Stef Aupers, Associate Professor at Erasmus University’s Centre for Rotterdam Cultural Sociology, kindly invited me to give a guest lecture for the Erasmus Honours Program […] Read More
Tag: Identity
Below the draft version of the last section of chapter 4 of my dissertation-in-progress about mobile media and identity. Not completely finished yet but readable.. […] Read More
‘Funsmith’ Bernie DeKoven wrote a post on his site Deepfun about the differences between game communities and play communities. The post consists of the usual […] 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Anybody can upload a short mobile phone clip to the website 15×15.org which is then displayed on the homepage for 15 seconds as one of […] Read More
Xen Mendelsohn from Xellular Identity has a very interesting interview with Nick Wright from Mobile Youth Trends. Nick is co-author of the mobileYouth 2006 report. […] 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