DIGITAL LIFE
03.08.2012
One cannot not communicate - yet how will we approach our fellow human beings and talk to each other in future? Do we still need them and do they need us? It seems that sooner or later email may be replaced by the message services of social media portals such as Facebook, GooglePlus or StudiVZ. At
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25.05.2012
You invite 100 hackers, lock them up in one room, treat them to soft drinks and pizzas – and give them 30 hours to create some new stuff… be concentrated!What sounds like a cliché “nerd report“, is the simple truth and reality: just check the facts and log on to Next
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21.05.2012
Some of us find it hard enough keeping up with the web, let alone the meta-web. So what is it, and who cares?An example of a lolcatActually I fabricated the term, to imply a kind of second-tier commentary (as in a meta-narrative) that reflects upon the primary, or main level while operating within
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20.05.2012
Book author, physicist and TV moderator Ranga Yogeshwar explained during an almost 2-hour presentation in front of Düsseldorf's state parliament the problems of the new "book sector" but also provided useful ideas on how to solve them.eBook market growsIt is obvious with
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19.05.2012
As internet gains more power and internet users become more aware of this unlimited space, authorities go for solutions to restrict users by using banners. With 35 million internet users population, Turkey is 12th in the world, thus Turkish government foresees the power of internet and takes
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16.05.2012
The top 90 web and app developers and designers from the state NRW met in Cologne last weekend. Their goal: To push ground-breaking Internet projects and to program them in a joint effort - all in 48 hours."Many say Hack NRW would have cut it", laughs organizer Naida Zaboura in a free
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10.05.2012
Within the framework of the pilot programme "Innovative Audiovisual Contents", the film and media trust NRW funds 14 innovative projects from the areas of games, web 2.0, mobile and 360°. The online project "Conserve The Sound" by designers Jan Derksen and Daniel Chun from
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05.05.2012
Advances in technology mean video art can easily be streamed over the web, so why is it that there are so few exhibitions of video art online? And can it beat seeing it in the flesh? After the lazy days of summer, London’s cultural calendar of screenings, events and exhibitions is already
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13.04.2012
Why is there such a thing as Anonymous? The second part of our conversation with Gabriella Coleman, a renowned expert for digital anthropology living in New York, provides deep insight into insider knowledge regarding operations, tactics, and strategies of the Anonymous network. And we’ll
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10.03.2012
Online privacy doesn’t exist. It was lost years ago. And not only was it taken, we’ve all already gotten used to it. Loss of privacy is a fundamental tradeoff at the very core of social networking. Our privacy has been taken in service of the social tools we so crave and suddenly cannot
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