Still no news from the university officials, I must say, the pressure is getting to me by now. In the meanwhile, I’m catching up on some reading starting off with professor Geert Lovink’s Zero Comments. I must say, so far it’s a great publication (inside joke: and there’s nothing cynical nor snarky about this statement) and it would have been a good addition to the thesis bibliography. I guess this is also not the last time this will cross my mind..

Anyhow, I still won’t publish the work for reasons mentioned in an earlier post. I did however take some time to gather some more statistics from the thesis, namely the appearances of each author. I could elaborate on how I adore every author from the list, but it’ll (hopefully) show from my writings when it’s finally published.

Number of mentions:

Author # sources # mentions
Nissenbaum, Helen 1 19
Lanier, Jaron 3 19
Foucault, Michel 1 18
Mayer-Schönberger, Viktor 1 13
boyd, danah 3 12

UvA related authors (graduates, professors, Ph.D’s) formerly known as ‘all-stars’:

Author # sources # mentions
Biemold, Hannah 1 2
Helmond, Anne 1 5
Lovink, Geert 2 5
Nieborg, David 1 3
Rogers, Richard 2 5

Other notable winners:

Author # sources # mentions
Winner, Langdon 1 3