The next few months I’ll be posting more often on The Mobile City conference blog than here. The Mobile City will be organized end of […] 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.
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3 Days after being back from Indonesia, I moved on to Budapest for the conference “Towards a Philosophy of Telecommunications Convergence” organized by Kristof Nyiri, […] Read More
Yesterday I went to Urbanfest ’07 in “Dreampark” Ancol, north Jakarta. This festival, organized for the first time, had lots of contemporary culture such as […] Read More
This is Ramon. I met him at my favorite soto ayam breakfast spot at Jl. Ki Mangun Sarkoro. He has a very special job. He […] Read More
Today, 17 August 2007, Indonesia celebrated the 62th year of independence from Dutch colonial rule. Although my 3rd time in Indonesia, it’s the first time […] Read More
“Take fun seriously” – great motto for our ‘playful identities’ project ! Taken at transit busway Dukuh Atas, Jakarta, August 15 2007.
One of the most interesting and dynamic discussions in Indonesia is how to combine Islam with modernity. It is a complicated debate, which would merit […] Read More
With a Flexi card from former state-owned Telkom, you can use public pay phones while travelling the Jakarta busway. I wonder who needs it anyway? […] Read More
When I was in Roxy Mas the other day, I got a ringtone from this guy, an antique Indonesian song called “Si Jantung Hati” (= […] Read More
(This is a somewhat more personal note on my stay here in Jakarta, for friends and family, that’s why it’s in Dutch). Het is gaaf […] Read More
This really unclear picture is from Telset Magazine (edisi 74 July 2007, p.16), one of the many handphone magazines in Indonesia. It shows a queue […] Read More
Yesterday I visited Roxy Mas in the Cideng neighborhood just west of central Jakarta. According to most people Roxy Mas and neigboring Roxy Square is […] Read More
Lucky capture while drinking coffee in a downstairs coffee bar in Mall Ambassador. People at all tables seemed very engaged in their mobile media, yet […] Read More
It’s great to be back in Jakarta! Yesterday I looked for a room for the coming weeks. Today I went to Mall Ambassador, Jl. Satrio/Casablanca. […] Read More
The last three days I have been at the Mobile Media 2007 conference, organized by Gerard Goggin and Larissa Hjorth. The conference was held at […] Read More
I’ve been in Australia for a few days now, and finally some time & energy to blog. My travel to Australia and Indonesia started out […] Read More
(via SmartMobs) Former Nigerian minister of finance Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala promotes investing in Africa. On of the interesting examples she gives is the privatization and rapid […] Read More
Below a couple of NomadicMILK videos I posted on Youtube: * NM fieldtrip part 1 * NM fieldtrip part 2 * Google Earth animatie: * […] Read More
My research group is organizing a two-day visit (June 12 – 13 2007) to the Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands, by sociologist and psychologist Kenneth Gergen. […] Read More
Another outdoors advertisement, shot already a few months ago in Amsterdam. The ad says “Who do I want to be today?”. Options are: kroegtijger (don’t […] Read More