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should we tell our students to blog pseudonymously?

Lilia writes interestingly about her discomfort with being researched by students who’d been given the assignment of writing a wiki page about her research. She doesn’t mind being researched, but was uncomfortable about whether or not it was OK for her to […]

collect lists of publication channels!

I was at an information meeting about the new system for financing research the other day. Argue as we may, the system’s going through, and that means: Norwegian new media researchers, we need to work together. The new system for measuring research […]

fictional blogs

Betsy Friedrich is writing her senior thesis on fictional blogs, and her blog is a wonderful collection of links to fictional blogs, links to articles about them, and her own ideas and analyses. A treasure trove!

head of department, day 96

I’ve developed an inability to get anything but administrative work done in my office. There are practical reasons. My phone rings, people knock on my door, and of course they have issues that need to be dealt with immediately. Since three of […]

digitale fortellinger

Look: NRK and PNEK will be running a series of up to 20 digital narratives, and are looking for ideas. Each project that’s selected for the project will receive NOK 10,000 and access to some production assistance. Read the advertisement and contact […]

what makes whole cultures blog?

Technology becomes popular in certain countries or cultures because of either a) mass events or advertising, or b) social networks. At least, that’s what Ross Mayfield surmises, based on presentations at the blog conference in Paris, looking at blogging in France (hot, […]

autocalendars

Ooh. The media department in Oslo lets you subscribe to calendars their events that’ll add themselves to your calendar (iCal, Mozilla Calendar etc.) It’s often annoyed me that the Learning Managemeng System our university uses doesn’t provide that – but of course, […]

pet peeve no 1

You know what? I am so sick of getting excited about some special offer from some site I’m a paying customer which I’m not eligible for. Amazon did it with the Prime membership thing, plastering my front page with it for weeks […]

foredrag for holbergprisen i skolen

These are my notes for a talk to high school teachers about ways students might approach research on teenagers’ activities online. Nettet er mangslungent, og for  forst hva som foregÂr, hva som er nytt eller gammelt, og hvordan kulturen vÂr og […]

one word themes

I have yet to submit an article to m/c, but I remain fascinated by their approach to themed issues. Right now they have open calls for papers for upcoming issues that will be about print, copy, scan and affect. Yes, one word […]