The Institute of Network Cultures is proud to present the first publication of its last intern at HvA, Noah Pellikaan, produced at INC in the first half of 2026:

Kardiomyopathien sind eine Gruppe von meist erblichen, seltenen Herzkrankheiten, bei denen die Struktur des Herzmuskelgewebes gestört ist. Das schränkt die Pumpkraft des Herzens ein; es kommt zu Atemnot, geringerer körperlicher Leistungsfähigkeit und weiteren typischen Beschwerden einer Herzschwäche.

Author: Richardus Krisna Dewandaru Editor: Ayom Mratita

LSZ Future ConnectionsOn 30 June and 1 July 2026, the Department of Management of the University of Klagenfurt, together with the Karl Landsteiner Institute for Hospital Organisation, was represented at the LSZ Health Congress in Stegersbach. The event provided a forum for exchange between researchers and practitioners on current developments and challenges in healthcare.

Aug. 5, 2026 update — On July 28, 2026 the CWA filed for a union election with the NLRB. On August 4, 2026, the Wikimedia Foundation and the CWA reached an agreement on which staff are eligible to participate in the representation election. We agreed to include all of the staff CWA requested in our discussions about eligibility. The NLRB approved the agreement on August 5, 2026. Ballots will be mailed to these staff by the NLRB on August 11 and counted by the NLRB on September 3, based on the election agreement details.

SMEX, a member of the joint ministerial committee tasked with developing Lebanon’s national strategy for promoting the safe and responsible use of the internet and its applications by children, participated in the committee’s first meeting on Friday.
Convened by the Lebanese Ministry of Information, the meeting introduced the committee’s objectives, working mechanism, and the framework for developing the national strategy.

Technologies have, throughout modern history, transformed how people live, work, govern their affairs, and exchange knowledge. Our region has been no exception. From the Translation Movement, which brought texts into Arabic, and the House of Wisdom in Baghdad—a major scientific and cultural institution—to groundbreaking achievements in mathematics, astronomy, medicine, and engineering, the Arab world was not merely a consumer of knowledge but one of its foremost producers. 
New ideas and technologies were debated, refined, tested, and adapted to meet the needs of society.

Case Study #117 – AI and Epistemic Authority Rethinking Human-Machine Relationship in Knowledge Production

Author: Aisya SabiliAyom Mratita Purbandani

Introduction

Bisherige Apps zur Erkennung von Tierstimmen stießen in der Praxis regelmäßig an ihre Grenzen: Ohne stabile Internetverbindung war eine Echtzeitbestimmung im Wald oder im Hochgebirge unmöglich.
Die neue App „BirdNET Live“, eine Weiterentwicklung der App „BirdNET“, löst dieses Problem durch einen technologischen Meilenstein: Die zugrundeliegenden KI-Modelle wurden so weit optimiert, verkleinert und beschleunigt, dass sie sich nun direkt auf dem Smartphone ausführen lassen.

Author: Rizky Murdiana & Ilham RamadhanEditor: Achmed Faiz Yudha Siregar

(expanded version of talk given at the opening evening of INC Exit Fest at UvA Spui25 in Amsterdam, June 22, 2026)

The 2026 Media Pluralism Monitor (MPM) reports that media concentration is on the rise in Europe and that implementation of the EU regulation requiring a special regime to evaluate media mergers is lagging behind. In this blog post, we analyse recent national cases, with a focus on the role played by the European Board for Media Services (Board).

Author: Brigitta Kalina Tristani HernawanEditor: Iradat Wirid

Across universities worldwide, a quiet anxiety has begun to surface among recent graduates. They did everything right – choosing future-proof degrees, learning coding and digital skills, developing critical thinking and creativity. Then they started to apply for jobs.

Proceedings from my presentation during EXIT FEST on the 24th of June 2026, in celebration of Geert Lovink and the Institute of Network Cultures’ departure from the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (HvA) on September 1, 2026.
The Digital Image is Non-Static