Associate Professor of Media, Data & Society
For our new Contemporary Media Culture course colleague Laura van der Vlies and I designed a class and corresponding assignment on Media Art. One of the objectives was to get to know the object of study and its accompanying concepts through its art. We asked the students to look at the Sheep Market, We Feel… Read more Teaching crowdsourcing: One Million Giraffes
Blogging is often seen as a new form of journalism, an online diary or a democratising medium which potentially gives every citizen a voice. However, what can we say about blogging and the blogosphere if we look at blogs from within the medium? In other words, what is blogging when we look at the software… Read more My WordCampNL talk: “The Blog as Database”
I appear as an actor in the official Google Chrome OS UI Concept Video on YouTube. Fame at last! Thanks to @jvdgoot for noticing.
Society of the Query conference photography for the Institute of Network Cultures by Anne Helmond. More pictures on Flickr.
More photos in my WordCampNL 2009 Flickr set.
Yesterday I attended the first ever WordCampNL where I gave a talk about “The blog as database. Blogging and the blogosphere through the eyes of software and search engines.” I talked about how research can tell us something about current blogging culture through three concepts: Freshness Fetish (an internal wish to update, the consensus within… Read more Slides from my presentation at the first WordCampNL