Definition: “Collaborative media” is the term we use to refer to digital media that enables broad-range participation where the distinctions between production, consumption and design are dissolving.
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 [...]
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 [...]
[PUBLICATION] Collaborative media refers to digital media where people outside the traditional media industries participate in production as well as infrastructural design. Article by Löwgren and Reimer to be presented [...]
As the School of Arts and Communication was founded with the inauguration of Malmö University in 1998, the key idea was to address the future of computers as media for human communication, by combining interaction desig [...]
Teknikinformation fann sin form för ganska länge sedan, och den formen betyder inte så mycket i dagens medielandskap. “Informationskonsumenterna” får idag svar på sina frågor på många andra sätt än [...]
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 [...]
KINAESTHETIC SOCIAL NETWORKING – TWEETING THE BODY Kinaesthetic Tweeting puts the body into social networking, making it an improvisational forum. Alone or Not is the next phase of the IntuiTweet project. It create [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
[PUBLICATION] The phenomenon and structures of collaborative crossmedia creation are arguably growing in importance, both as meaningful social practices engaging millions of people and as topics that deserve analytical t [...]
[PROJECT PORTFOLIO] Social Choreographies is a research initiative but is also a way of looking at the urban world: seeing how we already ‘dance’ with our technologies and how, if we feel like it, can enhance the emb [...]
[PUBLICATION] People depend on news to make sense of happenings in the world, but current digital news products do not live up to their potential in this regard. Interactivity in relation to news is often seen as a way t [...]
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 [...]
[PROJECT PORTFOLIO] The academic field of interaction design is only recently starting to address the fact that digital products these days are more media than tools. Similarly, the academic field of media studies is onl [...]
[PROJECT PORTFOLIO] The work has started in the News Media Concept Lab, where Medea and the leading regional newspaper Sydsvenskan together explore what the collaborative media and their use practices mean for establishe [...]
SUSAN KOZEL combines dance and philosophy in the context of new media. She works with bodies, ideas and technologies. She has a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Essex, UK, and a long history of various movement t [...]
As a new professor here at MEDEA, the obvious question is what to post first ? So many directions could be pursued. I’ve decided to be project specific to begin with and use this site as a sort of Back Script for t [...]
[PROJECT PORTFOLIO] A platform to mediate collaboration between fans, venues and artists. The key idea is for fans to express interest in certain concerts based on artist and venue availability, to pledge intention to pa [...]
[PROJECT PORTFOLIO] Granny’s Dancing on the Table is a transmedia production that includes an on- and offline storyworld with strong gaming elements. Participants will contribute to the production of the movie, both cr [...]
EN PENDELFÖLJETONG. Det senaste året har bokens framtid diskuterats flitigt och många menar att bokbranschen kommer genomgå liknande förändringar som musik- och filmbranschen har gått igenom. Samtidigt har deltaga [...]
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: & [...]
About a week ago, Tangram Film and Living Lab The Stage embarked on a new journey. Granny’s Dancing on the Table is a new movie from the creators of Nasty Old People, but this time the users will have a much greate [...]
Granny’s Dancing on the Table, that’s the name of the new feature film directed and produced by the team behind the indie-distribution success Nasty Old People (read more about Nasty on Boing-Boing, on Torre [...]
Igår var det dags för experiment #2 där Kulturlabbet undersöker hur man kan kombinera professionella ljud-/bildupptagningar med de filmer som konsertbesökaren spelar in. Resultatet blev tre filmer och många nya ins [...]
Living Lab The Stage (aka Scenen, aka Kulturlabbet) kommer idag att upprepa det pro-am-experiment som genomfördes för två veckor sedan på Babel i Malmö (läs mer). Tanken är att konsertbesökaren ska få med sig et [...]
For two months, pro-am film makers from all over Malmö took part in the collecting of documentary video footage. Footage was uploaded by the participants to the City Symphony Portal and was disseminated for remixing by [...]
Researchers and designers from Malmö University, Interactive Institute and Animationens Hus (Eksjö) worked with Swedish Television (national public-service broadcaster) around the topic of young teenagers who want to c [...]
Malmöfestivalen is a one-week street festival held every year in mid-August in Malmö. In 2008, Inkonst worked with researchers and designers at Malmö University and with TAT to create a multi-perspective view of the f [...]
Musikhjälpen is a public service format originating in the Netherlands and aiming at raising funds for refugees shortly before Christmas by offering the audience the opportunity to pay for a song request. The first Musi [...]
Google Wave has been hyped, debated and backlashed for a good three months, and it may be time for a little stock-taking. From my experience and what I read, it seems designed for work-related collaboration and it claims [...]
[PROJECT PORTFOLIO] This lab focuses on new ways to produce, promote, distribute and finance cultural productions as well as on ways to engage audiences in participating in professional creative processes. A particular e [...]
It has been clear for quite some time that social mechanisms need to be leveraged to help people find relevant and useful online information. The sheer volume of available information, the inadequacy of creation-time met [...]
Service technicians and maintenance engineers are the main users of so-called technical information: repair guides, operation manuals, etc. The business of technical information largely operates under a broadcast media [...]
Here is a clip from a note that arrived in the ACM email newsletter Technews the other week: A researcher who studied the voting patterns on Amazon.com, the Internet Movie Database (IMDb), and the book review site BookCr [...]
Kanye West’s intervention at the MTV Video Music Awards last weekend has predictably set off an online avalanche of mashups, parodies and comical asides. (There is a top 10 at Mashable.com if you need a quick brush-up. [...]
Mashups sometimes work like ketchup bottles: Someone makes a mashup that is unusually good, fun, clever or simply happens to be noticed widely; the theme or the original material strikes a chord with many other mashup ma [...]
