Associate Professor of Media, Data & Society
Mediamatic is organizing a three day mapping festival where Esther Weltevrede and I will present our research on the Dutch blogosphere at the Mapping Ignite evening. “Map Fest takes place at Mediamatic on July 6, 8 and 9. Map Fest brings together kindred spirits to explore, create, define and oppose maps.” Day 1 is Mapping… Read more Mapping Festival at Mediamatic
Last Monday we started our DMI Summer School with the Digital Methods Training Certificate Program where we discussed the “Foundations for Online Research with Digital Methods.” Please head over to the Digital Methods Initiative blog if you want to keep up-to-date on our talks and projects: Pre-Foundations of Digital Methods When words are “keywordsâ€: Query design… Read more Digital Methods Initiative Summer School 2010 coverage
I’m not a big fan of Google’s new result page which seems to favor freshness and a ubiquity of entry points over relevance. Or, in other words, it is increasingly referring to itself (Google News, Updates, YouTube) for results as may be seen in the following picture: Let’s look at the ranking of the results:… Read more Google has become self-referential
Literanita is a literary evening at De Nieuwe Anita in Amsterdam where writers and poets present their work. The theme of the third edition was politics with the Dutch elections coming up in a week. More photos on Flickr.
With members of the Digital Methods Initiative we participated in Hack de Overheid where we created a mockup of Tikkr. Tikkr displays the pulse of media spaces and the pace of issues across different media spaces. Our concept won the third prize, woohoo! Notes and slides from our presentation are located below the photos. All… Read more Photos Hack de Overheid & Tikkr
On Tuesday we celebrated the book launch of Frank Meeuwsen’s Bloghelden, a history of the Dutch blogosphere from 1995 to 2005, at SETUP in Utrecht. I was asked to give a presentation on a project Esther Weltevrede and I are working on: Mapping the Dutch blogosphere over time. In his article ‘Links, Lives, Logs: Presentation… Read more Mapping the Dutch Blogosphere #Bloghelden