Introduction

What are the causes and impacts of the domination of US tech companies around the world?… Read More

Internet in “the rest of the world”

When things are written about internet culture, especially when written in English, it is often about trends, platforms or tools that are used and developed in North America or Europe. In this article Lilian Stolk explores the internet in “the rest of the world”.… Read More

An imperfect digital world

Multidisciplinary artist Ibiye Camp shares her work ‘Data, the New Black Gold’ which explores how data has materialised in the West African landscape.… Read More

A seat at the table

Margarita Osipian interviews Neema Iyer about gender, equitable internet access, and how to improve data governance across African countries.… Read More

Learning to listen

A collection of ‘must listen’ podcasts on digital colonialism. … Read More

Resisting Algorithmic Colonialism

A list of initiatives that are developing tools specifically for the African continent or raise awareness of the adoption of Western technologies.… Read More

Introduction

Can alternative platforms fix the internet? … Read More

Embracing Constraint

Margarita Osipian interviews Soyun Park on her creative use of Big Tech tools. … Read More

ohyay! ohyay! ohyay! A platform that lets you define your own interactions

Lilian Stolk visits the virtual office of Andrew Lin, one of the founders of ohyay.… Read More

Korean makeup tutorial

Soyun Park creates a Korean makeup tutorial with a twist. … Read More

Soyun Park is a multidisciplinary artist and designer living in The Hague. She is also a founder of RGBdog, a studio bridging technology, and sound with visual arts. Park is interested in the question of how technology influences human functioning, from the individual level (physical movement and relationships) to the social level (architecture and politics). Often in collaboration with sound artists, her work takes the shape of videos, installations, and audiovisual performances. By making use of new media and technology, Park’s work investigates the border between the digital world and reality, which is getting thinner every day.

Enter: a friendly and experimental digital space

Interview with Florian van Zandwijk, project manager Enter… Read More

10 thoughts on the future of the internet

Lilian Stolk interviews philosopher and developer Jan Hein Hoogstad… Read More

Mastodon explained

During The Hmm ON Alternative Platforms Roel Roscam Abbing & Aymeric Mansoux told us about Mastodon, on Mastodon. … Read More

Reclaiming Power

A list of artists that move outside of the typical use of a certain platforms.… Read More

Introduction

How does TikTok re-write the world?… Read More

The Gazing Machine

Lilian Stolk diving into TikTok’s machine learning recommendation algorithm.… Read More

The Great American Meme Off – Democrats vs. Trumpists on TikTok

Josephine Oettle exploring how the 2020 US elections shaped the new meme war on TikTok. … Read More

Josephine Oettle is a freelance writer and communication specialist, who completed her master’s degree in New Media and Digital Culture at the University of Amsterdam in 2020. As a researcher in new media and digital culture, she specializes on TikTok, popular & youth culture and (political) subcultures online.

From #witchtok to #mushroomtok: Marieke Kuypers’ favourite TikTok niches

Marieke Kuypers’ exploring the many different sides of TikTok… Read More

Perfect Sync: Mapping TikToks through video collage

Sjef van Beers creating video collages to map the world of TikTok. … Read More

Sjef van Beers is an artist whose work focuses on technology and the internet. He looks for loopholes in the digital media we use on a daily basis to dissect and rearrange them. 

Introduction

What makes Facebook so powerful?… Read More