Gonzoized

Yellow Arrow ByNight Boattrip hits Cph

2005-06-11T23:09:00.000+02:00

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Whats inside?

2005-05-12T18:56:00.000+02:00

Certainly not your little, local joint with assorted tables and chairs and a lot of regulars bumbing cigarettes from each other and the bartender. More likely a fancy London-style café with lots of space, a wide-screen tv showing recordings from concerts and just enough of the industrial atmosphere preserved...

2005-05-12T18:49:00.000+02:00

Well, can it be anything but a worn-out laundromat with interiours from the 70's and a bunch of local students shouting at the broken machines that wont return their change?

Guess who's getting married...

2005-05-12T18:27:00.000+02:00

And notice the t-shirt - bought by friends in Italy. The message sincerely resonates with me....(If mystified: www.citynova.org - If even more mystified go practice your german: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polterabend)

Gadekamp

2005-04-23T18:11:00.000+02:00

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2005-04-23T18:02:00.000+02:00

New book from Thackara on the way

2005-02-27T15:44:00.000+01:00

And it looks pretty darn interesting (although he might mostly be elaborating on points he have made previously...)

New Receiver is out

2005-02-21T11:01:00.000+01:00

Vodafone's e-journal Receiver continues to impres me with interesting takes on (use of) mobile phones...

Cleaning up the city

2005-02-20T13:37:00.000+01:00

Love Lewisham lets citizen use their phones to report litter and other things that need to be 'cleaned-up'. As Anne Galloway remarks they seem to be pushing a moral agenda, but in terms of community empowerment it is still an interesting project.

Reminded me of DecayWatch from Wavemarket....

CityNova is coming to life...

2005-02-20T12:42:00.000+01:00

For quite some time now we been trying to develop interesting ideas and concepts rooted in our interest in the integration and interdependence between new (communication) technologies, urban contexts and human life. Recently we decided to find a shared, physical location for this work which makes it a hell of a lot easier to think of ourselves as engaged in some kind of organised effort. As a result we have founded what we currently call CityNova R&D - an independent innnovation agency about to take over the world :-)

Opening reception coming up on friday the 25th. Please stop by Valdemarsgade 19A, 2. th at Vesterbro from 5 pm on....

Why public attention is better....

2005-02-20T12:03:00.000+01:00

Came across this appropriated election-poster at Dronning Louises bro recently. These kinds of public announcements of private things always make me tick. Why do they do it? Why not just leave at note at Pats (thats the name just under 'B-day') front door or simply send him a traditional birthday card? Well, because this is so much more fun. The idea of other people seeing the poster and wondering who the hell Pat is probably amuses his friends. Maybe they take pleasure in trying to embarras Pat as he rides by on his bike and realises that the poster-message is for him. Lots of explanations and just no answers....

The long tail

2005-02-13T10:46:00.000+01:00

Chris Anderson of Wired gets in the ring on the subject of the future of media. He argues for something called passionate media - sounds almost to good to be true....

Ubicomp and group dynamics

2005-02-07T23:02:00.000+01:00

Interesting paper by Jonathan Grudin. [Via]

I en kælder et sted i Sydhavnen....

2005-01-29T17:40:00.000+01:00

fra en slags stiftende generalforsamling i foreningen urbanites.org for nylig. Very undergroundish....

Anti-valg

2005-01-29T17:39:00.000+01:00

Politiken skrev for nylig lidt om alternative anti-valg plakater. Her er en lidt anden strategi.....

A list of location-based and mobile games

2005-01-29T16:09:00.000+01:00

http://www.in-duce.net/archives/locationbased_mobile_phone_games.php

[Via No Sense of Place]

Now with pictures...

2005-01-21T11:29:00.000+01:00

Not that pictures will genuinely improve the horrific laissez-faire design of this blog, but they might lighten it up a bit I suppose.

Below a few snapshots from my recent visit to the also recently opened Opera House in Copenhagen - taken with my new 3G-phone btw...

2005-01-21T11:21:00.000+01:00

selve salen...

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vue hen langs den øverste dele af den ret så smukke facade på selve salen...

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vue ned mod atrium fra 4. sal...

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vue ud mellem de af arkitekten så forkætrede sprosser..

2005-01-21T11:09:00.000+01:00

vue op mod taget fra 4. etage..

2005-01-21T11:08:00.000+01:00

gangen på vej ind til balkonen...

New Media and Society

2005-01-12T20:03:00.000+01:00

A journal which seems to come very close to the angle on all this new media that I prefer...

Nice new tool

2005-01-10T10:03:00.000+01:00

Google Scholar

Crunkie

2005-01-06T13:05:00.000+01:00

Crunkie is a (relatively) new location-based service from Wavemarket combining location-blogging and a form of mobile networking / community.

[Via Mobile Community Design] , where there btw currently is being assembled a list of interesting journals and conferences in the field - open for anyone to add to - nice initiative....

One Block Radius

2005-01-04T16:47:00.000+01:00

....interesting psychogeographic documentary / multilayered portrait of a specific block in New York.

Mob Art links

2005-01-04T09:02:00.000+01:00

...and litterature. Or in other words: 'art through locative/ mobile/ pervasive/ wearable/ wireless devices'.

Dark Fiber

2005-01-02T19:47:00.000+01:00

Another, seemingly interesting, book on media activism (on the internet) - by Geert Lovink.

Social Software and Art Mobs

2004-12-29T11:11:00.000+01:00

Interesting conference in Oslo on Social Software took place recently - and the talks are even all on the web in mp4-formats. Unfortunately, like Anne Galloway, I can't seem to acces them.

Also a note on ArtMobs - a concept of interactive art in which the artworks can be commented and ellaborated on by means of mobile phones and Yellow Arrows. [Via Digital Metropolis]

Holiday in Sweden and Jutland

2004-12-20T08:29:00.000+01:00

Back sometime just before New Years.

One of those interconnecting discoveries

2004-12-16T13:17:00.000+01:00

So, it happened again. By way of more or less well-guided linking I ended up at a blog-post which resonates with a number of things I have thought and blogged about recently.

First, this post on Future Now discusses the core question of what will bring people to be creative and actually use the new socio-technological opportunities that mobile and ubiquitous technologies bring along.

Secondly Future Now seems to stem from a think tank called Institute for the Future, which again compares itself to Demos, which I also blogged about recently.

All this talk of the future really is very interesting. Am I becoming a true futurologist... :-)

Supertanker prøver igen

2004-12-16T09:36:00.000+01:00

Der holdes stiftende generalforsamling i Urbanites.org i Sydhavnen i aften. Alle urbaniter er velkomne. Se udkast til vedtægter her:

På vores gode møde i tirsdags blev det aftalt at holde en
stiftende generalforsmling for foreningen urbanites.org. Det bliver på torsdag
den 16.december kl 20.00 igen i gildesalen hos Supertanker på
Borgmester Christiansengade 55 til venstre for Hiltiforretningen.

Mikkel Bolt på Det Fri Uni

2004-12-13T09:14:00.000+01:00

Torsdag d. 16. december kl. 19 afholder vi bogreception for Den sidste
avantgarde - Situationistisk Internationale hinsides kunst og politik af
kunsthistorikeren Mikkel Bolt. Mikkel giver en kort introduktion til
bogen.

Det Fri Universitet i København, Læssøesgade 3, 4. sal, 2200 København N
Kontakt: 35370447 eller http://copenhagenfreeuniversity.dk

It had to come...

2004-12-10T15:44:00.000+01:00

Virus via Bluetooth. Thats what you get for being a bit adventourous....

Kulturkontakten med tema om arkitektur

2004-12-10T15:31:00.000+01:00

Blandt andet om indrykket af hollandske arkitekter i København....

Street Talk on Glowlab

2004-12-09T11:07:00.000+01:00

Glowlab has a nice account of a conference at Intel in Berkeley in july. Impressive list of participants ranging from Eric Paulos of Intel, Anne Galloway, Howard Rheingold, Margot Jacobs, Michelle Chang, Ben Hooker among others...

Many interesting issues of urban technologies are discussed. Such as 'are we developing new values as we develop new technologies?'.

Counterculture through the ages

2004-12-09T09:14:00.000+01:00

New book out...

Julearrangement hos Crossroads

2004-12-09T09:00:00.000+01:00

I forlængelse af tidligere post om kreativitet:

Crossroads Copenhagen inviterer til julearrangementet Making Scents of
theWorld den 20. December 2004, kl. 15-17. I samspillet mellem kultur, medier og
kommunikationsteknologi skabes der idisse år nye værdier og muligheder. Denne
udvikling beskæftigeroplevelsesindustrien sig med.Copenhagen Business School, en
af Crossroads medlemmer, åbnede i september2004 dørene til Imagine – a centre
for Creative Industries Research.Oplevelsesindustrien dækker alle områder af
kulturel produktion, hvordesign, trends samt varer og services, der forbindes
med kunstneriske ogunderholdningsmæssige værdier, spiller en betydelig
rolle.Forskningsområderne udvides dermed til eksempelvis bil -
ogparfumeindustrien, indendørsarkitektur samt legetøjs- og IT-industrien.

Vi har inviteret lederen af centret professor Brian Moeran til at komme
ogpræsentere Imagine.. og dets aktiviteter. Imagine vil også gerne give jer
enkonkret oplevelse af hvordan der i fremtiden kan blive appelleret til
voressanser fx kan vi blive mødt af en dejlig duft, der får os til at slappe
af,når vi træder ind i et fly eller svarer vores mobiltelefon. Joel LeonardKatz,
der er parfumier par excellence, vil give os en kort duftendeintroduktion under
overskriften Making Scents of the World…

Præsentationerne finder sted på engelsk. Efter præsentationen vil vi
servere gløgg og æbleskiver.

Tilmelding senest den 16.12.2004 på il@crossroadscopenhagen.dk eller tlf. 7218 5381

The future of media?

2004-12-07T13:07:00.000+01:00

Interesting interpretation of the media situation anno 2014 by Robin Sloan.

Creativity through technology?

2004-12-06T13:41:00.000+01:00

For a while I've been curiously following different contemplations of the so-called rise of creativity and creative people. Haven't read the much disccussed 'the rise of the creative class' and not what might be a sort of danish equivalent either (yet) - 'Creative Man' - but have been coming across some related material - like today a report by DEMOS ('Demos is an independent think tank with a long-standing interest in changing attitudes to work and leisure') on so-called Pro-Ams (?!) - that is the impact of enthusiastic amateurs on society and culture.

I can't decide how to relate to the above. In a way I do think that new media and technology have changed - and in some ways improved - the conditions for creativity. Certainly a lot of people are using tech in creative ways, and a lot of different tech-innovators design technology based on the assumption that people will want to be creative. Its more the 'impact on society'-part I'm pondering.....

Urbaniter i Sydhavnen

2004-12-06T13:05:00.000+01:00

Supertanker inviterer alle urbaniter (?! ) til komsammen i Sydhavnen imorgen:

Supertanker har efterhånden sendt al sin kraft ud i forskellige nye
initiativer. Et af disse er netværket urbanites.org, en åben forening, der
henvender sig til engagerede byboere og har en mere levende udvikling af byen
som formål (for nu at sige det meget kort). Tjek det første initiativ fra
urbanites.org – Urban Task Force - og lidt mere om foreningsvedtægter m.m.
på www.supertanker.info/19002
Vi inviterer til komsammen tirsdag den 7. december kl. 20.00 med lidt kort varsel, fordi vi får besøg af Erlend Blakstad Haffner fra www.fantasticnorway.no. De arbejder med arkitektur som dialog og deres vigtigste arbejdsredskab er en rød campingvogn. Denne komsammen vil også markere starten på netværket og foreningen urbanites.org i vores nye domicil i Sydhavnen, Borgmester Christiansensgade 55. Vi er at finde lige over for Nokia og Sonofon (og med den dårligste mobildækning i byen) til venstre for en Hilti-forretning. Er du faret vild eller har du spørgsmål så ring på 32831050.

Vi håber I kan komme - der vil være fadøl og hygge og vi bruger lejligheden til
en snigpremiere på Yellow Arrow I Danmark. Se mere på http://www.yellowarrow.org/gallery.php?city=Copenhagen

News on the net more popular than news on paper?

2004-12-04T14:42:00.000+01:00

Well, to some people at least, for instance young, well-educated americans (?!), according to focus groups carried out be The Washington Post.

[Via]

And to some norwegian readers as well, according to Journalisten (in norwegian)

Go read!

2004-11-29T11:45:00.000+01:00

A definite must-read over at Salon; Urban Renewal, the wireless way

A fine run-down on the current spate of activities and interests in 'urban computing'
Including a tentative definition of the whole thing:

So-called "urban computing" means much more than bringing your Centrino
laptop to Starbucks and logging on to Amazon.com. Instead, cutting-edge mobile
and wireless services emphasize proximity over connectivity, the local over the
global and the here and now rather than anytime, anywhere. Computer geeks
suddenly turned urban theorists, many of today's technologists harbor even
loftier goals for mobile research agendas: to enhance the image of the city
itself -- the patterns, the complexities and, above all, the sheer serendipity
of the urban landscape.

Mobile Clubbing

2004-11-29T11:37:00.000+01:00

Just read about the concept om Mobile Clubbing. Makes one think of the much-hyped phenomena of Flash Mobs. Do those thing even happen anymore (Guess so)?

Anyway, mobile clubbing does have some interesting perspectives related to the ongoing negotiation of public space and the use hereof.

Netværkssamfundet mellem virkelighed og utopi

2004-11-24T13:20:00.000+01:00

Endnu en interessant omgang Agenda om netværk af den sociale, globale og teknologiske slags.

A Re-decleration of Dependence

2004-11-17T15:07:00.000+01:00

Jacob Lillemose from Artnode on software art and its cultural context.

Art, journalism and (the lack of) impact

2004-11-10T14:12:00.000+01:00

Generally I find the challenge to view and interpret certain happenings or phenomena from different perspectives to be stimulating in itself, but seldom is this so easy to do or even impossible to avoid as in the last few days.

Last night I went to see the documentary 'The Yes Men' with a friend of mine who is a journalist. The movie was really good in a number of ways. Having never heard of the yes men before, I was quite taken aback by their highly humourous and very daring strategy of 'identity theft'. Their inherently political (but not very sophisticated and not especially well argued) struggle against the WTO and globalisation in general (sic!) was fine activism and probably also fine art in a way.

Afterwards there was a panel discussion with artists Jakob Boeskov (of Danes for Bush etc.), Hans Bernhard (of Etoy etc.) and a media activist, Nikolaj something, from Globale Rødder. It was interesting because the panelists had very different conceptions of art, politics and the impact one can expect from something like the Yes Men. For instance it was raised to which extent the movie was able to engage and grap the audience and in some way show them possible ways of moving forward or if this was the goal at all. Some people thought it was a great laugh but not so much more.

I came to think of the fact that the movie (in its subject at least) was not so different from different journalistic efforts to describe, document and maybe ultimately change organisations like WTO. Often times journalists are (like the Yes Men) motivated by some sort of political agenda in choosing which people and instutions to examine or go after. But considered as a piece of journalism the movie failed, of course. Certainly if the aim was to reveal the true inner workings of WTO and the proces of globalisation the movie was not very succesfull at all.

Then today I came across a recent radio-broadcast in which the other part of Danes for Bush journalist Mads Brügger, took part in a completely different discussion in which the Danes for Bush project was judged in the light of journalistic methods and ethics. And in my opinion Brügger didnt have a very good case. I enjoyed Danes for Bush in much the same way I enjoyed the Yes Men, but I'm not to sure about its journalistic qualities. Like Brügger was asked on the radio: 'What did you reveal (by use of the fake identities and behaviours) that you could not have revealed by means of traditional journalism?". Brügger did try to answer that, but I for one was not convinced.

Not once did Brügger present the idea that Danes for Bush was something other, or something more, than an unusual form of journalism. Even though, to me, the tv-program could also easily be put into categories of activism or even art (As Boeskov noted yesterday the Danes for Bush project was highly inspired by the Yes Men).

And then the question of goals and impact would change somewhat. Then the impact would not (only) have be journalistic revelations and disclosures but one could also instead focus on the (artistic and activistic) strategies of subversions and the kind of impressions and experiences they bring to the audience.

Could there be something like an activistic and even artistic journalism?

Journalism = community ?

2004-11-08T17:53:00.000+01:00

Jonathan Dube at Cyberjournalists seem to think so.

We Media = a new golden age of journalism? The folks at the mediacenter seem to think so...

The Corporation

2004-11-07T17:23:00.000+01:00

Anti-corporate documentary at CphDox today. Generally an interesting, though not very mind-expanding analysis of the nature of corporations (read: corporation = psychopat). I have a feeling some of these points may come across better in writing.

Terrain Vague

2004-11-04T10:22:00.000+01:00

Præsentation og diskussion af Willy Ørskovs afsøgning af urbane randområder - også kaldet Terrain Vague - på Overgaden igår. Interessant men ikke nok fokus på de sociale og politiske aspekter af folks intermistiske appropriering og indretning af områder som Sydhavnen, Nokken etc.

Digitizing the News

2004-11-02T14:48:00.000+01:00

Not so long ago I was on the lookout for textbooks in the field of online Journalism. Lisbeth Klastrup points to a recent one by Pablo J. Boczkowski.

About to recover

2004-11-02T11:37:00.000+01:00

...from a pretty wild candidate-party (?).

Tjeck out the homepage of the danish street artist and more HuskMitNavn.

Den humanvidenskabelige I(K)T-forskning kortlægges

2004-10-27T20:26:00.000+02:00

'Under ledelse af Professor Peter Bøgh Andersen fra Institut for Informations- og Medievidenskab, Århus Universitet, er der blevet nedsat et udvalg, der skal skrive en rapport til SHF om humanvidenskabelig IKT-forskning i Danmark. Rapporten skal beskrive forskningens udvikling, omfang og status, hvilket skal lægges til grund for anbefalinger af kommende satsningsområder.'

Hvis nogen skulle være i tvivl om hvad humanvidenskabelig IKT-forskning er, så er der en par anløb til definitioner her.

Tør man håbe på, at denne form for forskning er inkluderet i den øjeblikkelige politiske oppriorioritering af forskningen? Læste på et tidspunkt, at politisk set er forskning efterhånden blevet sat lig med naturvidenskabelig og anden form for let-omsættelig og let-kommercialieserbar forskning, hvilket man vel ikke umiddelbart kan beskylde de fleste former for humanistisk forskning i at være, oder?

Christian Nissen på nettet

2004-10-26T20:15:00.000+02:00

Man har hørt om dagpengemodtagere, som ikke kan lave hjemmesider for sig selv uden at komme i karambolage med systemet. Anderledes forholder det sig nok for tidligere topchefer, som nu Christian Nissen, hvis site ser ud til at være hostet hos noget der hedder Competence House. Så han er vel igang med at reklamere for sig selv. Faktisk har jeg en tidligere ITU-kollega, som angiveligt fik arbejde ved at arbejdsgiveren uopfordret kontaktede ham efter at have besøgt hans site. Kan man forestille sig en federe form for jobsøgning?

I øvrigt meget sjovt at læse Nissens levnedsbeskrivelse. Selv som tidligere DR-ansat journalist har jeg altid haft noget svært ved at synes rigtig dårligt om han. I hvertfald virker han som person ganske sympatisk....

[via flix.dk]

Designing for deception and dishonesty

2004-10-21T22:25:00.000+02:00

Sound a bit uncomfortable? Not to me. Being a big fan of Dunne / Rabys idea of critical design I was thrilled to come upon this article by Adam Greenfield of V-2.org. He suggests that moving away from designing functionalities on the basis of traditional use cases and scenarios and instead trying to take into account the wider social context of everyday life migth open up for some interesting opportunities. Couldn't agree more, although I am not sure Greenfield would follow me down the path towards designing for social friction.

The Greenfield article is part of the latest issue of Receiver, which I can only recommend once again. Came to think of it via a visit to another tech-magazine /e-zine - the BT Technology Journal, in which Dana Boyd and Judy Donath of the MIT Sociable Media Group has an article on the presentation of idenity in online social networking systems with the nefty title Public Displays of Connection.

Bonus: What the Sociable Media Group (or Judy Donath at least) mean by 'Sociable Media'.

Political foundation of Situationism

2004-10-21T18:14:00.000+02:00

Went to see Mikkel Bolt lecture on Situationism at KUA today. Must say hes a very competent lecturer in this field - not often you go through 3 hours of presentation and in the end really have no further questions. He seemed to explain himself with just the right amount of clarity and detail.

Anyway, the topic today was the political foundation of Situationism and how the situationists tried to battle the reversal of history (ca. 1930 as fascism, nazism and consumerism defeated the 'true' revolutionary movement and momentum and brought about cultural and societal transgression = Society of the Spectacle) and bring history back on track towards the revolution.

We were taken back to the very roots of notions of communism / socialism in political theory (ca 1830, 1840 if I remember correctly) , via contemplation of Marxs idea of communism, the struggle and rivalry between communism, syndicalism and anarchism (1920s), and on to the the manipulation and defamation of Marx's ideas by Lenin, Stalin and Soviet Communism altogether (according to the situationists). All very interesting aspects of political history.

Finally a discussion of some actual results of situationism, like Jorns and Debords 'Fin de Copenhaque', some of Jorns re-working of existing paitings by use of the technique of detournment and the inherently amusing events sorrounding the presentation of Gallizios 'industrial painting' in Paris in 1959 (I think). At that occasion the situationists general attemt to break down the (corrupted) institution of art manifested itself in the complete furnishing of the walls, floor and ceiling of the gallery with this sort of very long role of painting. They wanted to sell the piece by measurement ('I would like two feet of painting, please') but some ignorant art-collectors didn't get the idea and just bougth the whole thing.

According to Bolt some situationists even tried to sell pieces of the painting like newspapers in the street, but this was opposed by the owner of the gallery. Of course, at a later point Gallizio was expelled from the situationist movement largely due to the unfortunate result of the Paris incident.

In general I find myself continously amused by all these serious men with their hysterical rhetorics. So often things just didn't turn out the way they would have liked and mostly this was due to their own behind-the-back denounciations of each other, the very activity of art-making and the general public. Of course their basic project; integrate art in the everyday and mobilize the masses for revolution, was a no-go from the beginning. The political seriousness of situationism aside, this whole comedian quality of their efforts to me create some sort of reconciliatory quality to their otherwise dogmatic doings and sayings.

Avantgarde sociology

2004-10-19T20:16:00.000+02:00

One of the main arguments of this book is that something like an avantgarde
sociology is being fashioned when the everday is taken as the central
problematic.

From 'Everyday life and cultural theory' by Ben Highmore.

New media art between affirmation and critique

2004-10-18T13:17:00.000+02:00

Trebor Scholz takes a look at new media art (thanx for the tip, Anna), especially what he calls collaborative mapping (including Urban Texting) and points to that:

Much of new media art is criticized for positioning itself in the larger world
just like formalist art of the past: passively affirmative of the status quo,
not reflecting on the forces that restrict it, locked away in galleries or
university labs where the majority of visitors are art professionals or
academics.

Made me think of the classical paradox of elitist artists like the situationists trying to change the world but failing to capture the attention much less the appreciation of regular people...

Ny bog fra Ole Grünbaum

2004-10-18T11:39:00.000+02:00

'Farvel til krønikesamfundet' hedder den. Ser ikke umiddelbart ud til at have så meget at gøre med den bog om Smalbåndssamfundet som nogle af os fra ITU på et tidspunkt skulle være med til at idéudvikle på, men jeg kan jo tage fejl.....

TagandScan

2004-10-14T11:38:00.000+02:00

'Redefining reality' - nothing less - is the catchphrase of TagAndScan - a project apparently quite similar to Urban Tapestries (UT) and accordingly quite interesting. Will have to check it out more thoroughly sometime. By the way, UT recently released their own webbrowser (requries registration here). Will have to check that out also.

And now off to Norway - back on sunday.

Duel om arkitektur og byplanlægning

2004-10-13T13:44:00.000+02:00

Forsøger at få hørt noget P1 her i efterårs'ferien', men det første rigtigt interessante program dukkede op da jeg kørte rundt i mine forældres bil og resulterede i, at jeg blev siddende i vognen en halv time efter jeg var kommet frem for at høre skidtet færdigt - det kan man jo også på nettet, men hvem gider det :-)

Det drejede sig om Henrik Dahsl duel-program. I dag havde han teaterdirektør og arkitekt (vidste jeg ikke) Jon Stephensen i studiet til en snak om by, arkitektur og byplanlægning som vist på en eller anden måde tog udgangspunkt i balladen om højhusene på Krøyers Plads på Chr. Havn.

En masse interessante vinkler dukkede op undervejs. Heriblandt:

Forstaderne flytter til byen;
Risikoen for at dynen af stilhed, (relativ) isolation og 'hver passer sit' breder sig til bykernerne. Faren viser sig når folk i byen klager over larm fra natklubber, gadearrangmenter, ja Tivoli sågar. Når de helt nye naboer til Rust klager over den dunkende bas, som forhindrer deres børn i at sove. Skal 'byen' passe på Rust eller børnefamilierne? Det glædede mig at høre radikale Klaus Bondam sige 'Rust, helt klart! eller noget i den stil. Ikke at det kun skal handle om natteliv og gang i gaden, men bor man i byen, så må man sgu da tage den slags med....

For og imod borgerinddragelse;
Er den demokratiske inddragelses- og høringskultur en fordel eller en hæmsko for udviklingen af en dynamisk og livlig by? Hr. Dahl mente vist egentlig at de brede masser generelt altid er imod de store tanker og at beslutningstagerne derfor gør bedst i ind imellem bare at komme igang - selvom det så er 'hen over hovedet' på folk i en vis forstand. Ellers ville vi eks. måske aldrig have fået de meget populære havnebade (som givet generer beboerne i området på nogen måder), som åbenbart ikke var ude i høring, lød det, og det er jo sådan set et ret overbevisende argument.

Omvendt så er hele ideen med borgerinddragelse vel (også) at få fat i strømninger, tendenser og ideer, som beslutningstagerne ikke selv er i kontakt med. Måske er problemet at inddragelsen ofte først kommer når indgrebet/byggeriet allerede er planlagt og derfor allerhøjest bliver en form for evaluering og udbedring af de værste skader frem for egentlig idéudvikling og sparring. Og at indragelsen i øvrigt i høj grad aldrig kommer ud over de sædvanlige instanser, borgergrupper og Tordenskjolds soldater. Det kunne vores nye venner i Supertanker vel blandt andet skrive under på.

Behovet for uregulerede zoner;
En arkitekt fra Kontrapunkt (Philip Lau?), slog på at København grundlæggende er en overreguleret by. At det er stort set er umuligt - ligefrem forbudt (for den kreative klasse) - at komme igennem med spontane eller skæve ideer og arrangementer. At selv den simpleste idé kræver ansøgning til 14 instanser, før den kan realiseres. Han så vist nok - ligesom så mange andre - Luftkastellet og de andre aktører på Krøyers Plads som et af de få eksempler på, at byen har givet rum til den slags initiativer, og nu er det så også forbi (omvendt havde han en typisk arkitektonisk begejstring ved van Egeraats højhuse, som han på den måde glædede sig til). Philip Lau (?) talte varmt for nogle såkaldte 'uregulerede zoner' i byen (en form for lovlige Christiania'er) hvor folk kan få lov og plads til at udfolde sig. Politikeren Bondam fortalte, at der faktisk er sådanne zoner på vej, omend måske nok i en mindre 'ren' form end Kontrapunkt-manden forestillede sig. Og det lyder sgu da interessant!!

Det mindede mig om Nis, som vi mødte på RAM5 i Letland. Han fortalte om sine planer om at lave en dansk pendant til modkultur-fænomentet Burning Man et sted i Sydhavnen, var det vist. Komplet med gøgl, galskab og hvad der nu ellers falder folk ind. Se det ville vist blive en seriøs ureguleret zone.....

En sidste pointe kom fra Bondam, der på klassisk radikal vis var lidt utilbøjelig til at bekende kulør i sagen om Krøyers Plads. Men som han - igen så rigtigt - sagde, så burde en økonomisk velstående by som Kbh måske netop have overskudet til at lade åbenlyst lukrative og attraktive grunde som Krøyers Plads ligge ubebygget hen, så de kan blive indtaget og brugt 'nedefra' - af folk, der har nye og anderledes måder og ideer at fylde området ud på.

Og så lige en allersidste point fra Jon Stephensen, som mente at arkitektskolerne de sidste 20-30 år har uddannet arkitekter med stort A, det vil sige folk som i høj grad har glemt det humanisktiske element af arkitekturen til fordel for det æstetiske. Jeg ved ikke om det er rigtigt, men jeg håber det næsten, for så er der kun endnu mere brug for folk som os... :-)

McLuhan festival

2004-10-12T11:44:00.000+02:00

Why aren't I in Toronto right now? The McLuhan international festival of the future going on with lots of interesting stuff it seems... [Via PLSJ]

Viden om besøger ITU og Ørestad Nord

2004-10-12T11:38:00.000+02:00

Viden Om på DR2 i aften kl. 20:45:

Et butlerspøgelse, der guider vej gennem kontorhuset, eller et
motionsspøgelse, der taler til ens dårlige samvittighed på vej op med
elevatoren. Fremtidens arbejdsplads - ja, hele bydele er ved at blive
intelligente og få personlighed, så de kan kommunikere med os

New media and communications theory

2004-10-11T10:02:00.000+02:00

David Holmes has a new textbook on the way 'Communication theory', which might be a good read for someone looking for a general overview of communications theory in a new media perspective. Includes chapters on several issues / theories that have concerned me lately such as medium theory, the media as spectacle, changinging notions of community etc.

Conference on Medium Theory

2004-10-08T17:19:00.000+02:00

Newly initiated Danish Research Center on Education and Advanced Media Materials (DREAM) is hosting a conference next month on Medium Theory . For a while I've been interested in this particular branch of theories on media, culture and society (Innis, McLuhan, Meyrowitz etc.) and wondering what it can tell us about the implications of digital media. Some of the most competent danish researchers in the area will be at the conference; Lars Qvortrup, Peter Bøgh Andersen, Niels Ole Finneman, Klaus Bruhn Jensen and as a bonus Carsten Jessen with some input on the relation between digtial media and the aesthetics of play. Not bad at all....

Street art is all the rage

2004-10-06T11:12:00.000+02:00

Street art certainly is high on the agenda these days, also in New York. Josh Rubin has a nice little pile of links...

Gatewatching

2004-10-04T21:07:00.000+02:00

Came across this expression for the first time today over at Axel Bruns blog:

Gatewatching complements or supplements traditional journalistic gatekeeping, which becomes impossible in an open medium such as the Internet (Web). Participants may still occasionally report and publish their own stories, but frequently publicise information becoming available elsewhere rather than publish original content. Gatewatching sites compile such reports, and usually enable all of their users to submit material as well as comment on stories.

It seems to refer a wide variety of phenomena such as blogs, Wikis etc. and is very much along the lines of what is comprised within ideas of participatory journalism.

New book by Bruns on the way.

Speaking about politics

2004-10-04T14:01:00.000+02:00

Heres a piece from New York Times Magazine on the influence of blogs on political culture [Via Cyberjournalists].

Fahrenheit and politics

2004-10-04T13:59:00.000+02:00

As probably one of the last people on the planet I went to see Fahrenheit 9/11 yesterday. I kind of surprised myself by not going before, but I guess all the talk and hype had sort of put me off. Generally I thought I pretty much knew what to expect. An entertaining, refreshingly in-your-face, completely biased and probably very manipulative attack on Bush and his politics. The entertainment, in-your-faceness and bias turned out to be right on, but I actually didn't find the level of manipulation to be critical, with the exception of a few things. Like the depiction of pre-war Iraq as a sort of happy haven with laughing and joyfull children playing with their kites and such. Also I really didn't expect any new information to be revealed, and in a way it didn't.

On the other hand, compared to 'Bowling for Columbine' which I also very much enjoyed, I actually think, that Moore this time takes his rhetorics to a somehow different level. Leaving the movie theater I had this feeling that the main issue in Fahrenheit is the question of agenda. What is the 'real' agenda behind the patriot act, the war in iraq, the connection between the Bushes and the saudies etc.? I'm not gonna get behind that idea that Bush and his compatriots are simply evil, but I have no doubt that their motivations have a lot more to do with money (of course), corporate and political power (suprise!), probably oil, some degenerated idea of leadership and american values, some even more degenerated idea of resolve, the justification of force etc. Generally I tend to be very pessimistic as to the political culture in the US, and I sadly have only a little hope that someone like Kerry has some way of turning the thing around....

After the movie I had one of these discussions with a friend, that always makes me think that I need more politics in my life. I have always very much enjoyed political discussion whenever it occurs, but for some reason it doesn't happen as much as it used to. Something to do with age or just simply moving on into different situations and settings?

Being pre-occupied at the moment with often very theoritical aspects of technology, urbanism, journalism, space (sig!) etc. I once in a while have to ask myself where to find the real-world connection, to real-world problems. As a result of this nagging dissatisfaction (in lack of a better word) I have actually just 'turned myself in' to a political party for the first time in my life (ie: I have become a member)! I wont tell you which pary, but I'm sure some of you can guess it pretty easily. So now, of course, I have all these ideas of turning up to the meetings etc. Time will tell...

Understand french anyone?

2004-10-03T22:03:00.000+02:00

Apparently an interesting 'event' is taking place in Paris at the moment. A kind of real-time urban planning / development by means of digital technology, carried out by students of architecture under the guidance of Jean Nouvel among others. Unfortunately the site is in french, which I dont understand. Its part of a festival of digital culture by the name of Villette Numérique.

Presence and absence

2004-10-03T14:39:00.000+02:00

Blogging might in some interpretations amount to mostly semantic and informational 'noise' but in other cases the descriptions of someones everyday experiences provides the opportunity of a sort of presence via absence. In this case, a blogger (Alex Bruns) describes one of the sessions at AoIR that I missed, and even provides usefull links to take me further into the area of ubiquitous online news, Nice!

Rheingold on Postman

2004-09-28T17:25:00.000+02:00

Over at the Feature, Howard Rheingold applies Neil Postmans 'Ten principles of technology' to the mobile phone...

Yellow Arrow

2004-09-28T16:58:00.000+02:00

At a meeting with two of the guys from Supertanker yesterday the project Yellow Arrow came up (they seem to have some trouble with their site at the moment). Its a pretty simple but very appealing idea of annotating the city by means of stickers with unique IDs. Via mobile phones (SMS) people can attach and retrieve messages to the stickers and as such a form of 'communicative graffiti' being both digital and physical at the same time is created. It very much resembles some of our own ideas....

The Supertanker-meeting itself was quite inspiring. I think we will try to enter into some form of collaboration.

I.R 5.0 review

2004-09-28T16:14:00.000+02:00

I.R. 5.0 was ok but not more than that. I heard a few good presentations, and quite a few unimpressive ones. On the other hand this conference-thing seems to be as much about meeting colleaques, discuss, socialize and so on. And in that regard IR is a quite fine session, I guess. Lots of participants from a wide range of fields and with different angles on the subject of 'internet research'.

Our own presentation went alright. Although we didn't manage to get as far as we would have liked. Tried to raise the question of how to understand the 'cross-spatial' and cross-locational interaction that might take place between people situated in urban space and people on the net (cyberspace) in projects and games like Urban Tapestries and Mogi. Am thinking there is some sort of collapse between spatial ontologies at play. Will have to work more on that....

Off to IR 5.0

2004-09-18T18:20:00.000+02:00

We will be presenting 'something' (not quite in place yet...:-)) at Internet Research 5.0 in Sussex the coming days, but actually I'm looking most forward to a bunch of interesting presentations by other people on a wide variety of internet-related stuff. Check out the program....

Back on wednesday.

Flix.dk

2004-09-17T20:27:00.000+02:00

Flix.dk is heralded as the danish version of OhmyNews, which seems to a somewhat kind comparison. Flix with its collectively generated content is interesting never the less. An article on Gillmor was posted at flix recently.

Gillmor review

2004-09-16T18:51:00.000+02:00

Gillmor at the ITU was definitely worth hearing although I think there are a few unclarities in his positions. For instance what in the We the Media- concept is 'just' a question of a number of new networks and channels opening up for new kinds of communications, and what is actually a question of journalism and journalists being changed?

Like Jens remarked afterwards Gillmore is not really that interested in discussing journalistic peculiarities (changing practices and products). He seems more into the tech-stuff, the changing networks and communications in general.

And in that regard he is certainly on to something. I liked the way he spent most of the talk discussing actual examples of his points. A list of these were sent out on the DONA-list the other day. Hope its okay to post it here....(all in Danish and I'm not sure about the links) :

WEBLOGGERE UNDERSØGER DOKUMENT-FALSK-
En række webloggere har stillet spørgsmålstegn ved, hvorvidt et dokument, der angiveligt er skrevet af præsident Bush's overordnede under hans militærtjeneste, er falsk. Historien om dokumentet blev bragt af CBS News. Dokumentet antyder, at Bush brugte sin indflydelsesrige familie til at undgå tjeneste. Webloggen Little Green Footballs forsøgte at dokumentere, at detaljeri dokumentets typografi ikke kunne være skrevet på en skrivemaskine fra 1973. Faktisk lykkedes det webloggeren bag sitet at skabe et identisk dokument i Word. http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=12524

Men webloggen Daily Kos gik i gang med at bevise det modsatte og finde frem til den type skrivemaskine, der kunne være brugt. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/9/10/34914/1603

"Blogosfæren" (weblog-samfundet på nettet) har såldes skabt et stykke undersøgende journalistik. Det anerkendte dagblad Washington Post citerede historien fra weblogs for nylig. Og CBS har siden været under pres for at indrømme fejl i deres dækning af sagen. Dan Gillmor: - Journalists have been shown by bloggers that they don't do asufficient job. Slate magazine har et overblik over sagen: http://slate.com/id/2106553/

AMATØRER PUBLICERER TERROR-BILLEDER FØR NYHEDSBUREAUERNE- At billige digitalkameraer og foto-mobiltelefoner ville ændre mediebilledet og "empower the user" har Gillmor ikke været i tvivl om. 3000 amatørfotografersendte fx billeder af rumfærgen Columbias eksplosion til NASA. Dan Gillmor fortalte, at han havde gået og ventet på, at en stor nyhedshistorieville blive "breaket" af amatørfotografer, der havde adgang til at udgivebilleder på webbet via internet eller mobiltelefon. Og den 9. september kom historien: Billeder fra terror-angrebet på den australske ambassade i Jakarta blev tilsyneladende udgivet på foto-webstedet Flickr, før medierne kom til stedet: http://blog.flickr.com/flickrblog/2004/09/pictures_of_jak.html

WEBLOGS SÆTTER DAGSORDENEN
Både webloggere, internet-iagttagere og pressen har iagttaget, at weblogs oggræsrods-publicering på internettet har haft afgørende betydning pånyhedsstrømmen de seneste uger:

Hypergene MediaBlog:- No Disputing It: Blogs Are Major Players http://www.hypergene.net/blog/weblog.php?id=P209

E-Media Tidbits: Bloggers As Reporters
http://65.54.246.250/cgi-bin/linkrd?_lang=EN&lah=2a2ddb26a05b39bc335203b5293f78d6&lat=1095354304&hm___action=http%3a%2f%2fwww%2epoynter%2eorg%2fcolumn%2easp%3fid%3d31%26aid%3d71333

Gillmor at ITU

2004-09-13T22:49:00.000+02:00

American journalist and tech writer Dan Gillmor visits ITU tomorrow on the rebound from the fagfestival of the Danish Association of Journalists. Still a few seats to be taken I think...

Copenhagen as ubiquitous city?

2004-09-10T22:00:00.000+02:00

Anthony Townsend recently gave a lecture in Korea in which he named London, Amsterdam, Helsinki and.... Copenhagen as 'emerging ubiquitous cities' in Europe. I wonder what he means.

It seems that he is often times most concerned with technological infrastructure and in that regard I generally dont think of Copenhagen as any more 'developed' than say other nordic or european capitals. Certainly we are nowhere near the korean u-City (and probably we should be glad...).

Maybe he heard of LaCoMoCo and Crossroads Copenhagen ????

NB!
Townsend also has an interesting post on the need to force all the promises of ubicomp into a real-world-context. Reminded me of Anna and Jens' paper on the viability of urban social technologies. These kinds of considerations are really needed. I say this with a hunch that I might sometimes myself stray into the dark lands of techno-fetischism.

Anyway, Towsend mentions the notion of 'everyday computing' as the name for the kind of thinking or the development of scenarios for a more responsible, sustainable and sociallly and culturally 'useful' version of ubicomp (at least thats how I read him). Of course I come to think of our way of recognizing 'the everyday' as the place to look for the socio-cultural needs that can justify this ubiquitisation of technology. What are the relations between the two approaches?

Gently flowing in the stream of news

2004-09-10T21:43:00.000+02:00

Am right now in the middle of one of my rare stints at the foreign news desk at the national radio station, DR. It being fridag night and all the stream of news is slowing down, but this one on the up and coming danish architects PLOT just came through:

Dansk arkitektur har netop vundet en af de mest prestigefyldte priser på verdens største arkitekturfestival, La Biennale i Venedig. Tegnestuen PLOT med Bjarke Ingels og Julien de Smedt i spidsen modtager juryens specialpris for projektet Concert House Stavanger i direkte konkurrence med verdensnavne som Daniel Liebeskind, Frank Gehry og Henning Larsen.

Seems they beat out Liebeskind and the lot. Not bad at all. My more architecturally knowledgeable friend Tau has his reservations towards these guys, but i must admit I kind of like a wild and somewhat prententious project like the one in Vejle (housing buildings the form of giant letters spelling out the name of the city - find it via their site). The Stavanger Concert Hall, which brought them this prize today looks interesting and futuristic as well....

Serendipidous discoveries

2004-09-08T10:38:00.000+02:00

Like many other websurfers, I suppose, I regularly find myself drifting and spending sometimes quite large amounts of time at sites, blogs and pages that may not have any direct relevance to my current activities but still are able to catch and sustain my interest. Often by means of excellent and insightfull writing, maybe due to fine photography or something else.

Many times this happens when I am searching for something particular via Google. Like today when a search for the oak room cocktail bar in Egegade brought back a link to this site of a guy called Christian also. Immediately his contemplation of Copenhagen and especially the discussion of the inherently Danish (or so we like to think) socio-cultural phenomena of 'hygge' caught my attention.

For instance he lists different bars and places in the city by means of the categories of 'action hygge' and 'genuine hygge', even 'soul hygge'. It might not make much sense to foreigners and the information is a bit dated, but is a fine read anyway....

Det nye IT Universitet

2004-09-08T01:10:00.000+02:00

...i Ørestaden er godt nok et lækkert sted! Besøgte Henning Larsens bygningsværk for første gang i dag og imponerende er det jo, på trods af den åbenbart forfejlede støbning af gulvet, som dog bare tilfører stedet en ganske fin rustik kontrast. Det centrale atrium med de 'udstående' opholds- og mødelokaler er selvsagt det man først lægger mærke og jeg må sige, at det eksempelvis overgår det tilstødende nye KUA på utallige måder. Der kører sågar en lækker lille digtial lys-animations-ting på en skærm på en af de udstående blokke / lokaler, og pålidelige kilder melder at både atrium og fredagsbar udgør meget imponerende rammer om festlige begivenheder så som den nylige officielle åbning, som jeg desværre gik glip af. Jeg havde ellers sådan glædet mig til at se prins Joachim og Helge Sander bliver ført rundt i bygningen pr. DELCA (:-)), men det blev der vist alligevel ikke så meget af....

I stedet tog jeg den fredag et smut til Odense, hvor jeg uden alt for mange premiere-nerver indledte forløbet i webjournalistik, hvilket tyder ganske godt. Om ikke andet kan jeg nu i en eller anden forstand hævde at være associeret med velkendte herrer som Lars Qvortrup og Bo Walther Kampmann :-) Derefter blev weekenden brugt på en dejligt solbeskinnet sejltur i Århus Bugten og tilstødende vige med mit fædrende ophav.

Blev i øvrigt for nylig kontaktet af én af supertænkerne fra Supertanker, som ser ud til at have haft gang i nogle meget cool ting. Der er planer om et hemmeligt urbant topmøde....

Look what we missed

2004-08-27T10:12:00.000+02:00

Situationistiske løsblade på Nørrebro - damn!

How to publicize what you do

2004-08-22T15:33:00.000+02:00

Being a journalist by training I find it natural to try to take whatever work I do into the public sphere in some way. I find the construction of academic papers pleasantly challenging and satisfying but I certainly would also like to approach the (academic) issues that concern my from a more journalistic angel. At one point I tried to treat the issues of our thesis (at least partly) in the text 'Tilbage til virkeligheden' (in Danish obviously) which I hoped would be a 'kronik' in a major newspaper. Unfortunately the one paper I had in mind had tons of texts in stock and I haven't gotten around to shorten the text to make it fit in other papers.

In a slightly different approach we have now and then considered what kinds of magazines etc. that might be appropriate for works on 'digital urbanism' and the like. Recently we have met people involved in the Kulturo magazine, which is definitely one option and just today I received notice of the upcoming third issue of In the Red. Certainly a number of the Danish (and international, of course) cultural magazines are options as well. There is one problem, though. Being a journalist I generally like to get paid for what I write, and that is unlikely in most of the above mentioned instances....

Exurbia i Agenda

2004-08-18T00:34:00.000+02:00

Agenda på P1 sendte for nylig udsendelsen 'Exurbia - byfællesskaber i forandring', som ikke kunne undgå at fange min interesse. Emnet er jo nok så interessant for sådan nogle som os, men faktisk var der ikke meget nyt under solen. Lidt græsk historie om polis og agora, hurtigt frem til Castells, derefter byplanlæggeren René Kural, Jacob Fenger fra Superflex om Karlskrona2 og endelig et besøg hos Effekt som fortalte om deres vinderprojekt fra Lisbjerg. Alt sammen (relativt) kendt stof - hvor rart for en gangs skyld at være 'on top of the situation' :-)

Another competition

2004-08-17T11:34:00.000+02:00

This one relating to Transmediale 05 to take place in february next year in Berlin. They seem very interested in social and cultural implications of new media art and technology... Deadline Sept. 15th.

Doors of Perception 8

2004-08-15T18:47:00.000+02:00

Will take place in New Delhi in 2005. There is a call for entries to a project challenge, that looks very interesting. Deadline 30. sept.

Vibracrunch 06 and webjournalism

2004-08-15T13:02:00.000+02:00

Went to Vibracrunch 06 in Malmö yesterday. Excellent arrangement with Tremolo Beer Gut, Powersolo, John Spencer and Tiger Tunes as my favorites. Kind of nice to see hordes of danes travelling to Sweden to experience some culture, instead of the usual idea of 'Cool' Copenhagen forcing the poor swedes to cross the sound. They could definitely do better on the beer side of things though. Expensive and simply not strong enough.....

In other news I am gearing up for my debut as 'ekstern lektor' at University of Southern Denmark, where I will be teaching webjournalism next semester. In that regard I have had my fellow members of the DONA mailing list help me survey the litterature in the field. The current results are as follows:

Litteratur om netjournalistik

Skandinaviske grundbøger:

’Den digitale fortæller’ (2004) af Bjarke Myrthu

’Å skrive for skjermen’ af Martin Engebretsen

’Nyheten som hypertekst’ (2001) af Martin Engebretsen

”Nettjournalisten” af Nils G. Indahl

”Redigering for web” af Nina Furu

’Kommunikation og strategier på Internettet’ (2002) af Lene Rosenmeier

Engelsksprogede grundbøger:

’We the Media’ (2004) af Dan Gillmor
Kan hentes på http://www.et.byu.edu/~soren/wemedia/we-the-media-full.pdf

’Journalism Online’ (2002) af Mike Ward

’Online Journalism – A Critical Primer’ (2001) af Jim Hall

’Introduction to Online Journalism: Publising News and Information’ (2001) af Roland De Wolk.

’Hot Text: Web Writing That Works’ (2002) af Jonathan og Lisa Price
Læs om bogen på www.webwritingthatworks.com”

‘Journalism on the Web’ (2003) af James Glen Stovall

‘Web Word Wizardry’ (2001) af Rachel McAlpine

I øvrigt kan der henvises til Mindy McAdams’ korte men meget brugbare anmeldelser af ni netjournalist bøger for OJR: http://www.ojr.org/ojr/education/1032308680.php

Andre bøger med interessante (om end ofte ret akademiske) vinkler på nettet og netformidling / netfortælling:

‘Hamlet on the Holodeck – the Future of Narrative in Cyberspace’ (1997) af Janet Murray

‘Remediation – Understanding New Media’ (2000) af Jay David Bolter og Richard Gruisin

‘New Media: A Critical Introduction’ (2003) af Martin Lister, Jon Dovey, Seth Giddings, Iain Grant og Kieron Kelly

‘The Electronic Grapevine. Rumor, Reputation, and Reporting in the New On-Line Environment’ (1998) af Diane L. Borden og Kerric Harvey (eds.)

‘What’s Next? Problems and Prospects of Journalism’ (2001) af Robert Giles og Robert W.Snyder (eds.)

‘News and the Net’ (2003) af Barrie Gunter

‘Newspapers of Record in a Digital Age - From Hot Type to Hot Ink’ (1998) af Shannon E. Martin og Kathleen A. Hansen

‘Journalism and New Media’ (2001) af John V. Pavlik

Assoterede artikler om netjournalistik

Martin Engebretsen: Nyheten som hypertekst: Nyhetens former: http://makeashorterlink.com/?X55223D04

Martin Engebretsen: Hvorfor hypernyheter?
http://makeashorterlink.com/?F17222D04

Mindy McAdams & Stephanie Berger: Hypertexthttp://www.press.umich.edu/jep/06-03/McAdams/pages/index.html

Martin Jørgensen: Det nye tekstparadigme http://www.vertikal.dk/a140#7

Torben Munksgaard: Netaviser kan levere mere objektive nyheder http://www.bitconomy.dk/magasin.asp?article=3039&showmenu=6

Michelle Lykke Laviolette: Speciale: Udnyt nettet bedre - hensigtmæssig netjournalistik
http://www.kommunikationsforum.dk/artikler.asp?articleid=10802

Klaus Meier: Story-telling with online multimedia - Challenges, quality criteria, training.
http://www.oj.fh-darmstadt.de/download/aufsaetze/meier-storytelling.pdf

Når det gælder akademiske artikler om netjournalistik, kan der henvises til følgende publikationer: European Journal of Communication, New Media and Society, Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, Journal of Communication og Journalism Studies.

Og endelig kan der henvises til en række artikler på vertikal.dk som handler om journalister og journalistik på nettet:
http://vertikal.dk/keywords/index.htm?keyword=journalist

Back to reality

2004-08-12T16:07:00.000+02:00

Hvordan beskrive den seneste tids tour de force gennem en syndflod af oplevelser? Den kombinerede sejl- og sommerhus ferie til Møn var en udsøgt fornøjelse. Helt overdådigt (sejl)vejr med sol og ikke flere bølger end at gasten også kunne klare mosten med kun lejlighedsvis kvalme. Og sommerhus med venner, kærester og et charmerende lille væsen ved navn Wilma kan jo kun gå godt, på trods af kaskader af blodtørstige myg og andre turist(u)venlige insekter.

Så var der Island, som jeg aldrig har fået berettet om i dette forum. Det bliver heller ikke særlig udførligt nu, omend jeg kan nævne keywords som Reykjavik by night (især Kaffibarin og Sirkus), en dejlig undergrundsagtig musikkultur, fest på ø, hvalsafari med delfiner (!?), Blue Lagoon, hummerfeast, udflugter i smukke lava- og bjerglandskaber, gejsere og vandfald, umanerligt rent vand og luft - og så til konferencen, vores egentlig mål med turen - , en skønsom blanding af assorterede oplæg om alt fra cosmopolitanism revisited (Paul Gilroy) til kommunikations-begrebet hos Spinoza (Dag Petterson), sydafrikansk landskabsfotografi (Mads Damsbo), robothunden Aibo (Tau og jeg), biopolitics hos Agamben (Thomas Lembke), netkunst (Troels Degn) og alt muligt andet.

Derudover masser af diskussioner i krogene, rekreationelle og sociale aktiviteter, inklusive en meeeget lang, finsk dirigeret musikquiz, udendørs hot tubs, en fodboldkamp hvor undertegnede i al beskedenhed gjorde udslaget (som deltager på humanist-holdet spillede jeg med W. Benjamin på ryggen, måske det hjalp (?!?)), natural sauna (læs, træskur bygget ovenpå varm kilde - uudholdeligt hedt var det) etc. Alt i alt en rigtig god oplevelse...

Schoking Update!!
Har netop modtaget mail om at min ph.d ansøgning til FMKJ ikke er blevet udvalgt til at blive sendt videre til forskningsrådet. Jeg er langtfra tilfreds og må nu vente i afmagt på at få en skriftlig begrundelse for afslaget......

Så kom turen til Møn

2004-08-03T12:09:00.000+02:00

Sejltur og sommerhus. Vi håber sommeren forsætter.......

City of Memory

2004-08-02T09:24:00.000+02:00

City of Memory could be likened to Urban Texting in a number of ways - although this seems to be an entirely webbased project - created and accessed by way of the net - and as such rather different from ideas of comtemplating the city as one moves through it.....

Afsted til Island

2004-07-21T10:01:00.000+02:00

Debataften på Afar gik fint - der var gode indlæg og interessante vinkler på og kommentarer til Urban Texting. Noget at arbejde videre med....

Og så afsted til NSU sommersymposium på Island og nogle dages ferie i Reykjavik og omegn. Tilbage i slutningen af august.

Interesting PJ project in California

2004-07-20T18:37:00.000+02:00

Reports Cyberjournalist.net.

Party AFAR

2004-07-16T12:03:00.000+02:00

Have received this quite charming announcement of the AFAR closing party on friday the 23rd. Unfortunately I will in Iceland that day, but it looks,...well, cool...:-)

Am of to Bruxelles today to visit a friend who has entangled himself in the web of the European Union. Will be back on monday.

SocioMobile software

2004-07-15T10:38:00.000+02:00

A list of social applications that work in a mobile context. [Via akav]

Der er også debataften

2004-07-15T09:12:00.000+02:00

...på AFAR i forlængelse af Urban Texting. På tirsdag d. 20. kl. 20. Alle er selvsagt velkomne...

Go AFAR

2004-07-14T18:36:00.000+02:00

Urban Texting er igang på AFAR udstillingen som foregår i Råhuset, Halmtorvet 13d - åben hverdag (undtagen mandag) kl. 13-17 frem til d. 27. juli tror jeg det er. Lad mig her opfordre alle til at kigge derud. Udover Urban Texting er der nogle ret fede ting af eks. gadekunstneren Husk Mit Navn. Stedet i sig selv er også et ret cool udstillingssted.

Befinder man sig i København og har af uransagelige grunde ikke mulighed for at besøge AFAR, så skal man da ikke snydes for at deltage i Urban Texting. Reglerne findes her og så er det ellers bare igang! Dybtfølte opfordringer til at deltage kommer sandsynligvis til en mailbox nær dig i nærmeste fremtid. Da AFAR ikke ligefrem er Louisiana må vi nok læne os op af venner og bekendte, hvis der skal fyldes noget indhold i systemet....

Vi (dvs. Asta) har lavet en hurtig web-udgave af det resulterende psykogeografiske kort over København på www.citynova.org/ut - preloader er på vej, indtil videre må man have lidt tålmodighed mens filen loader. I det hele tager er der en del ting med navigationen som skal forbedres og forklares (det gælder om at finde de røde prikker og klikke på dem), men det arbejder vi på.

Vi vil meget gerne høre, hvad I synes om ideen på ut@e-mail.dk