(Via the mobile-society@groups.l.google.com mailinglist) The SFGate has an article dated February 27, 2006 about the impact of the mobile phone. The somewhat over the top […] 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.
We have probably seen this example of a USB stick that swells up when full, and deflates when empty. (source: www.smallsurfaces.com) Although this is a […] Read More
(Via Mobile Cowboys) British site www.modyourmob.co.uk is dedicated to modding the phone. Modding the phone in moderate ways already happens quite often, I think, as […] Read More
Textuality.org reports that many of the English(?) office workers have an infatuation for hightech mini-gadgetry such as mobile phones, Blackberry’s, iPods. They are dubbed G.O.S.S.I.P.S […] Read More
The world’s first open source cellphone Qtopia GreenphoneTM has been released. The phone runs on Qtopia, a specially crafted lightweight operating system based on Linux. […] Read More
OK, so I got a new UMTS enabled phone, a Nokia 6233. I got a Dutch T-mobile flat rate internet subscription for € 9,50 a […] Read More
(From www.bright.nl.) If you’ re in dire need of someone to call you to save you from a boring obligatory drink with colleagues, or to […] Read More
kablog-j2me 2.0.8 for Nokia6233 Let’s see if this will work as smoothly as the last post. —– —– [edit: had to edit the image width […] Read More
A couple of days ago i bought a new UMTS-enabled phone, finally :-). It’s a Nokia 6233. So now i’ll be able to publish from […] Read More
According to a yearly recurring research by Dutch consultancy bureau CheckItOut (a Newcom branch), teenagers as well are annoyed by people talking too loud in […] Read More
source: EU website The European Commission has started a public consultation about the issue of child safety and the use of the mobile phone. The […] Read More
Thursday, June 29 Esther Polak in cooperation with Virtueel platform has organized the workshop Mobile Habits about mapping and mobility in the Balie in Amsterdam. […] Read More
This Friday, Mylene and I did a bit of a crazy thing and drove over 200 kilometers east to Essen and back again at the […] Read More
Friday June 17 I chaired a session which I had organized about the theme of ‘social inclusion’ during the second Holland Open Software Conference. Speakers […] Read More
Last week, Saturday June 18 I was at the “Old curtains, new screens” conference, organized by our colleagues from the NWO-TKC project. The conference was […] Read More
Yes yes, still here.. after finally moving to my own apartment in the east of Amsterdam and becoming responsible for my own dirty dishes, and […] Read More
Not too long ago I posted these cool designs for mobile phones that make you think about their use in public space. Now here is […] Read More
Thursday, 30 March 2006, V2_ in Rotterdam hosted an evening on internet use in China. The Great Leap has become a popular metaphor to describe […] Read More
Funny, yesterday I discussed my preliminary paper on mobile communication as gift-culture (following the well-known anthropological classic by Marcel Mauss) together with my colleague PhD […] Read More
Everyone knows mobile phones can be irritating as hell to others, especially in public places. But as soon as we ourselves are calling, we don’t […] Read More