New Media (MA)
Department and faculty
New Media and Digital Culture
Lecturers
Michael Dieter
is a lecturer in New Media at the University of Amsterdam. His current research interests focus on relations of art, media, ecology and politics. He is finishing his PhD on contemporary technoscientific art practices, entitled 'Reticular Aesthetics'. His publications have appeared in Fibreculture, M/C and the Australian Humanities Review.
Dr Geert Lovink
is a media theorist, activist and Internet critic, and the author of Dark Fiber, Uncanny Networks and My First Recession. He has worked on various media projects in Eastern Europe and India. He is an organiser of new media conferences and cofounder of such Internet projects as The Digital City, Nettime, Fibreculture and Incommunicado. He is also the founder and Director of the Institute of Network Cultures, Research Professor in Interactive Media at the Hogeschool van Amsterdam and Associate Professor in the New Media track of the UvA's Media Studies programme. In 2005-2006 he was a Fellow at the Berlin Institute for Advanced Study, where he finished his latest book Zero Comments. His areas of interest are Internet research, with a special focus on blog theory, media philosophy and German media theory, creative industries research and ICT for development critique.
Dr. Thomas Poell
is assistant professor of New Media.
Previously, he has published on the historical struggles over the democratization and centralization of the Dutch state. Currently, his research focuses on the role of specific new media, such as blogs, Internet forums, and social network sites, in contemporary political conflicts.
Dr. Bernhard Rieder
is Assistant Professor of New Media. His research interests focus on the history, theory, and politics of software, more particularly on the role of algorithms in social processes and the production of knowledge. He has worked as a Web programmer on various projects, including digital methods based research.
Prof. Richard Rogers
is university professor and chair in New Media and Digital Culture at the University of Amsterdam. Recently he was Annenberg Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania and visiting scholar at MIT. He is author of Technological Landscapes (London: Royal College of Art, 1999), Information Politics on the Web (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2004), The End of the Virtual (Amsterdam University Press, 2009), and editor of Preferred Placement: Knowledge Politics on the Web (Maastricht: Jan van Eyck, 2000). His forthcomingbook, Digital Methods, is to be published by MIT Press.
Dr Jan Simons
is Associate Professor in New Media. He has published on cinema, photography, new media theory and game theory. His research focuses on the processes of convergence and divergence brought about by new media. His latest book is entitled Playing the Waves: Lars von Trier‘s Game Cinema.