Analyses, thoughts, opinions and reviews on collaborative media. The articles below gives you an insight into collaborative media tools and what is happening within new media more generally.
The full name is ACM International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, but everybody just calls it CHI. It is the most important academic conference in the field of human-computer interaction and interactio [...]
Scholarly communication has for a long time relied on the medium of text. In the academic field of interaction design, much of what is talked about is centered on experience, which is obviously hard to communicate in tex [...]
What is a “designerly way of working”? In this keynote from the Interaction 2012 conference in Dublin, interaction design professor Jonas Löwgren talks about his view of what the core elements of design are. [...]
The academic journal Designs for Learning recently published an interview with Medea’s Jonas Löwgren. In the article they discuss the emerging field of collaborative media, the highly cited book Thoughtful Interac [...]
You might have heard me say that design and academic research overstates the importance of ideas for innovation, that ideas are in fact cheap and easy to produce, and that the real challenges lie in the execution. Perhap [...]
Media Evolution recently released the publication Internet of Things: how media industries can benefit from a network of connected things. Medea’s David Cuartielles and Richard Topgaard contributed. Download the pu [...]
Interaction-design.org is a highly successful community dedicated to giving free access to world-class educational materials. The Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction is at the core of their activities and the most [...]
The blog Curating Media & Design is an academic news service where we share links to relevant books, articles and CFP within academic subjects related to media and design. You can subscribe to this news service by e [...]
Google Scholar is one of the easiest tools to use for you who are interested in keeping up with the latest research in any given subject field. Google Scholar is, for sure, not all-encompassing and not all articles are a [...]
X is a designer/researcher. His work focuses on how to help social movements to develop practices for spreading news and information in ways that do not rely on the Internet as main platform of communication, but rather [...]
A very simple deployment of the Internet of Things has been developed by researchers from several universities in the UK. Their project is called Tales of Things and Electronic Memory which is about linking everyday obje [...]
[STUDENT WORKS] Silvia Venditti just graduated from the Interaction Design Masters Programme at K3, Malmö University. Her thesis “Shared Resources, Calm Applicances: Sustainable Interaction and Care in Housing Con [...]
More than half the population on Earth now lives in cities. This poses a great threat to communal resources like water and waste management, but also gives opportunities: people living more densely means that there are e [...]
Arduino is an acclaimed open-source microcontroller that was recently mentioned at the Google I/O conference where they announced that the Android development team has created a toolkit that allows developers and designe [...]
Within academia, peer-reviewing is the backbone of quality assurance and a practice where people in your academic field evaluate what you have achieved and make suggestions for improvement. Peer-reviewing takes place at [...]
[READINGS] The Internet of Things and Material Media are of great concern to us at MEDEA. This article gives you suggestions for readings in the field, such as a conference on how to use existing and emerging technologie [...]
The Internet of Things is a way of describing an envisioned future where not only computers and mobile phones are connected to the Internet, but also everyday objects through the use of sensors. Any object could be equip [...]
It has been a while since Alice E. Marwick’s dissertation “Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity, and Self-Branding in Web 2.0″ circulated on the social web but, as you all know, academic dissertations ar [...]
One of the most prestigious academic journals in the field of design history, theory, and criticism is Design Issues, published by MIT Press since 1984. It is a toll-access journal, meaning that you have to pay to access [...]
The practice of web publishing (in the forms of blogs, microblogs etc) is characterized by a “publish, then filter” model, meaning that whoever can publish whatever without asking a publisher for permission o [...]
I was contacted by a journalist regarding the latest Google I/O keynote that happened yesterday. For those of you not familiar with that yearly event, it is when Google announces its latest projects, presents gadgets,int [...]
Here are three articles that caught my attention last week: first, a piece on how you evaluate the reliability a Wikipedia entry, then a reflection on what defines citizen journalism in the light of “the man who tw [...]
Before the Easter holidays, Oksana Mont posted an introductory text on why Sweden might be fertile ground for what is called “collaborative consumption” (read her article here). The article generated quite so [...]
David Cuartielles is at the HCI conference in Bangalore, India, and discovers copies of copies of Arduino boards: “If being copied is a sign of being into making something right, what does it mean that someone copi [...]
Oksana Mont claims that Sweden is fertile ground for collaborative networks and ways of living and consuming, as there is a tradition of modesty, illustrated by the concept of “Lagom”. Read her article here! [...]
Update: scholareads.com is up-and-running! The Twitter hashtag #longreads is a tag people use to share “the best long-form stories on the web” (click here for an example). The idea is that people share the st [...]
One of the projects running as part of MEDEA’s Living Lab the Stage is the transmedia enterprise Granny’s Dancing on the Table. This project won the prestigious ARTE Pixel Pitch Awards in London 2010. Every y [...]
This is a listicle* on games in learning. You might enjoy it if you’re looking for a point of entry to game studies in general and educational games in particular. Many thanks to Elisabet Nilsson for sharing these [...]
We have a blog where we share sketches and project ideas in new media and interaction design. The latest contribution is Face Twitch, a reaction-time game built during a tech workshop on rapid prototyping techniques comb [...]
There’s a meme saying that “on Facebook you tell lies to your friends, on Twitter you tell the truth to strangers”. However one-dimensional and untrue this might be, Twitter has become a powerful social [...]
Social curation of web content is a practice you engage in every day, sometimes even without being aware of it. Posting a link to your Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr (or Digg, Diigo or Delicious) is in essence you curating [...]
It’s time for a few stories that caught my attention last week: a critique on the logics of gamification, a highly successful student driven news site and an integration project using digital media to spark social [...]
Tumblr.com is a light-weight blogging tool, perfect for posting texts that are too long to tweet but too short to write a “real” blog post on by using Wordpress. This is a post on why and how you should use T [...]
Emergent by Design is a great blog that explores what is happening at the intersection of technology, communication, and culture. It’s run by Venessa Miemis who is currently pursuing a Masters in Media Studies at t [...]
Digital media conference SXSW Interactive brings together developers, thought-leaders and early adopters from all over the world. This is the industry conference where micro-blogging site Twitter reached its tipping-poin [...]
Malmö University runs the one-year masters programme Communication for Development. Below is an excerpt of an article written by ComDev’ers Ylva Ekström, Hugo Boothby and Anders Høg Hansen where they try to und [...]
One of the emerging trends in our society where “social innovation” quickly has become a buzz-word is the notion of Collaborative Consumption, a concept that could be illustrated by the quote “why would [...]
Report part 5 of 5. South by Southwest (SXSW) is a set of film, interactive and music festivals and conferences that take place every spring (usually in March) in Austin, Texas, United States. It is a conference that att [...]
Report part 4 of 5. South by Southwest (SXSW) is a set of film, interactive and music festivals and conferences that take place every spring (usually in March) in Austin, Texas, United States. It is a conference that att [...]
Report part 3 of 5. South by Southwest (SXSW) is a set of film, interactive and music festivals and conferences that take place every spring (usually in March) in Austin, Texas, United States. It is a conference that att [...]
Report part 2 of 5. South by Southwest (SXSW) is a set of film, interactive and music festivals and conferences that take place every spring (usually in March) in Austin, Texas, United States. It is a conference that att [...]
Report part 1 of 5. South by Southwest (SXSW) is a set of film, interactive and music festivals and conferences that take place every spring (usually in March) in Austin, Texas, United States. It is a conference that att [...]
This is the third post in a series I call A Quick Guide to Collaborative Media Tools (first post here, second post here). The purpose is to give a quick introduction to tools that are helpful when doing collaborative wor [...]
Do you ever dream of being able to write without being disturbed by incoming e-mails and facebook notifications? OmmWriter gives you a clutter-free word-processing interface with no menus, no spell check and no notificat [...]
I’ve found a bunch of good reads this week and I’d love to share them with my colleagues. Topics range from journals practicing “cascading peer review”, how to hitch a ride with your mobile and en [...]
Varför skapar man, varför sprider man? Jonas Löwgren pratar om kollaborativa medier på En Akademisk Kvart på Malmö stadsbibliotek. [...]
Jonas Löwgren gave a short presentation at the event “En Akademisk Kvart” about how the society is currently engaged in a collective experiment concerning how we should use the collaborative media. See the v [...]
Minecraft is a hugely successful independent game where you construct your own 8-bit-style gaming environment. The game first started out as a hobby project by Markus “Notch” Persson and is currently in alpha [...]
I ett par veckor har vi sett bilder i TV från de egyptiska protesterna mot Mubarak. En internettjänst som använts flitigt av egyptierna är Malmöbaserade Bambuser, som bidragit till att omvärlden så snabbt kunde f [...]
This is the second post in the series A Quick Guide to Collaborative Media Tools (first post is here). The purpose is to give an introduction to tools that are helpful when doing collaborative work. This post is about co [...]
This is the first post in the series A Quick Guide to Collaborative Media Tools. The purpose is to give an introduction to tools that are helpful when doing collaborative work. The first post is about social bookmarking. [...]
For the past few months, I’ve spent a few hours every week on Twitter looking for scholars, PhDs, post-grad students etc within the field of new media (broadly speaking). The reason for this is the idea of social c [...]
A couple of months ago, I wrote a post on open-access academic journals, highlighting academic journals and articles that are freely available on the web. In this follow-up post I will give you a more comprehensive list [...]
MEDEA Sketchbook is a blog where we share sketches and project ideas in new media and interaction design. The material you find on the blog represents ideas that we think could be useful in further research or developmen [...]
Just before Christmas, professor John Downing gave a lecture at MEDEA where he explored the relation between media, communication and social change. This is your chance to see and listen to the lecture in it’s enti [...]
On the relations between design research and commercial innovation, and specifically on how co-production plays a role in re-considering those relations. [...]
What do academics at MEDEA read? This is the starting point for the development of a library with books relevant to interaction designers, media and communication scholars, social innovators and service designers. And of [...]
För att föra vår kunskap framåt kring de kollaborativa medierna i samhället behöver vi kritik. Men det vore bättre om kritiken kom från folk som förstår social kommunikation i stort och Facebooks position däri [...]
The media landscape of today is in many ways different than yesterday’s. We used to have only broadcast media, now we have collaborative media and social media. We used to have one-to-many-communication, now we hav [...]
During the Arduino Uno meetup at ITP, NYU, I had the chance to be introduced to Paola’s and Cecilia’s ideas on the use of paper and electronics in the creation of new interfaces. That time they made a worksho [...]
Thorkil Jacobsen, dansk mästare i poetry slam, berättade igår på TEDxÖresund om projektet Open-Source Poetry. Jacobsen tar sin utgångspunkt i en aforism författad av den franske poeten och filosofen Paul Valery: & [...]
