The who is who of the German online world gathers for an annual reunion at re:publica. Since 2007 this convention provides a forum not only to meet face to face, but especially to discuss a broad range of issues concerning internet culture and its implementation into broader society.

Many scholars struggle with the latest budget cuts and the autocratic management that has removed students and teaching staff from participating in decision making processes. If we would actively get involved by investing into our university, we might regain some influence.

Newmediastudies is a thriving community of new media and digital culture enthusiasts. The site is run by students, teachers, and alumni of the New Media & Digital Culture Master’s programme at Utrecht University. WE WANT YOU to make this site even better by helping us to maintain, further develop and promote newmediastudies.nl.

An article about my master's thesis, the Netherlands Institute for Sound And Vision and the mobile application 'Picture War Monuments'.

Media students know that transferring information isn’t as easy as it seems to be. Even when you have a brilliant idea, you won't accomplish anything if you can’t convince the right people. Tactical Tech noticed how many activists struggle to effectively use data in campaigns. In order to drag them out of the '60 page report' syndrome, they created a website about data visualization.

MA students of February 2012, may we have your attention please! You are hereby kindly asked to create a profile for your prospective tutor by choosing three keywords from the list below and write a short abstract about your main research interest (max. 200 words). Based on these profiles, we will assign a tutor to you for your upcoming individual study trajectory. Post your profile here as a COMM...

In this Seminar, organized in collaboration with the Media and Culture Studies Department, you are given the opportunity to take part in an interactive programme with Ward. The “magic” of animation, the use of animation in documentaries and its effect on the field of documentary theory, will be discussed and illustrated with a number of extracts from animated movies Thursday, march 22, 2012, 1...

The end of August 2011 signalled the beginning of my four months long internship at one of the largest indoor art and technology festivals in Europe: STRP Festival. My personal field of interest and the thematic occupation of STRP Festival appeared a perfect match on forehand. Quite soon after my internship started, however, I experienced at first hand good omens do not give any guarantees. ...

De Annual Master of Media Awards (AMMA) zijn gerenommeerde prijzen in het communicatievak. Een van de prijscategorieen betreft de onderzoeksprijs voor studenten die hun scriptie in 2011 hebben afgerond en gepubliceerd. De AMMA biedt een platform voor zowel de student als de opleiding om zich te kunnen profileren. Dit jaar worden de winnaars bekend gemaakt tijdens een feestelijke uitreiking op dond...

iDROPS organiseert op 1 mei het XO CREATIEF LAB en van 30 mei tot en met 1 juni het XO DEVELOPMENT LAB rond interactieve documentaires. Tijdens het eerste LAB wordt er met documentaireproducenten, regisseurs, game developers, game designers, studenten en interactieve developers gebrainstormd over innovatieve ideeën rond interactieve documentaires. Deze en/of andere documentaireprojecten worden t...

This article briefly summarizes my practical and theoretical experiences as trainee at Transforming Freedom in Vienna, Austria and the conducted explorative research into the construction of an alternative net. It takes a different perspective on how individual activism deals with current political and economic interferences on net neutrality by choosing to self-define an alternative environment f...

On July 1 2011, the distinguished professor for history Maarten Prak resigned from his position as director of the Research Institute for History and Culture at Utrecht University. He invited ten young scholars to speak at his farewell symposium on the future agendas of the humanities.

Article on digital narcissism and the way social media like Facebook are cultivating self-loving subjects

A while ago we asked your help to nominate the best books about New Media that recently have been published. 2012 is just on its way, so we are now happy to present to you those books you surely have to read when you want to be up-to-date in the New Media discourse.