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 [...]
The biannual NordMedia conference took place on August 11-13 in Iceland at the University of Akureyri (Háskólinn á Akureyri). The conference theme was “Do the Right Thing” and MEDEA and Malmö University’s S [...]
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 [...]
JUSSI PARIKKA is the director of the Cultures of the Digital Economy (CoDE) institute. His lecture Practicing Media Archaeology: Creative Methodologies for Remediation and Creation focuses on some ideas and examples from [...]
[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 [...]
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 [...]
[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 [...]
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 [...]
