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Special issue Television and New Media

Nanna Verhoeff has (co)edited a special issue for Television and New Media on Urban Cartographies: Mapping Mobility and Presence. This special issue takes up new media in situ, addressing how new media technologies have the potential to re-orient us and, by extension, radically intervene in our understandings of place—specifically the public spaces of the city—and our place…

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New blogpost by Paul Schmidt

Paul Schmidt wrote a new post for his blog remystify. It is connected to the workshop proposal he handed in for his course Urban Interfaces and starts off from the workshop he visited at Sonic Acts Festival in the beginning of that course. You can find it here.

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New Amsterdam Magazine #10

To the most recent edition of New Amsterdam Magazine, #10, [urban interfaces] contributed an article about The Hackable City. The online issue of this article called “Hacking Buiksloterham: How Digital Media Can Democratize City-Making” can be found here.

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“Slimme stad, slimme stedelingen”

Recently, Michiel de Lange wrote a contribution (in Dutch) for the Agora Magazine special issue about smart cities. In the essay, he suggests three alternative imaginaries for smart and social cities: data city, playful city and maker city. All of these imaginaries have hackability as a central quality. A scan of the article can be…

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Paul Schmidt’s blogpost about The Art of Data Politics

“”The Netherlands are unsafe. The Netherlands are being islamised. The Refugees are threatening our well-fare state.” Is that true?” RMA student Paul Schmidt wrote a blogpost about the The Art of Data Politics hackathon we organised together with SETUP last month. You can find it here. Check it out!

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