Institute of Network Cultures

How to conceptualize online sociability in the 21st century? To answer this question, Communities at a Crossroads looks back at the mid-2000s. With the burst of the creative-entrepreneur alliance,...

Culture of the Selfie is an in-depth art-historical overview of self-portraiture, using a set of theories from visual studies, narratology, media studies, psychotherapy, and political principles...

This publication marks the first resultsof the Tactical Media Room Ukraine project, launched in February 2022 in Amsterdam after the shocking Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Tactical Media...

AI ethics has never been far from the industries it sought to critique. While originally designed to bring values such as fairness, accountability and transparency to Big Tech and its products, the...

From print to ebooks : a hybrid publishing toolkit for the artsAuthor: Joe MonkPublisher: Institute of network culturesPublication Date: Nov 17, 2014Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

From the fast-food industry to the sharing economy, precarious work has become the norm in contemporary capitalism, like the anti-globalization movement predicted it would. This book describes how...

How do global audiences use streaming platforms like YouTube, Netflix and iPlayer? How does the experience of digital video change according to location? What strategies do people use to access...

Internet on the Outstation provides a new take on the digital divide. Why do whole communities choose to go without the internet when the infrastructure for access is in place? Through an in-depth...

Autistici/Inventati was funded in 2001 with the goal of creating an autonomous server and providing free web services which respected users' privacy and anonymity. Having grown into a distributed...

Media Do Not Exist: Performativity and Mediating Conjunctures by Jean-Marc Larrue and Marcello Vitali-Rosati offers a radically new approach to the phenomenon of mediation, proposing a new...

Sabine Niederer. Networked Content Analysis: The Case of Climate Change. Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2019.Author: Sabine NiedererPublisher: Institute of Network CulturesPublication...

In On Editorialization: Structuring Space and Authority in the Digital Age Marcello Vitali-Rosati examines how authority changes in the digital era. Authority seems to have vanished in the age of the...

Computer mediated interpersonal interactions are defining our daily lives as we know it. Studying this phenomenon with various methodologies, across different cultures and traditions is a crucial...

Theory on Demand #41 Pandemic Exchange - How Artists Experience the COVID-19 Crisis edited by Josephine Bosma News reports on the Covid-19 pandemic seldom include how the virus and the societal...

From Mah-Jong, to the introduction of Prussian war-games, through to the emergence of location-based play: maps and play share a long and diverse history. This monograph shows how mapping and playing...

Radical Housing : Art, Struggle, CareAuthor: Ana VilenicaPublisher: Institute of Network CulturesPublication Date: Dec 17, 2021Number of Pages: 236 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

Shadowbook : Writing Through the Digital 2014-2018Author: Miriam RaschPublisher: Institute of Network CulturesPublication Date: May 24, 2018Number of Pages: 154 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

What is the correlation among the creative industries, creative industry policies, new media paradigms and capitalism as colonial relations of dominance? What is the role of these industries in the...

Inspired by taxonomist Jack Goody's theorizing of 'ancient lists' as 'intellectual technologies', this book analyzes listing practices in modern and contemporary formations of power, and how they...

VIDEOBLOGGING BEFORE YOUTUBE.Author: TRINE. BJRKMANN BERRYPublisher: Institute of Network CulturesPublication Date: Jun 19, 2018Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...