Else-If-Then

Author: Kim

  • News From Comparative Media Studies at MIT

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    I never thought I’d see it, but Henry Jenkins is leaving Comparative Media Studies at MIT and moving to the Annenberg School at USC. The full story (or as full as will ever be made public, I’d guess) is on Henry’s blog. I express surprise, but in another way I’m not surprised at all. The…

  • Florian’s moment of revelation

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    Florian at Ars Electronica 2007. Note, visit Ars Electronica 2007 for more info. about Florian winning the Prix Ars prize for theory. I was still a student in 1995, in Comparative Literature, and there was a conference in Berlin. It wasn’t really a conference so much as a public culture event, and it was called…

  • Florian Cramer on the problem of new media paradigms

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    Florian at Worm in Rotterdam, Summer 2007Originally uploaded by cuuixsilver We moved on to discuss “new media” as a discipline and I mentioned how both Sher Doruff and Renee Turner had said one thing that attracted them (among other characteristics) was the lack of constraints on the field, because no body knew what was possible…

  • The secret origins of Florian Cramer

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    Florian during his interviewOriginally uploaded by cuuixsilver Ok, there aren’t really any secrets but I haven’t seen any really biographical interviews with Florian anywhere else, so maybe it will be some kind of revelation. 🙂 I’ve known Florian for a long time now, about 15 years, but when working on my projects in the Netherlands,…

  • datadirt

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    A quick note to thank Ritchie Pettauer (whom I met through Facebook!) for asking to publish my Facebook paper on his blog, datadirt. As he describes it: the main focus is (pro)blogging, WordPress and online marketing with the occassional media theory twist. I also like to blog about music and funny stuff on the net…

  • Brenno de Winter

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    B. de WinterOriginally uploaded by cuuixsilver I should also note that Brenno is starting to establish quite a journalistic reputation when it comes to reporting on IT and issues of privacy, freedom on information, and related matters. For example, he has relentlessly pursued the privacy problems with the OV Chipkaart. You can see the most…

  • Finally, Brenno de Winter

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    Having got through everything I want to say for now about IR9, I hope to finish with my summer interviews–it’s not too long now until I go back to NL for more interviews, so I have to get these done! So actually one of the earliest interviews I did in the summer was with Brenno…

  • Bernhard Rieder and Algorithmic Proximity at IR9

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    The last talk I saw that I’ll report was Bernhard’s, on Algorithmic Proximity. Bernhard started off with background on the work he and Mirko have done that led up to the hybrid foam model, but his main question in this talk was to look at lower level sociality, such as in sites like Flickr, where…

  • My Panel

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    I don’t want to brag..well, actually I do. The panel went very well considering how many speakers we ended up with. Everyone kept to the time limit, no one had technical problems. And the talks themselves were all quite good; I think even exceptional in going beyond the anecdotal case studies we so often see…

  • Marianne van den Boomen at IR 9.0

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    The next talk I saw was Marianne’s; a much more developed version of the research she presented at New Network Theory in Summer ’07. The title this time was “E-sociability metaphors:From virtual community to social network and beyond,” and looked at the evolution of metaphors used to describe social relationships on the Internet. The most…