Noema magazine features a piece on how Guizhou, a former underdeveloped hinterland province, is linked to the global circulation of data and people. In the […] 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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Dutch tech news Tweakers.net reports that Cowboy, an e-bike company from the Netherlands, has stopped offering its urban racing game Race. The game allowed e-bike […] Read More
Together with various colleagues and organizations, I am co-organizing this event later this week: https://circulateproject.nl/2024/05/03/workshop-relational-interfaces-design/ Organized by Dark Matter Labs, The research project Charging the Commons at the Civic […] Read More
Rest of World reports on startup Nippy from Argentina that offers flexworkers free use of the loo in exchange for their data. A new type […] Read More
Ars Technica writes about Amazon pulling the plug on its Fresh grocery shopping concept, because it just didn’t work: Just Walk Out was supposed to […] Read More
If you’re a landlord wondering which tenants you have to accept, for example, you might pose a question like, “are buildings required to accept section 8 vouchers?” […] Read More
Ars Technica reports on a AI-powered project for safer cycling. For $ 399.00 USD you get a small 330 gram camera, powered by a Raspberry […] Read More
Dutch tech website Tweakers reports that 110 supermarkets in The Netherlands (ca. 1,7%) have started to use cameras and software made by the French company […] Read More
Under the title “The tyranny of the algorithm: why every coffee shop looks the same”, The Guardian has a very interesting longread that touches on […] Read More
Dutch local news channel for Amsterdam AT5 reports that GroenLinks, a Dutch leftwing green party, is worried about the rampant use of smart doorbells like […] Read More
Another grim case of how (faulty) software and algorithms can impact real people’s everyday lives in specific workplaces: Ars Technica writes that “Fujitsu software bugs […] Read More
On Jan. 22 2024 between 16:00-18:00, I co-organize a roundtable event about ‘Creative Urban Methods’. The event is both to celebrate the launch of our […] Read More
Today is the day Amsterdam is implementing 30km/h on the majority of its streets. So a good occasion to reblog this article here. Vox writes […] Read More
The Conversation has an interesting piece called “WeWork approached physical space as if it were virtual, which led to the company’s downfall”. In the article, […] Read More
I am very happy and proud to announce that the special issue in Mediapolis Journal on Creative Urban Methods, that I co-edited with my [urban […] Read More
Ars Technica reports about a lawsuit filed against 14 DC landlords who are accused of having colluded “with a property management software firm to keep […] Read More
This news item by Vice on the quick rise and demise of Revel scooters in NYC makes me think about temporarily as a theme that […] Read More
I love this series of portraits by Rest of World called Life as a Gig Worker. While a political economy perspective of platform labor tends […] Read More
The Markup writes: The software product formerly known as PredPol but rebranded into Geolitica, has been right in predicting crime a paltry <1% in an […] Read More
This one is sad and funny at the same time: 404 media shares a video from a 2017 incident involving police in LA being too […] Read More