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Ambivalence Towards Convergence. Digitalization and Media Change

Editors: Tanja Storsul, Dagny Stuedahl

Concepts of convergence and converging processes have triggered considerable attention and activities in media research during recent years. This has been an inspiring context for the discussions and analyses presented in this book.

The book elucidates a variety of understandings related to the concept of convergence, and at the same time reflects on the analytical advantage of the concept. The contributions discuss the impact of media digitalization and the degree to which the prospects of convergence have been realized. The studies range from investigations of institutional and regulatory change within media and cultural institutions, to analyses of communicative genres and social practices related to digital media.

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Contents

Part One: Approaches to Convergence

Tanja Storsul, Anders Fagerfjord
Questioning Convergence

Divina Frau-Meigs
Convergence, Internet Governance and Cultural Diversity

Part Two: Convergence in Media Institutions

Anja Bechmann Petersen
Realizing Cross Media

Ivar John Erdal
Negotiating Convergence in News Production

Vilde Schanke Sundet
The Dream of Mobile Media

Part Three: Competencies and Institutional Practices

Ilpo Koskinen
The Design Professions in Convergence

Dagny Stuedahl
Convergence, Museums and Digital Cultural Heritage

Knut Lundby
Mediation Between Competence and Convergence

Part Four: Genre and Social Practices

Gunnar Liestøl
The Dynamics of Convergence & Divergence in Digital Domains

Marika Lüders
Converging Forms of Communication?

Lin Prøitz
Mobile Media and Genres of the Self

Synne Skjulstad, Andrew Morrison
Talking Cleanly about Convergence

Göran Bolin
Media Technologies, Transmedia Storytelling and Commodification

Trond Eiliv Hauge & Andreas Lund: Undervisning i endring - IKT, aktivitiet, design

The book addresses the role of technologies, the relationship between individual and collective learning, the role of the teacher, and how we can design for productive learning. The purpose of this book is to connect emergent educational practices with a sociocultural perspective on learning and teaching. Through a series of case studies this book seeks to first analyze various aspects of classroom practices and then moves on to discuss how such analysis can inform teachers' designs for learning. The focus is on classroom activities more than pedagogy or didactics in general.

By Trond Eiliv Hauge , Andreas Lund and Jon Magne Vestøl (ed)

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Grenseflater - exploring how technology opens up new arenas for learning

Oct. 12th - Nov. 18th, 2007, Gallery Sverdrup

Tapet is an interactive installation where landscape, sound, a mediated performance and programmed logic creates a multimodal experience of prescence. The position and movement of the user take part in a spacial, audiovisual interface.

The exhibition also consists of examples of ITUs developmentprojects, and is put on in relation to ITUs 10 year anniversary

The installation is developed by Idunn Sem (idea and design), Martin Havnør (technical design and implementation) and Inger-Reidun Olsen (coreography and dance), and is part of InterMedias MULTIMO project.

Synne Skjulstad: Aesthetics at Work.

In this new anthology Synne Skjulstad looks at clashing conceptions of the Web and how a communication design perspective can transverse such positions. She suggests that we look at websites as a matter of communication design - where form, function and aesthetics are blended in rich web expressions.

Her article is one of seven contributions in Aesthetics at Work (Unipub 2007), that looks at art and aesthetics in contemporary culture.

InterMedia produces a dvd for Bredtved Kompetansesenter

Språkpakken er en DVD som tar for seg språkvansker og språkutvikling blant barn og unge. Programmet er utviklet faglig samarbed mellom Bredtvet kompetansesenter, Institutt for spesialpedagogikk ved Universitetet i Oslo og InterMedia, som også har stått for den tekniske produksjonen.

DVDen ble lansert på Holmenkollen Hotell i forbindelse med konferansen "Språkløftet" som ble arrangert av Bredtvet kompetansesenter i slutten av september 2007.

Network of competence and research for ICT in education.

When it comes to putting ICT in education on the political agenda, ITU has played a crucial part. Their research efforts in this area and networking abilities are significant both nationally and internationally, and has made them an important partner for us at InterMedia.

In his speech at ITU's 10 year anniversary, InterMedia Director, Sten Ludvigsen, congratulated ITU for their contribution in establishing projects and research environments that are now positioning themselves internationally: - Without ITU's modern, topical agenda and financial profile, a lot of these projetcts and environments would never have taken form.

InterMedia congratulates!

Prosjektet Science Created by You (SCY) skal i kontraktsforhandlinger med EU i september, etter å ha blitt rangert som nummer 1 av 71 innsendte søknader innen området 'Digital Libraries and technology enhanced learning' i den første utlysningen fra IKT-programmet i EU's 7. rammeprogram.

InterMedia er en sentral forskningspartner i et planlagt forskningsprosjekt som skal utvikle et adaptivt system for rike læringsomgivelser. Systemet skal støtte samarbeid og samvirke mellom elevenes egne bidrag og faktainformasjon. Sammen med forskere fra 10 andre europeiske land og Canada skal InterMedia arbeide i fire år med utvikling og utprøving av nye ideer for læring med teknologi.

Prosjektet er en såkalt IP (Large-scale Integrated Project), og skal ledes fra Universitetet i Twente.

I SCY-prosjektet skal elever arbeide individuelt og kollektivt med å utføre "oppdrag" knyttet til matematikk, vitenskap og teknologi. Oppdragene skal formes som samfunnsrelevante forskningsspørsmål (som for eksempel "hvordan kan vi produsere sunnere melk") og gjennomføring vil kreve kombinert bruk av ulike kunnskapsfelt (som for eksempel biologi, kjemi, matematikk og teknologi).

InterMedia vil bidra tungt inn i prosjektet, både fra teknologi- og samfunnsvitenskapssiden, med design av omgivelser, pedagogiske scenarier, teknologisk arkitektur, analyser av bruk og evaluering, og skal lede den største arbeidspakken i prosjektet.

"I get to participate in the research and my contribution is valued"

One of InterMedias Graduate students, Renate Jacobsen (now Andersen), has been interviewed by the TOOL programme (Technology - Organisation - Learning) at the University of Oslo.

You can read the interview in whole here (in Norwegian)

Sten Ludvigsen, professor and Director at InterMedia, has been elected Scientific Manager of Kaleidoscope, a Network of Excellence, supported by the European Community.

Kaleidoscope is a research network that brings together leading European teams in technology-enhanced learning. Currently it integrates 90 research units from around Europe, and covers a large range of expertise from technology to education, from academic to private research.

Altogether, it is a community of more than 1000 researchers and PhD-students in 24 countries. Across educational, computer and social sciences they have joined in their efforts to collaboratively develop new concepts and methods for exploring the future of learning with digital technologies.

-For InterMedia the involvement in Kaleidoscope represents a privileged access to both monitoring and influence in this field of European research, says Sten Ludvigsen.

-It has also contributed to the internationalization of our research education, to realizations of international research projects, to cooperation in technological infrastructure for research and to a strengthened relation between theory development and design of new technology for learning.

The appointment of Sten Ludvigsen is also important to the University of Oslo, says Ingrid Sogner, senior adviser at the EU-office. - It makes the University of Oslo visible. And it represents a significant contribution to fulfill an important ambition of the University; to lift it's internationally acknowledged research communities to even more central positions in European research and programs.

As scientific manager of Kaleidoscope, Sten Ludvigsen will be in charge of leading the activities of the network. This means that he will have a prominent role in supporting the community effort to shape a vision of its future scientifically and institutionally, and the high responsibility of "driving" the network toward a sustainable and productive organization.

Read interview with Sten and learn more about Kaleidoscope on the Kaleidoscope website. See also the Kaleidoscope press release and interview with Sten in Uniforum, the University of Oslo's newspaper (in Norwegian).