Rosalind Gill, attached to the London School of Economics, did a revealing survey about working…
This section is based on conversations I had over the years with people from a variety of…
For an idea about the current state of affairs in the warfare and intelligence industry go to www.
Propaganda aims to make any war seem a good war. Digital technologies facilitate this even better.
Professor Lessig was invited by the National Board of Culture of the Netherlands and gave a lecture…
The original Nature investigation can be found at www.nature.com/news/2005/051212/full/438900a.
According to Wikipedia, the term ‘digital divide’ was first used by Dr. Simon Moores in a 1996 BBC…
Sugata Mitra’s statement at the OrO OrO Teachers Lab in 2001, see www.teacherslab.hva.nl
www.internetworldstats.com. ©Copyright 2006, Miniwatts Marketing Group.
One may argue that mobile phones were easily accepted because they seemed to be a combination of…
In the Netherlands the formal commission Posthumus II was established in 2006 to investigate…
David J. Burney is Commissioner of the New York City Department of Design and Construction (DDC).
For an impression of the tools that humankind has invented to transcend the boundaries of time and…
Riva and IJsselsteijn make the following distinction between presences that media can generate.
John Law and Vicky Singleton, writing about liver disease caused by alcohol abuse, describe objects…
‘The ‘amazing acceptance’ refers to the billions of people who have watched television around the…
Even the double hermaneutic in social sciences, as formulated by Anthony Giddens, emerged from my…
In my perception Latour accelerates and translates the work of Roland Barthes to the domain of the…
This text was published in 2003 and rewritten and re-published in 2005. I cite here the version…
I discussed the stories with Prof. Cees Hamelink, promotor, and Dr. Sally Wyatt, co-promotor of…
I do not elaborate here on the notion of performativity, which is used by the authors of “Cyborg…
The definition of an actor is understood in a broad sense in STS. An actor can be a person, a thing…
In the transcript of Foucault’s lecture Plutarch is cited in a footnote: “A good plan, as it seems…
Foucault spells ‘parrhesia’ in a phonetic Greek way. I have chosen to spell it in a modern way and…
