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→ Mapping (Secure) Messaging App …
2016/07; deg^– ({5, 0}); @DMI

Cultures of Use – 1970s/1980s
2016/05; deg^– ({3, 2})

This study explores Big Data practices at Facebook through an investigation of the role of commensuration or ‘the transformation of different qualities into a common metric’ in the structuration of analysis and interaction with a major online social media platform. It proposes a conceptual framework and demonstrates the empirical potential of a pragmatic approach based on reading published …

Accounting for the social
2016/02; deg^– ({8, 7}); @BD&S

→ Digital Methods for Number Critique
2016/01; deg^– ({6, 1}); @DMI

→ Tracking Ecologies
2015/07; deg^– ({7, 1}); @DMI

This thesis investigates prediction and the stuff of which it is made. Over the recent years social media have attracted both an academic and public interest in its “predictive power” but when it comes to making predictions researchers generally agree that this is “hard”, “difficult”, or “tough”, especially when it involves uncertainty with regards to the future. Predictions are accomplishments and come into being with a purpose, …

The Making of Predictions
2015/06; deg^– ({8, 3}); @UvA

This paper proposes an analysis of software as an object in-the-world. By conceptualising topological calculation and its computation as cultural techniques, it is argued that techniques can and should be critically analysed in their own right as mediators with the capacity to introduce new and specific modes of ordering space and time-structures by reconfiguring or modelling their relationships differently. …

Topological Calculation and Its …
2015/01; deg^– ({4, 2})

→ Mapping Open Data as an Idea
2015/01; deg^– ({4, 1}); @DMI

→ Mapping the JD Archive
2014/07; deg^– ({7, 3}); @DMI

Coming to terms with the fact that many surveillance networking technologies now overlap with those used in everyday routines, we argue it is necessary to revisit the clear-cut antagonism of top-down institutional or state surveillance and bottom-up counter-surveillance. With this article we counter-map the default clandestine mode of operation of the NSA using Snowden's disclosures since June …

Counter-Mapping Surveillance
2014/06; deg^– ({4, 7})

→ Uses and Users of Climate Change …
2014/04; deg^– ({4, 0}); @EMAPS

In this paper I develop, one the one hand, a critical and philosophical understanding of the anticipation of the smart city, and on the other hand, an understanding as well as problematisation of the role of computer simulation in the imagination and enactment of technology-focused futures and the new (topological) spaces they render actionable. Even though the smart city is a highly interdisciplinary …

In-Formed Spaces
2014/01; deg^– ({7, 6})

In this article we argue for a conceptualisation of MOOCs as socio-technical and cross-platform learning environments. We explore different competing visions and expectations of a contested space, and observe the kind of actors that are actually attracted by these visions and expectations to grasp what kind of learning environment these actors help constitute. To do this, we trace …

Following UvAMOOC on Twitter
2013/12; deg^– ({8, 2})

We report on whether and in what way Google's device-specific definition of the “local” may be used to perform cross-country and comparative media analysis with local domains of Google. We suggest to think of search engines in a framework of actor-network-theory which allows us to focus on the negotiability of the spaces they demarcate, and how both human and non-human actors operate side by side …

Doing Search as Research
2013/11; deg^– ({5, 3})

Digital Pharmacism manifesto
2013/11; deg^– ({4, 4})

DigitalObservatory is a prototype of a knowledge hub on a variety of emergent new-media phenomena. It is an open platform that accommodates in the “messy”, disorganised phase of doing research when a phenomenon is clearly emerging and is gradually being shaped into form, but is not yet stable enough to be defined, demarcated and studied. Through the platform, emergent …

DigitalObservatory
2013/10; deg^– ({6, 6})

Studio @ NN DE Café
2013/10; deg^– ({4, 1})

In this paper I develop a historical and discursive understanding of the Social Graph. It develops two lines of investigation: first, an epistemological debate is traced that attempts to solve issues of the real-virtual divide. Based on this historical trajectory, a methodological pragmatism becomes apparent that also appears in graph theory as applied to the Social Graph. “Big Data” undermines …

What's in the Social Graph?
2013/06; deg^– ({8, 7})

From a software and platform studies approach, this thesis considers the technicity of collaboration on GitHub. It discusses how software has the capacity to produce and instantiate certain modes of collaboration that are specific to the environment in which that software is implemented. In order to do so, it draws from the fields of new media, software and platform studies as well as from …

A Technicity of Collaboration
2013/06; deg^– ({6, 8})

Distributed Narratives (Creating 010)
2013/03; deg^– ({8, 9}); @Creating 010

This paper puts forward a theoretical framework to explore and understand the viral logic of digital replication and sociocultural contagion in an age of networks. It suggests an account of viral logic grounded in the Darwinian understanding of memes as well as in Tarde's understanding of imitation and Bourdieu's notion of habitus. Using this framework, three specific classes of …

Studying Sociocultural Networks
2013/01; deg^– ({9, 7})

This thesis proposes a concept of distributed narratives as a narrative form which is specific to the new-media ecology. As such, it advocates a multilayered approach to thinking about narrative structure as a dynamic formation. First, it proposes a theoretical framework, subdivided into layers, for understanding narrative as an encoded distributed formation. The first layer will identify …

Distributed Narratives
2012/11; deg^– ({8, 8})

911
2012/06; deg^– ({5, 10})

README
2012/06; deg^– ({7, 10})

Distributed Narratives (Views)
2012/06; deg^– ({3, 9})

Hyperbody
2012/06; deg^– ({10, 10}); @Mind Design

Goethe-Institut programme #1 2012
2012/01; deg^– ({0, 5}); @Mind Design

Klub 470 flyer series
2012/01; deg^– ({0, 4}); @Mind Design

Uncertain Ends I & II
2012/01; deg^– ({0, 5}); @Mind Design

TextCompass
2011/12; deg^– ({5, 11}); @Mind Design

Amsterdam in Documents 2010–1275
2011/10; deg^– ({2, 7}); @TWaF

Rotterdam 2057 (BLAAK10)
2011/05; deg^– ({2, 7}); @WdKA

Rotterdam 2057
2011/05; deg^– ({2, 5}); @WdKA

Exercises in Style
2011/04; deg^– ({2, 6})

Huig issue #12
2011/02; deg^– ({1, 4}); @WdKA

The Global in My Pocket
2010/06; deg^– ({5, 5})

127 Years of Dutch Graphic Design
2010/06; deg^– ({5, 9})

Communication Failure
2010/04; deg^– ({0, 8})

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