Based on work in media studies, new literacy studies, applied linguistics, the arts and empirical research on the experiences of urban youths’ informal media arts practices we articulate a new vision for media education in the digital age that encompasses new genres, convergence, media mixes, and participation. We first outline the history of how students’ creative production has been used to m...

This paper investigates the nature of remote and virtual creative interaction; the issues, potential and questions arising in the uniting of a diverse group of people as a collaborative working team in the development of a range of digitally generated products and creative outputs. In the early 20 century Zika Ascher established a textile concept that integrated the provenance of high craft wit...

This paper counters proponents of the Ôweightless economyÕ who have suggested the Ôdeath of distanceÕ in relation to economic and social activities that use the worldwide web (WWW). An analysis of new media developers in New YorkÕs ÔSilicon AlleyÕ demonstrates that place and distance are still important. The most important aspect of this co-location is the possibility of social interaction. Thi...

As co-editors of this themed section of New Media & Society, we introduce the four articles comprising the section and briefly address facets of the changes transpiring in scholarly publishing and, more generally, scholarly communication. A plethora of issues and developments is related to this transformation and we suggest the diversity and challenges involved. We mention one development in mo...

Open Display Networks have the potential to allow many content creators to publish their media to an open-ended set of screen displays. However, this raises the issue of how to match that content to the right displays. In this study, we aim to understand how the perceived utility of particular media sharing scenarios is affected by three independent variables, more specifically: (a) the locativ...

In this Work in Progress, we describe the „my Learning Community‟ application design principles and theoretical foundation. The application is a learning community support tool, which we implement in a peer mentoring project in the Department of Computing and New Media Technologies at the University of WisconsinStevens Point. Combining different learning frameworks, we implement location-based ...

Suzanne Lane directs the Writing, Rhetoric, and Professional Communication program (WRAP) at MIT, is a Senior Lecturer in MIT’s Comparative Media Studies/Writing department, and teaches communication in many engineering departments She also directs the associated lab, ArchiMedia, which studies how new media are shaping professional communication practices, and designs new digital tools for teac...

Cultural heritage information and adaptive hypermedia have so far been pursuing completely different goals. Only recently, a research trend has emerged which has pointed out the potcntial advantages of exploiting adaptive methodologies to the delivery of cultural information. In this paper, we present an ongoing project that shows how thesc two research areas can come to terms.

Design is a way of communication and expression. Words, shapes and images are a language and all together contribute to an effective communication. Designers and creative media labs have focused on the design of printing artifacts for years and in order to stay in the market, the same people adjusted their design skills for cross platform use. This paper discusses the various factors that affec...