Associate Professor of Media, Data & Society
My colleague Esther Weltevrede has compiled this excellent list of things Wired has declared dead over the past years. Wired: intitle:”* is dead” site:wired.com The Wired Graveyard: The Web Is Dead Futurism Is Dead Skype on Fring Is Dead The desktop is dead “Cyberspace” Is Dead Devo Is Dead Copyright Dead DRM Is Dead The… Read more The Wired Graveyard
This is the transcript of the Digital Methods Initiative Advanced Program Projects week 2 opening talk on Issuecrawler 1.0 and Social Media by Anne Helmond. The 2.0 denotes an ‘improved’ or progressional version of the web that builds upon and develops Web 1.0. […] Implicitly rooted in this vision of the web is a sense… Read more How Web 1.0 is the Issuecrawler?
Last week I was invited by Sven Goyvaerts from the Transmedia Postgraduate Program in Arts + Media + Design to give a lecture on Identity 2.0 as part of the Social Media & the Avatar Day, organized at the Memories of the Future symposium in Vooruit Ghent, Belgium. ANNE HELMOND / Identity 2.0 from sven… Read more Video from my presentation on Identity 2.0
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