburg. Het “origineel” is te vinden op de blog van Sanne Brand. Wat ik met name interessant vind aan deze vorm van een interview is dat ik door de “restricties” van… Read more Twitter Interview “Ik begin de dag met mijn RSS Readerâ€
I recently installed the Tweetbacks plugin by Joost de Valk which adds tweets that link to your blog posts as comments: People are talking about your posts, and not only in the comments to your post. A lot of that conversation is happening on Twitter, and now, you can take that conversation right back to… Read more Experimenting with Tweetbacks