Lecture: John Downing on Media and Social Change
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 entirety. [Video inside] [...]
“Stop Tossing, There is no Wall!” – On Design Research
On the relations between design research and commercial innovation, and specifically on how co-production plays a role in re-considering those relations. [...]
Coming soon: the MEDEA Library
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 course for students! [...]
Är all kritik god kritik? Zadie Smith gillar inte Facebook
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. [...]
7 open-access academic journals
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 have many-to-many communication. These facts are a given for anyone [...]
Paperlab dot org
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 workshop (Magicbits) where they used Arduino as part of the creative pro [...]
TEDxÖresund: A poem is never finished, only abandonded
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: “A poem is never finished, only abandonded”. Men, i Op [...]
