Collaborative Media : Production, Consumption, and Design Interventions - Bo Reimer

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Collaborative Media

Production, Consumption, and Design Interventions

By: Bo Reimer, Jonas Loewgren

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Hardcover | 13 December 2013

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208 Pages

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23.5 x 18.7 x 1.8

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A thorough analysis of contemporary digital media practices, showing how people increasingly not only consume but also produce and even design media.

With many new forms of digital media-including such popular social media as Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr-the people formerly known as the audience no longer only consume but also produce and even design media. Jonas Loewgren and Bo Reimer term this phenomenon collaborative media, and in this book they investigate the qualities and characteristics of these forms of media in terms of what they enable people to do. They do so through an interdisciplinary research approach that combines the social sciences and humanities traditions of empirical and theoretical work with practice-based, design-oriented interventions.

Loewgren and Reimer offer analysis and a series of illuminating case studies-examples of projects in collaborative media that range from small multidisciplinary research experiments to commercial projects used by millions of people. Loewgren and Reimer discuss the case studies at three levels of analysis: society and the role of collaborative media in societal change; institutions and the relationship of collaborative media with established media structures; and tribes, the nurturing of small communities within a large technical infrastructure. They conclude by advocating an interventionist turn within social analysis and media design.

Industry Reviews

My final conclusion is that this is, overall, a very wonderful book and a must read. There is a lot of wisdom in 150 pages.

* Consumption Markets & Culture *

This book is an important contribution to the field, illustrated by a diverse set of case studies that bridge traditional disciplinary boundaries between design research, human-computer interaction, and media studies in ways that prioritize the doing of design... Collaborative Media will prove to be useful to researchers, and practitioners in any of the areas described, particularly the ones motivated by the deployment of design research in real-world contexts.

* Design Issues *

Loewgren and Reimer thoroughly analyse a complex set of issues related to this cultural shift, enriching the existing academic and public debates with new evidence from original case studies and a detailed theoretical discussion of what constitutes collaborative media in the 21st century. I salute the authors for this achievement and highly recommend reading this book.

* LSE Review of Books *

This book comes at a perfect time for faculty members bridging the gap between their academic practice of media studies and the interest of the students to get out and produce-to no longer be passive viewers subjected to a silver bullet media.

* Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly *

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