Living in a world where the machine and the internet are ubiquitous, many people work and play online, in a world that is, ironically, often isolated and lonesome. While the internet, as intended, connects us to information, products and services, it often draws us away from the rich connections that are created through interpersonal communication. The goal of this work is to use the machine to...

During the last decade, many European digital cities applied ICT to improve the local public sphere, reinforce local democracy, support local communities and increase social participation. Different policies of a variety of stakeholders led to a wide variation of designs and functionality, content, main actors, aims and philosophy, organization, and use and users. To build a useful and sustaina...

This study sought answers to the following question: “Is digital storytelling functional in teaching socioscientific issues?” In framework of study, stories were prepared individually by nine pre-service teachers on different topics find answer this question. The data present which was conducted with action research, collected using two methods: pre and post-interviews stories. Content analysis...

Omtale af Signe Uldbjerg: Rewriting Victimhood: Stories of digital sexual assault

Introduction Both teacherand learner-made computer visuals are quite extensively reported in ComputerAssisted Language Learning literature, for instance, filming interviews (Gromik, 2006; HansonSmith & Marzio, 2006), soap operas (Alm, 2006, 2008) or mini-documentaries (Brooke, 2003), creating storyboard projects (Hazzard, 2006), authoring podcasts and vodcasts (Stanley, 2006), designing digital...

Book applications (apps) have become an active element in children’s publishing. Yet there are a lack of standards and design models within this arena. In this paper I analyse the ways in which book apps can draw on the conventions used in print picture books. I propose that through building closer ties between print and digital book formats, the evolutionary trajectory of digital literature ma...

This paper describes an experimental system that enhanced an iPod with digital library capabilities. Using the open source digital library software Greenstone as a base, this paper more specifically maps out the technical steps necessary to achieve this, along with an account of our subsequent experimentation. This included command-line usage of Greenstone’s basic runtime system on the device, ...