Mirko Tobias Schäfer / Assistant Professor
University of Utrecht Department for Media and Culture Studies
Date April 2010 / Category News
Hosted by the Institute for Network Cultures a conference focused on Wikipedia from a critical point of view. Core issues were the politics behind the collective encyclopaedia, the processes of collaboration, the unfolding power structures and the creation of knowledge. A group of students affiliated with Utrecht's New Media and Digital Culture covered talks and interviewed speakers.
Report on the conference Wikipedia. A Critical Point of View (pdf; in Dutch)
Conference summary, resources and videos at the Institute for Network Cultures
Date April 2010 / Category News
SetUp is an initiative that aims at establishing a permanent medialab in Utrecht. For the next three month the abandoned ABN Amro building at the Neude serves as playground, work space and meeting place for the various stakeholders and participants in new media development in Utrecht.
Date April 2010 / Category University
Coding Culture. ICT and the Constitution of Culture
MA course, 200600075
Class meetings every tuesday from 13:15 to 17:00
Cursuskrant