Associate Professor of Media, Data & Society
On November 9, 2010 Olia Lialina presented her new book on Digital Folklore. The book describes the aesthetics of the amateur web which has been Lialina’s object of study for the past ten years. The book reflects on amateur culture as the basis of the Web; the web that has been built by us, the amateurs.… Read more Digital Folklore and the return of praise for the User in Web 2.0
Being very meta: Visualizing Lev Manovich’ new article ‘What is Visualization?‘ in a tag cloud: Tag cloud exemplifies a broad method that can be called media visualization: creating new visual representations from the actual visual media objects, or their parts. […] In view of our discussion of data reduction principle, we can also call this… Read more Meta studies: Visualizing Lev Manovich’ article ‘What is Visualization?’
Introduction by Geert Lovink Google Research What is the current state of Google research? The first phase of Google research mainly dealt with the mystery of the algorithm and Google’s founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Google has since grown into a multi-faceted corporation which requires a move beyond the first phase. The second phase… Read more Beyond Privacy: Siva Vaidhyanathan on the Hubris of Google
On July 9th, Esther Weltevrede and I presented our ongoing research on the Dutch Blogosphere at the Mediamatic Mapping Ignite event. Here are the slides and notes from our 5 minute superfast and condensed informational Ignite talk on researching and mapping the Dutch Blogosphere. [slideshare id=5295234&doc=mediamaticblogosphere-100927041158-phpapp02] Slide 1: Hi, I’m Anne and this is Esther… Read more Mapping the Dutch Blogosphere at Mapping Ignite
Last weekend was the opening of Constant Dullaart’s solo exhibition titled Romantic Software Dialect. With a previous exhibition “on the changes that the digital age has brought about in the medium of photography” ((FOAM Photography – in reverse: 27 November 2009 – 21 February 2010)) in FOAM, Photography Museum Amsterdam, this is not his first… Read more Constant Dullaart’s Romantic Software Dialect opening
In June the Digital Methods Initiative was invited to attend a workshop devoted to numerical methods in research on migration in Paris, organized by The ICT-Migration program, in collaboration with the University of California (Santa Cruz). Together with Matthieu Renault and other colleagues we did a small project on image representation used on one of… Read more Skyrock image analysis: Color as a main signifier of national/cultural belonging