Under this domain my thoughts are law. You will find all my academic publications and popular science texts I have written from 1995 to this date. If you search well enough you will find my original technology theory.
The topic of Sound Media is how music recordings, radio braodcasts and muzak influences our everyday life, and introduces the many and varied creative techniques that has been developed that has been developed in the music business and journalism during the 19. century. The book starts in the present, and work itself backwards in the sound history to the 1870s.
Sound media in general and the radio in particular have been little heeded in media science. Radioradio was the first Norwegian introductory book with a broad approach to radio journalism when it was published in 2004. The authors Linda Eide and Lars Nyre explores the unique communicative qualities of the radio medium that differentiates it from both the printed press, television and film.
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Topic: Technology
Many people wear headphones during movement through their city, and they listen to a variety of sound genres like music, talk, lectures, etc. This study focuses on the pedestrian headphone listener who may spend an hour or more traveling every day. It explores the situational fit of three media; music playlists, live radio, and podcasting, […]
Abstract It seems clear that the teletext experience has rather low intensity compared to that of other media. Teletext consists of a visual interface that communicates in alphabetical script, numbers and icons. In this chapter, I offer a phenomenology of teletext inspired by close readings of Merleau-Ponty, Gibson and Scannell. They all write about lived […]
Topic: Journalism
Broadcast news channels provide fresh, continuously updated coverage of events, in sharp competition with other news channels in the same market. The live moment is a valuable feature, and broadcasters have always relied on teams that can react quickly to breaking news and report live from the scene. Technology plays an important role in the […]
Abstract This paper reports the design and first evaluations of new digital support for journalists to discover and examine creative angles on news stories under development. The support integrated creative news search algorithms, interactive creative sparks and reusable concept cards into one daily work tool of journalists. The first evaluations of INJECT by journalists in […]
Topic: Critical position
Paddy Scannell Polity Press: Cambridge and Malden, MA, 2014 253pp, ISBN 9780745662541 (pbk) Paddy Scannell is a media scholar who started writing about media history and media phenomenology long before the Internet. He has always asked big theoretical questions concerning the media, and his new book contains the most complex so far. The book has […]
John Durham Peters The University of Chicago Press: Chicago, IL, 2015 397pp, ISBN-13: 9780226253831 (pbk) Expectations are high when John Durham Peters publishes a new book. He is an original voice in the media scholarly discourse, and his audience is growing. Peters’ newest book is called a philosophy of elemental media, and the most significant […]
Topic: Media design
Abstract Radio has always had communicative concern for its listeners. It is characterized by personal address, liveness and acoustic moods that reach audiences in a variety of listening situations. Radio’s communicative concern should be available for all citizens, but in fact there is rather bad reception for DAB and FM in cities due to narrow […]
This article introduces the concept of academic prototypes in media innovation, and shows how such prototypes can lead to innovation in market-based journalism. We propose an innovation method that transforms an idealistic, value-oriented prototype into a market-oriented journalistic service. The principles for product development presented here are based on the lean startup method as well […]