Quiet week while packing up, moving houses and getting settled
Sorry for the delay in replying to emails but I’m teaching, writing, moving and teaching some more. See you next week!
Online News models visualized by my students
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
The MacBook Reading Club revisited with the Facebook Self-Portrait
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
Performance by Issa Nyaphaga from Freedimensional
Photography: Anne Helmond Performance by Issa Nyaphaga from Freedimensional from silvertje on Vimeo.
Hacking the cardboard workshop by Hard Pencil
On Thursday evening, the Hard Pencil collective gave a cardboard hacking workshop at Winter Camp. The workshop did not require any specific skills but everyone could hack at their own level. All the participants had to form duos and make an avatar. No, not your own well-known online representation but an avatar made out of… Read more Hacking the cardboard workshop by Hard Pencil
Facebook friends are not friends, not real friends
Illustrations by Het Harde Potlood / The Hard Pencil The Hard Pencil are drawing illustrations at Winter Camp and this one refers to the plenary session from Wednesday night. Someone from the audience said that when we talk about networks and communities we need to keep in mind that our online friends are not our… Read more Facebook friends are not friends, not real friends