(Sorry, in Dutch only..) Op zaterdag 13 december om 14.00 uur zal in in het theater in de kelder van Selexyz Donner, Lijnbaan 150 Rotterdam […] Read More
Author: Michiel de Lange
Michiel de Lange (1976) is an Assistant Professor in New Media Studies at Utrecht University, researching mobile media and urban culture and identity. He is the co-founder of The Mobile City, an independent research group founded in 2007 that investigates the influence of digital media technologies on urban life and the implications for urban design and policy. Michiel is trained as a cultural anthropologist, and holds a PhD in philosophy (2010) with a dissertation about mobile media technologies and urban identities. He collaborated in a locative media art & science project (www.nomadicmilk.net). He worked for Kennisland, a Dutch think-tank that aims to strengthen the knowledge-based society. Here he worked on several projects at the intersection of ICTs and the city, e.g. co-organizing the Creative Capital conference. He also volunteered and worked for Cybersoek, a computer neighborhood center in Amsterdam. He is advisor e-culture at Mediafonds.
Michiel is on Twitter and LinkedIn.
In the shameless plug department: “De draagbare lichtheid van het bestaan: het alledaagse gezicht van de informatiesamenleving” is a new book (in Dutch) about how […] Read More
Tomorrow (Tuesday November 11 from 15:30 to 17:30) I will do a talk about the mobile phone in Indonesia and popular culture for the Studium […] Read More
Just for laughs. Philip Freriks presents the news on the Dutch public television. At the end of the news, during the weather news, his phone […] Read More
An interesting question raised by Wired Magazine’s Gadget Lab (Via Textuality): “Is Text Messaging Making Subtitles Popular?” According to Actress Kristin Scott Thomas, the ubiquity […] Read More
Starting this academic year Jeroen Timmermans, Jos de Mul and I are teaching a new course called “Homo Mobilis: mobility, media & identity” at the […] Read More
Dutch newssite nu.nl writes about a recent research by Hi, a telecom provider targeted at young people. According to this research involving 1017 people between […] Read More
A recent ethnographic study done in France says young people have a different relation with their phone than most adults. Or rather, through their mobile […] Read More
I decided to rework the literature page from linking to other people’s work to featuring my own output. You can find some of my work […] Read More
This BBC article “The power of play on the internet” is interesting in the light of our overarching “Playful Identities” research question: How do new […] Read More
Shoot-n- Share is a documentary made by two young students at the Erasmus University Rotterdam, Lieke van Pruijssen and Bieke Versloot. It is a film […] Read More
[I wrote this blogpost earlier for The Mobile City] […continued from last post] Thursday May 22 2008 I visited the CHI conference The Web and […] Read More
[I wrote this blogpost earlier for The Mobile City] Thursday May 22 2008 I visited the CHI conference The Web and Beyond: Mobility in Amsterdam. […] Read More
[I wrote this blogpost earlier for The Mobile City] Just a few more or less recent items that I find interesting (cutting it up in […] Read More
[I wrote this blogpost earlier for The Mobile City] The BBC reports that Cubans get access to mobile phones, as Raul Castro lifts the ban […] Read More
[I wrote this blogpost earlier for The Mobile City] Dutch tech/nerd blog tweakers.net report that Hyves, Holland’s most popular social network, has struck a deal […] Read More
The Mobile City conference, which I organized together with Martijn de Waal, has been a great succes! The auditorium of the Netherlands Architecture Institute in […] Read More
I got this pic a little while ago from a colleague (thanks Tina!). I think it’s very funny. (source appears to be PersianHub.org).
Sad as it is, the Joran van der Sloot and Natalee Holloway case has a funny side to it. And the mobile phone plays a […] Read More
Below the announcement of The Mobile City conference I am co-organizing: The Mobile City conference 27 & 28 February 2008 NAi (Netherlands Architecture Institute) Rotterdam, […] Read More