Associate Professor of Media, Data & Society
Reflections on PICNIC by the researchers of the Enquiring Minds seminar. The PICNIC organization offered 25 researchers a free pass to the conference and asked Digital Methods Initiative researchers Sabine Niederer and Anne Helmond to organize an informal seminar where everyone could meet and present their research to fellow researchers. At the end of the… Read more ‘Enquiring Minds’ PICNIC08 Papers online
Eva Kol – Hyves. ISBN: 9789021526232. €9,95 Hyves is the biggest social networking site in the Netherlands with five million members. It could be described as Myspace meets Facebook covered in with what looks like an exploded emoticon set folder. Whether or not you like an abundance of smileys, Hyves is actively used by millions… Read more Book presentation Hyves by Eva Kol
Tag clouds are a nice way to visualize the content tags of a website. Flickr started this trend when they displayed a “All-time most popular tags” tag cloud on their front page. The size of the tags in the tag cloud is usually relative (more frequently used tags are displayed in a larger font). In… Read more Tag clouds as a research object
I am an official self proclaimed hard bloggin’ scientist now. To find out what this means please read the hard bloggin’ scientist Manifest Vo.1 This initiative was pointed out to the Masters of Media by Geert Lovink. When I read the manifesto I could identify with it, but at the same time it made me… Read more I am a hard bloggin’ scientist