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Negar Sanaan Bensi and Paul Cournet on the architecture of data centres

Negar and Paul, editors of the book Datapolis, answer a number of questions taken from our audience chat during our Data Centre Tour.… Read More

Can Blockchain Contribute to a Lighter Internet?

Saratu Abiola

Saratu Abiola researches if the blockchain can make the internet more inclusive.… Read More

Saratu Abiola is a Masters Student in the University of Amsterdam’s New Media and Digital Cultures program. Before her Masters, she lived in Nigeria where her advocacy work covered in agricultural policy, climate Justice and women’s rights. She is also a freelance writer, and has been published at Open Democracy, Quartz Africa, Guardian Nigeria newspaper, among other places. Her areas of interest include digital activism, big data and social media platforms.

Designing an inclusive internet: 6 considerations for the near future

Guus Hoeberechts

We have to start rethinking the way we approach the internet if we want it to be an inclusive space. After a roundtable discussion last year, these are some points to remember.… Read More

We are Planet Earth: an interview with Andres Colmenares, IAM

Lilian Stolk interviews IAM founder Andres Colmenares about his perspective on a sustainable, accessible, interdependent internet. … Read More

The Power of the Poor Image

Margarita Osipian

Margarita Osipian shares eight inspiring works from the Small File Media Festival—showing the beauty of the tiny image. … Read More

Audio Report: Data Centre Tour

Listen back to our experiences visiting the data centres in the Wieringermeerpolder… Read More

e-Kondƍ time! How can we tidy up our virtual spaces?

With the various platforms and devices we use on a daily basis, it can be hard to start with cleaning them up. Let The Hmm help you out with this handy guide.… Read More

Introduction

The pandemic shifted and re-shaped our societies, but what impact did it have on the monopolisation of Big Tech? … Read More

A change of tone: Social media and mental health

Guus Hoeberechts

During the pandemic, the online world was unavoidable. In this essay, Guus Hoeberechts asks us to rethink the ways in which we interact online. … Read More

The Googlization of Health: Privacy in the age of Big Tech

Guus Hoeberechts

Guus Hoeberechts interviews researcher Marjolein Lanzing about contact tracing technologies, privacy, and the domination of Big Tech. … Read More

Humour in Pandemic Times

Giselinde Kuipers and Mark Boukes

In this image contribution, Giselinde Kuipers and Mark Boukes trace the global humour cycle of the pandemic through memes.… Read More

Giselinde Kuipers is a professor of sociology at the KU Leuven in Belgium. She is a cultural and comparative sociologist who studies the social shaping of cultural standards in today’s increasingly globalized fields and societies.

Mark Boukes is an Associate Professor of Corporate Communication in the Department of Communication Science at the University of Amsterdam.

Giselinde and Mark, together with an international team of humour researchers, are studying humour in times of Covid.

Introduction

How do fans organise online? And how do they shape our online culture?… Read More

Online fandom: a troubled history

Sjef van Beers introducing online fandom and stan culture… Read More

Meet three stans: someone from the Rihanna Navy, the A.R.M.Y and a Smiler

What’s it like to be a stan? We asked 3 stans to answer this question.… Read More

Adding up the numbers

Christina Eugenia Puentes illustrates the working life of a fan.… Read More

Paradise: life inside a fanbase

Guus Hoeberechts

Guus Hoeberechts interviews Oumaima about her life inside the BTS A.R.M.Y.… Read More

The Hmm Hybrids 1: The Joy of Getting Ready 

We’ve really missed the pre-event rituals that seemed to have disappeared with online events. How do we bring them back into the livestreamed experience? … Read More

Why we should not stan: about fandom and the music industry

Lilian Stolk interviews David Turner about why stans, according to David, are one of the worst aspects of the record industry.… Read More

Introduction

How do you create an interesting experience for both physical and virtual visitors? … Read More

‘We are here together now’ is the crux of every event

Lilian Stolk

Interview with Esther Hammelburg, who is doing her PhD on ‘liveness’, about the essence is of attending an event.… Read More