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Meet intern Melissa #gabproject
My name is Melissa Blekkenhorst. After finishing the Bachelor Media & Culture, I started the Master New Media & Digital Culture. As an intern of the UDS, I am joining…
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Meet intern Ruud #projectkroncrv
My name is Ruud Dielen, intern at Utrecht Data School and student of the master New Media & Digital Culture at Utrecht University. After a bachelor in Media & Culture,…
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Meet intern Mauricio #gabproject
My name is Mauricio Salazar Landeros, and I’m part of the MA in New Media and Digital Culture at Utrecht University. In February, I got an internship at the Utrecht…
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A GLIMPSE INTO THE DIGITAL POORHOUSE
Review of the “Privacyrede 2019” by Virginia Eubanks at TivoliVredenburg, Utrecht, 16-01-2019 Although Virginia Eubanks describes herself as a “hard-won optimist”, it is difficult not to feel a tinge—or a…
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Launch Big Data Histories issue
You are cordially invited to the launch of the ‘Big Data Histories’ special issue of TMG – Journal for Media History Please RSVP via this GoogleForm Programme 15.30 Opening by…
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Workshop: Strategies of Facebook’s data processing factory
by Lucia Dossin and Lídia Pereira Topic modeling, algorithmic clustering and profiling are common practices of social networks. Users are characterized by, for instance, inferring psychological traits though Facebook Likes….
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Working paper – Walking as method in data studies
Maranke Wieringa & Karin van Es (d.d. 17 August 2018) Walking is ingrained in human, and especially urban (Amato 2004), culture. Recently, there has been a wave of structured, reflective…
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Welcoming our 2 new PhDs!
We are very (!) excited to welcome Tim de Winkel and Maranke Wieringa to our team as PhD students of the department Media and Culture Studies at Utrecht University (starting…
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Tool criticism: From digital methods to digital methodology
Cite as: Van Es, Karin, Maranke Wieringa and Mirko Tobias Schäfer. 2018. “Tool criticism: From digital methods to digital methodology.” Datafied Society Working Paper Series. 28 May. Web. https://datafiedsociety.nl/tool-criticism NB…
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Data walk in Utrecht – Identity & identification
After establishing ‘identity and identification’ as lens we started our walk in Utrecht on the Drift. Immediately different markers of identity were observed with the Utrecht University logo being omnipresent….
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