Associate Professor of Media, Data & Society
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
The Kooks Thrice The Ting Tings I’m at the Lowlands festival taking pictures for VPRO 3VOOR12. Follow me on Flickr and/or Twitter.
I finished my first semester of teaching in July and the final tests from our first year students revealed some interesting web 2.0 insights. Students were asked to define a few web 2.0 terms besides answering more in depth questions. We read and graded over 300 exams and I took some notes while grading. Some… Read more Web 2.0 concepts explained: Folksonomy and tags according to our first year students
Warren Sack, Alexander Galloway, Greg Elmer and Anat Ben-David explore the contents of networks. The Summer Talks are hosted by Richard Rogers. The program is part of the 10-year Jubilee of Govcom.org, the group responsible for the Issue Crawler and other info-political tools for the Web. It is also part of the Digital Methods Summer… Read more Amsterdam New Media Summer Talks: Networked Content