The internet is becoming a tightly interwoven part of our everyday lives. There is a growing market for web services which augment the daily life of users trough products with an internet connection. We call these real world extensions of the web embedded media. In the last couple of years we explored …

In this literary research I asked myself the following question: Are the emotional experiences through playing video games of any benefit in art education? A question that immediately raises other questions: What kind of emotional experiences players get anyway? Why through video games, what is their …

Roma are a transnational nomadic population. For centuries, they have traveled around the world due to persecutions or in search of economic prosperity. Roma are a heterogeneous minority. They are not one group. There are many different groups of Roma. Nowadays, an estimated 12 million Roma live in Europe …

For successful execution of operational tasks within complex work situations, communication is essential. This ‘operational’ communication is analyzed to gain insight in the way the parties concerned put a similar meaning on the exchanged information. Or, as linguists call it: create shared understanding. …

A manifesto written by Geert Lovink and Franco Berardi in which they call for action against the influence of financial markets, which are destroying the foundations of social civilization.

English Abstract: Administrative turbulence in social work: the challenge of pluralist coalition-formation As elsewhere in Europe, social work in the Netherlands is facing ever more administrative changes. This article analyzes the administrative changes that local social work institutions are currently …

The Internet is changing the way we organize work. It is shifting the requirements for what we call the “schedule push” and the hierarchical organization that it implies, and therefore it is removing the type of control that is conventionally used to match resources to tasks, and customer demand to supplies …

The Internet is changing the way we organize work. It is shifting the requirement for what we call the ‘schedule push’ and the hierarchical organization that it implies, and therefore it is removing the type of control that is conventionally used to match resources to tasks, and customer demand to supplies …

The results in this document are written for Accenture/ATS Netherlands, a company which delivers technical solutions for large companies. 800 employees working together to give customers IT related solutions with services like Quality and testing, CRM, BI, Oracle etc. My assignment is offered by the …