About

Digital media and technologies are increasingly being taken up in research processes and methods, as well as in online research publications. The WIKI-D project investigates modes of mediating research outcomes through wiki-based discourse.

A key aim of WIKI-D is to explore ways in which multimodal mediation of research outcomes may be articulated within and across projects. These projects have been funded the large Norwegian Research Council programme KIM (Communication, Information , Media). This website is centred not only on these project but also on the closing conference for the KIM programme. As a whole, a face-to-face conference event (with video) is linked to project-based mediation online. This is mediation that refers to a range of research outcomes in a diversity of projects on communication, information and media. These include: books, chapters of books,

The title WIKI-D refers to an emergent, exploratory discourse that also to highlight research outcomes internationally. For this reason the site is in English. Many of the links also refer to related Norwegian sites and information.

WIKI-D refers to wiki-based discourse as well as to what may be called 'wicked' discourse, The project takes up the notion of 'wicked' problems (floated by Rittel). According to Wikipedia 'Wicked problems have incomplete, contradictory, and changing requirements; and solutions to them are often difficult to recognize as such because of complex interdependencies. Rittel and Webber stated that while attempting to solve a wicked problem, the solution of one of its aspects may reveal or create other, even more complex problems.'

In an iterative digital design process, the WIKI-D site is built with reference to a similar mediation of research in a EU Culture 2000 funded project - GRIG - to which InterMedia the research host of the WIKI-D project is a member. The WIKI-D site coordinates and highlights semantic relations across outcomes and projects through tagging. This may be seen as an unfolding wicked problem of building an emergent electronic research rhetoric. Wikis allow relations to be built and thereby aspects of transdisciplinarity may be revealed. This website enables KIM project members and conference delegates to participating in 'wiki-d discourse' before, during and after the conference.

The WIKI-D project partners are: Andrew Morrison (project leader), Synne Skjuklstad, Idunn Sem, Live Roaldset, & Jeremy Toussaint (Communication Design Group at InterMedia & InterMediaLab).

The project runs from January-March 2008. It is designed coincide with the Closing Conference for the KIM programme on 6 March 2008. Projects funded by KIM will be able to add to the site subsequent to the conference as needed.

WIKI-D is designed to have the following outcomes:the WIKI-D project website, presentation and use of site at conference; related multimodal performance by 'Marsha McLuhan' at the conference; research paper for online journal.

Related projects at InterMedia include: GRIG, Designing Design, MULTIMO.