My background is not only media studies/theories but I’m also enrolled in the Bachelor program of Law at the University of Amsterdam. This post is about my critique on the interaction between privacy and user on Ning.com.
For class we had to do an assignment about the social networking site (SNS) Ning.com. Register, play and write about it. My first…
Last week we read Vannevar Bush’ essay “As we may think” and one aspect I truly found fascinating was the purpose for what he came up with the idea of the memex: an effort to arrange a mechanism to automate the actions of saving, indexing and retrieving the human knowledge.
“The investigator is staggered by the findings and conclusions of thousands of…
FourSquare has recently been described by bloggers as the next great micro-updating service – a geolocative platform that could compliment and even overcome Twitter. Some are even guessing that with its built-in impetus to visit local businesses, it may achieve the holy grail of start-up social media services and actually turn a tidy profit. Foursquare, a handy application run off mobile devices, incorporates…
There’s a lot to be said about Twitter and alike, even though few have done so from a humanities perspective. Today, I would like to pose some thoughts that might inspire more new media researchers to move forward in this field.
In 1977 Foucault wrote a book called ‘Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison’ in which he describes how…
“My nephew has HDADD: Hi-Definition Attention Deficit Disorder. He can barely pay attention, but when he does it’s unbelievably clear.” – Steven Wright
Since Twitter came out it was pretty obvious it was something else. Its minimal, quasi-zen approach (short haiku-style posts, ultra-light interface, a very “carpe diem” real-time nature) won many users over. But why would such a restrictive, limited social…
“Weird: I tweeted, Anderson Cooper’s person saw it, seconds later I’m phoning in to CNN on the Letterman affair(s). Talk about Twitter power” – Howard Kurtz’s Twitter feed, for the Washington Post.
Traditional journalism is having to contend with Twitter. That’s because after three years of the sites’ existence, the micro blog service proved it can do more than enable someone to…