Pedagogical mediation: Media as communication concept

15 . Digital Curation as Communication Mediation

Tracking a New Concept in Media and Communication Studies

a huge amount of information available to anyone at the touch of a button, everything from airline schedules to esoteric scientific journals to video versions of off-off-off Broadway. Watching a movie won’t be a passive experience. At various points, you’ll click on alternative story lines and create your individualized version of “Terminator XII”. Consumers will send as well as receive all kin...

A concept for a mobile multi-media communication system

Within the Mobile Multi-media Communication (MMC) project at the Delft University of Technology five different multi-disciplinary areas of research can be indicated. In each of these areas results are produced, which can be in conflict with each other. In order to come up with a concept for a complete future system, these results have to be combined in a consistent and realistic way, also quant...

Meta-media and meta-communication – revisiting the concept of genre in the digital media environment

As analytical categories, genres have traditionally occupied a middle ground – between media as technologies and institutions, on the one hand, and discourses as material and modal forms of expression and interaction, on the other. With digitalization, the very concept of genre is in doubt: is the world wide web, Facebook, or the writing on its walls the genre? This article situat es genre in r...

Multidisciplinary Design and Communication: a Pedagogical Vision*

The Sophomore Engineering Clinic I, which is the third course in an 8-semester design sequence taken by all Rowan University engineering students, serves the dual purpose of introducing students to formalized engineering design techniques and providing them with the necessary foundation for their careers as technical communicators. The course, required for all Rowan University engineering stude...