Associate Professor of Media, Data & Society
I’m blogging at the Next Web Conference over at the Next Web blog. Please check out my posts there: Andrew Keen “Web 2.0 is dead, long live Twitter†Ricardo Baeza-Yates “People don’t want to search†Chris Sacca “Users distinguish success from failure†Klaas Verbeken “Porn as the backbone of technological innovation online†Music and Bits… Read more Blogging at the Next Web Conference
Last week I gave a presentation on social secrets of the web and their privacy issues for the Social Secrets Graduation Workshop at the University of Applied Science/HvA. The presentation (in Dutch) was filmed and can be viewed online at the Social Secrets website or in low-res below: Anne Helmond from Socialsecrets on Vimeo. The… Read more Presentation at the Social Secrets Graduation Workshop
Sander Veenhof / SNDRV launched a new project for his graduation at the Gerrit Rietveld art academy in Amsterdam. He explains the concept in his press release: I’ve created an installation that allows anyone in the world to help me grow a bouquet of flowers to color up the graduation ceremony. The bouquet is growing… Read more Publicityplant needs your social media attention to grow!
Sorry for the delay in replying to emails but I’m teaching, writing, moving and teaching some more. See you next week!
Today, during the New Media course for the first year students at the University of Amsterdam we discussed ‘Citizen Journalism’ (Flew 2008) and ‘From Blogs to Open News: Notes towards a Taxonomy of P2P Publications.’ (Bruns 2003). Concepts such as gatewatching, gatekeeping and open news were central to their assignment. I asked them to look… Read more Online News models visualized by my students
When Esther Weltevrede gave a short lecture on our MacBook Reading Club at Mediamatic she placed the aesthetics of the Photobooth self-portrait within the larger history of self-portraits: Digital camera technology advanced ego-photography and ways for selfpresentation. Analogue photography mainly focused on the presentation of others. With exception of the time consuming and error prone… Read more The MacBook Reading Club revisited with the Facebook Self-Portrait