In what case do you like reading so much? What about the type of the convergence culture where old and new media collide book? The needs to read? Well, everybody has their own reason why should read some books. Mostly, it will relate to their necessity to get knowledge from the book and want to read just to get entertainment. Novels, story book, and other entertaining books become so popular th...

As a broader array of communication tools is developed, designers of learning environments need a better understanding of what kinds of communication each medium is best suited for. Each of the new media have different affordances and constraints. One of our principles for the design of learning environments is “Render unto each medium what it does best.” This paper is an attempt to state some ...

Museums and galleries have in recent years spent considerable time and effort in digitisation projects, yet the software resources available to fully explore their collections are still largely unsatisfactory. In a joint project between the new media company Deep Visuals, the Scott Polar Research Institute, and Anglia Ruskin University we are developing a new browsing system aimed at enabling m...

Post-industrial, knowledge societies need Culture! The various types of culture represent a multidimensional asset largely underestimated, with an extremely powerful potential for socioeconomic growth which is unfortunately still very far from being fully expressed. In this paper, organizational models and technological solutions are proposed as key factors for enabling full expression of an as...

We present a new media work, MediaScape, which is an initial foray into a fully interdisciplinary metacreativity. This paper defines metacreation, and we present examples of metacreative art within the fields of music, sound art, the history of generative narrative, and discuss the potential of the “opendocumentary” as an immediate goal of metacreative video. Lastly, we describe MediaScape in d...

This paper comments on the new Media Lab global initiatives such as the 2B1 Foundation, Center for Future Children, and Junior Summit. Ideas are presented for how existing Media Lab technologies can be integrated within the goals of these enterprises. These ideas are not necessarily limited to children and are mostly in the areas of health and education.

The pervasiveness of online information services has led to substantial changes in higher education including changes in faculty members’ teaching methods and students’ study habits. This article presents the results of a survey about media use for teaching and learning conducted at a large Canadian university and highlights trends in the use of new and traditional media across university Facul...

Almost all German federal states have introduced or are about to introduce supplementing changes to the curricula concerning new media. These changes not only attempt to include new areas of teaching but also to make teaching goals more obligatory than they used to be in previous curricula concepts. A lot of teachers prefer not to regulate their students' knowledge acquisition process in the fi...