Present on Site. Transforming Exhibitions and Museums

Why are exhibitions and museums so important? What can they be used for? Who determines relevance in a transformative process?

Transforming exhibitions is not just something you do, it is something that gets better the more you do it. This book looks at the intersection of the visitor or user, who gets personal and cultural meaning from their visit and the museum as it appears in the design of the exhibition. It examines on-site communication for intentional and hidden content and messages, and reveals possible relations to the visitor, his or her world and society in general. This investigation also focuses on the processes involved in interpretation and design and takes a closer look at the practices of exhibiting rather than the objects on display. The four main themes in the book are:

• Constructions – The visitor at an exhibition

• Questions – Experience and learning processes

• Invisibles – The exhibition design processes

• Openings – Category, objects and communication

Present on site is relevant not only for students and researchers in the field of museum communication, media and design studies, but also for exhibition and museum practitioners.

As a researcher and associate professor of visual communication at Roskilde University, Denmark and as a designer and media artist in his own right, author Bruno Ingemann, PhD, also represents an intersection. A pioneer in Danish museology and in visitor reception studies, he co-edited the anthology New Danish Museology.

Ingemann, Bruno (2012): Present on Site. Transforming Exhibitions and Museums, Lejre: Visual Memory Press. 396 pages, 7 x 10 inches, 147 illustration, printed in colour. ISBN: ISBN 978-87-995101-0-8

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Read more on www.present-on-site.net

Call for Participation:

Doctoral Colloquium at the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) Annual Conference 2012

Internet Research 13.0, http://ir13.aoir.org/

University of Salford, United Kingdom

In keeping with its commitment to students’ scholarship in the Association of Internet Researchers, the Internet Research 13.0 Doctoral Colloquium offers PhD students working in internet research or a related field a special forum on October 18, 2012. Participants will have a chance to present their dissertations-in-progress and discuss them at length, with peers and established senior researchers.

This year, Klaus Bruhn Jensen, University of Copenhagen, will coordinate the Doctoral Colloquium, and will be joined by colleagues including:

Nancy Baym, Microsoft Research New England

Axel Bruns, Queensland University of Technology

Mia Consalvo, Concordia University

Charles Ess, Drury University

Alex Halavais, Arizona State University

Rasmus Helles, University of Copenhagen

Annette Markham, Umea University, Sweden

Michael Zimmer, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

(Others to be announced)

Interested students should prepare a two-page summary of their research. This should provide a context for the research, describe the methods being used, the progress to date, and expectations and hopes from the colloquium. Participants will be encouraged to discuss their research problems, methodologies, ethics, and the process of ‘bringing it all together’ in the dissertation.

SUBMISSION/PARTICIPATION Please submit the two-page application by Friday, June 1, 2012 to: Klaus Bruhn Jensen kbj@hum.ku.dk

Applicants will be notified of acceptance by July 1, 2012. Successful applicants will be asked to prepare a four-page paper on their research and the issues they wish to discuss by August 31, 2012.

Det er os en fornøjelse at kunne meddele jer at vi afholder SMIDs næste årsmøde torsdag d. 15. og fredag d. 16. november 2012. Temaet for årsmødet er ‘Media and Civic Engagement’. Der vil som vanligt være nedslag i prisen for SMIDs medlemmer.
Stedet er næsten på plads, det bliver et sted i Trekantsområdet. I vil snarest høre nærmere.

Vi er ligeledes ved at være klar med ordinær kontingentopkrævning for 2012, dette vil vi orientere om i den allernærmeste fremtid.

På vegne af SMiDs bestyrelse

Stine Liv Johansen, formand.

Family, Play, and Sports in an Online World

-          An open research seminar about mediatization of culture

Aarhus University, May 7-8 2012

Today, digital media are influencing many cultural fields as they reconfigure and diversify processes of communication and social interaction in profound ways. This situation calls for reformulations of our general understanding of the role of media and the interplay between media and culture. At this seminar we intend to explore how new digital media contribute to changes in three cultural fields: family, play and sports.

Family life, children’s play and sports are connected areas that for many years have been saturated by media and therefore been intertwined with and defined by processes of mediatization. But until now this process has mainly been understood in the light of affordances and ‘logics’ stemming from mass media. How do digital media affect family life and our general understanding of ‘home’ and the ways in which the family at ’home’  – through media – is related to each other and to the outside world? How do digital media change the ways in which we experience, communicate, practice, and organize play and sports? How do uses and practices of new media converge with those related to mass media? And what is actually new in new media when it comes to influence the areas of family, play and sport?

These are some of the questions that will be addressed from both theoretical and empirical approaches by international and Danish scholars representing different strands of research within media studies.

The seminar is public and organised by the research project, Mediatization of Culture: The Challenge of New Media,  2011-14. No registration is required.

Venue:

Aarhus University
Conference Centre
Fredrik Nielsens Vej
8000 Århus C.

Conference room 2, building 1421

Programme

May 7

11.00-: Welcome

Stig Hjarvard, Professor and Director of Research project.

11.00 – 12.00: Domesticating the impossible? Mobility, mediality and the domestic

Maren Hartmann, Associate Professor, University of the Arts, Berlin

12.00 – 13.00: From mediatopes to media-utopia? Digital media at home, on the move, and in the cloud

Thilo von Pape, Researhc Associate, University of Hohenheim

13.00-14.00: Lunch break

14.00 – 15.00: The Parent App: Understanding Families in the Digital Age

Lynn Schofield Clark, Associate Professor, University of Denver

15.00 – 15.30: Coffee break

15.30 – 16.30: Doing a filmed fieldwork with different kinds of `field bodies´.

Ida Winther, Associate Professor, Aarhus University

16.30 – 17.00: The Mediatization of Parenthood

Maja Sonne Damkjaer, PhD fellow, Aarhus University

May 8

10.00 – 11.00: Sports journalists, social media and the fan: a new conversation?

Richard Haynes, Professor, University of Stirling

11.00 – 12.00: Playing and living football – being a football boy or girl

Stine Liv Johansen, Assistant Professor, Aarhus University

12.00 – 13.00: Lunch break

13.00 – 14.00: Football Fandom in the Digital Age

Casper Høeg Radil, PhD fellow, University of Copenhagen

14.00 – 15.00: Sports Media – Old and New Logics?

Kirsten Frandsen, Associate Professor, Aarhus University

More info:

The seminar is public and both colleagues and students are welcome. It will be possible to buy lunch and coffee nearby the meeting room.

Inquiries:  to Kirsten Frandsen – imvkf@hum.au.dk

Abstracts:

Domesticating the impossible? Mobility, mediality and the domestic

Maren Hartmann, Associate Professor, University of the Arts, Berlin

This talk will concentrate on the challenges (and opportunities) that digital media provide for our understanding of domesticity – and therefore also for the domestication concept. How are media appropriated in times of mobile media and changing perceptions as well as actions in relation to mobility and mediality? Next to offering a new concept to grasp these changes, the talk will concentrate on the empirical and methodological implications of research in this field.

From mediatopes to media-utopia? Digital media at home, on the move, and in the cloud

Thilo von Pape, Associate Researcher, University of Hohenheim

The domestication of digital media is often described as a “mutual shaping” between media technologies on the one hand and users as individual and social entities on the other hand. The presentation will develop the concept of mediatopes as places of media use which are not only marked by this process, but also leave their own mark on it. The heuristic value of the concept will be shown through empirical findings on the evolution of mediatopes as users appropriate mobile and cloud based technologies.

The Parent App: Understanding Families in the Digital Age

Lynn Schofield Clark, Associate Professor, University of Denver

The presentation reflects on qualitative research into U.S. families that my research team and I have conducted over the past ten years. My work is at the intersections of mediatization, medium theory, cultural sociology, and actor-network-theory.  I propose that to understand the role of media in the changes influencing family life, we need to consider both the affordances of digital and mobile media, and the patterns of communication that shape family practices of technology use.  My book argues that there are two distinct patterns in how families communicate that are shaping media use in the digital age, and each of these patterns are both rooted in particular histories and are now evolving in relation to digital and mobile media affordances.  Among upper income families, I observe an ethic of expressive empowerment, in which parents encourage their children to use these media in relation to education and self-development and to avoid use that might distract them from goals of achievement.  Among lower income families, I observe what I term an ethic of respectful connectedness, in which family members are encouraged to use digital and mobile media in ways that are respectful, compliant toward parents, and family focused.  Because there remain distinct gradations of digital inclusion (Livingstone, 2007) and as U.S. families experience lives that are increasingly isolated from those whose economic circumstances differ from their own, the uses of these media are reinforcing rather than alleviating what is becoming a troubling economic and social gap in U.S. society.

Doing a filmed fieldwork with different kinds of `field bodies´.

Ida W. Winther, Associate Professor, Aarhus University

The everyday life happens. Gradually, it has become trivial to speak of the fact that everyday life is made through practices and processes, and how it is written into space, time and place. The every day is both solid and liquid, and embedded and changeable.  Comprehending this demands the development of new methods by putting well-known elements together in new ways and through working with different types of performative practices.  I did a field on an isolated island, and I was interested in how children play, are together, use mobile phones, Facebook …. I took my son and a camera with me, and gave the kids cameras as well.  The aim for this talk is how the researcher (me) works with different kinds of ‘fieldbodies’ in this kind of shared anthropology. Clip from my new anthropological film “Children’s everyday life at Christianø” (2012) will be included.

The Mediatization of Parenthood

Maja Sonne Damkjaer, Research fellow, Aarhus University

Becoming a parent entails major emotional, practical, and social changes as well as a need for support and guidance. Over the course of several generations, interpersonal media (letters and calls to family and friends) and mass media (distributing generic counseling and information) have accommodated these needs. Today the Internet offers a variety of new interactive, individualized, and personalized media providing counseling (e.g., pediatric information), social interaction (e.g., online communities), commercial services (e.g., child equipment stores) and all-in-one solutions: parent web sites. At the same time new social media (e.g., Facebook) provide a new opportunity to showcase parenthood through personal stories, photos, and videos. Our knowledge of how parenthood is affected by and unfolds within this media intervention, however, is limited. This presentation discusses how the contemporary complex media environment affects parenthood and argues that Internet media facilitate and constitute a radicalized parenthood reflectivity and a new kind of mediatized and aestheticized parental facework.

Sports journalists, social media and the fan: a new conversation?

Richard Haynes, Professor and Director, Stirling Media Research Institute

University of Stirling

This paper examines the extent to which social media are transforming sports journalism, in particular focusing on the ways in which media-source relations between journalism and the ‘world of sport’ (its stars and their fans) are changing. Moreover, it is also about how the relationship between sports journalists and their audience is being transformed by ‘a new conversation’ taking place inside social media. This involves asking questions about how information about sport is circulated in the context of social media? How such information is sourced and produced in to news stories? And asking what new storytelling techniques have emerged in sports journalism to accommodate social media forms?

Playing and Living Football – being a football boy or girl

Stine Liv Johansen, Assistant Professor, Aarhus University

Changes in the conditions for children’s play culture over the last decades have increased the importance of media providing inspiration for play. The practice of playing soccer has in many ways always been related to media, yet new media provide new ways of living out ones identity as a football boy or – girl, within the family, in peer culture, and in organized leisure activities. This presentation addresses the wide range of mediatized practices and texts permeating everyday life among children aged 8-12.

Football Fandom in the Digital Age

Casper Høeg Radil, PhD fellow, University of Copenhagen

When I mention the subjects of football fandom and new media many people ask me the same question: Do you write about how hooligans use mobile phones or websites to arrange violent fights? Usually, my answer is no. I write about football fandom as a practice most of us engage in when listening to a result about a match in the radio or reading an article on a news website – or when we dance (or fight) on the terraces. In this presentation I will ask how the Internet enables new forms of football fandom communication, but also how new media, in a more general sense, challenges our conceptualizations of fandom and audiences.

Sports Media – Old and New Logics?

Kirsten Frandsen, Associate Professor, Aarhus University

Sport and media have for many years been closely related and influenced each other when nurturing mutual interests. Currently this relationship is undergoing sweeping changes, as both individuals and organisations on both sides see themselves involved with a convergent and increasingly complex media environment mixing different logics but also paving the way for new types of agents, partnerships and not the least new types of experiences with sport. The emergence of digital media means that scarcity in terms of both content and access is substituted by plenitude. In this presentation it will be discussed in what terms the current situation can be said to constitute a new phase of mediatization as a new mix of media logics stemming from both traditional mass media and digital media are at work.

Kom og få Adam Greenfield og Ben Hammersleys bud på Byens Digitale Liv ved konferencen “Indsigter og fremtidsmuligheder set fra Center for Digital Urban Living”

BYENS DIGITALE LIV

Smart Cities rykker lige nu længere og længere op på beslutningstagernes dagsorden. Byernes mange data skal gøres tilgængelige for borgere, politikere og virksomheder. Men byen skal også have et digitalt kultur- og oplevelsesliv. Det handler konferencen om den 22. marts 2012 i Musikhuset Aarhus. [ONLINE TILMELDING]

DEM HENVENDER KONFERENCEN SIG TIL:

- Offentlige og private beslutningstagere
- Konsulenter i kommuner, regioner og nationale myndigheder
- Arkitekter, forretningsudviklere og byplanlæggere
- Journalister og mediefolk
- Iværksættere og kulturfolk
- Folk med interesse i oplevelsesøkonomi

MedieKultur er et double-blind peer reviewed tidsskrift. MedieKultur har til formål at bidrage til kritisk refleksion og udvikling af teorier og metoder inden for medie- og kommunikationsforskning. MedieKultur præsenterer forskning i temaer med relevans for det danske medie- og kommunikationsforskningsmiljø. MedieKultur er et interdisciplinært tidsskrift, der præsenterer medie- og kommunikationsforskning inden for politiske, økonomiske, kulturelle, historiske, æstetiske eller sociale kontekster. MedieKultur hylder ikke bestemte teorier, men først og fremmest øjenåbnende perspektiver og klar argumentation. MedieKultur udgiver temaorganiserede numre med henblik på at bidrage til, at dansk og udenlandsk frontforskning inden for MedieKulturs område kan bringes i kontakt. MedieKultur henvender sig til studerende, undervisere og forskere på relevante undervisnings- og forskningsinstitutioner samt ansatte i mediebranchen.
For mere om MedieKultur: http://ojs.statsbiblioteket.dk/index.php/mediekultur.

Det redaktionelle arbejde består i, at:
– vurdere hvorvidt indleverede manuskripter er egnede til publikation i MedieKultur
– styre processen i forbindelse med peer reviews
– styre processen i forbindelse med korrektur og layout
– planlægge tidsskriftets indhold og fremtid i samarbejde med de øvrige redaktører
– tage redaktionelt hovedansvar for et eller flere numre, evt. et temanummer inden for eget forskningsområde
Redaktionen anvender et elektronisk managementsystem i deres arbejde, og den mødes 2 gange årligt forskellige steder i landet. Næste møde finder sted 21/8 i København. Hvert andet år konstituerer redaktionen sig på ny. Redaktionsarbejdet er ulønnet, men møderelaterede udgifter (fx forplejning og transport) dækkes.

Redaktionsmedlemmer skal have følgende kvalifikationer:
– akademiske kvalifikationer inden for MedieKulturs område
– åbenhed over for forskellige metoder, teorier og tilgange
Derudover forudsættes det, at kommende redaktører er eller bliver medlem af Sammenslutningen af Medieforskere i Danmark (SMID), se mere her: http://www.smid.dk/wordpress/hvad-er-smid/

Ansøgningen skal på maks. 1 side (2400 anslag) indeholde en beskrivelse af de relevante akademiske kvalifikationer samt et kortfattet forslag til et måske kommende temanummer. Derudover vedlægges et cv på maks. 2 sider (4800 anslag).
For yderligere oplysninger kontakt hovedredaktør Nicolai Jørgensgaard Graakjær: nicolaig@id.aau.dk, 9940-9051 eller 2465-2209.
Ansøgningen sendes til hovedredaktør Nicolai Jørgensgaard Graakjær: nicolaig@id.aau.dk.

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Volume editors: Eli Skogerbø & Göran Bolin. Editor-in-chief: Stig Hjarvard
Send abstracts of 3-400 words to eli.skogerbo@media.uio.no and goran.bolin@sh.se
Deadline for abstract submission: 15 April 2012.
Notification of authors: 15 May 2012
Final article submission: 1 October 2012.
See more about information on Northern Lights, including style guide for authors, at http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-journal,id=143/

Rapporten giver et opdateret billede af hvordan de traditionelle medier klarer sig, og hvordan internet, sociale medier og mobile enheder påvirker medieforbruget og medietilgangen. Både i forhold til nye medietilbud, men også hvordan det supplerer og kombineres med de traditionelle mediers udbud.

Fra forordet: “Danskernes brug af medier er i 2011 præget af to hovedtendenser. Der er stor stabilitet i brugsmønstrene af de traditionelle massemedier, og der er bemærkelsesværdige forandringer i danskernes mediebrug af de nyere medier. Disse tendenser bliver belyst i dette års udgave af Medieudviklingen.”

Virkelighedsbilleder

Bogen analyserer dokumentarfilmens vilkår og udvikling i lyset af samfundsudviklingen, filmpolitikken og filmkulturen generelt – fra traditionsrige nationale institutioner som Statens Film Central fra 30’erne til den moderne, digitale og globaliserede filmkultur.

Bogen analyserer desuden en lang række væsentlige dokumentarfilm med vægt på stil og genre og på filmenes skildring og fortolkning af udviklingen i danskernes og det danske samfunds historie. Gennem analysen af dokumentarfilmene skildrer bogen udviklingen i periodens hverdagsliv, politik, kultur og historie, og den tegner et billede af et samfund, hvor udviklingen går fra mere traditionelle nationale billeder til globale billeder.

Læse mere på bonde.blogs.ku.dk: Den kreative og globale dokumentarisme

Ib Bondebjerg: Virkelighedsbilleder. Den moderne danske dokumentarfilm.
Frederiksberg: Samfundslitteratur.
338 kr. (Pris som e-bog: 110 kr.)
500 sider
1. udgave 2012
ISBN: 978-87-593-1629-0

Læse mere på www.samfundslitteratur.dk

Print on demand
I 2008 gik MedieKultur over til online publicering efter at have udkommet på tryk i 23 år. I løbet af det seneste år har MedieKultur kørt en forsøgsordning og tilbudt de fem seneste numre af MedieKultur som print on demand. Et eksemplar koster 150 kr. plus porto. Der har indtil videre været ganske lidt efterspørgsel på servicen, med kun 3 enkelte bestillinger. I løbet af næste år vil redaktionen tage stilling til, om ordningen skal fortsætte.

Stadigt flere besøgende på mediekultur.dk
Siden den online relancering af MedieKultur i februar 2008 har mediekultur.dk
modtaget stadigt flere besøgende. I 2009 modtog netstedet 47071 unikke besøgende, og det tal voksede til 57667 i 2010. Der er pt. 641 registrerede brugere, hvoraf lidt under halvdelen (252) kommer fra de nordiske lande. Som registreret bruger får man automatisk besked med nyudgivelser og call for paper announcements.

Massekultur & Medier på eget site
Forløberen for MedieKultur, tidsskriftet Massekultur & Medier (1981-1984) har fået sit eget site. Tidsskriftet blev digitaliseret i 2008 samtidig med MedieKultur og har indtil nu ligget på samme netsted. Imidlertid indebar det fælles netsted en risiko for forkerte henvisninger i databaser, og en risiko for at blive afvist til optagelse i visse databaser. Massekultur & Medier hostes ligesom MedieKultur af Statsbiblioteket.

Bøger til anmeldelse
Det er nu muligt at se på mediekultur.dk, hvilke bøger MedieKultur pt. søger anmeldere til. Samtidig kan alle tilbyde sig selv som anmelder. Anmeldelsesfunktionen bliver flittigt brugt og er lanceret som led i MedieKulturs strategi for større åbenhed. Samtidig skaber funktionen bredde i forfatterprofilerne og letter anmelderredaktøren i det daglige arbejde.

Øvrige nyheder
• MedieKultur har i det seneste år revideret sin profil – den bliver publiceret først i næste år.
• MedieKultur har udvidet dets reviewpanel. Se det her.
• MedieKultur er efter kritik fra andre fagområder blevet nedgraderet til et kategori 1-tidsskrift på FI’s autoritetsliste. Redaktionen afgør på et møde i januar sin strategi i den forbindelse.

Top 10, mest downloadede artikler i 2011

1. Joshua Meyrowitz: Tre paradigmer i medieforskningen, 26, 1997 (864 downloads)
2. Stig Hjarvard: Seernes reality, 34, 2002 (812 downloads)
3. Jakob Linaa Jensen: Fra onlinefællesskaber til onlinenetværk. Facebook som augmentering af den sociale virkelighed, 46, 2009 (498 downloads)
4. Jesper Tække: Facebook et netværk i fællesskabet, 49, 2010 (414 downloads)
5. Henrik Dahl: Sociologi og målgruppe. Nogle erfaringer med at operasionalisere Bourdieu, 24, 1996 (269 downloads)
6. Jørgen Riber Christensen: Four steps in the history of museum technologies and visitors’ digital participation, 50, 2011 (254 downloads)
7. Sophie Esmann Andersen og Carsten Stage: Consumption that matters, 49, 2010 (228 downloads)
8. Jesper Tække og Michael Paulsen: Luhmann and the media: an introduction, 49, 2010 (224 downloads)
9. Kim Schrøder: Generelle aspekter ved mediereception? Et bud på en multidimensional model for analyse af kvalitative receptionsinterviews, 35, 2003 (215 downloads)
10. Peter Harms Larsen: Virkeligheden på spil. Iscenesættelse af virkeligheden i tv-programmer – fra journalistik til underholdning, 34, 2002 (210 downloads)

mediekultur.dk

MedieKulturs redaktion 2011: Norbert Wildermuth (RUC), Anne Mette Thorhauge (KU), Anders Horsbøl (AAU), Anette Grønning (SDU), Ditte Laursen (SDU/SB), Nicolai Jørgensgaard Graakjær (AAU). På billedet mangler Line Nybro Petersen (KU), Mette Mortensen (KU) og Ursula Plesner (CBS). Yderst til højre står Stine Liv Johansen (AU), formand for foreningen SMID, der udgiver MedieKultur.