Masters of Media

YouTube does not endorse infringement of copyright. But with so many newly uploaded videos per day, YouTube has had to come up with alternatives to terminating the accounts of every poor 14 year old who decides to make a slideshow to their favourite Lady Gaga song. Now on certain videos, there are advertising links to iTunes if you use an available song.

A fair part of the Internet activity is spend by surfing and reading the private findings of others about the cool stuff in live. Random strangers with a talent of writing tell us by blogging little stories of their daily lives what to watch, read and share online. In his book Zero Comments Geert Lovink writes among other…

I keep hearing that consumers demand transparency in advertising campaigns. We don’t want advertising companies to promise us one thing, and end up doing another. What else is new?

Especially with the rise of online advertising and the popularity of using social media to get to the right target group, honesty and transparency become important. Not only consumers want transparency,…

One of the most popular personal blogs in Norway belongs to Emilie Nereng, a 14-year-old girl. On blogglisten.no, a ranking of the most visited blogs in Norway, she is number one with an average of over 68.000 visitors daily. Her followers can read about school trips, clothes, hair extensions and other topics related to the everyday life of…

Sweden is famous for lots of reasons. Like for their food, their furniture and their women. They are also known as the biggest pirates in the world. Not on the open sea, but online. The Swedish Piratebay is one of the most used and one of the most attacked websites in the world. They were also…

I chose the New Media master for several reasons.

1. I want to expand my view and expertise from Television to New Media.

2. New Media is the future.

3. I’m interested in the way television is more and more interactive.

I want to combine the knowledge I’ve  gained during my bachelor (television) and my master (new media) in my work…

July this year Facebook achieved a big milestone, their 500 million member-mark. If Facebook were a country, it would be the third largest one in the world. This success story started with Mark Zuckerberg who created Thefacebook at the age of nineteen as a Harvard student. This is exactly the story premiering this October on silver…

Shoot a mosque and you will earn 2000 points, shoot a Muslim calling for prayer and you are another 1000 points ahead! What sounds like a mere disaster in terms of religious intolerance can now be seen online with the “Bye Bye Mosque” game, published by the Austrian right-wing Freedom Party (Freiheitliche Partei Österreich) in the Austrian federal…

Things seem to be looking up in the battle for the Internet. For years now ACTA negations have been mired in secrecy and controversy. The leaked documents from the negotiations painted a bleak picture of corporations using their lobbying power to change the open, free nature of the internet to better suit their bottom line. From enforcing draconian…

Blizzard Entertainment is a major publisher and developer of games and entertainment software. This American conglomerate, placed in California, is behind multiple ‘game of the year’ awards. Additionally it is also the owner and creator of battle.net, world’s first and largest online gaming service covering millions of users all around the world [1]. It is no lie the…

Darkness has fallen over the Bodon Chambers. Only slim light shimmers over a pool of water onto a massive wall, creating a Virtual Space of light and movement. The Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson created Notion Motion: a visualization of light waves. This space is not digital nor exactly analogue. It’s a grey area. But how close…

I’m desperately searching for a house. I was supposed to move into a quite small but cozy flat in the Jordaan, one of the most gezellig-driven district of Amsterdam, but in the end the lady who was offering me an year of sublet (due to some ceramic-related course to take abroad) suddenly changed her mind (about me or…

When just a few months ago the iPad was revealed, it seemed only a matter of when not if the first DJ applications for the newest Apple gadget would hit the market. Now it looks like the Austrian energy drink brand Red Bull will pioneer the electronic music scene with a DJ tool compatible for the iPad, iPod…

Well, although this might not be the first blog I ever wrote (my third this is to be exact), it is the first time I’m writing it for the sake of blogging without personal goals. The thing is that I spread music of me and my mates around the internet, and that is our way of communicating our lives to…

A couple of weeks ago, producer and rapper Kanye West joined Twitter. Although this fact alone is not all too remarkable, as Kanye West has been a fervent blogger for some years now, he has found remarkable ways to put this medium to use. On the one hand, he uses it as a way to distribute and promote his…

In November, 2009, Philippe Brault and David Dufresne, journalists for Arte.tv were onstage at the International Documentary Film Festival in Amsterdam to present the online platform and the first 30 minutes of edited footage of their upcoming project: Prison Valley- a webdocumentary. Prison Valley is a road movie about a small city in the state of Colorado,…

In light of this weeks readings, here’s a clip of McLuhan’s short cameo in Annie Hall. Whenever his writing might seem to be a bit too…self-indulgent, it’s good to remember the man had a sense of humor.

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In 1993, legendary poet, singer and songwriter Leonard Cohen stopped performing and writing. He planned not to perform anymore. In 2008 an official announcement told the world he would return. At Leonard Cohen's personal request, the announcement was not made through a press release. Rather, the official message was posted on the Leonard Cohen fan forum.This is the story of how one fan created an online fan network that would ultimately be recognized and embraced by Leonard Cohen himself, his management, and his record company

In a media landscape dominated by online collaboration, DIY content and crowdsourcing, it may seem like the notion of the Renaissance artist-savant really does belong to an age long since passed. The idea that an artist must have a keen grasp of mathematical perspective, optics, geometry and anatomy can sometimes seem distant on a Web ruled by lolcats.

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Early this year, the ‘die antwoord – zef side’ youtube clip (nearing 3 million views) was all over the place. Like a true internet meme they quickly became the chat of the week among my facebook friends. Their funny faux interview wasn’t just funny (pink floyd’s dark side of the moon will never be the same) their carefully…