Facebook in film: Crystal Pillars
In 2012, Constant Dullaart publically revealed his Facebook password as part of a Terms of Service performance at New York’s New Museum. For many, this might be seen as the most terrifying of social...
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Petra Löffler – A History of Distraction From a Media-Archaeological Perspective
Discussing the theory and critique of ‘social’ during the first session of Unlike Us #3, Petra Löffler provides us with a media-archaeological perspective on the rise of the concept of distraction; an...
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Karlessi from Ippolita – Minds Without Bodies: Rites of Religions 2.0
Ippolita is an international research and writing collective for convivial research and writings based in Italy. It’s born of hackers that corroborate with media and media technologies as a terrain of...
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Richard Metzger – Promoted Posts and the Economics of Facebook
With the presentation of a Skype interview, moderator Miriam Rasch introduced Richard Metzger’s commentary in light of his article ”I Want My Friends Back” on DangerousMinds.Net [Twitter, Facebook] As...
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Leighton Evans – Buying and Selling People and Places: The Political Economy...
Leighton Evans, a research associate at Cardiff University with a PhD from Swansea University under his belt, is as a researcher chiefly interested in location-based social media services. His article...
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Thomas Boeschoten – Project X Haren: Participation and Mobilization on Facebook
Thomas Boeschoten is a Dutch new media researcher, currently in Utrecht University’s New Media & Digital Culture program and involved with the Utrecht Data School. He was part of a committee that...
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Simona Lodi – Art as Networked Machinery: When Art Becomes Anti-Social for...
Simona Lodi took the stage fore the third session of UnlikeUs #3 – Political Economy of Social Networks: Art & Practice. Lodi is an Italian art critic and curator and she is interested in the...
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Simone Halink – The Non-Transparency Report
Since our lives increasingly take place online we leave behind all sorts of personal data about what we like, what we do and where we are. This might not be of concern to those who claim they have...
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Social-R-Us – Unlike Us #3 Party
The second conference day of Unlike Us #3 ended with a smashing party at Op de Valreep. Op de Valreep used to be an old animal shelter, but the building functions now as a squat with a big variety of...
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Romanian review of the Unlike Us reader
Review by George Hari Popescu, assistant professor at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication Studies from the University of Bucharest, Romania. I tried to get out of Facebook a few times. It...
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