Associate Professor of Media, Data & Society
Ik win: Challenge someone with your web popularity, and let’s see and show other people how high you’re ranking. Based on the number of Google results: mediamatic.net/ikwin Ben Ceverny gave one of the most fascinating talks at PICNIC08 on data visualization and data complexity. Unfortunately I badly hurt my foot in the Westergasfabriek on Friday… Read more Photos PICNIC08
In February I graduated cum laude with a thesis on blog software and search engines titled ‘Blogging for Engines. Blogs under the Influence of Software-Engine Relations.’ It aims to add the study of software-engine relations to the emerging field of Software Studies, which may open up a new avenue in the field by accounting for… Read more Blogging for Engines. Blogs under the Influence of Software-Engine Relations
This review of the Software Studies Lexicon was written in June 2007 after Matthew Fuller was kind enough to send me a sneak preview pre-publication copy. I sent the PDF of the Software Studies Review to Fuller to which he replied with some insightful remarks on my suggestion for a digital working environment, see update… Read more Review: Software Studies a Lexicon Edited by Matthew Fuller
Would you like to attend the PICNIC conference, but your university refuses to finance your ticket unless you are the keynote speaker? If you are an academic researcher, scientist, or all-round investigator we have exactly 25 passe partout tickets (value 1245 Euro) available for those with an enquiring mind. What do you need to do… Read more 25 New Media Researchers invited to attend PICNIC’08
For some reason this Google Alert struck me as odd. I previously described how Google Alerts showed me that Google is dividing the web into different spheres, for example the websphere, the blogosphere, the newssphere, the ‘commentosphere’ etc. This Alert however, does not so much seem to point to a specific sphere but to a… Read more Google expands its indexing focus to actions within social networks
The MacArthur and HASTAC Digital Media and Learning Competition goes international and welcomes submissions from the Netherlands. UPDATE: According to the guidelines only the Innovation in Participatory Learning Awards are open for submissions from the Netherlands. (Thanks to Daan for pointing this unfortunate fact out) The 2008 Digital Media and Learning Competition theme is Participatory… Read more 2008 Digital Media and Learning Competition