A week or two ago (just before the migration of this blog the a new server) I walked past an outdoors advertisement in Amsterdam, near […] 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.
Hehe, finally got it working. What an immense hassle to migrate bijt.org to a new host without bandwidth restraints… I’ll try and post something right […] Read More
Source – via Textually.org. A study by Nielsen Media Research suggests that the type of phone you wear says something about your personality: What your […] Read More
Below some notes I made today at the Symposium Playing the Urban. Symposium Playing the Urban @Balie 31 maart 2007 http://www.debalie.nl/artikel.jsp?podiumid=media&articleid=102445 PROGRAM 13-14h […] Read More
Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf has an article about environmental problems that arise because of people putting mobile phones and other gadgets like iPods in the […] Read More
This is the poster presentation I gave a while ago at the conference Virtual Ethnography in Contemporary Social Science, organized by The Virtual Knowledge Studio. […] Read More
Yes, it’s our last day. Yesterday we arrived in Abuja, after having stayed a few days in Jos for the second time. We are again […] Read More
Here is mr. Dominic busy talking through his handset. Business in Nigeria has changed a lot with the advent of the mobile phone. It has […] Read More
After visiting Lagos, we followed a Peak Milk transport by truck. Our driver was mr. Bello. He himself was of partly Fulani descent. When he […] Read More
kablog-j2me 2.0.8 for Nokia6233 This is an older pic shot in Jos. I was out on Ahmadu Bello way talking to some people selling all […] Read More
kablog-j2me 2.0.8 for Nokia6233 We were shown around by the proud Italian captain of the new port in Lagos, owned by Grimaldi.
kablog-j2me 2.0.8 for Nokia6233 Just a shot of a shot inside the WAMCO warehouse. We were comparing the quality of our photocams.
kablog-j2me 2.0.8 for Nokia6233
kablog-j2me 2.0.8 for Nokia6233
We have now seen the milk factory and the packaging process, went to the market were Peak Milk products are being sold and talked to […] Read More
I was very uncomfortable with this way of transportation. This is a not-so-cool way to move around in this city. In my view it only […] Read More
Tuesday, Esther and I arrived in Lagos by air from Abuja. We were in the same plane as LL Cool J and his entourage… The […] Read More
Just a dump of some of the most interesting pics from the last few days in Shonong, a rural area south of Jos where we […] Read More
We’ve met some Fulani herdsmen out in the bush in the village of Shonong, district of Bachit, Plateau State. Ab has been there for a […] Read More
Strange name indeed for a phone vendor. They sell all kinds of moderately recent phones there, from 4900 naira (~= 30 euros) up to 45000 […] Read More